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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
I. T. SOULE, of Rochester, N. Y., has ar- 
ranged with Gilbert Bros. , of Spearville, Kan., 
for digging and operating seventy-five miles 
■of irrigating canal, beginning at available 
points on the Arkansas River — one above 
'Dodge City, near Cimmeron, and the other 
near Spearville, and terminating near Vanity. 
The work is to begin at once, and the canal 
■completed as soon as possible. 
The awards to the United States at the 
'Fisheries Exhibition, number 147, of which 
forty-five are gold, forty-five silver, and twen- 
ty-eight bronze medals. Also nineteen di- 
iplomas and ten money prizes. The United 
'States Fish Commission gets eighteen gold 
and four silver medals, besides two diplomas. 
The reconstruction of Pine St., St. Louis, 
with asphaltum is completed, making an ele- 
:gant drive. Locust Street has been begun. 
No heavy traffic will be permitted on these 
■streets, but will be confined to the street be- 
tween them, Olive, now being reconstructed 
with granite. 
Probably the earliest patent in this coun- 
try was that granted by the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts, to Sa-iuel Winslow, who 
had invented a method of manufacturing salt. 
" None are to make this article," said the 
.patent, '• except in a manner different from 
his, provided he set up his works within a 
year." 
The Supervising Architect of the Treasury 
has received a sample of Missouri granite in 
connection with the bid of a granite company 
in St. Louis on the Pittsburg public building. 
This particular variety of stone attracted con- 
siderable attention in the architect's office, 
and Mr Hill pronounces it the finest speci- 
men of building stone he had ever seen. It 
is deemed chiefly remarkable for its dark, 
rich color and susceptibitity of polish. 
One of the most interesting exhibits at the 
Vienna Electrical Exhibition was Gentilli's 
■Glossograph, a little instrument by which 
speech is automatically reproduced as soon 
as it is uttered. A small apparatus is placed 
in the mouth of the speaker — in contact with 
the roof of his mouth, his tongue and lips — 
and on being connected with an electro-mag- 
netic registering apparatus the sounds are 
committed to paper. 
As near as could be ascertained the yield 
of copper in Arizona, in 1882, was 15,000,000 
pounds. The combined value of the silver and 
copper product for 1883 will be between fif- 
teen and sixteen millions of dollars. This will 
place Arizona second on the list of bullion pro- 
ducers, and it is believed to be only a ques- 
tion of a few years when she will take the 
place which naturally belongs to her, and 
stand at the head of the list. 
The Saverton Lithographic Stone Co., of 
Ralls County, this State, has received an 
order from the Government which will amount 
to ^150,000 a year, and henceforth all the 
postage stamps will be printed on stone 
taken from Ralls County, it having been fully 
demonstrated that it is the best in the United 
States for lithographic purposes. 
Several changes have recently been made 
in the faculty of the University of Kansas. 
Thus Professor J. A. Lippincott, late Profes- 
sor of Mathematics, at Dickinson College, 
takes the place of the highly esteemed Dr. 
James Marvin, as Chancellor; Prof. Edward 
L. Nichols, late of Central University, Rich- 
mond, Ky., takes the chair of Astronomy and 
Physics, in place of Prof. H. S. S. Smith, 
who has gone to Princeton N. J.; Prof. E. H. 
S. Bailey, late of Lehigh University, fills the 
place of Prof. G. E. Patrick, so long Profes- 
sor of Chemistry. Each of these gentlemen 
brings with him a high reputation for schol- 
arship and fitness for his special department, 
and it is to be hoped that these changes will 
prove profitable to the University of Kansas, 
though all of its old friends will long miss 
the familiar faces of the veteran professors. 
A ship-canal across the Isthmus of Cornith is 
now under construction, though but little has 
ever been heard of it out this way. Work on 
