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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
The French Academy of Medicine has, 
with one dis-eniient voice, pronounced in 
favor of a repeal of the prohibition of the 
importation of American pork. 
The tornado that swept over Alabama, 
Georgia, South Carolina, and North Caro- 
lina, last month, was witiout a parallel in 
this country, so far as the destruction of life 
is concerned. In Georgia, where its great- 
est fury was spent, it is reported that over 
three hundred men, women, and children 
were killed outright. 
Congressman Dockery, of this State, has 
introduced a bill providing for the appropria- 
tion of ;?i2,ooo for the maintenance of such 
additional signal stations as may be necessary 
to secure reports in regard to threatened 
dangers on account of floods. Should the 
proposed bill become a law, the people lo- 
cated on the grea^. rivers an-l their tributaries 
will be forewarned of danger in ample time 
to take all po-sible measures for the safety of 
life and the preservation of property. From 
the results of such observations and reports 
in the past, there is no doubt that the work 
of t e >"iignal Service could be made of in- 
creased value to the people by the methods 
proposed. 
The laying of the telegraph wires in 
Washington City underground has proved so 
successful that when tested by th- reflecing 
galvanometer the insulation has been found 
perfect. 
The Salina Normal University, of Salina, 
Kansas, wil' be ready for the reception of 
students, September 2, 1884. The Uni- 
versi y building, now under construction, 
will be a large, commodious structure, am- 
ple for the accommodation of sixty to sev- 
enty-five students in its dormitory wing, and 
of five hundred to six hundred in the college 
wing. The Institution will be Normal, 
Scientific, Philosophical, and Classical, and 
its various coursfs of study are prepared 
carefully on that basis. 
Mr. F. H. Frankenberg, of Pueblo, Col- 
orado, is about to utilize the raw soda found 
in the alkaline lakes of Wyoming Territory, 
by purifying it and converting it, at Pueblo, 
into caustic soda, concentrated lye, baking- 
soda, etc. It is believed that the cheapness 
and abundance of the mate-rial will enable 
him to manufacture these products on a pro- 
fitable scale, and possibly glass also. 
In recognition of the good feeling of this 
Government in purchasing of its salvors the 
barque " Resolute," abandoned in the Arctic 
seas by Sir Edward Belcher, May 15, 1854, 
and r storing it to the British Government 
in December, 1856, that Government has 
just presented to the United States the 
steamer "Alert" to be used in the expedi- 
tion for the relief of the Greely party early 
in this year. 
The Kansas Academy of Science has se- 
sected Prof. H, E. Sadler, of the Normal 
School, at Emporia, to prepare a paper for 
the next annual meeting on the subject of 
chemistry, and Prof. Frank Kizer, of the city 
schools, on ichthyology. 
We have received the January number of 
the Knnsas City Review of Science and 
Industry, and find in it ma' y article- valu- 
able not only to the scientist but also to stu- 
dents and teachers, who, if they are at all 
interested in the scientific progress of the 
day, cannot afford 10 be without the Review, 
whicli is one of the b st journals 01 its kind 
published in the country. — Western Normal 
Advocate. 
The d ath of Prof. Arnold Gu\ ot, the dis- 
tinguished scientist, removes a man who, 
next 10 Agissiz, was pn-bably the most 
learned and useful physicist tha we have 
ever had in this country. 
It seems a little singular tl at most of the 
scieniific journals of the day hav anmu ced 
that th d ath of General Humphrey oc- 
curred November 28 h instead of December 
27, 1883, thr- lauer being the correct date. 
