EDITORIAL NOTES. 
777 
Some bold and ingenious (amateur) engi- 
neer proposes over the instials of C. L. O., 
in the St. Louis Republican of February 27th, 
to prevent floods in the Lower Mississippi by 
diverting the water of streams above into 
channels : For instance to •' tap the Mis- 
souri River at Kansas City and by a channel 
convey it through to the Neosho River at a 
point near Ft. Scott, a distance of about seven- 
ty miles, and then e through that stream to 
the Arkansas River, about one hundred miles. 
The water could be so regulated that it would 
make the Neosho and Arkansas navigable 
without permitting them to overflow and not 
interfere with navigation on the Lower Mis- 
souri and Mississippi." 
To this scheme Professor G. C. Broadhead 
replies in the same paper of March ist : 
" The gentleman probably has not visited 
Kansas City, nor has he travelled across the 
country for one hundred and twenty-five miles 
southwest to the Neosho River at Neosho 
Falls, nor down that stream to its junction 
with the Arkansas. Probably he may imag- 
ine it would be easy for the Missouri to leap 
three hundred and fifty feet above the valley 
at Kansas City to reach the summit, twenty- 
five miles southwest, and should also remem- 
ber that, although the Neosho River lies in 
a broad valley, yet we find that the surface 
of Kansas gradually rises westward and rail- 
road elevations and Gannett's tables inform 
us that nowhere in the State of Kansas does 
the valley of the Neosho descend as low as 
the elevation of Kansas City above the sea. 
At the State line the Kansas valley is seven 
hundred and sixty-three feet above the sea; 
at Neosho Falls the valley of the Neosho 
River is one thousand feet, at Parsons nine 
hundred and twenty feet and the crossing of 
St. Louis and San Francisco in the Indian 
Territory about seven hundred and fifty feet 
above the sea." 
lished by Dr. W. H. Burr, of Detroit, at $3.00 
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meteorologists everywhere. 
Professor M. W, Harrington, Director 
of the Observatory of Michigan University, 
announces the publication of the Ametican 
Meteorological Journal 2.ho\xt May I, 1884. It 
will be a monthly of 32 pages, octavo, pub- 
The Art Interchange of March 2th contains 
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A beautiful design for ceiling decoration also 
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designs for small articles in brass repousse 
work, designs of thistle for cup and saucer 
decoration, and a panel design of humming- 
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