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Vv. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
neously one hundred miles west and north of us; from places fa 
than this we have no information. 
(2.) Notice of the earthquake by Prof. Wu. G. Wizrams, from a 
letter to the editors, dated Marysville, Marshall County, Kansas, April 
25th, 1867.—At two o'clock and thirty minutes yesterday afternoon the 
shock of an earthquake was felt probably in every house and place 
business in and near town. It was accompanied by the usual rumbling 
sound, and lasted a time variously estimated from one to three minutes 
No serious injury was done to persons, or property, beyond a tempo 
tary alarm on thé part of a few. In stores, bottles and wae 
made to rattle and in some cases were shaken from the shelves and bro- 
to stop the supposed disorder and tumult below, while those below ran up 
to ae . . . 
safety. A gentleman fishing in Spring Creek near town was leaning 
agalnst a tree, feeling it shake and looking up, he saw it and other trees 
was stirring, With my assistant teacher and some seventy scholars 1 was 
1 the second story of our High School edifice. It is of stone and high 
pitched. The whole structure, desks, stove-pipes and other furniture wer 
The rumbling noises below much resembled those of 
heavy trunks on plank ae I have had no opportunity to learn ho¥ 
It, 
