Disappearance of a Lake of Lava.

One feature of the last eruption of the remarkable volcano in the Sandwich Is- is the fact that the great molten, lake of lava, occupying a huge caldron’ nearly a mile in length, and known as the “South Lake,” was drawn off sub ter rauc ously, giving no visible indication of, its pathway or the place of its final deposit. “ Other eruptions,” writes Dr. Coan 10 Professor Dana in a letter dated June 20, “have blazed their way on the surface to the sea, or while on their subterranean way have rent the superincumbent beds, throwing otft jets of steam or of sulphur ous gases, with here and there small patches or broad ai-eas of/ lava. But as yet no surface marks of this kind reveal the'silent, solemn, courseiof this burning

river. One theory is that it flowed deep in subterranean finally disem bogued far but at srrft? Our ocean was much disturbed during those days, ancl what might a tidal-wave t maga&fade. ” The old pro y*> cess of replenishment which had gone on pince the last eruption in 1868 is reported } to have begun again, and after another decade another disgorgement may take place. . v '. -A u V

Murder Will Out.

A tragedy has been brought to light in Paris. ' A woman named Levy, in walk ing along the Bouvelard de la Chapelle, observed a man in a blouse, with waxed moustaches, emptying out of a basket pieces of what appeared to her to be fresh meat, and kicking them into a sewer. When he observed that her curiosity was aroused, he took to flight throwing down the basket. She approached the sewer’s mouth, when, perceiving a human arm, Bhe fainted. A crowd immediately gathered, and a commissary of police was fetched. The pieces were collected and put together by a surgeon, who pronounced the contents of the basket to be a human corpse. " The head alone of all the mem bers was missing. An enquiry was set on foot; and the woman Levy w'as sent for by the commissary. On entering his office ahe knocked against an agent in uniform, which led her to turn round to look at him in order to apologise. She .suddenly cried out, “There’s the as sassin.” 1 The pei sons who were with her thought her mad from emotion, but were astounded when she repeated the ac cusation, to see tho policeman pale, tremble, and rush out of the room. He was arrested on the stairs and brought back, when, falling on his knees, he avowed the crime. The murdered man was a traveller for a Paris jeweller, and had several boxes of jeweL which he was to have taken to the provinces as speci mens. The murderer, one Prevost, in veigled him, under pretext of wanting to buy a watch chain, to his lodging. There he offered him a glass of wine, and while the . two were hobnobbing, suddenly struck him with a hammer on the fore head, and killed him instantaneously. He proceeded to cut up the body on the spot, and next morning he went to the La Chapelle sewer to hide the evidences of the murder. It' was his jintention, ' l.y boiling the head, "to render identification impossible.

An Episode off Butchery in America.

Particulars are given in the American papers of an extraordinary duel which occurred near Kansas between James Dobbins and Michael Bums, resulting in the death of both men. Burns and Dobbins, were farmers and neighbors, and lived in the Kansas river bottom, six and. , ahalfmilesfromthe city, and two miles from the south end of the county bridge that spans the Kansas river. Four years ago Dobbins got married, arid at that time Burns lent him 80 dols. The money was never paid back by Dobbins, and on this account there was a feeling of enmity be tween the men. Towards the latter end of' last montlj: Burns came to town. Dobbins was at' work on the road. On his way home. Burns passed the place where Dobbins- .and others were working. The men did riot have any conversation. T 6 go to his house Dobbins had to pass bylhat of Bums. When Dobbins arrived in front of Burns’ house, he found Burns standing before the door, revolver in hand. Bums said, “ Jim, I want that money you owe me.” Dobbins made a reply which incensed Burns, but, disregarding his anger, Dobbins' said,. “ Throw down that revolver and ’I can whip you.” Burns threw down the revolver on the ground by his side, wheniDobbins said, “ You haye the drop on me now, but if you wait till I come back I will be heeled to meet you. ” Dobbins then .drove his horses into his yard, and leaving them unhitched, ran into the house. Here he got two re volvers and started towards Burns’ place. Burns ; was fitting on the doorstep U 3 Dobbins came up, and before he had time to, move, arid without a word of warn ing to 'Burris,. Dobbins presented a re volver in each hand and openedf r 3. The bails from both revolvers lodged in the side of the house, Bums then ran into the house, got his pistol, and rushed out Upon Dobbins. The men advanced to within two feet of each other before a shot was fired by either, Dobbins fired first, the shot hitting in the right fore arm. Bump, returned the fire, and sent two bullets,,., through Dobbins's cheat. Although wbunded despeiately, and fast becoming weak from loss of blood, Dob bins summoned strength enough to fire again, his return shot tearing into Burns’ abdomen and passing through his body. Full of Burns managed to raise his . revolver and,discharge it once more. Hi 3 last shot struck Dobbins under his left ear, and passed clear through his head. Bushing together, the men clinched each ,-.other, and fell, to the ground, Dobbins ,-underneath. Burns then beat Dobbins on the hea<J and face with the butt end of his revolver. . Supposing that Dobbins was dead, Bums was about to leave him, but with a desperate effort Dobbins turned, and in a moment had again thrown Burns ,to the ground. One. of the neighbors, a j Mrs. Kalfton. appeared at this time, and pulled Dobbins away from Burns. Two , young men coming up, the men were ■ separated. ..."Burns was then carried by the men to his own house, and they went back to the- scene of the fight to carry Dobbins away. Lifting the man to his feet, they waked ofi each side of him, supporting him between them. They had hardly gone five yards when Dobbins sank down on his knees, and died in the w jods. He died/ wiffiott saying a worcjL Burns lingered ior two days, when lie died. Burns was >?m. unmarried man, w. Dobbins Jeaves a wife,and-.child,

The Tay Railway Bridge.

1 "" » -v ' - I • I r J’lie collapse of the great bridge across the Tay at'Dundee cannot fail to cause much consternation in engineering 'circles, as well as amongst the travelling public. The fall of this bridge turnj what has been admired as a great engiipring triumph into an engineering failure, and; 1 the acci dent will probably have thoeffect of check ing for a time enterprise in the direction of spanning large tracts] of water with colossal viaducts. The completion of the fay Bridge, and its apparent success as a rdlway track over a wide . arm of the sea, had the effect of 'gifing impetus to even a larger undertaking of the same description, namely, a bridge over the Firth of Forth. Last accounts inform us that preparations were being made for commencing the Forth Bridge, and its successful erection would * have placed London within a working-day’s ride of the extreme north of rail way-reached Scot land. The check given -to the Forth Bridge, However, will only be temporary ; for it is a reasonable deduction that if engineering skill can spar a great river w»th a bridge that will withstand the force of wind and. current for two years, and, then only partly succumb to a fearful gale, the same skill, on finding out the weak point of the first structure, will be able'to. replace it with one whose added strength will sustain for twenty years or longer shocks of greater severity than that which ruined its predecessor. The loss of life by the fall of the Tav Bridge, however much to be deplored, is,only history repeating itself. In all great en gineering undertakings,tin a line, different and more extensive than formerly known, martyrs have been made to the cause of science, and the human' race has had.to pay in live 3 a heavy penalty for learning where errors have have been made, and lip.w to rectify them. ; The bridge just destroyed was the largest ever undertaken in any paid; of the known world, and before it was opened for traffic the most severe test the best . skill could devise was applied to it, agd the result seemed satisfactory to the best practical eyes, ere human life was entrusted upon its huge, though seemingly delicate piers. What ever of culpability or recklessness ' may have existed in connection, with the building of the bridge or with, its working as a paEt of a railway system, will as suredly-be dragged to light, and whoever is to blame—-whether engineer, contractor, railway manager, or workman—-for the loss of 90,human lives,will be held answer able. Still, even the forfeiture of a hun dred culpable lives who may, directly or indirectly, innocently or guiltily, have caused the deaths.of those 90 innocent travellers will not again restore the dead to the world they have left for trer. Their part in time is played and their untimely end is to be deplored, hut they leave to those behind a valuable legacy—an opportunity, when all the skill of the scientific world is centred upon one object,, of profiting for the future by the lesson their fatal en gulphment in the waters of the Tay leaves open to' be learned.; While we cannot but deplore on the one hand the sad calamity—-we would be inhuman otherwise —we cannot shut our eyes on the other to the fact that the terrible accident has been ruled by an all wise Previdence to happen at an opportune time —at a time when the scientific world .was big with great viaduct enterprises, over not simply rivers of ordinary force, and over whose waters gales of great force sometimes blow; but actually when it is contemplated to bridge the English Channel, and .connect the coasts of Eng land and Fiance with a structure similar in character to that which has given way with such fatal consequences midway between the Scotch counties of Fife and Forfar. ' ~

As we have said, the time is big with lessons of living moment to the travelling public, and it is to be hoped the contri butions to knowledge given- by the weak point of, the Tay Bridge will be such ‘ as will in a large measure , secure travellers in the future who may cross the , hew structures —-when these .have been com pleted, and they assuredly will become an accomplished! fact —against unwarned death by a failure of the railway roadway midsea.

It may be well to give a few figures showing the magnitude of the structure whose partial destruction has had such a fatal effect. One of the chief railway companies in Scotland is the North British, and finding that a great detour could be, 1 avoided between Dundee and Edinburgh by spanning, the Tay at the latter town, the .idea of the present bridge was conceived in 1860 by Mr. T. Bouch, engineer. For some years Mr: Bouch’s mind had been directed to the idea of a Tay bridge, and at almost every meeting of the North British shareholder the proposal cropped up—now now approved to soI !UMHn9E Ultimately the making the line Dundee direct instoJK.*. ‘'...-.-•V '•?N thus bringing play with the^B.y-.V the direct north yS',' ; ; /y Mr. Bouß ’ yV,’, »'’f 1 >-'* / h the was accejM being 1 by Mr. _ the bridifl the the fl t(>ok betvMr. -p- py'-ypypv -■ plete, mH hugely irH the took dalen G-B;/ ■>' ■ %,'p pY.y I'Yf- \ the con.;».«'• pyY; p,vpiV "b; p % oblique shore, sH of WoB . . stream. over w;B mile side, p- p-p ‘pv pf : ; V-'..'dp. credit Jl9 world. 9 from on r-M?/,:;.■>'p‘pP -'pv ~jf pY :% 155 ft IH 1.20 ft J lea '|H pp -'/Yyl ; P \p.p-- I-’ % gr/B to in>B

brick, built on shore an floated ° ub .“ i their position.in the river The remain of the piers -were iron cinders sobc td/Jj with concrete, and sunk in the bed o M stream. These cylie ders formed pedegjM for the support of 1 Tat. ivrought lavs' -on which the r<|a .rested, half a mile, of have given way in the ni'JßSSHmmm the acchleut. ' Tnc toipmHHHH raised objections to -the as it would intern.e tvBBBBBBB ships up to their wna ob jection it was jj f structure at an vessels of heavy if our memory serves over the deepest high. The writer, li t a side span in a r, team asdofty masts as any trade, and this were built. The enough to admit of being laid down, visable, for'safer The structure as By-;:g. i ■ estuary had a most the distance, but pearance of lightnc-sßr-' 'M * • •, K, ' iron in - its con s 1 1 1 uC BrfA-,r of timber, 15,0U> A' 10,000,000 i. so great an mule of a hahd-book <F voted to details tine de.scripti.u. >1

American Da.

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