By Canoe From In Coast To Coast

Mr. F. C. Nicholas recently described the goldfields of western Colombia for the geological section of the New York Aoademy of Sciences, and incidentally poiuted out a route by whioh, in the wet seasoD, a man might go in a canoe from the Atlantic to the Pacific across the northwestern córner of South America. The proposed route follows the river Atrato to the divide, which lies in a series of swanips, and then. by way of one or two smaller streams, reaches the river San Juan, which erupties into the Pacific. Inoculation of land with microbes instead of expendingmoney 011 fertilizers is thelatest idea which soience has placed at the service of the British farmer. The boiler tubes of a large liner, if placed in a row, woukl stretch nearly 10 miles and the condensar tubes more than 25 miles.