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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3654, 11 September 1880, Page 2

The United States census shews tkat tbe attractions by the Western .States have been so "great that the agricultural districts in the East have had no increase of population whatever, and but for the growth of cities through increased manufactures there would hare been ah absolute decrease in the Eastern States since 1870, due to migration West. As it is, Memphis is the only city in the Union that exhibits an actual decrease, and that is due to yellow ferer.

A beginning is about to be made, says Nature, to carry out Lieutenant Wey* .preeht's proposal for a circle of observing stations around the North Polar region. The Danish Government has resolved to establish a station at Upernavak, in West Greenland, the Russian Government has granted, an observatory at the month of the Lena, and another on tbe new Siberian Islands. Count Wilczek is to defray.the expences of a station on Nova Zembla, under the direction of Lieutenant Wey* precht. The United States Signal Service under General Myer, has received permission to plant an observatory at-Point Barrow, in Alaska, and it is expected that Canada will have a similar establishment on some point of her Arctic coast. At the Hamburg Conference it was annonnced that Holland would furnish the funds for a station in Spitsbergen, and it is expected that Norway will have an observing post on the extremity of the province of Finmark. This is a good beginning, and it is hoped that some sort of agreement will be established to hare all the observations made after a uniform method, otherwise their value will be greatly decreased.