Review of reviews and world's work (1890) (14577946679)

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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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OLD NEPTU SE IS HAVING SOME FUN WITH THE BEEF TRUST.-From the Jouruttl (Detroit). THE PROGRESS OF THE IVORLD. 057
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THE HARBOK OF ST. PIERRE, MARTINIQUE. MONT PELEE IN THE BACKGKOrXI). In the midst of wonderment at new^n*.^*^ discoveries and inventions, and at tlie Disaster. so-called triumphs of man over nature,tliere come now and then fearful reminders ofthe fact that the (Conditions which make the earthhabitable and pleasant may suddenly, throughthe forces of nature, be so changed as to makeliuman existence impossible. In the beautifulisland of Martinique, lying three or four hundredmiles southeast of Porto Rico, the old Frenchtown of St. Pierre had been in existence formore than two hundred years ; but it was de-stroyed one day last month by a whirlwind offire and noxious gases emitted from the craterof a neighboring volcano which had been in activeeruption for several days. The islands and coaststhat fringe the Caribbean Sea have always beensubject to earthquakes and to volcanic eruptions,and there have been manv disasters from suchoccurrences since these regions were settled bywhite men after