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0.. LIFE IN WASHINGTON. Water the Able Guidkcue of Mrs. Rooeevelt Seciety Will Re Regu lated Systematceally. Before President Roosevelt moved into the white house there was a great deal of public concern as to : how he was going to stow away his extensive family in the limited quar ters of the executive mansion that are allotted to the president as a residence. Mr. Roosevelt did not ex press any alarm over the question, but several newspapers grew almost frantic at tle prospect of the little Roosevelts having to sleep on the door. The correspondents of those papers divided up the living rooms in every manner possible, but they could not arrive at any conclusion but that Kermit and Ethel would have to eat at "the second table" and sleep standing up. This latter necessity, it pointed out, was cer tain to make the darlings bowlegged. President Roosevelt resented such in terference with what he considered a personal matter. He even went so far as to intimate to a friend that he thought Mrs. Roosevelt was capable of solving the problem. This gentle hint, however, was not sufficient to over come the ardent sympathy that was going out from the mansions on Co lumbia Heights to the president and his alleged half-homeless family. A public meeting was called. A resolu tion 'was drawn pointing out with many whereases the extremities of the Roosevelts and resolving that if the country wanted to do the proper thing for its chief executive it should build a palatial "residential white house," which not only should be in keeping with the dignity of the nation but also in keeping with the size of the president's family. Mr. Roosevelt saw that a great deal of high-class sympathy was going to waste and he decided to stop the ex travagance. So when Charles A. Moore, the clerk of the senate dis trict committee, called on' him to explain the plans of the park commis sion regarding the extension of breathing spots in the national capi tal the president seized the oppor tunity to declare that neither he nor Mrs. Roosevelt desired any altera t'iona in the white house. He said they were both exactly suited, and : ,. ý:ý .ý5F ý ·r..: i MISS ISABELLA HAGNER. ( loolal Secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt, Wife of the President.) that settled it. Mr. Moore passed the word along the line and now the peo ple of Columbia Heights are not as badly worried as they were. The appointment by Mrs. Roosevelt of Miss Isabella Hagner as social sec retary to the mistress of the white bguse, says the Chicago Daily News, isb believed to be the beginning of what will amount to a revolution in national social affairs. It is under stood that Miss Hagner will be more than a mere secretary to Mrs. Roose velt and will really be the precep tor of the social functions at the ex ex- ecutive mansion. She has made a spe eial study of etiquette and precedence and for several years has been recog S ized as the highest authority on such questions residing in Washing ton. Mrs. Roosevelt is the first wife of a president to avail herself of such an important aid. Mrs. Cleveland had rra stenographer who served as her sec retary, but all the troublesome ques < tions arising,in the preparation of aY state dinners or receptions were handed over to the official clerks of the executive mansion for settle : nent. In the past the greatest difficulties have come from the diplomats, who complained constantly that the chief executive of the United States han dled the social end of their office in a catch-as-catch-can manner. One occu pant of the white house would treat the members of the diplomatic corps in one way at one dinner and at the i eI function the order of affairs would be either reversed or all mixed up. The appointment of Miss Hagner Sis 'taken to mean that President Boosevelt has decided to settle this phase of official life in a way that will establish a precedent for all time. It is predicted that when the social sea son begins next January rules will be given out from the white house that will be adhered to during the continuance of Mr. Roosevelt's resi dence there. Miss Hagner is expect ed to ix the social rank not only of every member of the diplomatic • corps but of the members of the cab ` Snet and of the army and navy. Good Dish for Dyspepties. A dry loaf, milk-poaked, can be re baked, and is as good as new. Bread on which fast-boiling milk is poured n.Sakes a good supper for dyspeptics. ,A porous bread-pan, set in an inch , O water, keeps the bread fresh a loeS time. How to Keep Food Hot. Instead of putting food into the ven to keep hot for late comers, try verin it closely with a tin and ttina it over a saucepan of hot wa r This plan will keep food hot and the same time prevent it from ice tDislke aCmphor OGm. Camphor gum placed in clothes and drawers will keep mice a as the odor is very disagree Sto them. ECONOMY OF SPACE. There Are Many Ways in Whlch Odd Nooks and Corners Can Be Made of Use. Away up in the attic, see to it that the carpenter builds in a higher tier of drawers for bedding and packed-away wearing apparel. Have a plentiful sup ply of hooks put up and a cheap cur tain to draw down. so that what is hung upon them sha:l be protected from oust. When repairs are made it is wise to utilize space for closet room and not allow even a little corner to be boarded up if it might be thus made useful. The picture here given is from a photograph of a cabinet with sliding glass doors. This was built into a space once occupied by a "let-down" bed in a colonial homestead. It has be. come almost too much a fashion to lit ter a room with bric-a-brac. Some how the cherished objects, each with a special value of association, attain an added dignity when collected behind CABINET WITH GLASS DOORL glass doors, in calm seclusion from dust, dirt and general contamination. One mother found that she could have much better chance for ventilation in the little back room by moving the bed to the other side of the room. But the closet door could not then be opened, so she bought a cheap denim curtain and asked a furniture dealer the best way to put it up. He told her of the convenient brass rod and sock ets which any woman can put up for herself just inside the frame of her door, and the second picture shows how the curtain was hung. In another house, a window was backed when the addition was built on, and the contriv ing housewife utilized the space left for a book closet. Below it were placed a couch with attractive cover and cush ions and a piano lamp, thus making a very alluring cozy corner. One of the most fascinating of little homes has the "cutest" closet! Once there was no way to reach the sitting-room from the parlor except to go around through the hall.' There was a closet between and a chimney. If there had been a single partition it would have been a comparatively simple matter to throw the rooms together. But ingenuity tri umphed. Opposite the closet door an opening in the other partition was made. These openings were prettily arched and curtained, shelves for books with drawers below were placed across each side and the arch way closet became a thing of beauty and convenience. Corner closets for (ancy cups and saucers should have the cups hanging on the little brass hooks which can be procured for five cents a dozen or less. Holders for dec orated plates and saucers are also sold. Closets should not be allowed to be come dust traps or germ breedera Very often they should be thrown open to air and light, then dusted and rearranged.--Good Housekeeping. VENTILATE THE HAIR The Roots Need Air and Stimulation or the Tresses Will Soon Lose Their Laster. Shining coils of hair make any wom an beautiful. Anyone who will make a habit of brushing and combing the hair at night and vigorously rubbing the scalp-rubbing till the blood tin gles-may be sure, if she starts this habit before her hair has begun to fall, that her hair will keep its color and youthful quality. Even falling hair will often be brought back to vigor by such treatment. A good deal is said in favor of brushing the hair. Brushing cleans the hair itself, but it does not invigorate the scalp, as does combing, and neither is half so good as vigorous rubbing. When one be gins she will find it takes a lot of rub bing to make the head tingle, but in a few weeks the first rub will start the blood. That tells its own story, for where the circulation is sluggish, there deterioration of vitality has be. gun. Where the blood runs freely, there life renews itself. It is good to let the hair hang loose ly at night, especially if one sleeps in a room in which outside air circulates freely. The roots need air. Twice a week braid the hair in loose braids all over the head. Hair thus treated will keep a glossy look, yet not hang to gether, and it will turn back prettily in a pompadour with better effect than if the curling irons are used. Besides, curling irons are ruinous to the health of the hair.--Chicago Post. WOMEN HAVE BEST OF IT. r Deference Shown the Feminine Se: n tTransferring Salt Lake Street Car Passengers,. Women in Salt Lake City have a considerable advantage over the men 1 when they come to patronize the e street cars. In that haven of Mor , monism they have a system of street railway transfers which is hard to . beat. The passenger who receives a f transfer from a Salt Lake conductor o is compelled to use it iimself or . throw it away. Every ticket has printed on it, be sides the usual hours and the names of intersecting lines, a row or seven small heads. Five of them are male la eads, two are female. Of the male l heads the first is a beardless face, the second bears a mustache, the h third "mutton chop" whiskers, the b fourth a chin beard and the fifth is fully bearded. Beneath the row are two plus signs, with a fqrty between e them. The conductor is required to y identify each passenger by punch. d ing one of the faces and one of the signs for age, the first plus being i used for young men, the 40 for men a of middle age and the final plus for elderly men. Killing Odor of Onions. - The smell of onions may easily be e removed from the hands by rubbing - over with celery and then washing them with cold water. t THE SAFEST SAFETY WHEEL. Life, my boy, is a bicycle path, And "Work" is the wheel you should ride If you would mount to the crest of the hill And coast down the other side. Just oil the machine with cheerfulness And see that the parts are in trim, Then straddle the saddle and pedal on With a ready, steady vim. Don't start with a rush up the hill of life Just pedal a medium gate; Remember that those who "scorch" at first - Are likely to finish late. Grasp the handle bars of the wheel of k "Work" I With a firm hold-not too tight Then sit up straight, like a man, and push Push for the road that's right! You may wabble a bit, and punctures, too, May cause you to dismount, But plug up the holes with smiles and pluck, They are the plugs which count. There are other makes of machines than "Work" There's the -"Idle," the "Lazy," the "Rest," And hosts of others of tempting style, But the one called "Work" is best, It's a low-gear wheel of homely frmmae But it's safe and sure and strong, And the man who rides it persistently Can never in life go wrong. So straddle the saddle of "Work," my boy, And, push it along with pride, Till you get to the top of the hill of life, I Then you'll coast down the other side. -Joe Kerr, in N. Y. Herald. FISHING FOR MICE. t A Sport in Which Our Grandfathers e Used to Delight When Rain Kept Them Indoors. r To go fishing on land is probably a strange sport to you, unless your r grandfather has told you how he used r to catch mice in the 'pantry. If he r were like my grandfather he had very r little money when he was a boy, and one cent meant as much to him as ten cents does to most boys nowadays, t and he used to earn a cent for every ten mice he caught. Suppose the kitchen or pantry or 1 garret happens to be full of mice, and e you haven't a trap in the house. It is a a very simple matter to make one of s the old-fashioned kind, with an empty o jam jar. Over the top tie a piece of h heavy brown paper, in the way 'you i have probably seen jars of currant a jelly covered;: It the middle of the a paper out a oro4s. .iThen setthe ja* r wherever the mice are apt to comne ansi i-hang a piece of toasted cheese over n the center of the jar. The mouse, at s tracted by the cheese, will climb upon MOUSE. TRAP FOR BOYS. the jar, and his weight will open the crosscut and drop him inside the jar, the paper door flying back in place, ready for another unsuspecting ven turer. If you can persuade your mother to pay you for every mouse you catch, so much the better. This same sort of a trap can be used in the fields and woods, for harvest and field mice, but should be buried in the ground, if possible. A market for selling these wild creatures can often be found among boys and girls who wish to train them for pets.--Boston Globe. INSECTS MAKE MUSIC. How Grasshoppers Produce the Strange Sounds with Which All of Us Are Familiar. The grasshopper has a wing that is very curious to look at. You have seen this little insect, I have no doubt. Its color is light green, and just where the wing joins the body there is a thick ridge and another on the wing. On this ridge there is a thin but strong skin, which makes a sort of drumhead. It is the rubbing of these two ridges or drumheads together which makes the queer noise you have beard. There is no music in it certainly. The insects could keep quiet, if -they wished, but they must enjoy making the noise. The grasshopper sornetimes makes two rubs on its drumhead and some times three. The moment it is very dark they begin. Soon the whole com pany is at work. As they rest after each rubbing, it seems as if they an swered one another. Did you know that bees hum from under their wings? It is not th, stir of those beautiful light wings we hear. It is the air drawing in and out of the air tubes, in the bee's quick flight. The faster the bee flies the louder the hum ming is. Did you know that insects feel] They have nerves all over them, through their wings and out to the end of every feeler.-Prairie Farmer. Fun at the Big Party. Every girl or boy who has been at a donkey party will be pleased to know how to behave at a pig party. It contains as much hilarity as those gathering, and is easier. Everybody at a party is required to draw with a pencil, on white paper, two pigs. e The drawing must be made without . taking the pencil off the paper. The Ssecond drawing must be made with i the eyes. blindfolded, after which the paper must be signed. The fun comes when a comparison of the e drawings takes place, and the prize in competition is given to the i draughtsman of the best pig. The r person who makes the worst drawing is called the pig. The Tramp's Excuse. B Mrs. Wellmet-Ain't you ashamed to 3 be begging for a living? ; Weary Willie-Not a bit, mum; Iwas educated fer de ministry.-Judge. A COLLEGE FOR DOGS. Unlque Institution at Lastfayette, Ida, That Has Won the Name of the "Dog Harvard." One of the most remarkable and interesting collegegin the country has been established and is now in full swing in Lafayette, Ind. It is known as the dog Harvard. At, this university, which is on a A large farm, many of the swell dogs of the country are pegging away at their studies striving for degrees and diplomas which will pronounce them cracker-jack hunters. a Fred Erb, a noted trainer of dogs, t has the school in charge'and he has y formulated a curriculum, which, if a ' s t SAILOR BOY AND HIS TRAINER. closely followed, is bound to turn even the dullest dog into a passable hunter, while the bright ones will leave the place stars. The most aristocratic student at the school at present is Sailor Boy, whoi is an apt pupil and a favorite withI classmates and instructors. This dog belongs to President Roose- I velt and is a Chesapeake of the finest stock and the color of an otter. The , dog is now finely broken and retrieves perfectly. Col. Cody also has dogs at Lafayette. They are Llewellyn setters of highly bred strains. Other blue-blooded canines too nu merous to name fill the kennels and re ceive a daily course of instruction in the iales of retrieving and dog eti quette. The dogs are divided into classes and each 'pupil is given les sons in the various branches in which he is most deficient. "Our chief trouble is with lazy dogs," Mr. .Erb rqmark'ed recently while dis ,cAsing the wqrk of the school. "You ~ ea.'nreak in energetic dog of a fault within a few weeks by exercising pa tient perseverance and kindness, but it is a much more difficult task to cure a dog of laziness and a lazy hunter is the abomination of all sportsmen. "I have found that there is nothing like hunger to rouse even the most indifferent beast, so when a dog with the black name of lazy is placed in my charge, I first make an effort to be come his friend and then slowly com mence to let him feel the pangs of hunger. "When I think he is hungry enough I take him out for a tramp through the woods and his lessons in retrieving begin. When he hasgone briskly after a wounded bird and brought it quick ly and safely to me he is rewarded with a good swell dinner served on the spot. "A few experiences of going hungry and several more lessons in retrieving Set the lazy dog to thinking and un ,ess he is particularly stubborn he soon commences to take an interest in sport and before he leaves the kennels will tramp miles and miles without lagging and will bring to hand the last bird shot with as much surety and quick ness as he did the first. "A slow dog once cured of its lazl ness makes a first-class hunter, for it lacks the nervous disposition which so often spoils, a more energetic dog. "Setters are the most easily taught. SThey usually have affectionate dispo sltions ano learn rapidly; Jim and Fritz, two of Col. Cody's dogs, had lots to learn when they first came to me, but they proved apt scholars and now, at 14 months, they work to a charm. When standing a bird they make a picture to thrill the sportsman's heart. "Mr. Roosevelt's Chesapealke dog, Sailor Boy, is well along in his studies. He is ten months old, a handsome smooth-coated dog of the finest stock." s -Philadelphia Press. MOUNTAIN LIONS AID HERDERS They Peed on Wild Colts and Leave Sheep and Calves of Stock men Aleoe. Mountain lions are assisting the stockmen of southern Utah in reduc ing the herds of wild horses which roam the ranges, writes the Denver correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean. It is reported that the lions have considerably diminished the herds by devouring the colts. Young colts seem to be choice morsels for the wild beasts, and it is said that not over 50 colts es caped the lions this season on the Boulder, Thousand Lakes and Fish Lake mountains. The lions seem to prefer the colts to lambs and calves, and since there have been a great many colts born on the ranges dur ing the last few years the beasts of prey have almost ceased to molest offspring of sheep and cattle. As the lions are not much hunted and have ready access to choice food they have been increasing in numbers rapidly and threaten to be coipe a great menace to stockmen, especially when the wild horses be gin to grow scarce. Down in Kane county the horses have about desert ed the haunts of the lion and are in creasing so fast that the stockmen have recently decided upon their ex termination. A prominent stockman just up from the south says that with this means employed, the depre dations of the lions and the starving to death in hard winters the wild horse bands of southern Utah will soon become a thing of the past. His Parse Too Short. Jaggles--He thought his money would get him into society, but it didn't. Waggles-No; he hadn't enough of it.-Town Topics. INFU ARE REASONABLY SAFE. Autouaobiles Are by No Means as Dan gerous as some Writers Would Have Us Believe. The fact that every now and then an automobile blows up and endangers i the life of its occupants appears to j prove that the self-going carriage has not yet perfected itself. Possibly it never will be perfect. It may always i be subject to leakages of highly in flammable fluids that supply the heat ing power, or to leakages, of equally dangerous electric currents that may shock the sensibilities of the riders. Even the inflated wheel tires have burst in hot weather, after long stand ing on the baking streets, and put the vehicle out of commission, as well as scared the neighborhood by the ve hemence of the report. Yet we must not suppose that the automobile has been counted out on these circum stances. We have to consider the oth er aspects of the case and realize that every mode of transit has its perils and disadvantages. Even the bicycle ip liable to lose a crank or a brake and become unmanageable. Railroad trains are surely not exempt from ac cident, though everything in reason is done to make them as safe as they are rapid. The trolley car is liable to snarl itself in a broken wire and to scorch and terrify its passengers. And as to the good old horse, there never was an automobile half so full of kinks as he. Your automobile may take fire and burst and slip a cog and break down ten miles from a house, but it does not go wild in presence of an old newspaper; it does not run at a frantic pace through crowded streets, paying no attention to its driver; it does not try to climb trees and house fronts and bump into its own species. There are drawbacks everywhere, but the automobile has no more than its share.-Golden Days. A JAPANESE DEVICE. It Is Nothlng Less Than a Mosquito Lamp Which Lures the Thirsty Insects to Destruetion. It may be something of a consola tion to germ-seeking Americans to know that theirs is not the only mos quito bitten country on the face of the globe. The Japanese are as subject to Sting t ing retorts from these pests as we are, and though they long ago adopted the mosquito netting, no well regu lated Jap ever thinks of crawling un: der it without his mosquito lamp, r trimmed and burning. The lamp, which is usually of bur K nished metal, looks at first sight much %pi JAPANESE MOSQUITO LAMP. like a small bicycle lamp, except that it has a wicker handle and the "bull's eye" and the "chimney" are open to the air. When the little wick is afire, the Jap cautiously approaches his singing prey, and presto! he disappears as if by magic. He has been drawn intp the lamp with the draught created by the heat and cremated. It is a clever device, but whether Americans will adopt such a Diogenes mode` of procedure in the search for an honest mosquito is another ques tion.-N. Y. Herald. Eyes and Teeth Suffer. According to the dentists, the teeth of civilized peoples are steadily decay ing, a result said to be due to the in creased demand on the nerves and to the lessening work of mastication put on the jaws. Similarly the eyes are said to be going, a result attributed to too much reading, to railway trains, and to the dust of cities. A reviewer, in a scientific contemporary, finds a new subject for blame and abuse-the highly glazed paper used by the illus trated books. "If the use of the high ly pressed and metallically polished papers, which since the invention of half-tone illustrations have become fashionable hi illustrated magazines, is carried much farther-the danger is very real and serious-the eyes of the rising generation will fail them long be fore their time." The German Cavalry Boat. A Strasburger, named Reg, has in vented a collapsible boat for the use of cavalry on the march, and the ves sel has been adopted for practical use by the German hussars. The frame work is composed of lances, and these weapons,after a simple adaptation, are also used as oars. The tarpaulin which forms the skin of the boat and the other fittings are made up in two pack ages, which can be carried by one horse.. On reaching a river-bank, the framework can be put together and the boat completed and launched in a few minutes. Each of these conven ient vessels can carry 16 men. The hus sars have been drilled in the use of the boat by the inventor. Guarding Against Tuberculeosis. Hereafter the French railway com panies are required to submit every person applying for a post to a very rig orous medical examination, and any one who is suspected of tuberculosis, or who even appears likely to contract the disease, is not to be admitted to the staff. This Is Strange Indeed. It is an extraordinary fact that men buried in an avalanche of snow hear distinctly every word uttered by those who are seeking for them, while their most strenuous shouts fail to pene~' trate even a few feet of the snow. A SHADOWLESS LIGHT.' Improved Electric Are lamp fto Street Purposes Designed by a Washington Inventor. In an improved form of are lamp for street and other lighting purposes designed by Tapley W. Young, of Washington, D. C., the carbons are so placed as to throw no shadow under neath the lamp. One of the objec tions to the arc light heretofore has been the shadow cast by the mechan ism necessary to support the lower carbon, but the new lamp overcomes this by suspending both carbons in aIn oblique position from the top of the lamp, as illustrated. It is under stood that the light in an are lamp is produced by the passage of the electric current between the slightly o IMPROVED ELECTRIC LAMP. '1 r separated points of the carbons and a to maintain these points in proper e relation the inventor has provided a k clamping mechanism actuated by the t expansion and contraction of the 1 central rod of the governor. The first a action as the rod expands is the c, clamping of the carbon pencils to pre t vent further downward movement e and the second is the spreading of the I. points until the arc is formed be t tween them. As soon as the points s are consumed partially the rod is again drawn upward, allowing the points of the carbons to fall together once more, which feed is assisted by the coiled springs attached at the upper ends of the carbons.-Chicago News. HIGH RAILWAY SPEED. Electrio Motors Which Can Pull a Train at the Uniform Rate of 125 Miles an Hour. Some months ago the statement came from Berlin that the imperial government had approved of a project for the substitution of electricity for steam as the traction power on cer tain government railroads. That this was something more than rumor or reportorial conjecture ap pears from a Berlin dispatch of recent date. The dispatch states, in sub.. stance, that the electric system was installed some time ago on the mil itary, railway from Berlin to Zossen and that the trials have been entirely successful in developing great speed with safety. "The speed of the trains has been gradually increased," says the cable. "until now 85 miles are comfortably covered in the hour. The ears run smoothly and the engineers express confidence that they will attain a speed of 125 miles per hour." The speed mentioned in the earlier dis patches as probably attainable was 120 miles at least and possibly 145 miles an hour. The mechanical difficulties to be overcome in attaining great. speed by steam power are in a great measure obviated by the use of electric power. Thus far they have been only impe* fectly overcome by devices such'as the turbine enine for avoiding the recip rocal action and the dead points of the. ordinary steam engine. In the use of electrical power there are. difficulties also, but these seem to have been met successfully by German electrical en gineers. If the experiments in Germany dem onstrate that a speed of 125 miles an hour can be maintained with safety and at an expense not very greatly in excess of that incurred for such service as we now have we may expect the introduction of this power in America for special service between the latger cities, if not, for general service on all roads, at no very distant day. The"'limited" train of the not remote future may be a very different affair from that of the present time. With specially constructed thains re ducing atmospheric resistance to a minimum a trip from Chicago to New York between ten o'clock at night and six o'clock next morning or to San Francisco within 24 hours may be among the experiences of men already well advanced in life. Acorresponding acceleration in the movement of per ishable freight is possible so that sea food and tropical fruits may be prac tically as fresh in Chicago as in New York or Key West.--Chicago Chron icle. San spots and Famine., The hypothesis of Sir Norman Lock yer relative to the relation between sun spots and variations in the iarth's productiveness, resulting in plenty or famine, prosperity or panic, will find contradiction or confirmation in the re suit of the ethnographic survey of India. At the suggestion of the Royal society, Lord Curzon's government has undertaken a magnetic survey. Sir 'Norman's idea is that the perturba tions of the magnetic needle and sun spots are intimately connected and that magnetic currents have a direct relation to Indian droughts and conse quently to famines. A number of new magnetic stations are now being erect ed, and from the thoroughness with which preparations for the work are being undertaken, valuable results will be obtained, both ethnographio and magnetic, even if they do not con i~rm Sir Norman Lockyer's hypothesis. His Reply. Old Gentleman-Are you sure you love my daughter, sir? Young Man-Well, if I don't, sir, she is the worst fooled girl in this town!-- -Puck. Corroborative Evidence. She-I understand veal has gone up. lie-I guess that's right; I see the restaurants have raised the price of chicken salad.-Yonkers Statesman, SSCHOU AND CHUR fCH The general missionary co of the Methodist Episcopal ehl...: announces receipts 'of $1,28 .' through regular channels during they last fiscal year. The girls at Vassar have become interested in hockey, a game which, the young Englishwoman, Miss Con stance Applebee, is so successfully introducing into the` 'women's obl leges of America. She will be coach at Vassar, Smith and Radcliffe. Miss Applebee is also starting a fencing school in Boston. Lord Mount Stephen has recently given ,o the Established Church of Scotland the sum of £40,000, the an nual revenue of which is to be ap plied to the augmentation of the sal aries of some 20 ministers in Aber deenshire and Banffshire. This will assist these pastors-all of them in poorly maintained charges-to the extent of £ 100 a year each. An English paper nmentions the names of some ten noblemen who are frequent preachers. Of these five are ordained priests of the Estab lished church, and one is a bishop who is a "lord" in his own right. Among those peers who are preach ers is included Lord Kinnaird, an ac knowledged authority on football, but not less resolute and zealous as a lay preacher. The largest entering class at Rad eliffe college, 430 in all registered this year. This is a new departure in the department of athletics, a hockey team having been formed. Miss Constance Applebee, a young Englishwoman, has come over for the express' purpose of introducing hdckey to American girls, and her services as coach have been secured. Fifty-two girls have enrolled in the hockey club. In Germany the proportion of nmi versity students to the whole popu lation has doubled in 30 years. The total number in 1870 was 17,761, which gave 8.83 students to every 10,000 German males, while in 1900 it was 46,520, or 16.78 to every 10,000. The comparative figures for the dif ferent institutions of higher learn' ing are as follows: Universities proper, 13,674 and 32,834; technical schools, .2,928 and 10,412; nlinklg schools, 144 and 753; veferinary schools, 267 and 1,343, and agricul tural schools, 357 and 890. The for estry schools remain stationary, the figuree being 261 and 274 THE FUNCTIONS OF APPETITE. The Phystelei ist Is Often Apt to Leave Oult the Matter oe the Taste. Too little account, it is thought, is taken by physiologists of the funo tions of appetite. As these functions belong in one sense to the domain of . psychology, the physiologists are apt to devote themselves wholly to' the nutritive value of foods, leaving outo natters of taste entirely. Thatrthe . latter are of first-rate importanoe is. the opinion of Prof. J P. 'Pawlow,'f St. Petersburg, 'whose lecture on"The Work of the Digestive Glands" has just been translated from Russian ifto French (Paris, 1891), and is raevied' in the Revue Scientifque (September I), says, the Literary Digest. :..Proma this review we.learn that the eminent Russian selentist gives the fullest ro - i ognition of the part played bythaa :p petite, not only in ordinary dige.tive processes, but in bringing on ddr.c diseased coahdiion of the digestive xgans. Everybody .knows, says "the writer,. that' the normally propitaCble:: food is that whechie taken with app ,.. tite, with sensation end plea te.o".' . to restore thbe ppetite6 is tona of t. most frequpabc regntsts inmad bq the physician. He continues: "Unfortunately, medidal sncetiai T, strayed from this legitimate traditio. . which correspohds to reaieonditionso digestive sfunction. If wp read dsutesila porary treatises on the troubiles of th digestive organs swibeshall he iebal. with how little attentionisp aid to the appetite, either d a cance or as a cure. e a " On the conirary; weinay re d In certain works the advice thatno ape cial heed be given to a poor appetitie which is a subjcdtive symptom of alight inportquneel Budh views can be re garded only as gross errors., L - "When we advise the patient that he'. should eat a little at a times andnotto satiety, when' he 'is put on a pieealil... diet, when we remove him frola his habitual surroundings and send him to a place where his whole life is regt.: lated in accordance with hisphyaiolog ic needs-in all these cases the phySti clan is trying simply to awaken the appetite, and thus takes acddinito ot as a therapeutic -factor. In thE.t case, when food is prescribed in m quantities, besides the avoidapce of re pletion in an enfeebled stomach, theL frequent excitation of: the saliva is of g~eat importance, because of theTrleh ness of this secretion and its di tre power"L The author itea eases in which an . abnormally .smalS~secretion 6f gastr i `juiee"in the 'stomach made it doubly. necessary.to insUre proper digetlon - by the saliva. . Japanese Porseli Rmepss..: In tbe manner of repsars those won. derful followers,, of principle and truth in art, the Japanese, have a les son to teach us. When a Japanee connoisseaur breaks some preciou piece of pottery :or porcelainehe' d oea". not throw it away with disdasin;i tie ther does,he try to deceive the casusal observer into the belief that it is as broken. Instead, he has it joined to gether, generally with goldlacquer,a ' such fashion that the fractureis bold ly shown and commented on,- as it were, by the frank exposition of the method by which It is made good. Curiously enough, a distinctly new and charmingly decorative efect is in most cases added by these Irregu.lar gold lines, while the sense of orst :. wanehip is tickled by the ma l ousr' o 'e skill exhibited by the repairer in thus welding together the two dlsaimilnje materials. Truth is preserved"t a* r loss of artistic beauty; indd gnca~ more it is made clear that hle two may. always walk hand in hand.- Connoisseur, ear at the Prie." " "I am told -that Mr.r.. adda ipa. only $10,000 for Blanche'ais:ount," saI Miss Kittish. 'i~ down saleco," mmoented Mtini flyppj -Detroit 1'kred frees.