Literary and Educational Supplement. 



33 



Scltool and CoUi^Qe. 



SCHOOL AND COLLEGE, 



The Westfield, Mass. High School 

 is to organize an Agassiz Science 

 Club. 



A party of students of California 

 College, Oakland chaperoned by a 

 professor, lately f\iid a visit to their 

 noted neighbor, Joaquin Miller, "The 

 Poet of the Sierras." who has his 

 characteristically odd home in the 

 hills of East Oakland, or on what he 

 calls "Oakland Heights." Like 

 other notables, the blond old singer 

 of the mountains, is intruded upon 

 by a great many gaping sij^ht seers, 

 who go to look at him as they would 

 some abnormal curiousity in a 

 noisy side show to a menagerie. 

 So this party found Joaquin too 

 much indisposed to receive them as 

 he preferred the role ol an interest- 

 ing invalid to that of a (mountain) 

 lion 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The debate is the Society grind- 

 stone. — Wliittcnberger. 



The tunnel under St. Clair river, 

 between Canada and the United 

 States is completed, and soon will be 

 opened with a' 'hole" lot of ceremony. 



A thirty- four mile $40,000,000 

 tunnel is proposed now, between Ire- 

 land and Scotland. An eight or ten 

 year job. 



A cheap luminous paint is now in 

 use m Germany, designed for paint- 

 ing cellars, railway tunnels, dark 

 rooms, etc. It is now produced in 

 various colors, white, red, blue, 

 yellow, etc , at a cost of about seven- 

 teen cents to the square yard ol wall. 



"It is not intellectual work that in- 

 jures the brain," savs the London 

 Hospital, "but emotional excitement. 

 Most men can stand the severest 

 thought and study of which their 

 brains are capable, and be none the 

 worse for it, for neither thought nor 

 study interferes with the recupera- 



mg 



Mr. Miller is excentric or noth- f tive influence ot sleep. It is ambition, 

 A few years ago while making : anxiety, and disappointment, the 

 his home temporarilly in Washing- hopes and fears, the love and hates of 

 ton, D. C, he perched his "cabin" \ our lives, that wear out our nervous 

 in the prongs of a tree and had the | system and endanger the balance of 

 distinguished people who would run ' the brain." 



after him, climb a ladder to gain his Mr. Kessler, Chief Forest Master 

 latch string. in Germany, makes the striking 



English universities derive only comparison that the United States 

 one-tenth of their support from stud- has only 11 per cent, of its area cov- 

 ents, while the students of American ered by forests, while of the entire 

 Colleges contribute two-fifths to German empire there are 26 per cent, 

 their maintainance. of area covered. 



A number ot the students of the , "Woodman spare that tree!" 

 university of Kansas have formed a Dr. Koch's cure for consumption 

 "Modern Language Club." All the! is a healthy niedical fad, just now. 

 business correspondence, conversa- { Medication is said to be by die in- 

 tion and exercises of the meetings 1 jection, of "lymph," under the sur- 

 are to be conducted in the language I face of the body. 



to which the session of the Club is' whales are becoming scarce and 

 devoted— French, German, etc. whalebone is $ro,ooo a ton. Per- 



The university of Illinois has 450 > haps raising whales is to become an 

 students. 177 of them being new industry, like that of raising buffaloes, 

 ones, this fall. ; Buftalces not very long, ago clouded 



The universitv of Moscow is 135 : the plains of this country. In the 

 years old, and has 88 regular pro- November Century, Gen. John Bid- 

 (essors, 85 private instructors and well, one of our interesting pioneers, 

 3,805 students. writes of the buffalo of only about 



