Literary and Educational Supplement. 



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School and (College, 



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 paid 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 sight 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. Mr. Miller is excentric or noth- 

 ing. A few years ago while making 

 his home temporarily in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, he perched his "cabin" 

 in the prongs of a tree and had the 

 distinguished people who would run 

 after him, climb a ladder to gain his 

 latch string. 



English universities derive only 

 one-tenth of their support from stud- 

 ents, while the students of American 

 Colleges contribute two-fifths to 

 their maintainance. 



A number ot the students of the 

 university of Kansas have iormed a 

 "Modern Language Club." All the 

 business correspondence, conversa- 

 tion and exercises of the meetings 

 are to be conducted in the language 

 to which the session of the Club is 

 devoted — French, German, etc. 



The university of Illinois has 450 

 students. 177 of them being new 

 ones, this fall. 



The university of Moscow is 135 

 years old, and has 8-8 regular pro- 

 fessors, 85 private instructors and 

 3,805 students. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The debate is the Society grind- 

 stone . — 14//iitt< nberger. 



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 in 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 of 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- 

 tive influence oi sleep. It is ambition, 

 anxiety, and disappointment, the 

 hopes and fears, the love and hates of 

 our lives, that wear out our nervous 

 system and endanger the balance of 

 the brain." 



Mr. Kessler, Chief Forest Master 

 in Germany, makes the striking 

 comparison that the United States 

 has only 1 1 per cent, of its area cov- 

 ered by forests, while of the entire 

 German empire there are 26 per cent, 

 of area covered. 



"Woodman spare that tree!" 

 Dr. Koch's cure for consumption 

 is a healthy medical fad, just now. 

 Medication is said to be by the in- 

 jection, of "lymph," under the sur- 

 face of the body. 



Whales are becoming scarce and 

 whalebone is $10,000 a ton. Per- 

 haps raising whales is to become an 

 industry, like that of raising buffaloes. 

 Buftalces not very long ago clouded 

 the plains of this country. In the 

 November Century, Gen. John Bid- 

 well, one of our interesting pioneers, 

 writes of the buffalo of only about 



