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TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. Csmmeata and Critic-iaana Baaed I'poa the Haaaiagaof the Iay Hiatori cm 1 and Ncwtm .N - It looks now a If Spain hu discov ered America again. Rosebery is troubled by Insomnia. Why doesn't be go to bed and sleep It off? Some people refuse to we the truth and Jump oo It as noon a they recog nize it. A New York banker has paiil $14.ors'i for a dog, but his hired girl still gets $3 a Week. When people profess not to care what becomes of them It will be noticed that they seldom are hungry at the time. A Cleveland paper says that "China wants money bad." This ought to offer strong inducements to counterfeiters. It la very easy to understand why February had only twenty-eight days this year. Two of Its days were Lent. A New York paper ask a why the wife of Prince Xawab Iinad Nawaz Juddo Bahadur travels with him. She bears his name. Sarah Berbardt waa once a dress maker's apprentice, but It is denied that she Is responsible fur the living picture craze. A Pittsburg Judge has ruled that a baby may be held as security for ite own board bill. How old a baby may "be held? Sing Sing la trying to change Its name to Wacona. But Sing Sing by any other name would be Just aa good a place to keep away from. The bulldog at last has been properly classified. A man who wag attacked by one has sued the owner for assault with a deadly weapon. If Aldermanic votes are really mar ketable Isn't it about time to inaugur ate a system of advertising for bids, so that all cuu have a fair chance? The poverty of poets Is proverbial. Dr. Holmes left an estate worth $72,117. Boston ;iobe. Does the Globe claim ' that Dr. Holmes was a poor poet? The National Barbers' Association will try to abolish the 5-cent shaving shop. It will be a hopeless undertak ing; the cheap shop hag the biggest pulL A dispatch from Mexico says that Orizaba is In active eruption and roast ing the coffee grounds for many miles around. But why roast the coffee grounds? A dime museum freak who ate win dow glass for a living has Just died in Mobile. It Is perhaps needless to add that his death was caused by a pane In the stomach. A residence in the District of Colum bia has one great advantage. A man can worry through the most exciting campaign without being accused of horse-stealing. The bookkeeper of the Delaware State House explains to an Investigat ing committee that several bundles of Touchers mid receipts have been eaten by mice. Kills: While In New York Count Castellane had 2,5i w i cigars made for his own use at $1.50 apiece. It has often been pre dicted that one day Jay Gould's for tune would go up in smoke. It Is go ing. A Y. M. C. A. official In Springfield, O., bag Invented a gun which shoots 1,000 times a minute. That young man probably would make a good working member of the International Peace As sociation. Figures are going about showing, among other things, that Chicago has 10,000 thieves and sixty-eight alder men. Space could be saved and verity preserved by amending the first figure to 10,088 and expunging the remainder of the statement. Wheat appears to be supplanting wool as the chief agricultural staple in Argentina. The 50,000,000 bushels of wheat produced last harvest are alleg ed to have brought $.WX,000 In gold, while the 140,000 tons of wool produced there brought but $34,500,000. , Prince Xawab Nawaz Juug Badabur teUa a New York paper that "the trou ble with American workmen Is that they get too much pay. Here they re ceive $2 a day; In my country tbey get $1.50 a month and they are happy and contented." Why not make them su premely happy by giving them nothing tall? The temperance women adopted vari ous resolutions before adjourning their eooveatieu, one being a protest against military .fill for boys. - Yet all experi ence goat to show that systematic phys ical tram to the beat known enemy to botk dyspepsia and drunkenness. Military drill la sot a promoter of war, bat an 1 wr of peace. It to oaly peo ple who know nothing- of the rigor of dtoriptliLc that want to engage la eon- ft la a rff jlatouii Caet la latter-day tC hUt. feat tke Tale "Lit" fttaa tar, aWataaaWjasVaJsgJlai Atir. sPww'srvW'ap PawJsafcsT wortr ef that dtotlaetto. This has lung been regarded at one of the greatest bonora open to undergrad uate at Vale, and It cornea like a shock to older graduates that out of eleves, hundred aetdemlc students, not a Min gle one ha produced a paper of euffl cieut merit to be considered for thin prize. It look very much a if those who believe that a decay In scholarship will result from the great attention paid to athletics in our colleges and univer sities have some ground for their alarm. What is the use of Chicago making such a fuss over a gas ordinance, any-1 way? If advices from Cleveland. Ohio. J are reliable no one will care very much atsmt the present gas companies next year, and it will make no difference whether they want to charge $1.50 a thousand or T cents. Cleveland has a new sort of gas which can Is? made to order at a cost of less than 2 cents er thousand feet and which throws or dinary illuminating gas Into the shade. The new gas will lie sold to consumers In a solid form In cans. It consists of a combination of coal dust and lime dust fused by electricity. A small quan tity of this solid Immersed in water liberates gas which beats anything now on the market. I-ct uh hope this is something more substantial than a spe cial correspondent's nightmare, if it Is the truth, the lucky inventor of tlie new gas can call the world his own after tt o'clock at night. The "rtzorbaek." or native Florida hog Is the subject of panegyric In the last number of the De Land Horticul turist. It says: "In spite of the pre vailing business depression which now bangs like a pall over Florida, home raised pork can be put on the market at 6t cents per pound. And as one-year-old pigs can, If turned Into a chufa. peanut or potato patch, easily be made to weigh 125 pounds, the profits to be derived from this neglected branch of farming are obvious. Few people," said an expert Jn porcine pointers, "real ize the value of the much-despised Florida hog. Sneered at by Yankees, reviled by insolvent truckers, and Ig nored by those who should be his best friends, the native razorbaek has cer tain qualities that should commend hlnc to public attention. He Is one of the few Flotidlana who can pick up his living in the woods. He la a natural chemist and carries about on four long, aesthetic legs a regular chemical labora tory In which be transforms Into good white meat, pleasantly diversified with the proverbial streak of fat and lean, the waste products of our woods and swamps. James J. Hill, of Minnesota, draws attention to an Interesting develop ment of recent growth. To a New York reporter Mr. Hill said the other day he had observed that "the move ment from the Industrial cities to the lands in the Northwest was daily In creasing In volume.". His opportuni ties for observation are excellent, inas much as he owns and controls an ex tensive system of railways that pneu trates the Northwest; his own books would afford a measure of the reputed migration. Cetiataly there Is every reason to hope that Mr. Hill's observa tions are correct. They have been iu some degree confirmed by reports from the Northwest The movement. If It really exists, must ultimately bring great relief to the congested cities in the industrial and manufacturing re gions. For many years the teudency has been from the country to the cities, young men especially being attracted from the dull routine of farm life to the reputed gayetles and comparative ease of the centers of population. Two years of hard times must have done much to dispel this unhappy illusion Great part of the suffering from hun ger and cold that have befallen In the hist two winters has Is-en In the cities. The records of the charitable societies have been a doleful record indeed. Farm life may not be attractive or largely profitable, but in any ordinary times it affords at least a living even to the humblest of toilers. It removes the llrer from the carklng and cor rodir.' contact with groat wealth which excites the cupidity and hatred of the unfortunate without Justifying their Impotent desire. Best of all. It Is a liberal education In the dignity and independence of honest toil. "Aladdin," "AH Baba." Some years ago M. Zotenberg com pletely vindicated the literary Integrity of Galland, who was long believed to have himself Invented a number of the tiles In "Les Mllle et Une Nuits," and deliberately foisted them on the pub lic as Arabian compositions. As those tales "Aladdin," "All Baba," "Prlnee Ahmed," "The Envious Sisters," etc. are among the most fascinating in the whole of that famous Htory book, this was certainly paying a very high com pliment to the great Orientalist's In ventive genius, if It did Impugn his honesty. Some candid scholars there were, however, who strongly maintained that, though those narratives were not to be found in any Arabic text of "Elf Lay la wa Layla," Galland must have taken them down from the recitals of professional story-tellers In the Levant But the question was finally settled when M. Zo ten berg discovered them In a manuscript copy of "The Klghta," which had, been recently acquired for the National Library at Paris, and pub lished the Arabic text of the tale of Aladdin and Ma lamp, together with a monograph on the authenticity of the tales which had been hitherto common ly retarded aa spurious. Notes and Queries. Customer Do yoa know anything that to good for baldness? Barber-Did yoa ever try a wig, air? Yonkert Rtateemaa. -When aofM people take a blot tbey take ttMir bate wlta M. ; THE FARM AND HOME. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM ER AND HOUSEWIFE. Breeding of Ordinary Work Horaea la Now Unprofitable Care of Kgge for Hatching-Variety for Fattening Animale-Profit la Sweet Potatoes. Our Changing Cnatoana, To Illustrate the nei-essity of produc ers keeping pace w itb the times and the changing conditions of commerce, one has only to Instance the Introduction of the cable ami the electric motor for street railroads to see how far they have discounted the use of horses and mules In the cities of this country. The time was, and it was not so very long ago. either, when In the city of St Louis there were fully 10.000 animals employed in this service alone. To-day there are not 200. The same kind of change Is going on In all the large cities of the Union, and will continue until there Is not a line of horse cars In the coontry. If by the change from horse power to electricity In this one city alone 10,000 horses are thrown out of employment and on to the market to be old for what they will bring, what to to be the effect when all cities follow suit and do the same. An exchange pre sents the following facts: The Introduction of the trolley In Philadelphia Is going to cause a revo lution along certain lines of Industry. An accurate estimate of the number of horaea In the various street car stables Indicates that from 12.000 to 13,000 ani mals will In all bare been thrown npon the market after the electric wires have been generally substituted. The placing of these horses on sale will be followed by a drop In prices. This will readily be seen when the fact that the Philadelphia Traction Company sold eighty-seven of Its animals for $430 Is taken Into account Another passenger railroad company old eleven horses for $100. On an av erage 12.000 pounds of long hay and at least 114,000 pounds of cut bay Is con sumed by these horses each day. This will make a big difference to the produc ers who supply the hay to the Phila delphia market It la said that the shrewd speculators are already calcu lating on a reduction in price that will follow the decrease In demand. These same horses each consume about six teen pounds of cracked corn and bran dally, besides the amount of bay al ready mentioned. Another product of the farm will thus suffer. About 40,0u0 pounds of straw is also daily used In bedding the horses. Exchange. Cars of Eggs for Hatching. Hot weather quickly addles eggs be cause It stimulates the growth of the germ. But the alternation of hot and cold Is still worse, for If the germ has been at all forward It Is very sensitive to cold. A very little chill will kill it Eggs ought never to be placed In tin or earthen vessels. These abstract heat rapidly and are subject to sudden changes. Many think that because the egg is unfrozen It is all right for hatch ing. This is a mistake. Laying the egg In a wooden vessel with some wool en cloth under the egg, and, if need be, over It la the best protection. Very many early hatches of eggs have only half the number they should, because the germ In the egg was killed before the hen began to sit on It Variety for Fattening Animala. Because a kind of food Is poor in nu tritlve value. It does not follow that none of It should be giveji to stock which It Is desired to force rapidly. Quite often the poor food Is most need ed to prevent undue clogging of the di gestive apparatus. When we have fat tened hogs on corn, a small quantity of wheat middlings in milk, or, if milk cannot be got, In water, was always greedily eaten. So, too, fattening hogs will eat freely of roots, especially of beets or mangels, though these have very small amount of nutrition. If neither the middlings nor roots can be had, give the bogs some chopped clo ver and see them eat It They will not eat very much, but the little that they take is necessary as a divisor to pre vent their richer food from cloying them. Fattening sheep will always eat a little grain straw If they have a grain ration that contains too much nitrogen ous matter. Yet straw of Itself Is so poor a feed that If given with nothing else sheep will starve on It and those that are not vigorous will die from lack of nutrition. The Sweet Potato for Profit. Sweet potatoes are the most profita ble crop that I raise. They will make from 200 to 600 bushels per acre; 1,000 bushels have been made, but under extraordinary circumstances, and the tubers were of poor quality. But with a yield of 200 bushels, and at only 2 cents a bushel, they beat 5 cent cotton a long way. They seldom sell as low as this, and In the spring bring from 50 cents to $1. Extra fine varieties, such aa the Bunch Yam and Spanish Bunch Sweets, bring from $1 to $3 a bushel, and the supply Is not equal to the demand, and not, likely to be for years to come. There are so many farmers who by Ignorance or negligence lose their po tatoes that sweets for seed are always In demand at good prices, and often they are very high. I have kept them not only through the summer, but until the next spring, and they germinated, bat It took them two or three week longer than those of the previous year's growth. Too raising of tweet pota toea for teed la quite a bcslneee bare, aad tbey are seat to every State la the Ualoa. to Canada aad Booth America, aad two tabara aaat teat year kg mall to fraton arrived la aaod eondl tJoa. There tbawaaaoa of acres ara ail it weaM pay tmm. .-- awa to tatok Out the tweet potato Is only adapted to at arm cli mates, but It will grow anywhere that the Irish potato will, and In many lo calities Is a more profitable crop. Worn out cotton lands. If allowed to ret . year, will make a fair crop of ivt potatoes. These poor lands, if platted iu sweet potatoes one year, tLen In cowpeas, will then produce good crops of corn and cotton. fZ sweet potatoes Improve instead of Impoverish land, and, aa they bring a much better price In proportion to their coat than cotton. It is to be hoped that more will be planted than heretofore. Of all the cropR that are raised in the South. I can think of none t'tat will equal Irish and sweet potaux as mortgage lifters. Alabama Cor. of the Orange judd Farmer. Growing Wheat for Feeding. Many years ago we heard farmer In a wheat growing section say that it cost no more for them to grow a bushel of wheat than a bushel of shelled corn. It was Just after the complete wheat harvesting machines came into use, and these farmers doubtless reckoned the labor of cultivating and harvesting the corn crop as more than offsetting Its larger yield per acre. It does not cost as much to cultivate an acre of corn as it used to da The cost of growing an acre of wheat has Increased, for It must now have a dressing of phosphate. But the wheat crop Is more certain than It used to be. - The fine middlings made from wheat In flouring it makes excel lent hog feed. So, too, doe the whole wheat when ground and mixed with ground corn. By combining these two feeds a good deal of the wheat crop may be profitably fed to bogs unless wheat prices are higher than tbey bare lately been Ex. Crop After Buckwheat. The buckwheat crop is one that makes trouble for the next season, as IU scat tered seeds will grow when warm weather comes. If spring grain la sown the buckwheat will grow up and ripen Its crop before the spring grain Is har vested. Some of this will be scattered on the ground, but some also will mix with the spring grain and spoil Its sale. We have always heard that If sown In spring the buckwheat will blast without seeding when hot weath er comes. It does not do so, however, when the buckwheat Is scattered on the ground In the fall, and starts as soon as spring grain Is sown In spring. ! It may be thajt if sown very early In spring buckwheat would yield at well as It usually does when sown In mid summer. It often suffers from early fall frosts, and some years, as last sea son. It Is Injured by extreme drought' and heat while It Is growing Ameri can Cultivator. Barnyard Manure. Speaking of barnyard manure, Prof. Bailey says there are sound scientific reasons for the high esteem In which this manure Is held. It contains all the fertilizing elements required by plants in forms that Insure plentiful crops and permanent fertility to the soil. It not only enriches the soil with the nitrogen, phosphoric add and potasn which It contains, but It also renders the stored up materials of the soli more available, Improves Its mechanical condition, makes It warmer and enables It to re tain more moisture or to draw It up from below. An Enemy of the Apple. The codlin moth can be kept some what In restraint by keeping the cellar where winter apples are stored well guarded from this time on. Recorded facts show that often hundreds of the moths emerge from barreled and stored fruit. L. O. Howard, now I'nited States entomologist, enumerates several strik ing instances of this In his excellent ac count of this pest published Iu the re port of the I'nited States Commission er of Agriculture for 1.HM7. pages KS-1 15. Thus, in any case, It would be a good plan to have fine netting over cellar or storeroom windows from March to July. Denver Field and Farm. Orchard Graaa. When farmers begin sowing orchard grass they never at first sow enough seed to make plants to cover all the ground. This makes a patchy growth of the orchard grass, which only gradu ally fills up so as to make a complete sod. Some of this patchlness Is In evitable, however thickly the orchard seed Is sown, and It Is always better to sow clover with orchard grass, so that It may fill In the vacant spaces. Even the clover will require pretty early cut ting to get the hay at its bet Orchard grass soon becomes tough and woody after it has headed, and It will bead even before the clover and orchard grass will spring up and make a quick even before the clover, and orchard prove the soil so that the orchard grass will grow more quickly Into a complete sod with than without It Cultivation Develops New Varieties. In all wild fruits and nuts there Is usually very slight variation from the original type. But what there ia can be explained when a seed has ripened In some locally where It has had un usual advantages or In an extra favor able season. Bat o soon as cultivation begins there It a larger variation In the product of seeds. Some will degene rate to the original wild type, but out of a large number a very few may be as good as or better than the parent plant If among thousands of seedlings there to one that It greatly eupertor, It will pay for the tabor on all the rest The chancre of success are greatly In creased If seed for new varieties hat been chosen la years which are espe cially favorable for the growing of perfect fruit among a crop Injured by drought or cold weather. This to espe cially true of the grape crop. All the beat pew varledee rf grapaa were or iginated froai eta grow when tbto Kit reached Ha Ufba etaaaard la EDUCATI0NALC0LUMX vOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. The Adoption of Departmental Train ing ia Primary Gradea la Being Strongly Lrged-A Problem for the Children-Educational Notea. le part mac' Training. The friends of jte detrimental teaching are strongly urging its adop tion In secouilary schools, aud the argu ments pro and con are warmly discuss ed In the educatloual papers of to-day. As is customary In all discussions of new theories, extremists take the fore most ground, and urge a complete change In existing methods. Not con tent with asking for the new regime for advanced pupils, they urge that the plan shall be Introduced Into all schools, aud that the beginner as well as the mature student shall be taught by the departmental plan. Waving the question as to the wis dom of introducing departmental teaching Into academic work, let us consider for a few moments the ad vantages, or disadvantages, of attempt ing such teaching In primary grades. The advantages should be the same at are claimed for the plan In the high er grades. If a teacher devotes her entire time to the teaching of arith metic, for example, and Ota herself to teach this subject, it Is claimed that she can do more for her pupils Id this branch than the teacher who must divide ber time and effort among the studies ef the curriculum. She be comes a specialist to ber subject; knows It from beginning to end.. She can follow the child through bis work from the first grade to the high school, If she Is retained so long In her posi tion, and thus the child will not only secure the advantages to be derived from ber special training, but he will be free from the evils arising from the frequent change of teachers In all sub jects. The work of to-day will be built upon yesterday's and will prepare for to-morrow's. Consecutive, systematic, coherent work under a specialist In every subject would, it Is claimed, be for the advantage arising from depart mental teaching. On the other hand, let us ask what the child must forfeit In order to secure this advantage. A glance at any complete course of study which has been prepared by specialists shows the tendency of each to emphasize his specialty, without due regard to the claims of the other subjects upon the child's time and at tention. Even the famous report of the Committee of Ten suggests this ten dency. The teacher of science is sure that science Is the basis of all knowl edge, and that the child's attention and time should first be given to his sub jects. The teacher of language knows that language Is the key which unlocks all knowledge, aud Is therefore sure that the child's chief effort should be given to this subject The teacher of history opens volumes which are essen tial to the child's development aud de mand a full course of historical reading. The teacher of drawing asks for exer cises which demand hours of patient labor. The teachers of mathematics assign work which would monopolize one half the pupil's time. No one real izes how much he is asking, because each one looks at the child as a stu dent of his own branch, without recog nizing the relation of the subjects to one another and to the necessary de velopment of the child. A natural and almost Inevitable result of such teach ing would be either the overcrowding of the child or the tendency to push hi in iu the lines of his inclination, and to lalH-l him dull or Indifferent In other subjects. Again, the growing belief In the minds of faithful teachers of little children Is tills, that we are called to teach uot subjects, but children. That the measure of our work Is not mastery of a single sub ject or a group of subject but his growth In power, skill, habit character and Ideal. The advocates of concentration are showing us how closely related are the different sub jects of study, aud how every one needs every other one to reinforce Its truth and apply Its principles. This concentration, this reinforcement Is lost If the child passes from one teacher to another for his lessons. Iu order to secure true co-operatlou of the work one thought must be behind It all. The teacher who leads the child to observe the apple or the tree should be the one to read to him Thoreau's "Wild Ap ples," Burrough's essay on the same subject or help him to commit to memory Bryant's beautiful "Planting the Apple Tree." His drawing of the apple or the tree would test and rein force his observation. His language lesson should be a description of what he has seen. This language necessi tates a mastery of certain words In spelling. The exercise calls for certain powers to write, but each one Is help ful in proportion as It applies and strengthens the truth In other lessons. All such connections, such co-ordination, Is lost If the child passes through the hands of several teachers. Is the gain which we have acknowledged equal to the loss which he must sus tain? If we teach the child as well as the subject we must study the child at well as the subject. One disadvantage of the graded school system lies In the fact that the child mutt leave hit teacher before the knowt him well enough to do ber. best work for him. But because, under present conditions, be baa the opportunity to atudy the child la'all school relatione, In all bla growth and expression, ahe grows In power to teach and to help him aa be retaaJat longer under ber care. The last week of the term ought to count for tea timet aa aroch aa the Brat week. Her power to aem the cbttd la eealula- t i, ,: ; - h : -. 1 ' I tive. She mothers well at teaehee him. No teacher who sees the child for a single recitation only can grow to tbto Intimate knowledge of the child. She needs to see hlui under all the condi tions of bia acbo.il life; USin the play ground In hi play with bis mules- , in his ntudy-lu bla various recitations. He needs the constant, personal In spiring iuflueuoe of her presence and friendship. If the tea. her deserres to teach In any degree, she deserves this opi.rtuntty. Can the child who Is handed from teacher to teacher grow Into this close relationship 0on which his Ideals, his Inspiration, his develop ment so largely depends? Were teaching an Intellectual trans action the questions would be differ ent but It Is more than that Close contact with a true teacher meant more to the child than the mastery of one or many subjects. Wo would mske the relation of teacher and pupil, la the case of little children, closer rather than more separate. Can we do thlv if we Introduce departmental teaching into the primary school? Primary Ed ucation. Good Manners,' It bat been said that the best of ut tre only half-dvlllted that there it a reatdue of barbarism In the best human society w hich It sure to manifest Ittelf In every critlt which provoket strong feeling or puts good manners to the test Though we know and practice what la Just and delicate and fitting in tome things, we betray our barbarism In others. Ao American writer tayt the English art proverbially lacking In that delicate courage which makes a stranger the recipient of considerate at tention; the Germans are ungracious to the last degree when their pride Is touched or their Interests threatened; even the proverbial politeness of the French gives way when political pas sion and prejudice Is awakened. We Americans, as a role, are generous and kind hearted, but we are greatly lack ing in that self-restraint and repose which constitute the basis of good man ner!. It has been discovered recently that the Japanese are not only the most ar tistic people In the world, but the best mannered, the most delicately and gen uinely couslderate of the rights and feelings of othert, and that In the mat ter of real courtesy all other peoples must sit at their feet Prof. Edward 8. Morse, In a recent address at Vassar College, gave numer ous examples of the refined demeanor and polite bearing of this people, who are just now giving the world an exhi bition of their sublime courage and ex alted patriotism. They consider It In excusably rude to come In bodily eon tact with another, and all crowding and Jostling where large number are assembled Is deemed Insufferably vul gar. Prof. Morse gays that In Japan "one could pass through throngs of thousands as easily as through an opeo,... forest" The true refinement of this people manifests Itself in simplicity of dress, house furnishing, and living, and these have their correspondence in neatness, order and cleanliness everywhere. De bris and litter are never seen on the streets or about their dwellings. It Is also said that vandalism, so com mon with us. Is unknown In Japan. Property, public aud private. Is respect ed. Public buildings and furnlturs, monuments, etc., are not harked and chipped, or defaced with names. Even the boys are too polite to be guilty of vandalism. What if the Japanese should teach us good manners! As a practical application of the sub ject, do we not need a revival of good manners In our schools? A movement of this kind all along the line could not fall to Ite prodctlve of good. In our eager pursuit of lmprov. ed courses of study and better methods of formal Instruction, of late, we have in a measure lost slht of the higher an.l finer ends of culture. Let us have In all our schools a revival of good maners, beginning with the teachers. Ohio Educational Monthly. A Hint to Wonld-Rc Orators. Apropos of Lord Randolph Churchill, an Incident may be related which is Interesting as showing his pluck and vigor. It relates to the noble lord's parliamentary life. He was determined to make an impression upon the Houstf of Commons, but some of his friends doubted the wisdom of his resolution. He said little, but he left London and took up his quarters at an Inn In Rut landshire. Here he spent bis days and nights for a period of six weeks, with ouly an occasional trip to "town" for a day, In writing and delivering seeches. He practically went Into training upon every subject of debate. The landlady could hear her lodger hour after hour, day after day, walking about bis rooni delivering speeches, now loud and an-, gry, now soft aud persuasive. Perfect-, ed by practice, I,ord Randolph Chur chill left for town, seized the opportu nity, made a big speech, and hence forth liecatne a man to le reckoned with. Only, to his intimate friends did he ever refer to his rural training In parliamentary oratory, which has been of such splendid service to hliu. Tld Bits. Notes. France had In 1887, 85,554 schools, 1.KMI00 teachers and 3,080,000 scholars! Germany has twenty-one universi ties, with 1,920 professors and 20,700 students. ' Yale Unlverally hat 2,850 erudeota thlt year, a gain of 148 at compared with latt year. The controversy between the prlny dpa! of the Petal u ma High Reboot CaL, and the City Board of Education, concerting the re-lDttatemeat ef a boy who had been expelled from eebooL terminated by the adoption of a resorts, Boo by the board ordertag the d lata to. tal of the prlaeCpaL