Dr. E. A. Bryan says:
"The young man went to college before for his own sake; now he should go for the nation's sake."
And every member of the choir can,
It is said, shatter an ordinary glass
Into fragments merely by singing into
It, so powerful are the vibrations of
Each voice.
These monks are trained as rigorous
As any opera singer, and their whole
duty at the monastery is to assist with
the music at mass in the morning and
vespers in the afternoon. When too
old for service they are retired on pensions.
Unlike most monks, they
are extremely fastidious about their appearance, and every night put up their hair
and whiskers in papers.
Problem of the Desert.
Here comes a cable note that
tors are displacing camels in Egypt
It remains to be seen whether the
monologist can go eight days without
a mollusk Tribune,
SECURED IRON FROM METEORS
Men of Prehistoric Times Probably
Had Tools and Weapons Obtained
In This Manner.
In the old world the art of smelting
ores was discovered about 1200 B.
It has sometimes been suggested that
Iron tools and weapons may have been
made at an earlier period from meteors, and recently a considerable
amount of evidence in behalf of this
hypothesis has been presented by Mr.
C. F. Zimmer. He has compiled a list
of the known iron-containing meteorites, nearly all accumulated within the
past century, and he shows from these
alone about two hundred and fifty tons
of iron might be obtained. Of this
amount more than 99 percent is malleable, consisting of a nickel-
"  Iron al
loy. 