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Gleanings.

The contributions Of the Protestant EpiscO-
pal Church in the United States 70 the cause
Of missions during the last year amounted to
$3.50, 900, partly estimated.
Bessie Turner is waiteress in a New York
downtown restaurant, having lost fine posi-
ton as teacher by testfying for Plymouth
Church, which having no further use for her,
leaves her to shift for herself
DIR. Allchin an eminent London physician
has frankly avowed. in an address to students,
that of all scientific pursuits which practi-
! cally concern the community there is none
perhaps which rests upon so uncertain and in
secure a basis as medicine.
German anthropologists are agi'ating The
problem whether the brunette population Of
that country entered it from Italy, or whether
large proportion Of the early German blondes
we're an artificial production. Il is known
from Roman sources that the Germans manu-
featured a cosmetic for giving yellow tinee
70 the hair. and the Eila describes the Cloths
as a dark featured people.
The British gifts to the Uuited States, con-
cected with the Centennial exhibition, con-
tinue The gift Of St Georges House 10
Philadelphia has been followed by the presen-
tation of the chief part Of the British art edu-
cational collection, from Sonth Kensington Mu-
scum. in London. now at the Centennial, part
Of which is to 60 to the Pennsylvania Museum,
to be established in Memorial Hall, and part
to the new Educational Museum at Washing
! ton.
Germans seem to have, generally, less good
sight than other people. Far more soldiers
wear spectacles in the German than in any
other army. In the armies of France, Italy.
England and Spain, q spectacle man is rarely
seen An examination of the eyes Of recruits
| in Switzerland showed that while 10 or Is per
cent. OF those from French cantons hal delec-
tive visions q to - per cent. Of those from
German cantons ha! this defect.
The eighth National Cat Show was opened
recently at the CRYSTAL Palace, London. There
were 308 cats On exhibition. Some were ar
rayed in white, gray and silver dresses, and
some had coats Of wire that emitted phnsphorc
! sparks when the fur was rubbed the wrong
! wav One Of the exhibitors set value a
! 1925 O0D On " little Brownie" n short haired
| tabhv aged three years. This highly cs'crrn-
/ ell Giil. pu,s was described in The catalogue
n being If th,r ulhtrcl descent from eats in
| pos essicn Il tie owner and her iathe, f"r
nearly thirty gears, and tahulaied pedigree
| for seycn generations. framed and glazed, was
affixed to the sales Office in the palace
In the collection Of Bibles at the Centennial
Exhibition was n copy Of Cromwells Bible, Sc
called because he published an edition of such
size that each soldier conll carry it in his
knapsack On the field Of Nasehy dead
soldier was found with a copy in his knapsack
penetrated Ivy bullet which reached that
verse in Ecclesiastcs, Remember now thy
Creator in the days Of thy youth" 1t is five
inches long. four and a half wide, one and
thrse-q quarters thick, weighs only eight aud a
half ounces, and is the property Of the Ameri-
can Bible Society It was printed in 1863 BY
John Fed printer to Parliament. There are
but three other copies in this country, one Of
which is in the Boston AthenGum, another in
! Harvard University Library, and third III The
library Of the late George Liyermore.