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of about $91 for each depositor The total deposits in Brooklyn aggregate $1165,487. The statistics show that 36 per cent of the depositors are native born whites, and that they had 176 per cent of the total deposits; 61.7 per cent were foreign born whites, with sos per cent of the total deposits; 22 per cent were negroes and 01 per cent were other non-Whites; 6S.5 per cent of the depOsitors are men or boys, and 31.5 per cent women or girls
 Columbia University, New York's great institution of learning, undoubt- edly holds the record for the number of students among aR the American uni versailles and colleges. The number of students immatriculated this year is 13,229 nearly double the number of students immatriculated at any other university in the country To give in struction to this army of students there are 907 professors and teachers. Teach CTS College heads the list among the various branches of the university, with 1,670 students and the graduate schools have 1.496 Columbia College has 841 students, and a freshman class of 325, the largest in it's history. The bDD. hard College has 623, the School of Law 450. the College of Pharmacy Al. the School of Medicine 341, the School of Architecture and Music 159 and the School of Jouralism 1O6. In extension courses 2,492 are enrolled. and there are 1,152 in special courses in Teach CTS College, while 4,539 attend the summer sessions.
 Incensed at the exhorbatant price charged for fresh or supposedly fresh eggs, the good housewives at FIatbush. residential section of Brooklyn. met and decided to boycott the dealers so far as the purchasing of eggs is con cerned. The edict went forth to stop the use of eggs in their homes and for while nothing that looked like henfruit could have been found in any F'latbush home. But the women had not taken into consideration the obstinancy of their husbands. Nearly all the married men insisted upon hay ing eggs for breakfast as usual and the arguments of their wives were an swered with the brutal statement that. as the men furnished the money for maintaining the establishment, they were entitled to have what they want cd The boycott threatened to be a failure and the women. all members of the F1atbush branch of the Women's Municipal League, held another meet ing. What the trend of their delibera- tions was has not been dfvulged, but it is a strange fact that ever since that meeting there has been an unprecident- ed demand for eggs of guaranteed an tiquity. It is whispered that many men who have been in the hatbit of eating eggs for breakfast all their lives have recently sworn off and have declared that even to hear the word "egg" has become displeasing to them.
 The strange disappearance of Park Commissioner Charles B. Slower, a man of considerable prominence, is causing a great deal of worry to his numerous friends in this city. Mir. Stover was last seen in New York city on October 15 last and, although letters and checks have been received from him, bearing various postmarks, nobody seems to know where he is and why he does not return to New York, where a con siderable amount of work connected with his office as the head of the park department is awaiting his return There are many theories concerning his absence. but most of them lack d sub
 
 now thoroughly alarmed, have started a countrywide search for the missing man, but so far it has been fruitless.
 One of the briefest wills ever entered for probate in New York Surrogate's Court was filed the other day. The testator was Adolph Goebbles and aside from the date line and the signature the will contained only the following words: Tn case of my death, my be- longings go to my wife" MT. Goebbles died on November 6, leaving an estate valued at $6.OOO
 At the Memorial Parish House in Scotch Plains, N. J., a Thanksgiving dinner was given by the church last week and nearly the whole village at tended the banquet In accordance with tradition turkey formed the chief fea- ture of the feast Unfortunately the turkeys purchased for the occasion had died under the axe many years ago and had been resurrected from their icy sepulchres by some commission house to be placed the market before they crumbled to pieces from decay The result was that eighty two per sons, who had partal<en of the antique fowl became ill from ptomaine poison ing and the combined medical force of Scotch Plains and several neighbor- ing villages had to work over time to save the lives of the poisoned feasters.
 The Brotherhood Welfare Associa- ton, which is composed of hOboes has accepted the offer of Bishop Greer to use the basement of All Saints Church as a place of shelter and meeting. When the offer was originally made the hobo members were decidedly op posed to accepting it, because they