FIVE INTELLECTUAL FEET.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 179, 20 October 1903, Page 2

FIVE INTELLECTUAL FEET.

library Tbat la L><m& Enough to Farz«£a& Information. Sufficient Sor the Noed« of Aay B2an. According to President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard university, there is no good reason why the normal human being should not have an intellectual training that would meet the requirements not only of our advanced civilisation, but be up to the highest standard as fixed by the learned president himself, for recently he said: "A library that will go on a shelf five feet long is enough to give an intellectual training to any human being that ever came into the world," says the New York Herald. Just think of it! You can hold the five feet of volumes between your extended palms, and all you have to do is to transmute their contents into memory cells that can, at the will, be put into action, for th-e production of understanding. Only five feet! I have taken the trouble to put the rule on this and apply a little mathematics. As books in the library average, five feet means 37 volumes; which is not an array calcualted to frighten a reader. Again, an average shows that these 37 books contain 30,000 pages, made up of 1,000,000 words. Not so very much material from which to imbibe intellectual training.

Authority on the Croi>a. -^ I

There io an old fellow out fn Chicago who has written ao J^uch on the subject of crops, and written so honestly and entertainingly, that he has become a power in the land. He signs himsulf S. Thornton K. Prime, his full name being Samuel Thornton Kenneys Prime, says the New York Press. Born in Connecticut, educated in Rahway, N. J., and trained in the western school of journalism, he early became a specialist in domestic and foreign crop statistics, end is to-day in all probability the highest living authority on the present and prospective condition of corn, wheat, oats, etc. The markets of the world swear by Primeregardless of the lying of bulls and bears. He is sixty-eight years old, with a country home at Dwight, 111.

PtagT-Ponsr Dinner Parties. !

The ping-pong dinner party is the latest thing. The guests come to dinner; and after the feast, which is not a very long one, they repair to the drawing room to wait until the dinner table is cleared). They all coxne back to the dining room, the net ie spread and the ping-pong game begins. *

„ ■ I Toktio'a Public Baths. I

The city of Tokio ha* 800 public baths, where some 300,000 persons bathe daily at a cost oi about one cent **** .HUiiH*- ...-•---■""■■■