The last pamphlet of the Johns Hopkins Historical and Political Studies, which has just appeared, contains lectures on population of Illinois and Pennsylvania by Albert Shaw and E. R. L. Gould respectively.

M. H. Lockwood, the pitcher of the University of Michigan's nine in 1882, is wanted by several professional clubs for next season, but has not yet signed with any one. Walker, his catcher last year, has signed with the Toledo Club.

The Providence Press regards it as a noteworthy fact that at the recent meeting of the Brown University graduates in Boston, no public reference was made to the poet Whittier's recently published letter urging that the doors of Brown be opened to women.

Mr. John W. Garrett's recent arraignment of his fellow-trustees of Johns Hopkins University has excited deep interest throughout the country. He believes that they are not carrying out the wishes of the founder with sufficient haste, and that in the location of some buildings they are violating his wishes.

Mr. Ruskin, as Slade Professor of Art at Oxford, declines to live in the rooms offered him in Corpus Christi College. He says he cannot spend the autumn of his days "in a city of brick lodging houses and scraped schools," and will accordingly take up his abode, for a time at least at Cumnor.

The number of students in the German universities is now about 25,000. According to reports recently published, most of these students devote themselves to what in German universities is called philosophy, which includes natural history, the languages and the exact sciences. Next to this the heaviest increase has occurred in the number of the law students, the Prussian universities alone having 2558 candidates for the honors of the bench and bar. The only marked decrease has occurred in the number of students devoted to Catholic theology, while Protestant theology attracts very many students, especially when taught by evangelical professors.

The junior history of the class of '76 of Dartmouth College records the ingenious devices of a couple of students who wished to light the fires without rising to do it. A correspondent who sends us the following extracts vouches for the accuracy of the statements therein made: "Van. constructed during the winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop a weight, rattle a chair, slam shut the stove door and open the draft, all in a jiffy and without extra charge. P - has resolved to outdo this arrangement, and is now engaged on a machine to go by electricity, to be connected with a thermometer and regulate the temperature of the room, so that the room would take care of itself and his mind be left free for higher matters."