The directors of the Brown University Base-Ball Association have decided to engage a professional trainer for their nine. Matthews, formerly of the New York team, will probably be engaged.

The University of Edinburgh, which will hold its tercentenary celebration in April, has sent an invitation to Columbia College to have a representative present who shall be a guest of the university.

The present classic condition of Irish society is shown by the following from a Dublin paper: "Lost, a cameo brooch, representing Venus and Adonis while walking in Sandymount (near Dublin) on Sunday last."

D. L. Dowd, of Springfield, who was examined recently by Dr. Sargent and pronounced by him the best developed man he had ever met, showed an average development of 957, while the average of the fifty strongest men in the college was only 894.

Hamline University, Minnesota, has just dedicated a new University Hall and a Chemical and Physical Laboratory. Bishop C. D. Foss delivered the dedicatory address. During the exercises $30,000 was subscribed, which fully covers the debt incurred in the construction of the buildings.

The Cercle Francais has begun the second term of its existence in a most flourishing condition. It has cabled to Paris for a French copy of "Sarah Barnum," and until its arrival will continue to read "File No. 113," there being "translations of that work in a cheap edition." [Argo.