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KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY.
Argentine smelter, amounts to $18,222,-028.00, two and one-half times the value of the dairy product and nearly one-half the value of the corn crop for the same year.
During vacation the shops were kept busy every day.A number of students who remained in town worked every day.
The two press drills which are being made by the students, are almost completed and will soon be a part of the regular equipment of the shops.
Prof. Hoad was called homeWednesday by the death of a relative.
George Hanson, forge and foundry instructor in Fowler shops, received an offer from Washington, last week, of a position as blacksmith in the quartermaster's department, Fort Bayard, N. M., at an advance over his present salary. For the present, however' Mr. Hanson will remain with the University.
If you see a student charging through the halls with a notebook under his arm and a desperate, hunted look in his eye, don't be alarmed; he is only a sophomore engineer seeking somebody who will help him write his physic's lab. reports before next Friday.
The Mining Engineering department has recently received two important gifts. One is a set of four safety lamps all of a different size and patent, presented by the Safety Lamp and Supply Co., of Scranton, Pa. These lamps are types of the best mine lamps now in use. The other gift, from the Sullivan Machinery Co., of Chicago, is a diamond drill of the kind used in mining operations. These gifts are especially valuable as illustrating certain phases of the best modern methods of mining.
Prof. Haworth delivered an address before the State Agricultural society at
Topeka, Jan. 11, on "Kansas Gypsum and its Value as a Fertilizer." He also delivered an address on the "History of the Development of the Gypsum Industry in Kansas," before the recent meeting of the State Historical society.
AMUSEMENTS.
Hoyt's "A Milk White Flag," at the opera house, Jan. 24th, is probably the strongest in point of satire of all his plays. The management claim to have drawn in o the cast with generous hand, the cleverest players adaptable to the roles they impersonate, and it is said that each and every one acquit themselves with commendable credit. "The Ransome Guards," a swell military organization consisting of all officers, except one lonely private, appear upon the stage in showy, glittering uniforms, and in keeping with their costuming is that of the balance of the large company required for this, the most spectacular of all the Hoyt productions. It is said to be a fresh, bright, rollicking crowd, and the terpsichorean and musical diversions are claimed to be of a popular and delightful nature.
Like the American eagle, age cannot dim Lewis Morrison's sublime romance of "Faust." It has the paradoxical distinction of being old, yet always new, returning season after season to the scenes of its former triumphs. Imbued with fresh vigor and animated by the rejuvenated atmosphere which envelopes the entire production, this season extensive alterations and many improvements have been made,which while they in no way detract from the main theme, yet so completely alter the entire environment that it is really a new production with absolutely a new scenic investiture novel electrical, mechanical and pyrotechnical effects, together with a specially carefully selected company, adjuncts rarely united and all testifying to the enterprise of the management, as well as themerit of the