The Kansas University Weekly.
Vol. II.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 3, 1896.
Editor-in-Chief:
W. W. RENO.
Associate:
L. N. FLINT.
Literary Editor DON BOWERSOCK.
J. H. PATTEN. GRACE BREWSTER.
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
C. E. RENCH.
Associates:
No. 9.
W. N. LOGAN, - - - - Snow Hall.
J. H. HENDERSON, - - - Exchanges.
GERTRUDE McCHEYNE, School of Fine Arts.
W. H. H. PIATT, Law.
A. A. EWART, Athletics.
F. L. GLICK, Arts.
E. C. ALDER, Social.
Managing Editor.
J. H. ENGLE.
Associates;
W. M. FREELAND. - - - H. E. STEELE.
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No METHOD other than chemical analysis has been employed heretofore to detect adulteration in powdered drugs. It has just been discovered that powdered root bark, branch bark and trunk bark can easily be differentiated by microscopic examination. This method Prof. Sayre thinks, can be used for the detection of adulteration in all kinds of powders.
PROPHECIES CONCERNING the progress of the world during the next one hundred years however wild they may appear, need not be regarded as idle. If it is predicted that pleasure trips will be made to the north and south poles; that ocean voyagers will travel beneath the water instead of upon the surface to avoid the danger of storms and hurricanes; that cities as large as New York, London and Chicago will flourish in Central Africa and Patagonia; that palace car transit from Boston via Alaska and Siberia to London will be an ordinary occurrence; that the United States will be bounded by the Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans; that telegraphic communication will be established between Mars and the other planets; that aerial navigation will be as common as riding bicycles and that the English language will be spoken everywhere—if all these things are predicted they should not be regarded as the product of a fevered imagination. Things just as wonderful and seemingly as impossible have occurred within the past one hundred years. It is an audacious man who limits the possibility of human achievement.
FOUR TIMES a year, the Southern Cross stands erect in the southern heavens at twelve o'clock midnight. At one of these times a beautiful thought was expressed by a Chilian young man when he said: "'Tis time to depart. The Southern Cross begins to incline."
THE SPRING oratorical contest promises to be very interesting this year as a number of good speakers are intending to participate.
FROM PRESENT prospects the University will have a very good base-ball nine this year.