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Kansas University Weekly.
during August. The next number, Dec. 6th, will be Geo. B. Williams, the celebrated Shakesperian reader, who gained such favorable comments here last spring.
Mr. Rench, a special, who is mail clerk on the Kansas City and Wellington route, went to the city Friday to make a couple of trips, after which he will receive another thirty-days' leave and return to his work on the hill.
Mr. J. A. Lahmer, '95, who has been with the U. S. Coast and Geodetic survey in central Kansas, started Monday morning to Sallisaw, Indian Ter., where he will join a surveying party for the Pittsburg and Gulf railroad.
Prof. V. L. Kellogg has recently published "The Phylogeny of the Lepidoptera," reprinted from the American Naturalist, "The California Phryganidian," reprinted from the proceedings of the California Academy of Science and "Elements of Insect Anatomy" in conjunction with Prof. J. H. Comstock.
The Barb boys have come to stay. They gave their first dance in Merchants Bank hall Friday night. The party was almost entirely made up of new students, but this did not detract from the pleasure of the evening. About twenty couples participated in the dance until the hour grew late, when bidding one another come again they reluctuantly quit the hall.
Now and then some student shows remarkable ability in a certain line. This time it is Cora L. Faulkner. He has developed great mesmeric power, and seems to be able to hypnotize the most obstinate subjects, several students have succumbed to his superior will power, and remained in the cataleptic state until Mr. Faulkner saw fit to return them to their senses.
Engineering Notes.
Squire is playing full back on the scrub eleven.
J. Lyle Harrington, '95, spent Sunday evening in the city.
One of the alternators is now kept running from 8 a. m. until 6 p. m.every day.
Grandstand Jimmy, late of K. U., late of Winfield, late of Chicago, has returned to the
University and will take up the study of law. Jimmy thinks Chicago the finest city in the west-a good place.
Those awful quizzes in theory of electricity have begun and the juniors and seniors again have careworn expressions.
H. F. Taylor, who is employed by the Kansas City Pittsburg & Gulf R. R. in Louisiana is reported as being very ill with typhoid fever. Danna Templin also is employed by the same company and is now working in Iowa.
A regulating value has been placed in the main steam pipe which will regulate the pressure of steam for heating the library independently of the other buildings; and the fall of 25 ft. in the return main is utilized to force the condensation back into the boilers against their own pressure. It is expected that this device will do away with the difficulty that was experienced last winter in heating the library building. The valve was especially designed and put into operation by Mr. F. E. Ward, foreman af the shops.
Professor Dyche.
The New York Herald of October 6, devotes a full page to an illustrated article by Prof. Dyche telling of his expedition to Greenland, the Peary Relief Expedition, and Lieut. Peary's vain attempt to reach the pole. Prof. Dyche says: "The Arctic fever is a peculiar disease and needs a great deal of cracked ice to allay it," but as he had billions of tons of that article on hand every day for a good many weeks, we may hope that he is convalescent by this time.
Leaving Gloucester May 16, he reached Holsteinborg, Greenland, just within the Arctic Circle, on June 9th and remained there, making collections until picked up July 21st by the Peary relief ship, Kite, on her way north. By August 5th, Peary and his companions had been found and taken on board and the return voyage commenced. Several stops were made to collect specimens, and the Kite did not arrive at St. Johns, N. F., until September 21st.
"As a result of the expedition the American Museum of Natural History and the Kansas