sons. The tuition fees for
girls who bear their own expenses are fifty cents for a single lesson,
or $5 a course; for charitable societies, in behalf of their protegees,
$5 a course; for ladies sending their cooks for instruction, $10 a
course.

A shower of stones is reported to have fallen February 16 in Social
Circle, Walton county, Georgia, varying in size from a hen's egg to that
of a man's two fists, irregular in shape, dark grayish color,
interspersed with a bright, shiny substance resembling mica. The shower
was brief, extended over about four acres of ground, and followed an
explosive sound.

Panic fears are likely to prove the destruction of the Spitz dog. The
belief that this species is peculiarly liable to hydrophobia, and
inclined to bite on small provocation, has led a great many owners to
deliver up their Spitz dogs to the police for destruction. In one city,
East Brooklyn, there was said to be 4,000 of them, but the number is now
much reduced. Is it not possible that a similar panic among brutes may
account for the extinction of some wild species of animals?

According to one of the German papers, the Zooelogical Garden at Cologne
has been the scene of a tremendous fight between two Polar bears. They
were male and female, and the latter, being overcome, was finally
dragged by the male to the reservoir of water in the den, and held down
until she was dead. Then her lifeless body was dragged around the place
for some time by her furious conqueror.

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Miss Martineau's "Autobiography,"[2] which comprises two-thirds of
this voluminous publication, is an interesting specimen of an
interesting sort of book. It appeals much more to the general reader
than most of the multitudinous volumes which she gave to the world
during her lifetime, and we shall not be surprised if it takes its
place among the limited number of excellent personal memoirs in the
language. (For this purpose, however, we must add, it would need to be
disembarrassed of the biographical appendage affixed to it by the
editor, which, though carefully and agreeably prepared, we cannot but
regard as rather a dead weight upon the book. It repeats much of what
the author has related, and envelopes her narrative in a diffuse,
eulogistic commentary which strikes the reader sometimes as superfluous
and sometimes as directly at variance with the impression made upon him
by Miss Martineau's text.) Miss Martineau was ind