THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS. Want Shorter Course. The Cornell faculty has directed the committee on student affairs to give serious consideration to the plan to cut down the length of the varsity race at the Hudson regatta from four to three miles, and has directed that committee to take the matter up with the stewards of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. The question of shortening this course was taken up seriously at a recent meeting of the faculty, and a considerable number of the professors expressed themselves as in favor of shortening the course. An agitation by Cornell to this end may be expected during the winter. Calf With Eight Good Legs. Wrily Simpson, of Big Laurel, Va., owns a calf which has eight well-developed legs, the extra limbs being just behind the forelegs and just in front of the hind legs. The animal gets about splendidly on its extra walkers. Exhibits of Ten Nations Arrive for the Fair. Large consignments of foreign and domestic exhibits are arriving daily for the Panama Exposition, which will be opened promptly February 20, 1915. The latest consignments are: Japanese shipment of 1,671 cases; 1,568 crates and cases from Canada; 126,000 pounds of exhibits from the Philippines; 110,000 pounds of materials from the Argentine. Heavy shipments from England, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Italy are already on the grounds. Two Prolific Apple Trees. Frank Weber and John Trent, of Troy, Kan., picked from two trees twenty-seven barrels of apples. They were of the York Imperial variety. Trent’s orchard is considered one of the most productive in that section. Wireless Tit-for-tat Shots. Europe’s two principal wireless stations, the Eiffel Tower, at Paris, and the Nauen Tower, between Berlin and Hamburg, have been exchanging conversations. The Nauen operator, discovering that the Eiffel was able to pick up his war messages ticked an indictment of Eiffel’s news as flimsy and unreliable, to which the Eiffel rushed a long, rhyming retort, jeering the Germany army for its failure to reach Paris, and concluding: “Despite your fine telegraphic victories, the Germans are slowly plunging into an abyss.” Oldfield Wins Desert Race. Barney Oldfield, “master driver of the world,” is the title the automobile speed king now is wearing. Greeted by 15,000 cheering people, Oldfield drove in his car, a winner of the 671-mile Los Angeles-Phoenix road race. Although led into the fair grounds seventeen minutes by Nikrent, Oldfield won first place and a cash prize of $2,750 by thirty-six minutes elapsed time. Oldfield’s elapsed time was 22 hours 59 minutes, and his average was 29.1 miles per hour. Nikrent’s time was 23 hours 35 minutes. The 134 miles from Prescott, the second-night control, was driven in mud, and the drivers and cars were covered with a coat of clay. Town Sells Jail at Auction.