Most of the cities say that “public opinion” keeps the Negro population segregated and intimate that mob violence is ready to enforce this opinion together with social ostracism for the white seller of the property. In Alabama disfranchisement is said to keep colored folks “in their places.” * * * * * An ordinance for the physical separation of white and black residents is being urged in Atlanta. Negroes are not to live in white settlements “except as servants or tenants in the rear.” * * * * * The Central Labor Union of New Orleans, La., has written a letter refuting the statement that increased pay of Negro laborers has decreased their efficiency. * * * * * J. H. Grant has a $20,000 Negro shoe store in Memphis, Tenn., and is trying to establish a chain of such stores in various Southern cities. * * * * * It is charged that the Barbers’ State Board of Examiners of Missouri refused to license colored schools for training barbers. * * * * * The advice given the Negro to go South in the Negro Business League has given rise to much comment. G. W. Crawford, in the _Evening Post_, strongly combats the idea. “The Negro question in all its troublesome aspects must be nationalized,” he says. * * * * * BROWNSVILLE. Attention has been called to the fact that the 25th Infantry, which has recently been so warmly commended for work in putting out the forest fires, was the same regiment some of whose members were dismissed without a trial for alleged but unproven crimes at Brownsville, Tex. * * * * * SCIENCE. A paper read before the British Association for the Advancement of Science and quoted in _Current Literature_ has an excellent statement of the physical status of the Negro, placing him high among the races of the world. The paper concludes that in many points the Negro is more highly specialized than the less pigmented races of mankind, while in others he is more primitive. It says that all earlier human races were probably colored. * * * * * A Negro physician of Stanford, Ky., has patented a car-coupling device. * * * * * Professor Wilder, of Cornell, reports the case of a white man with an intelligent brain of about one-half the average weight. This is further evidence that mere brain weight is no indication of mentality. * * * * * ART. Carl Diton has sailed for Europe to study the piano. * * * * *