The Sanitary Code is a set of rules enacted for the protection of the lives and health of the citizens. These rules relate to all matters that concern our daily life. They prohibit unhealthy businesses being carried on. They require that tenement houses shall be properly built, drained, etc. They prevent the keeping of cows, pigs, or poultry within city limits. They regulate the sale of provisions, and prevent unwholesome food being sold in the city. Under these rules, all the meat that is dressed for market within the limits of the city is inspected, and must be prepared in a certain manner. No one can offer milk for sale without a permit from the Board of Health, and this permit is only granted when the inspectors have assured themselves that the applicants have clean and airy places in which to handle the milk. The Sanitary Code covers everything that applies to our health and comfort, and, as you may suppose, its rules are very far-reaching. The new rule proposed by the Police Commissioner is to the effect that no surface car shall be sent around any curve at a greater rate of speed than two miles an hour. This rule, if passed, will put an end to the horrors of Dead Man's Curve, as the Fourteenth-Street curve has come to be called, for at this slow pace the passengers will have no difficulty in keeping their feet, and the pedestrians will easily be able to get out of the way of the cars. It will be two weeks before this rule can be made part of the Sanitary Code, and during that time arguments for and against it will be heard by the Department. If the Health Board will only follow this rule with another, forbidding the overcrowding of cars, New Yorkers will have a chance of getting comfortable service from the car systems. * * * * * We told you about the great Yerkes telescope some little while ago. It has, if you remember, the largest lens in the world, and with it astronomers can look farther into space than with any other glass now in existence. At the end of last May the big telescope was in position, and the scientific world waited anxiously to hear of the wonders it would reveal. Professor Barnard, who is in charge of the observatory, stated that it was impossible even to guess what discoveries might be made with it. He stated that it allowed the observer to penetrate one-fourth farther into space than the famous Lick telescope. It was therefore to be supposed that some new knowledge about the moon and the planets would soon be obtainable. He expected that in the course of a few weeks he would be able to give some new information about the planet Jupiter and its moons, and Saturn and its rings. He hoped also to give a fuller description of the hills and valleys on the desolate surface of the moon. Unfortunately his hopes will not be fulfilled for a long time to come.