* * * A Bach chaconne is on the orchestra programme this week. Some one remarked that he did not care for chaconnes, which moved us to quote what some one else (we think it was Herman Devries) said: "Chaconne à son goût." * * * "Pond and Pond Donate $500 to Union Pool Fund."--Ann Arbor item. Quite so. * * * If we had not been glancing through the real estate notes we should never have known that Mystical Schriek lives in Evansville, Ind. * * * From the Illinois Federal Reporter: "Village of Westville vs. Albert Rainwater. Mr. Rainwater is charged with violation of the ordinance in regard to the sale of soft drinks." Can Al have added a little hard water to the mixture? * * * MEMORY TESTS FOR THE HOME. Sir: Friend wife was naming authors of various well known novels, as I propounded their titles. Follows the result: Me: "The Last Days of Pompeii." She: "Dante." "Les Miserables." "Huguenot." "Adam Bede." "Henry George." "Vanity Fair." "Why, that's in Ecclesiastes." "Ben Hur." "Rider Haggard." "The Pilgrim's Progress." "John Barleycorn." "Don Quixote." (No reply.) "Waverly." "Oh, did Waverly write that?" "Anna Karenina." "Count Leon Trotsky." J. C. * * * We see by the Fargo papers that Mrs. Bernt Wick gave a dinner recently, and we hope that Miss Candle, the w. k. night nurse, was among the guests. * * * LEVI BEIN' A GOOD SPORT. Sir: Levi Frost, the leading druggist of Milton Falls, Vt., set a big bottle of medicine in his show window with a sign sayin' he'd give a phonograph to anybody who could tell how many spoonfuls there was in the bottle. Jed Ballard was comin' downstreet, and when he seen the sign he went and he sez, sezzee, "Levi," sezzee, "if you had a spoon big enough to hold it all, you'd have just one spoonful in that bottle." And, by Judas Priest, Levi give him the phonograph right off. Hiram. * * * "Basing his sermon on the words of Gesta Romanorum, who in 1473 said, 'What I spent I had, what I kept I lost, what I gave I have,' the Rev. Albert H. Zimmerman," etc.--Washington Post. As students of the School of Journalism ought to know, the philosopher Gesta Romanorum was born in Sunny, Italy, although some historians claim Merry, England, and took his doctor's degree at the University of Vivela, in Labelle, France. His Latin scholarship was nothing to brag of, but he was an ingenious writer. He is best known, perhaps, as the author of the saying, "Rome was not built in a day," and the line which graced the flyleaf of his first edition, "Viae omniae in Romam adducunt." * * *