On The Campus

Amphions and Glee Club in University hall tonight. Ring the bells and fire the guns! U. of M. studenis now number 1800. On account of the Amphioo concert tonight, Prof. Stanley 's organ recital will ba postponed till Dec. 13. The University Prohibiiion club is getting out blank petitions to the legislature that saloons be prohibited within five miles of the University. Prof. J L. Skinner, '87, superintendent of schools in Mt. Pleasant, spent Thanksgiving in Ann Arbor; also J. H. Beazel, '88, principal of Port Huron high school. Miss Carrie E Britten, of Ann Arbor, teacher in the Fon du Lac high school, ppent Thanksgiving with Miss Lizzie Gristra n at R ickford, 111., where is also Mira Flora Potter and M Mmtie Merwin. They all agreed that '88 waa " all right." Ke v. T Harwoad Pattison, D.D , of Richester, N. Y.,who deliverstheannualaddres before the students' Christian association next Sunday evening, will occupy the pul pit of the Baptist church in the lorenoon. He i one of the ablest preachers in the Bapfit denomination. "What'8 the matter with Henry George?" will be nsked next Monday evening in the Unitanan church. A. Arnold Clark, a brilliant gradúate of Albion college, will endeavor to show tbat "he's all right." Giles B. Siebbins, of Detroit, a writer and lecturer of sotne note, will try to show that Mr George is all wrong. The Chamber concert will be given this year, providing 300 tickets are sold. The Detroit Philharmonic club will give three; Louis Maas, ihe pianist, one; and one by L. C. Elen, of Boston, consisting of a lecture on Enuland's tolk songs, iilus tratod by the songs. Tusday, Dec. 11, is the date of the 6rt. which will be by Louis Maas, assited by Miss Andrus. They will be given in Hobart hall. Robert Nourse, of Washington, D. C, will dt-livpr his lectur " John and Jonathan," in University hall, Saturday evening, hefore the Sludents' leoture associttion. He is called the "greatest dramaic orator ot the world." Of hira the "Christian at Work" says: '"This orator - orator in every sense of the word - holds his audiences spell-bound for hours under the charm ot hi graphic, racy diction, and resistless torrent of sound sense and unimpeaohable argument." One of the monkeys which Prof. Hcneage Q-ibbes caused to 3ontract consumption is uow under medical treatment by Dr. E L. Sliurley, in Detroit. These medical gentlemen show the u most anxiety to cure that monkey, free cf charge, whiuh is only fxir, considering all the circu mat anees. While the monkeys inoculated with tubercul us matter from a human uonsumptive contraer unmistakably the diaease, guinea piga do not show the game symptoms under the same inoculation, thus indicating that the monkey and man are perhaps related after uil a little more than some people would like to admit. Prof. C. H. Stowell has a splemüd Ii brary on microscopy, including all the old and quaint works on that subject. On his table Tuesday was seen a copy of the origical edition of a book printed in London 224 years ago, at a time when the microscope was very young It is entitled "Micrographia: or somephysiological des criptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasees," and the authr is R. Houke. Considerable skill with the microscope is exhibited, and the engravings are wonderful. In the preface, the author, in commenting on the aid which microscopes and ttlescopes are to visión, expresses the convic ion that mechanical coutrivances will be made for assisting the oiher senses, as hearing, smelling, e'c. And, indeed, he goes on to show that he had an insight uto the principie of the telepbone and had actually transmitted sound over wire. The following is the part in which he tells ot his experiment. : " And as glasaes have highly promoted our peeing, go 'tis not improbable but that there may be found many mecnanieal in veutions to improve our other senses, of hearing, smelling. tating, touching. 'Tis not impossible to hear a whikper, a furlong's distance, il havingbeen already done; and perhaps the nature of the thing would not make it more impost-ible, thuugh that fuilong should be ten limes multiply'd. And though some famous authors have affirm'd it impossible to hear through the thinnest plate of Muaeovy glas; yet I know a way by which 'tia easie enough to hear one speak thr ugh vnll a ya d thick. It has Dot yet been thoroughly examined how far Oiocousticons may be improved, nor what other wayes there may be of quickenin our hearing;, or conveying sound through other bodies than the air ; for that that is not the only medium, I can asure the reader, Aai I have by the help of a distended wire. propagated the sound io a very considerable dislance in an instant, or with as seemingly quick a molioo as that of l'ght, at least, incotnparably gwitter than ihat which at the same time was propagated through the air; and this not only in a straight line, or direct, but in one bndpd in many ansies."