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Show Here and Tkere THE ELEVEN LOST DAYS. Nov York Tribune. The eleven days from September 3 to 13, inclusive, are memorable for having ouco been entirely omitted from the calendar of the Anglo-Saxon world. The Gregorian calendar was not adopted by the British Empire until 1751, long after most other nations of the civilised world had conformed with it. In that 3'ear an act of Parliament prescribed that tho next year. 1752, should begin on January 1, instead of on March J5. as had previously been the rule, auu that in the following September these eleven .days should be dropped from the calendar, the day following September 2 being known as September 14. Stirring times those were, too, in which days wero not lightly to be spared from a year, Avith Clive conquering India and Washington beginning the conquest of the Ohio valley. The procession of the equinoxes took no note of trifles like these, which could be accomplished as well under one calcndarial style as another. It may be observed that while Gregory dropped only ten days from IjS'J. eleven d3,vs had to go from 1752, aud Russia would have to drop thirteen from 1906 to square her date3 with the rest of the world. . JOKES ON THE DOCTORS. A physician, in the Lancet, warns his readers against the hasty expression of opinion by doctors about the nature of their patients' ailments. At a clinic was a subject with a murmur in his heart and "with one of his eyes much dilated. The peculiar appearance of the eyo seemed to have some connection with the cardiac affection, but various opinions were expressed by the different I students as to what tho "precise nature of this relation could be. The discussion discus-sion was just becoming interesting when the patient remarked that bis strange-looking strange-looking eve was made of glass! At another clinic tho professor in charge was discussing learnedly about the importance im-portance of attending to minor symptoms. symp-toms. "Now, gentlemen," he said, "iu the caso of this woman here, certain things could be confidently affirmed from the condition of her teeth. "' He was proceeding to particularise, but just then the patient broke in upon him. "Please, sir." she said, as 8he took out her teeth, "T will band them around; the young gentlemen might like to look at them closer." POLTTE LETTER WRITER. N'ctv York Tribune. The Rawc Sekoko of Bakhurutsi, cable ca-ble address "Smith South Africa." is a very polite lotter writer. He ha3 a light, original touch, not perfectly lucid, lu-cid, perhaps, but all good style compels attention. We quote his letter to Lord I Selborno: "Congratulations with enthusiasm," en-thusiasm," he Eays, "will be glad to see you face to face, myself, Rawe, and 1 Borne of my people, as we are children, aud you arc tho mothor of us all, aud wo aro all your?, under your government. govern-ment. . . . May God bless and comfort you as you have come to this. Concessions, hope God will help with Ladv Selborno and the son and enjoy vonrsclf and all who are under you. lIav education flourish and decate. Tiafn! Rain!" SERUM FOR FATIGUE. London Globe. Dr. AVeichardt of Berlin claims credit for the discovcrv of a serum which, whatever ita practical merits, is cer-tainlv cer-tainlv the most remarkable of the antitoxins. anti-toxins. Bo calls it the sorum of ia-li"ue. ia-li"ue. This is extracted from the blood and tissue of other animals bled to death after first being sutyocted to great fntigun, the muscular tissues being be-ing subjected to heat at high tempera-lurr. tempera-lurr. The resulting extract is injected into other auimals also iu a stato ol fatigue and from tho blood of these inoculated in-oculated animals is obtained the serum, which, according to Dr. Wcichardt. destroys de-stroys tho toxins resulting from fatigue. |