to get anything in the newspapers exactly right. Jesus might just as well have said, "All reporters shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone" as what he is reported to have said. Perhaps one might detect in a few of our western newspapers rudimentary vestiges of what used to be called conscience and honesty, in a tendency to lean toward the belief that matter prepared for the information of the people __t to linger around somewhere in the neighborhood of truth. There may be a few also in the East, but there are so many of the other kind that newspaper readers are like the saints in being almost perfectly ignorant of the things of this world. They live in a world as unreal as Alice's Wonderland and most of them could not tell a Dinosaur from a Jabberwock. But it is our duty as scientists to have these things "with a patient shrug. It is no wonder that when accounts reach the east through professional story-tellers, that they make strange fables indeed. Truth is surely a greater stranger than fiction if not more strange. But I have gotten