The interest in schools of all grades in the South, from the common school to the university, is represented by President Julius D. Dreher, of Roanoke College, in a paper read before the American Social Science Association, as steadily growing. "The increase in the enrollment of eager pupils in public schools is a proof of that active interest. An additional proof is found in the fact that colleges and seminaries are attended by an increasing number of young men and women who practice self-denial or profit by the sacrifices of anxious parents, in order that their higher educational advantages may be enjoyed." Even the tendency to multiply higher institutions of learning is still further evidence of this general interest. Notwithstanding all that has been said, it must not be forgotten that under many adverse circumstances the Southern people have done a tremendous work since the war in providing schools for the masses and in building and strengthening institutions of higher education. They might have been wiser in their plans and more judicious in some respects in spending their money, but no people ever projected educational institutions in the midst of more inauspicious surroundings, and that, too, with the consciousness that a race, recently in slavery and hence able to contribute almost nothing in taxes, was to share equally with themselves in the schools supported at public expense. What has been done against so many odds may be regarded as the sure promise of greater advance in the future. A strange tale of a shepherd dog caring for a cat is told by a correspondent of La Nature. The cat was neglected, and the dog perceived that it was suffering from hunger. He was accustomed to go to a neighboring house where he was usually given delicacies from the table. One day the people of the house, answering a sound at the door, found the dog waiting there with the cat firmly settled on his back. Food was given the cat, and its escort rested while it ate. For three days the dog brought the cat thus; then the cat came afoot, but the dog was always with it.