MHerrings feed much on minute crustaceans

and sometimes on their own fry. They are full of roe in the end of June, and continue in perfection till the beginning of winter. It is in summer that the great majority seem to spawn, but in certain localities numbers of them spawn in winter. How — they are may be gue ed from the fact that 70,000 eggs have been counted in one female. The young herrings approach the shores in summer, and may then be from half an inch to two inches long. At a larger size they are eaten as whitebait..The invention of pickling or salting herrings is ascribed to the Dutch in the 14th century. | Herron, George Davis, an Amer- ‘jean lecturer and_author; born in Monte zum a, Ind., Jan. 21, 1862; was educated at Ripon College, Wis., and in Europe; pastor of Congregational Churches in Lake City, Minn., and Burlington, Ia., Profe or of Applied Christianity in Iowa College, 1893- 1900; leader of “'The Social Crusade,” a_religious and socialist movement. The subject of his lectures was the relation of Christianity to existing social conditions. Everybody's Cyclopedia (Vol. 2) — J **J**