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Baby, verging fast to youth.—
Tell me, little one, forsooth,
if the poets speak the truth;
They declare your quiet eyes Have the hush of Paradise And the blue of azure skies;
That your merry, prattling glee Is the music of the sea, Which implores continually.
Ah! ' T is nothing we can name,
Where life goes or whence it came,—
To and fro the flickering flame.
It is joy enough to know
Flowers will bloom and grasses grow,
As the summers come and go.
Joy enough that Love is here,
And that you, O baby dear,
In our hearts have nestled near.
-Wm. H. Simpson.
Exchanges.
We welcome the University Carolinian to our table. It is a bright,newsy, outspoken monthly and is carefully edited. It is at present agitated over the question of "Exams."
The Penn. Chronicle reaches us this month with a neat new cover which adds very much to its appearance.
The Washington Jeffersonian comes out with a diagnosis of the class of '80, which we imagine will give the fighting editor plenty to do.
The son-in-law of a well-known doctor of divinity telegraphed to him of a new arrival in the family. The doctor telegraphed back the Latin word "Gaudamus,"—"let us rejoice." The telegraph operator was evidently unacquainted with Latin, for when the message reached the son-in-law it had been transformed into a familiar cuss "phrase." Virginia University Magazine.
The Occident is waging a war against the fraternities at the University of California. Either the fraternities at that institution are very poor, or it is a case of "sour grapes" with the editor.
We welcome to our table the Alamo and San Jacinto Monthly from the South Western University at Georgetown, Tex. The monthly is neat in form, and interesting in matter.
The Hesperian speaking of the K. S. U. appropriation bill, expresses itself pretty sharply at the stupid idea of economy which the Nebraska Senators have imbibed. We can sympathize with you, Hesperian. Our Legislators economized at the expense of our educational institutions and then, it is said, took home enough stationary to last them for the next ten years, purchased at the State's expense and even tried to take the chairs in which they had sat, presumably as souvenirs of their arduous labors.
There is a prep who calls paying his laundry bill, "Rendering the necessary pecuniary emolument for my proximity to divine similitude." He has evidently heard that cleanliness is next to godliness.—Hesperian.
Fraternities are now prohibited at Princeton, Oberlin, Monmouth, Carleton, Georgetown University Wheaton and University of Illinois. —Ex.
A test is to be made on the case at the Ohio State University, where students were expelled for not attending chapel. It is held under the bill of rights that no State institution can compel attendance on any religious exercises. The Legislature appointed a committee to investigate the matter.
The two Argentine Universities under the patronage of the Government, are among the best in South America and rank with Yale and Harvard in curriculum and standard of education. The public school system also is under the patronage of the Government. There are thirty colleges and normal schools for the higher education of men and women in the republic, and 2,726 public schools.Mail and Express
Glen Miller in Europe.
FLORENCE, ITALY, Mar. 9, 89. EDITOR COURIER: I have just received the Courier of February 15th the first that has reached me since I kissed good-bye to Miss Liberty who stood on Bedloe's Island to "see me off" from America. Of course I see frequent references to the paper in the various journals of Europe, but that isn't quite as satisfactory as getting the "great religious weekly" itself. The other day at Rome the Pope asked me how matters were going in the church at home. I started for my overcoat to get the Courier, but found I had left the paper at the hotel. If you think of it I wish you would put the Pope on the subscription list (don't charge it to me, however).
But this isn't what I started out to say. I see from the Courier that the Philological Club is considering the topic of "Valapuk." This, I presume is only a fore-runner of the establishment of a Department of Valapuk in the University. I want right here to enter application for the position of professor of this valuable language. I have made a thorough study of it now for four months, and can send a tea chest full of recommendations as to my ability. Says the greatest paper in Italy of my transcendental success in this popular speech: "Quando parti, oltre l inglese, egli sapera solamente un po'
di tedesco; ma conoscendo bene il greco e il latino, stodiano, raccogliendo, observando, notando, pote imparare una lingua, composta di parole differenti, e' d' idiomi differentissimi una specie di Volapuk, specialissimo e curiosissimo, ma col quale riesce a farsi capire a meraviglia." To the testimony borne by this paper I will add that I teach this language in its purity, without any tucks, frills, ruffles or other trimmings of diction—Valapuk in its primitive simplicity. The beginner is started in such useful phrases as these: "Leave that valise alone." "No, I haven't any tobacco, spirits, dynamite or any other stuff liable to duty or confiscation." "Get out." "For the Lord's sake bring me something to eat and don't ask any more questions." "I'll not pay it." "You're a thief and I tell you so." All these needful phrases are translated into neat, compact Volapuk, capable of being unpacked and used on the slightest provocation without liability to spoil from heat, cold, or dampness. For the use of ladies separate apartments of Volapuk will be furnished, such as "Oh dear!" "I just wish I was back home." "How exquisite." "That's too lovely for any use." If, before the department is started, any students wish to take lessons by correspondence, liberal arrangements will be made. Address en route.
Leaving this subject, let me remark that I've seen quite a bit of student life on this side of the pond; and every new observation into the portion of foreign humanity confirms me more fully in my admiration for the American University, undeveloped though it be; and more particularly in the system of co-education. Of the French student and his social habits during his college career, the less said perhaps the better. Victor Hugo has tolerably fully aired the life led by the students and their grisettes; and Zola and his ilk of modern sensationalists have rolled the same morsel over in their novels for those whose taste runs to that cort of thing. The life of these students with their "college wives" is probably on as high a plan relatively as the code of morals pervading the entire land of the tricolor flag. Their French student is a thorough exquisite from the top of his silk tile to the lowest extremity of his fashionable trousers. It is an interesting sight watching these fellows with their corset fitting coats parading the tsreets of the Paris "Quartier Latin;" or rigged out in full dress disporting themselves at the famous balls where there is assuredly no stickling on etiquette. Another occasion on which they may be seen out
in full round numbers is during any political demonstration when their blood-red badges and revolutionary matters bespeak unequivocally their socialistic sentiments.
I have seen likewise a vast deal of Italian student life—in Florence, in Rome, and in Naples. Of course being of the same Latin race, the Italian collegian has many of the characteristics of his French brother. Yet there is a greater regard for the "proprieties" of life than exists among the Paris boys. While I was in Rome, a little ripple was produced on the surface of University existence by three duels between students and city editors. It seems that the Professor of history had been hissed by his pupils for certain expressions on the French revolution. The city papers criticised this "questionable conduct" of the students. Naturally any reflection upon so inalienable a right as that to hiss a professor, raised the ire of the Italian collegian. The editors were challenged; promptly accepted; fought the bristling students with swords and pistols, and came out of the carriage with about the same number of wounds as their antagonists. Fortunately, or unfortunately, no one was killed; and the question of the prerogative of every student to hiss his instructors is still open in Rome to sword debate. What a falling off there would be in attendance at K. S. U., and how many premature deaths among Lawrence press representatives, if dueling was in vogue along the Kaw.
Changing again the subject of my evening's text, let me remark that I was to-day at the grave of "Amerigo Vespucio." (I give the exact spelling as written on the stone.) Now there is nothing remarkable in seeing the grave of Amerigo Vespucio when one is every day confronted with immortal names; when one resides a hundred yards from where Savanarola was burned, within a stone's throw of Dante's birth place, and only a few steps away from one Michael Angelo's dwelling place. But having searched out Vespucio's grave,—in a hidden corner of an obscure Florence church, not even yet discovered by the guide books—naving found the last resting place of him from whom our native land was named, imagine my utter surprise at seeing upon the simple slab a Kappa Alpha Theta pin. No, not exactly either, for the Greek letters and the stars are not there. The whole emblem however, some two feet in length, is remarkably like the Theta's, the shape of the kite and the position of the bars being in accord. The slab is some three feet square, is inlaid in the floor, and contains only these words, in a circle, "Amerigo Vespucio, posteris o suis, LXXI" with the Theta badge in the center. Perhaps after all, Mrs. America was a Theta. SMITH.
GRAND OPENING!
The Twenty-fourth semi-annual display of a large Spring Stock of
Millinery Goods,
AT ORME & ENGLE'S FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
April 5th and 6th.
837 Mass. Street,
ORME & ENGLE,
All are cordially invited to give us a call.
LAWRENCE, - - - KAN.
Bromelsick sells ties as cheap as any body.
Oh! go and see Bromelsick's new spring hats.
Don't buy your new hat unti you see Abe Levy's stock.
Abe Levy sells the best nats in Lawrence.
Call on Bromelsick and see the last party tie, it is a dandy.
Buy your new spring hat at Abe Levy's.
Call at the new tea store 812 Massachusetts street, Red Front, for good coffees and teas.
Buy your collars and cuffs of Abe Levy.
MOAK BROS.
Billiard Parlors.
CHOICE CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
No. 714 Massachusetts St
BOOTS AND SHOES MADE AND REPAIRED
J. F. WIEDEMAN,
Second door east of Polar,a Grocery.
I have the handsomest, the best selected stock of Suitings Pant Goods &c., that has ever been seen in Lawrence.
McCONNELL,
The Merchant Tailor.
A liberal discount to students.
DALEE'S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY
South Tennessee Street.
First-Class Work Done.
Special Rates to Students.