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SWAPS.
—Where is the Baldwin Index?
—A phrenological examination of the Crescent would reveal nothing but self-esteem.
The appearance of many of our exchanges would be improved were the front ads. to take a back seat.
—A few college journals will indulge in stories. Our occasional indulgence may be pardoned; but regular dreamers are detestable.
The Lehigh Burr for September arrived a little late, but always welcome. She has a new frontispiece that will not fail to please the most artistic.
The Junction City Tribune issued a supplement with the proceedings of the State Temperance Convention, as well as the more important speeches made during the entire session.
—"You are as full of airs as a musicbox," is what a young man said to a girl who refused to let him see her home. "That may be,' was the reply, "but I don't go with a crank." —Ex.
—Mrs. Oliphant has written for the November Century a paper on Queen Victoria, which will be more particularly devoted to her life as a happy queen and mother, before the death of the Prince Consort.
The Burchtel Record hails from the nativity of our exchanger. It is a good paper and its opinions are worth something; in proof of which read:
"The University Courier, from the University of Kansas, has appeared in a new dress, giving her a very pert, not to say sauce, look. Her columns are full of good literary matter and spicy news."
—Teacher (to small boy):"What does the proverb say about those who live in glass houses?" Small boy: "Pull down the blinds."
The Hamilton College Monthly is a college paper of a very high moral tone and is a fair exponent of woman's college journalism. Although fair sister you have not attained the prominence some of your brothers have reached, your efforts are indeed laudable.
We regret to say that in many of our exchanges we find so much venom exchanged between the fraternity and nonfraternity men. Whether fraternities are a detriment or otherwise we do not propose to argue. But they do exist and there is no reason why an eternal warfare should be waged against them. Give each his deserts, and much wrangling will be avoided.
The Vanderbilt Observer is among our best exchanges. Its columns are well filled with readable matter. We were especially pleased with the article, "A Plea for Higher Education;" but we would kindly take the writer round the corner and beg of him not to use so much celestial imagery; e.g., "whose melody began when the morning stars sang the cradle song of the infant creation."
The Capture of Jefferson Davis will be fully treated by Mr. Burton N. Harrison in a paper to be published in an early number of the Century. It is a narrative of personal experience, describing the retreat of Mr. Davis and party from Richmond at the close of the rebellion, and is said to be of decisive historical importance with regard to the event of which there is so much dispute.