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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
"Airy Nothings."
It was the last day of the term. From early morning he had been harassed by quizzes, actual or prospective. But at five o'clock he had ended the last one and started for his room. As he slipped and staggered along in the deep snow, trying to see his way through the thick veil of falling flakes, he was thinking of his day's work. It has been very bad. He saw that he had not understood the questions aright, and felt sure that his answers would meet a like fate. Everything had gone wrong. Tired, dissatisfied, sick, he stumbled up the stairs to his cozy little room: but even the warm bright fire, the tastily arranged pictures and sketches on the wall and his easy chair standing invitingly before the hearth, failed to dispel his gloomy mood. He tried to read then, to smoke, but—oh, he could not. He could only think, think, brood, brood How he had hoped, and intended, and resolved to do good work! How he had let worthless things hinder! How he had put off, until a tomorrow that never came! Alas! At last he took up, from its place in the corner, his beloved banjo. It had never yet failed to give him solace in times of trouble: it would not fail him now. He lightly fingered the strings, awakening them to tuneful melody, but—Ah!—could they be the same? No longer did they bring rest and peace. Tonight their old familiar "plunkety, plunk" seemed the voices of plaguing demons hovering about him in the dusk, and tauntingly crying in his ears "flunkety! flunk! flunk! flunkety! flunk!!
Jack enters the hardware store of Dutch John and the following conversation takes place. "Hullo, John! I want a pocket knife Have you any good ones?"
"Yess, I got von whole stock of 'em efery von goot. I keeps nodings els but de besht."
“Nun, dare ish goot von, und dare ish goot von, und dare—”
"What is this one?" (pointing to one in the case)
“Dat ish bery goot von; dat knife cosht me vie eferydings. He ish all gootstoff, und vell made.” (Tries to open it) “Py confounder! dat spring ish leetle steef. It ish goot von—Vade und Putcher; he made de besht. I sell more von dat knife den any oder knit."
"Oh, that isn't worth much."
' ,Yess, et ish de bestes. It cosht vie eferydings, und I sell him cheap. I sell dat knife for sexty cent."
"Sixty cents?"
"Dats cheap, et cosht more. I sell him pelow cosht alretty."
"I'll give you fifty."
"Donnervetter! can't do dot. I sell him pelow cosht alretty, und ven I pay de freight, und make a lifing der ish not mooch left"
The State Historical Society.
It is to be hoped that the Legislature will provide ample room in the State House for the State Historical Society. This is a matter in which every part of the state should be interested, for the historical matter of the whole state is being saved by the society. The library of the society is the most remarkable one in the country, in that it preserves the regular issues of all the newspapers published in Kansas, and has done so for nearly a score of years. At present the library contains 10,689 volumes of Kansas newspapers, full of priceless local history.
The present quarters of the Society are incommodious and inadequate. The Legislature should provide rooms for its immediate use, and direct that in the completed Capitol building there shall be prepared ample and suitable room for its future growth.
Economic Seminary.
At the meeting of the Seminary Monday night, Mr. Cone reviewed the article in Journal of Economics on "Glascow and its Municipal Industries" In this article it was shown that the city of Glascow, England was operating its city railways and water works much better than they had been operated under private enterprise. Mr. W. S. Pope discussed "State Accidental Insurance," as it exists in Germany Here every workman must be insured under the supervision of the State The idea which has been carried out successfully, was original with Bismark Next Monday night there will be reports by Messrs Breese, Bishop, and Wright
Read the Capital for the Oratorical contest.