10 THE STUDENTS JOURNAL. The LAWRENGE BUSINESS COLLEGE LAWRENCE NATIONAL BANK BUILDING LAWRENCE, KANSAS. Established in 1869. Oldest in the state. Owned by the Coonrod & Smith Business College Co. and operated in connection with the Atchison (Ks.) Business College and the St. Joseph, (Mo.) Business University. Most complete and practical commercial and shorthand courses offered in the west. Inter-collegiate business practice carried on by correspondence among the pupils of the three colleges. A handsomely illustrated 64-page catalogue containing full information concerning courses of study, tuition sarte, etc., will be mailed free upon request. Address, COONROD Secretary Lawrence Kansas. A. G. COONROD, Secretary, Lawrence, Kansas. LOCALS. Cheadle will go home to-day. He hopes to be back after vacation. Evangelist Shawhan addressed 250 men at Music Hall last sunday. Mumps are still in style, and in all cases have been a "well affair." Prof. Blackmar gave a talk upon the society girls of Lawrence the other day. Prof. Hodder's father, who is publisher of the Aurora, Ill., Beacon, is visiting him. Champlin, who has been visiting friends at the University left Monday for his home. A couple of Beta boys eagerly scanned a Topeka paper Wednesday mornig. Why? It is expected that Rev. Dr. Marvin will speak to the Y. M. C. A next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Sherman. '93, in a short time will start for Montevedo, Uruguay, South America, where he hopes to make his fortune. F. J. Lange, who graduated here in '93, is now at Harvard, and puts in his spare time writing for the Boston Courier. The Elocution Department of the School of Fine Arts will give an entertainment Monday, December 17th. All are invited. It is rumored that two former K. U. students are soon to be married. The gentleman lives in North Topeka, and the lady in Olathe. A series of popular lectures on the English Bible will be begun the first of the year. These lectures will be given by University professors. Students, Jess Howe will give you 12 shaves for $1.00,and a bath thrown in with every shave. This offer will be made until after the Holidays. The religious census of the University just completed by the University Y. M.C.A. shows that 55 per cent of the students are members of churches. The citizens of Winfield presented Kelsey and Gear with gold medals in appreciation of their base-ball services last summer They will play in the Winfield team the coming season. One of the most useful of the new additions to the library is the Century Cyclopaedia of Names, a pronouncing and etomological dictionary of names in geography biography, mythology, history, ethnology arts, archaeology, fiction, etc. The regular meeting of the Language Conference will be held this arternoon at four o'clock. Program-A handful of translations from Logan, Mrs. Fraces S. Carruth Tessings Philatus, B.M. Dickinson. All interested are invited to attend. The Science Club meets this afternoon at five o'clock, where the following subjects will be discussed: Chemistry of Alumen, Prof. Sayre. Recent Discoveries in Palentology, Prof. Williston An occount of Recent Investigations on the Assimilation of Plants. Development of Power of the Niagara. Jay Withington. A crowded house should welcome the appearance of that jolly farce comedy "A Railroad Ticket," at the Opera House, Monday, December 17th. The piece, viewed from a dramatic standpoint, is better than the average "kit" and is a thoroughly up-to-date farce comedy There is one feature new to the stage, which is an electric car, propelled by a storage battery It runs upon real steel rails and is handled by an experienced motorman, who for several years past has turned currents on and off on the Brooklyn trolley roads