THE STUDENTS JOURNAL
Of Kansas State University.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1893.
LOCAL NOTES-
VOL. 1. NO.26.
Griffin sells ice!
Safeties at Howell's.
Griffin, the coal man!
Tooth brushes at Smith's.
"King of Scorchers" at Howell's.
Pat Graham. No. 7. East Warren St.
See Howell's bicycle ad on third page.
French harps at Smith's news depot.
Hollingberry makes student's dress suits.
Huddleson is the students laundry agent.
Get a walking stick at Smith's news stand.
Nie Kuhn, the tailor, 820 Massachu
setts street.
Everybody should send laundry with Huddleson.
Pat Graham makes a specialty of student work.
Custom made shoes at No. 7, East Warren street.
Best clothing at Hollingberry's, the practical tailor.
Howell's wheels have Morgan and Wright pneumatic tires.
Violin, guitar, mandolin and banjo strings at Smith's news depot in Eldridge block.
Students-Buy your clothing of the Golden Eagle.Eleventh and Main streets, Kansas City.
April winds and sun tan the complexion. Blush of Roses, from Raymond's removes the tan.
Go to the first shoe-repairing shop east of Massachusetts street on the south side of Warren.
If you you are thinking of a dress for commencement day you can find just what you want at Weaver's.
If you want anything in the tailor line, give Nic Kuhn a trial. He will do your work as cheap as the cheapest.
A Spring Suggestion—A clothing catalogue. A postal card gets one from the Golden Eagle, Kansas City, Mo.
Order your clothing and furnishings from the Golden Eagle, Kansas City, Mo. Their catalogue tells you how. Send for one.
There is no place in this neighborhood where you can find such, a good assortment of materials for graduating dresses as at Wenyer's.
What's the use of having friends if you don't use them. The Santa Fe route is the best friend Lawrence and the University has on earth.
Weaver sells more granulating and commencement dresses than all the other stores combined. Why? Because he shows the largest assortment and makes the closest prices.
Why does the Santa Fe carry most of the passenger business in and out of Lawrence? Because it has eighteen daily passenger trains and gives the best satisfaction to the traveling public.
For photographic views taken about the state house in Topeka during the session of the legislature and "Kansas War" address, W. F. FARROW.
Robert Fluke has secured a position with the Kansas City Piano company. All Lawrence people going down to hear Paderwiski are cordially invited to make the store headquarters during their stay in the city. $ \textcircled{1}106 $ Main street.
811 Kansas Aye., Topeka, Kan.
Go to Hotel Victoria when at Kansas City, Rooms ensuite or single. Baths and closets attached to each room. Rates $2.50 and $3.00 per day. Take Ninth St. cable from Union depot. Buckwalter & Co., Proprietors.
The Phi Psis have re-entered school.
The Phi Delta gave a dance last week.
Yale defeated the University of Penn
sylvania in the second game last week.
The Base Ball committee are trying to arrange for seyeral extra games this year.
There seems to be some doubt whether the Oxford crew will cross the Atlantic this year.
A wire netting has been placed on the grand stand in McCook Field to serve as a back stop.
Towoirow afternoon Prof. Gleed will address the Seminary on "Law and Lawyers."
The chemical analysis of the Kansas building stones for the World's Fair has been completed.
The class, in animal Histology are studying the blood and different tissues and organs of the frog.
The spring oratorical contest*will be held April 28. All orations must be submitted to Lupfer or Kutz on or before April 21.
Buy your groceries from the new and popular firm of McCurdy & Roberts. Reliable, cheap and good goods.
There was a good practice ball game Saturday afternoon. We have good material, and by hard practice may hope to win the pennant.
The work on chinch bug infection has begun for the summer. Fifty letters were received from Texas last week asking for infected bugs.
S. J. Hunter is preparing for publication a paper on the mouth parts of insects. He is paying especial attention to some insects hitherto unknown.
The base ball team will probably be chosen this week. The prospects for a good nine are very bright this year. In batting the boys are especially strong.
The arrangements for the senior "pot-latch" are being perfected with remarkable rapidity. Secret negotiations are being carried on with parties in Kansas City.
The best place in the west for students to buy books is Glick's mammoth second hand book store in Kansas City. The name Glick is synonymous with bargains. Sixth and Main streets.
A number of larvae of the June bug, covered with a remarkable fungus growth, have been sent from Dwight, Kan., for the purpose of having the fungus described.
The book will contain a full description of this collection together with other valuable information concerning the diptera of those islands. It will contain not less than 300 pages and will go to press some time shortly after school closes.
A lot of diamond chips has just been received by Professor Bailey for experimental purposes. He annually burns a diamond before the Freshman chemistry class to show that it is composed of carbon.
Next year every student in the University will be required to contribute five dollars to a fund for the purchase of books for the library. The Regenis thought this plan advisable, as the state legislature appropriated $1,000 less for books this year than either of the two preceding years.
Specimens of a grain weevil that is infesting the Colby mills, Colby, Kan., have been sent to Prof. Kellogg to describe and "give best method of extermination." These insects are so numerous and are destroying so much grain and bran stored there that the mills have been compelled to stop work.
Some time ago C. E. McClung read a paper before the Kansas Pharmaceutical association on Microscopy. The paper was published in the Microscope at Washington, D. C., then an abstract of it was published in the St. Louis Journal, and now it has finally found its way into the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, London.
The eighteenth century German literature class has just finished reading parts of Lessing's Laocoon. This week papers are being read by members of the class on Lessing's epigrams, litteraturbefe and earlier plays.
The base ball season has begun, and the interest displayed shows that the national game bids fair to be a success this season. The following were the results of a few of Saturday's games: Philadelphia 8, University of Pennsylvania 0; Brooklyn 27, Columbia College 3; Harvard 1, University of Virginia 1.
Prof. Williston will ship the exhibit of Kansas building stones to Chicago this week. It contains 150 blocks, representing 100 different quarries in the state. Prof. Haworth will also ship two or three carloons of ores, salt, minerals etc. Both exhibits will be placed in the department of mines and mining. They will supply a space twenty feet square.
A valuable present of medicinal substances has just been received by the Department of Pharmacy from Parke, Davis & Co., of Detroit, Mich. The generosity of this firm toward the University since the Department of Pharmacy has been established has been something remarkable. Prof. Sayre has long been a friend of the house and it is on account of his position in the school that these presents have been received. Among the substances received are nux vomica beans, tamarinds, saffron (consisting of nothing but stamens of small flowers) and coca, from which the deadly cocaine is made.
The Regents, at their meeting last week, made Associate Professor Hopkins Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, and Associate Professor Hodder Professor of American History and Constitutional Law. They also made Assistant Kellogg and Stevens associate professors, and raised the salaries of Profs. Haworth, Newson, Franklin, Jones, Galloo, Engel and Rice. Miss Sutliff's salary was also increased. An appropriation was made for the erection of a carpenter shop to hold the combustible materials now kept in the basement of the main building. One hundred dollars was appropriated for extra assistance in the library.
Dr. Williston is writing a book on the Diptera of the West Indies. The Dr. received some time ago a collection of flies from a West Indian entomologist to be classified. In this collection there are 500 species, 450 of which have never been described or named. Most of these undescribed ones are microscopic in size. The task of classifying them, therefore, is a difficult one. In insects of average size the greater part of the work of classification can be done with the insect as a whole, but in these micro-diptera every point has to be determined by dissection under a strong microscope. To find suitable names for these new species also requires much time and labor.
Not that boarding house steak is hard to digest, but the flannel cakes are so "tuff." Instead of maple syrup use one of Raymond's Dyspepsia and Liver Granules after each meal and you can stand the "clothing."
Laundry gathered Monday and delivered Friday by Huddleson. Good work guaranteed.
Petroleum in Kansas.
While boring for gas at Independence, Kansas, a short time ago, a vein of petroleum was encountered. The petroleum was under such pressure that it immediately began to shoot out of the well and at present is flowing at the rate of one hundred gallons per day. Previous to this discovery it was believed that no petroleum in any considerable quantity could be found in the state. This petroleum, however, can be used only as a lubricator, as it does not contain enough oil for illuminating purposes. Some of it was sent to the University for analysis and E. C. Case analyzed it with the following results:
Light oil, 10.1 per cent.
Burning oil, 18.3 per cent.
Heavy oil, 5.6 per cent.
Lubricating oil, 6.6 per cent.
Weath"r Predictions.
In our peregrinations about the University a prolixity in the shape of a weather prophet was discovered, who has been hiding his remarkable talents under a bushel for long, weary years. It appears that he has been accustomed to notice the various phases of the moon and can tell whether it is a wet or dry orb, and has also made numerous observations as to the juxtaposition of the planets to certain constellations. In short he is well versed in the ancient art of astrology.
Arrangements have been made with this person to predict the weather one week in advance, for the general welfare of society. As the news will be liable to reach the utmost limits of the state a short time after publication, it is thought that predictions for one week in advance will be sufficient for the needs of the student, the farmer and all whose success in life depends on the weather.
It may be well to state, however, that there are times when even the best signs fail. This will be no fault of our prophet, as his predictions are as reliable as those of the chemist who stands before his class, tries an experiment and fails. The chemist would say the theory is perfect, but the conditions were not as they should have been. It is well known that the great Mr. Hicks does not always predict accurately; yet there is no reason for doubting the remarkable prophetic powers of the man. Hicks has won his reputation as a weather prophet and our K.S. u.p. prophet in a quiet way: he has won his. Here are his predictions for April 14 to 21 inclusive: The first days of this period will be showery, the showers being of an April character. On Saturday the 15th, if there are picnics in contemplation, provision should be made for covered wagons and a large supply of umbrellas. On Sunday a rain storm may be looked for; the center of the storm will be between Manhattan and the mouth of the Kaw. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be clear and pleasant, but on Friday Lawrence is apt to receive the benefit of the outer edge of a rain storm. "Now," says the prophet, "if you notice at any time a wind cloud, especially coming from the southwest, look for rain only when the sun comes in line with it."
There is a senior in this year's class who has broken the record. For the past four years he has been much of a society young man. He has called upon many of the young ladies of his acquaintance in season and out of season, at high noon and at evening, on Sunday and during vacation, but in all this social whirl he has never been known to escort a young lady to a lecture, a concert, or in fact anywhere, when it cost him anything.
The Library Building.
The Board of Regents has decided to accept the plans presented by Messrs. Van Brunt and Howe of Kansas City for the chancellor's residence and library building. These gentlemen have erected many library buildings, among which are those of Harvard and Michigan University.
The committee on buildings was given authority to negotiate for the lots just north of B. W. Woodward's residence, between Orcad avenue and Louisiana street, upon which, if secured, the library and chancellor's residence will be placed. The library will be placed on the edge of the hill, and the chancellor's residence on Louisiana street opposite Prof. Carruth's.
The general shape of the library building be that of a widened B, with the middle bar broadened, and extended at both ends. The front of the building, corresponding to the upright bar of the B, will face towards the west. The B with the exception of the elongations, will have two stories and a basement. In the basement will be lavatories, rooms for receiving and unpacking books, etc., etc. The first floor will be occupied chiefly by the reading room. On the second floor will be a large room to be used for lectures, receptions and other University gatherings.
The entrance to the building will be a small one story structure, somewhat resembling the entrance to the main building, projecting from the centre of the west front. Directly opposite this, between the curves of the B and extending toward the east, will be the stack, of five stories, where the books will be kept. The position of the building on the hillside will greatly increase the convenience of the stack, as two stories of it will be above the reading room and two below. The stack will be the only fire-proof portion of the building. Its stories will be short, for convenience in taking books from the shelves. Taken all in all, the building will be the finest on the hill. It will be the best product of modern architectural skill, and when viewed from the city will present a very pleasing and attractive appearance.
An Experimental Station.
Prof. Blake is endeavoring to have an experimental station of the United States Signal Service established in the new physics building. He has received very encouraging letters from the Chief of the Weather Bureau. An experimental station is not merely for the observation of the weather, but for the observation of all meteorological phenomena of importance to the government. There are only about four stations of this kind in the United States—at Harvard, Washington, Cornell and the Rose Polytechnic Institute. Each station is in charge of an officer appointed by the government. If the station is located here, a room in the new physics building will be constructed especially for it.
Students ! !
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Students!
If you want the latest spring suits for the least cost, call on O. P. Leonard, Merchant Tailor, 733 Massachusetts street. Be sure to get prices before buying elsewhere.
Try a sample of Raymond's remedy for tired feet. Free.