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Scenes at the Bridge.
Owing to the rains out west recently, the rivers in Kansas took a mighty boom last week and swept over the skirting vegetation like a sudden night-mare. Rushing and pushing and foaming they came, angry at resistance, and taking everything which came within their scope. Entering those dwellings which were unfortunate enough to be situated in the bottom lands, the water drove out the inhabitants, and the little fishes played "hide and seek" in the deserted rooms. Saturday the bridge which spans the Kaw in the north part of the city was crowded with eager spectators. These were intent on watching the turbulent waters, which, black with accumulated debris rushed madly over the dam.
Looking up the river one could see huge logs coming slowly down the current, and the spectacle became more interesting, as passing under the bridge, these logs plunged lengthwise over the dam, into the leaping waves beyond. Sometimes it seemed as if a miniature thicket had been torn up and was being borne down the stream.
Interspersed with the trees and logs, was to be seen now and then an unlucky cow or hog which had succomed to the inevitable. Upon one large log which came floating serenely down the current, were sitting a rabbit and a chicken. They had formed a mutual admiration society amongst themselves and were enjoying the short period of life yet remaining to them. They came as far as the bridge, struck a pier, and then stopped to take water.
At the northwest end of the bridge stood a little frame house, over the threshold of which the water was peeping. A little pickaninny, sitting on the fence, was taking in the surroundings, while the household goods were being transferred to a safer spot. At the northeast end of the bridge, some "gemmen" of color were engaged in the laudable enterprise of catching drift wood. But with what a roar that black dirty water leaped and plunged over the dam, and how it fell back with an angry slump when it met resistance just beyond. The impeded current springing into the air sparkled in the sunlight, as it curled backwards in separate drops. A gentleman whose looks pleaded knowledge in the political sphere, quietly remarked as he gazed upon the river "that the Blue had just got in." At that time there were the precincts to hear from.
Since Saturday the waters have greatly subsided and if the heavens cease weeping, the river will soon assume its regular shallow medium.
What next will the Courrier howl about? Its criticism in last weeks issue of our policy of self-correction and criticism serves as an apology for having failed to do that which it criticises in others. Right or wrong just or unjust lid anyone ever know this conglomeration of conceit and egotism to turn the lights on its own inner self with any honest purpose of self improvement? This is not characteristic of such figure heads. They always have advice to give others but never heed it themselves. Two more weeks are given them in which to howl,—we are curious to see what it will be about.
Exchange Notes.
Conspicuous among the new arrivals this week is the College Transcript published by the Senior class of the Ohio Wesleyan University. The Transcript is carefully edited and presents a very neat appearance. However we think the Transcript would be more of a representative paper if a few of the editorial staff were selected from the lower classmian. We do not doubt the ability of the Senior class to conduct the college paper, but we do have some misgivings as to their ability to understand the wishes and needs of the rest of the student body. It is certainly a little presumptive in the Seniors to persume that all the brains of the University are to be found in their own ranks.
The Pensylvanian is a new arrival this week. We can find no fault with the Pensylvanian and are glad to be able to add such a valuable College Journal to our exchange list.
The Hesperian is the official organ of the Western Inter-Collegiate Press Association and is doing all it possibly can to make the association a success.
Harvard has refused to accept the challenge to row with Cornell this year.
Again the editor of the College Echoes arises in his wrath to defend his "friendly pun" this time assuring us that it is no longer a "friendly pun" but a "flendish pin." A wonderful transformation. We confess we were unable to see the point in the first version but the latter explanation makes it perfectly clear—that a pin has a point. However we still think it a little far fetched.
The Oberlin Review has succeeded in getting itself in the soup in attempting to bring a charge of plagiarism against E. C. Ritsher, of Beloit, who won the inter-state oratorical contest in 1886.
The colossal statue of William Penn, which is to surmount the tall tower of the new City Hall at Philadelphia, will be the largest bronze figure ever cast, standing thirty-seven feet in height. The model is completed, but there is no foundry in the United States where the casting can be done.
The total number of students enrolled at Ohio Wesleyan University is 972, of which 426 are in the collegiate department.
The legislature of the state of Ohio has passed a Compulsory Educational Bill. After January, 1890, all children under fourteen years of age will be compelled to attend school twenty weeks, in city districts, and sixteen weeks, in village and township districts.
At a recent meeting of the Harvard faculty, the following new regulation was adopted: "The Freshman class is placed under the special charge of a committee of the faculty, each member of which acts as adviser to a certain portion or the class. Every Freshman is required to submit his choice of studies to his adviser at or before the beginning of the year, and his work is to be carried on under the supervision of that officer. He may consult his advisor upon any topic relating to his college life.
Harvard has added a course in Electrical Engineering. The first three years will be devoted, as far as they treat of electricity, to giving the students a thorough acquaintance with electrical instruments and machines, with electric lightning, and with working on telegraphs and telephones. In the fourth year the men will take a course in trigonometric series and two courses in theoretic electricity. Besides, a thesis will be required. The Columbia faculty is also of the opinion that a call for courses in Electrical Engineering will soon be made.-Bates Student.
The Yale News pay each Senior editor from $250 to $275 a year.
The following from the Columbus Press: "There are at least fifty engaged couples among the students of the University and the Seminary at Delaware, and co-education is not allowed full sway there either." Wonder what it would be if it were allowed "full sway," universal bliss?
Mr. Ed H. Hughes, our inter-state orator, has received honors during the last few months enough to ruin most men. The repeated ovations upon his last return to Delaware were almost unprecedented. His greatest good fortune is the last—an offer which came by telegraph soon after he returned to his college. Mr. Morris Sharp, a wealthy Ohio man who will be remembered as a prominent political figure, agrees to pay Mr. Hughes' expenses for three years at any theological seminary which he may wish to attend. Mr. Hughes graduates from the Ohio Wesleyan University next month and will begin his theological course at Boston next fall.—Pulse.
This is the reward of true worth.
A Bad Break.
We were seated in the hammock ;
It was sometime after dark ;
And the silence grew longer
After each subdued remark.
With her head upon my shoulder,
And my arms about her close,
Soon I whispered, growing bolder,
"Do you love me darling Rose?"
With her accents low to equal
All my heart had dared to hope?
Ah! I never knew the sequel
For her brother cut the rope!
While our government is paying off its outstanding indebtedness at the rate of more than $100,000,000 a year, other governments are borrowing money to meet current necessities. France and Italy are each borrowing, $200,000,000, Austria-Hungary-65,000,000, and Russia 40,000,000. No government can make a showing equal to that of the United States.
Too bad, University Courier that you could not think of anything original to say about us but had to copy from the Coup d'Etat. —Hesperian.
Yes it is too bad, but it must be remembered that the Courier has a weakness for the scissors—the pen is mighty but the scissors is mightier in the hands of a Courier editor.
Chauncey M. Depew will deliver the commencement oration at Yale Law School.
The Science Club Annual. Few people anticipate the great influence the Science Club has had in turning the attention of the students towards true University work. During the past year, meetings have been held every two weeks, at which from three to five papers have been presented on scientific subjects apart from the regular class work. No attempt has been made to make the papers "popular" at the expense of scientific accuracy, yet the meetings have been well attended by the students of all departments. The annual meeting is devoted entirely to reports of original work, and there is not a little strife among the different scientific departments to see which shall make the best showing. This year twenty-one papers were presented, and it was found necessary to devote both afternoon and evening to the sessions. In spite of the storm both meetings had a good attendance. In the Friday afternoon session the first paper was by Prof. Murphy, and consisted of notes on the influence of various kinds of paper on blue prints, and the mathematical calculation of the form columns of uniform strength and of maximum bending moment in beams and arch-ribs.
Prof. Blake followed and gave the result of his investigation to ascertain the corrections for Thomson's calorimeter, which has been used in testing Kansas coals.
The second paper was by V. L. Kellogg on the Lanidae, making an addition of 335 birds which have been found in Kansas. Mr. Kellogg also read the record of bird migration for the spring of 1889, as this is one of the stations for the investigation of bird migration of the American Ornithological Association.
The fourth paper was by Gertrude Crotty, on the development of the snail from the egg, and on the anatomy of the nervous system of invertebrates. The paper was illustrated by twenty black-board drawings and represented the result of months of hard labor in the natural history laboratory.
W. S. Franklin on the Psychology of counting, and a new system of derived units, showing the analogy of the action of the brain in counting the mechanical action of the counting machine, and presenting a complete system of dynamic and electrical units derived entirely from units of mass and energy. Prof. Sayre and two of his students presented the result of their work in the analysis of the Mountain Sage.
The last paper of the afternoon was by Prof. Bailey and W. B. Hilton, showing that the effects of some acids was to change calomel into carrosine sublimate.
In the evenig session E. E. Slosson reported a case of polydactism, and Geo. F. Weida read a paper on the purity of commercial potash and soda.
Prof. Bailey follow with a report on the analysis of Kansas coal which was conducted in the Chemical Department during the winter. A great number of specimens of coal representing seven counties of the State were examined and the results averaged and tabulated.
E. C. Franklin on Methods of stating the Results of Water Analysis, was next in order. Mr.Fraklin's paper represented a great deal of labor and showed conclusively that the ordinary way of reporting water analysis was in many cases incorrect.
The last paper was by Prof. Sayre and Miss B. L. Hill, of the Pharmacy department, on the analysis of the pawpaw. A remarkabke essential oil was produced from the pawpaw seeds which was exhibited to the club.
The room was then darkened and Mr. V. L. Kellogg presented the results of his work in the past two or three years in the mollophaga. In his study of these insects which our readers will know better perhaps by the name bird lice,Mr.Kellogg has made some discoveries which will create a sensation when they are made known to the scientific world.
Two papers were presented by Prof. Snow, one givig the discovery of the mode of respiration in Salamanders, and the curve mean temperature for twenty-one years at Lawrece.
They Do Say.
That Kellogg is enamored of Mollie Phagan.
That some of K. S. U.'s best waltzers will plow some during vacation.
That Jacobs will carry a pillow and silk parasol while "roughing" it in the mountains.
That it is interesting to be near White when he is asked when the Annual is coming out.
That Deverell is up on the "Gipsy Baron" waltz and takes it in large doses.
That Brooks ran all over town Monday looking for the calliope.
That some of the boys are sampling hard tack preparing their stomachs for the Colorado jaunt.
That one of our bloods is in a quandry because his trunk will not go out of a second story window and his board bill groweth apace.
That some of the Seniors ate strawberries with their knives at the Chancellors reception.
That Topeka juvenile circles will soon be made happy by the return of the cohorts of Mushrush to the bosoms of their mammas.
That the city council of Atchison have ordered the telephone wires raised and the awnings taken down preparatory to the return of their beerless Entre Nous.
I wooed a maiden young and sweet,
In mid-Lent'sdull part;
I threw myself at her dear feet,
And asked her for her heart.
She smiled and arched her lovely brow
And said quite innocent;
"I cannot give my heart just now,
Because, you see 'tis. *Lead*."
'Twas Lent.
INNES' GREAT MAY SALE
Is still going on; rain or shine makes no difference with us.
We announced that we would sell cheap this month. Judging from the way our bargains are being picked up,we have kept our word.
Those White Goods at 10c, reduced from 25c and 35c, are beauties.
INNES.
813 and 815 Mass. Street.
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