has given over $15,000 toward the erection of this buildiijg.- The University of Bologna expects to cele brate its 100th anniversary in the spring of 1888. This university was at one time the chief centre for the study of jurisprudence, and here anatomy was first scientifically studied. Lafayette has received a fine telescope, the gift of Mr. Joseph Hunt of Catasauqua. The instrument has a Brashear mirror of silvered glass, something over eight inches in diameter, with a focal distance of over six feet. Dr. McCosh said lately: “I introduced gym nastics into the college, and I think that they have been productive of much good. There is,' however, in competitive athletics a tendency to excess which we try to restrain.” John Hopkins University bestows twenty fel lowships per annum on graduates of that institu tion who propose to devote their lives to special branchqS of science or literature. Tire holder of such a fellowship is exempt from tuition and re ceives $5OO yearly, —University Magazine. The members of the Yale foot ball team some time since received their trophies, which are miniature foot-balls one inch long, and about a half inch in diameter. The name of the owner and the “Champions, 1886” arc inlaid on one side, and the letters “Y. C. F. B. C.” and /‘points wefn, 4894 lost, 4,” on the other, — Ex. Statlj Superintendent of Public Instruction Finger, 4, of North Carolina,,is satisfied that the negro must be educated in schools of his own, for the substantial reason that “both races, as a whole want it.” He says: “The correct policy is to ap ply as little force as possible, and to let the peo ple’s likes and dislikes, and the free spirit of our republican institutions, control. Concerning the object and work of universi ties Champion Growler Ruskinsays: “The uni versities’ business in any country in Europe is to teach its youths as much Latin, Greek, mathe matics and astronomy as they can quietely learn in the time they’re at it—and nothing else. If THE FREE LANCE. they can’t learn their owii language at home, they can’t learn it at a university. If they want to learn Chinese they should go to China—and if they want to learn Dutch, to Amsterdam; and after they’ve learned all they want, learn whole somely to hold their tongues, except on extreme occasions, in all,languages whatever.” The keeper of an alligator in Savannah, in order that the animal may Hot be disturbed, has put out the sign : “Idiots will please stir him,” “Well John” said the judge to a pig-tailed celestial, “what can I do for you ?” “Want togetee name’changed.” “What’s your name now ?” “Sing Sing. No Jgoodce. Too muchce Alderman. Getee changed to Walbec Twicee.” “To Warble Twice?” *A man in Massachusetts, who received some infidel publications among which were Ingersoll’s lectures, wrote to the person who sent them: At the same you have any thing bet ter than the ‘ SermoTi on the Mount,” and the parable of the'“Prodigal Son,” and that of the “Good Samaritan or if you have any better code of morals than the Ten Commandments, or anything more consoling and beautiful than.the twenty-third Psalm, or, on the whole, anything that will make this dark world more bright than the Bible does; anything that will throw more light on the future, and reveal to me a Father more merciful and kind than the New Testament, then send it to*me, and scatter it broadcast. “Can you conceive,,’ asked the professor, “an internal vacuum, a portion of space unocow* pied, an empty void into which nothing can ever come, which maintains inviolate and forever its own eternal emptiness ?” “I can.” replied the student, “I have a stylographic pen.” KINDLINGS. A Forbidding Day—. Sunday-. Never abuse a niule behind his back. — Puck. “Yep allce samee Sing Sing.” “So fa, b,ut no father, said she —Mirror He went net father
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