How it goes sometimes.—lnstructor--" Mr.
W—, what important event occurred during
L—'s reign ?"
W— (who had been booming the West End
Whist Club the evening before)—" Well-er
now. The fact is I could not understand that
part just there."
Instructor, relentlessly—
to understand about it ?"
W—" Why—why, its relation to that passage
just preceding it."
InStructor, without mercy—
passage, Mr. W—?"
W—, determined not to make a zip—" Why
it tells what happened just before the most im
portant event in L—'s reign."
Crawford says he don't know exactly when
St. Valentine's day was, but thinks it was
somewhere about the middle of February,
because about that time he got a chromo with
the following lines attached :
" I have loved thee, Sam,' full many a day,
And fain would love you longer,
. But if you would your wash bill pay
1 vow I'd love thee stronger."
AN ODELE'r TO A mousTAcitELET,
When first thy down in color mild
Long fondled like a growing child,
Began to dark my upper lip
Perhaps into my coffee dip,
Then would I stroke with tender care
Each struggling, bashful little hair,
But often many an hour would pass
Before a microscopic glass,
To make believe by this poor plan,
That I had whiskers like a man.
Alt 1 If delusions could but last,
But this one soon was from me cast
For every boy, or girl in town,
Would still persist and call it down,
And oft would tease me with their whispers,
Of how the wind blew through my whiskers.
After' waiting for what seemed to the im
patient students an unnecessary long time,
the gyinnasium has become a reality. Only
a part of the apparatus is up but there is suf
ficient for the students to start on. It has
THE FREE LANCE.
" What was hard
'What was that
been fitted up with a view to getting as com
plete a list as was possible for the money
available. Among other things are the fol
lowing, viz : Traveling rings, Parallel bars,
Horizontal bars, Vaulting horse, Vaulting bar,
Rowing machine, Jumping beds, Chest pul
leys, Developers
.and Expanders, Dumbbells,
Indian clubs, Climbing ropes and several very
servicable mattresses. When the students
have become accustomed to using this, several
more hundred dollars worth will be put in.
The order and general control of the gymna
sium has very wisely been put in the hands
of the Athletic Association, which represents
the sentiment of the students. This associa
tion, realizing 'the responsibility, adopted a
set of rules which will, with the assistance of
the college authorities, effectually secure order
and protection of the property. A Board of
Marshals were elected to enforce these rules.
The lack of an instructor will be felt very
seriously by the students, as the great majority
of them are ignorant of means to secure a
proper development of the muscles. It is to
be hoped that this deficiency will be filled up
next year and in the meantime the comman
dant will do his best to help the students.
Little Freshman will you sign,
Will you sign this bill, or go?
Is the all absorbing question
That the Profs. would like to know
Oh, I'll sign it, dear professors,
For I am not allowed to go,
I wouldn't do it either,
But " my mother told me so."
it is rumored, since dancing has become
so popular here, that some of those who looked
upon the innocent amusement with abhorr
ence are relaxing and permitting its indulg
ence at their homes. Moral—" You might
'as well be out of the world as out of the
fashion,"
How many acts are there in a tragedy ?
Five, I believe.