The following are the coaches of some of the
base ball teams: Harvard has Keefe ; Williams,
Haddock ; Dartmouth, Viau ; Yale, Gruber ;
Princeton, Foutz ; Brown University, Duffy; \Yes
leyan Murphy . and Trinity Welch.
The four teachers in the Union who - get ,Sio,-
000 a year each arc President Jordan, of the
Stanford University, California ; President Har
per, of the new University at Chicago ; Dr. Jas.
Mac Alister, President of Drexel Institute, Phila
delphia, and Dr. James E. MacKenzie, principal
of Lawrenceville School, New Jersey.--Ex.
LANCELETS.
A CONTRADICTION
"Man wants but little hero below,"
So runs the ancient song,
And acids as if to maim us sad,
"Nor wants that little long,"
"Mun has too little here below,"
The Junior moans the song,
And adds in sadly sighing tones,
"Nor keeps that little long,"
-MI
ALAS I
Sweet Ethelinda sowed one day
A button on my vest ;
And as she was so near—and sweet—
Iler form I gently pressed.
She frowned, sho blushed ; the button danced
Unsowed about . tny vest.
She said, "You press the button, sir,
And I will do the rest l"
THE MARCIE MEDLEY.
The modern man aqlcnowledges
This paradox so grim,
When he can't ~ raise the wind" It is
An awful blow to him.
A CONDUCTOR'S ItEPORT,
Engine one hundred and sixtyelght
Was badly wrecked on Barnesville 'straight,'
She struck on a rook and down she fell,
And torn her tooder all to h—l,
THE FRE
E LANCE.
—Yale Courant,
ONLY FOR TILE TIME,
Socks which dross 'Worm now chains,
Which on wash linos gaily blow
Will, &re (dirt Aims time obtains,
Into long-logged stockings grow.
AT TILE DANCE
They were lovers, and fain they would wed
On his breast she had nestled her head,
He glanced down and fainted,
Her cheeks they had painted
Ills only clean shirt boEmn rod,
"A. flower of fancy I enclose,"
I wrote, when sending her a verse,
She answered, praising much my thrift,
Because I had not robbed my purse ;
But In a postscript added this:
"Your flower I value more than all
The gardong yield, but toll mo t ("War,
111 shall wear It at tho ball."
PLEASANTRIES.
MS RETAINERS . ,
uslc for no retention fee,"
(tooth Counsellor O'Quirk,
"No money, unless it be
Reward for honest work.
I am not of the kiwi who grasp
.1 farmer's hartbearned woe
Before there's given a single gasp
Of thought for such expense.
110 tried the ease and won the same,
And when it did befall
A thousand for his client came,
lI e just retained it all.
ONLY A TATTLE,
A little drink and a little more
And the drunkard's stretched on the ginmill'•
A little rum and a little gin
And the angel's gone, the fiend's within.
A little fib, and the truth has left 1
A little "steal"—a brazen theft ;
A little bet and you've lost your "tin."
Oh, the littlos make a load of sin ! ,
But worse by far, than loss of pelf,
is little by little the loss of self I
The time of Lent is a time to repent,
'Tis not a time for case ;
And the kneeling part just breaks my heart
For it bags my pants at the knees.