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ClilPPIKOB GO tatives from tlic northern part of the State would show the same enterprise ami ener gy which characterizes the peop'o of southern Nebraska, wo think they could wilh proper combination get their share of public institutions. One third of the population of North Carolina is said to bn illiterate. Ex. Fisk University, the colored college in Tennessee, has two hundred and fiftj' students. An effort will be made to hold colored tcachei s' institutes throughout that State. Ex. It appears that compulsory education in New York City is not meeting with that success which its sanguine irieuds had hoped. The Superintendent of schools, New York City, in his recent annual re port pronounces compulsory education practically valueless. The report men tions the following formidable barriers to the full execution of the law. "First The impossibility of ascertain ing, with any degree of accuracy, what children liable to its provisions, are en gaged in various occupations, without a much larger number of agents than could proiitabry be emploj'cd. "Second The difficulty of retaining the wayward, unruly and truant children after they have been placed there. Third The want of a special provision for vicious and depraved children, who cannot be .admitted into the public schools, because their influence upon the other children would work immeasurably more harm to the community at large than the evil this law is designed to cure." It is said that the public schools of Brooklyn, New York, icquire a stringent examination iu such studies as the history of Persia, Greece, Macedonia, Home; and technical knowledge of several scientific brunches. All this is said to be particu larly required to the neglect of arithmetic and the art of expressing thought in pure, grammatical English. The least conse quence is given to Those branches which tend to give a good foundation for higher learning, and which tend to assist in the practical affairs of lile. The urgent de mai'd of the times is more thorough ele mentary education. The tendency seems to be in the opposite direction. Too much "ostentatious rubbish " mars the learning of to-day. CLIPPINGS. Why is the moustache of a Soph, like a base-ball nine? Three out, all outl Ex. Scene iu Math Room. "Well, Mr. B., how far have you gotV" Mr. B. "Got stuck." Ex. --Editing a paper is like carrying an umbiella on a windy day. Everybody thinks he could inanuge it better than the one who has hold of the handle. Ex. A Pennsylvania clergyman, seeing a young man standing iu the door-way of the church and looking hesitatingly about, paused in the mitlbt of his sermon and ex claimed: "G out, youug man! She is not here." Ex. "Henry," said she, sharply, as they passed a lonesome corner on the boul evard, " do you want me to come out of this sleighridc with my hat looking as though it had been run over by an omni bus? " And yet he didn't seem to care. Innocent Freshman grinds on Livy and groans frequently. Depraved Prep: " Why don't you have a pony ? " Freshmau, (looking up with interest,) " I do want one. Papa has promised me a gray one with a lovely long tail. Vas sar Mitfellany. The average student can play with the ordinary books of algebra, but there can be no trifling with Olney's University Algebra. That requires a regular siege and at what possible cost is herein pathet ically and parodically told: The spring reviews were coming fast, When through the halls of Holyoke passed A maid who boro, early and late, Together with a well-worn slate, An Algebra.