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About Hesperian student / (Lincoln [Neb.]) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1876)
Scissor Work: M tfmKjm m -v?r: iiSifcVSW r, r.'.wf i p ;v.l AJ Tll Be lore laying aside tlio local quill wo desire lo say ri word to the students. The short time that we have spent in endeavor ing to bring the college news before the voiding public has been one of extreme pleasure, and although not as long as we nhould have been pleased to perform the duty, we have gained many friends, and have been ablo to notice the intetest taken by the students in their college paper, bccoud to none in the west. To those who have so kindly furnished us with items of inteiest, we return our thanks, and ask that they show our successor the hame degree of kindness and interest which they have shown us. For the suc cess of the Studknt depends upon you and you alone. Make it your business to write for the Studknt, and have the ex treme plcasuic of saying that you have helped build up and make the finest col lege paper in the land. PERSONAL. Howard Caldwell swings the birch rod in Missouri. Master John Rallard has gone to Germany, to take a course in the Berlin college. F. 0. Morton, one of the leading members of thcPalladiau, has gone home to teach. 0. W. Stringfleld hns gone home, on account of some business that needed his attention. A. U. Hancock writes that he has en tirely recovered from his cold and is now leaching school. Misses Carrie Bnird and Phebe Car tor paid the University a visit a short time ago, and expressed their desire to ic turu to school once more. J. P. Black was absent a short time Inst month, on a visit to the Kormal. Rlack was missed by the Union, for ho makes things lively if he doesn't say much. Wo were made glad the other day, by the grasp of the hand of our old friend Geo. McLean. George has had a long and plcnsaiu !rip the east, and says he en joyed himself hugely. W. 0. Riddle has again left us, on ao count of his eyes being exceedingly weak. It was thought advisable for him to take a vacation. Ho has gone to Missouri valley to rusticate. Wo will miss him, for he was an active member of the Union. SCISSOR WORK. A heathen Chinee interprets the Scrip tural passage, "The wicked llee where no man pursueth, but the righteous are as bold as a lion," thusly: "The llee he much badec, be stand still likee snake; when many wicked man walkee by hu shootcc." Ex. A physician was lecturing laUiy on the ignorance of people about their own complaints, and said that a lady once asked him what his next lecture was to be upon, and being toid, "the circulation of the blood," replied that she should cer. tainly attend, for she had been troubled with that complaint for a longtime. Ex. Bi:8T Book foii Eveuyiiouy. The new illusirated edition of Webster's Dic tionary containing three thousand engrav ings, is the bcxt book for evertbody that the press has produced in the present century, and should be regarded as indispensable to the well-regulated home, reading-room, Horary, and place of business. Golden Era. Prof: "Did Adam die a natural death V Student "Adam, sir, running as he did the only original express company, bloppcd off one day at a cheap restaurant. He called for the bill of fare, and a colored wnitvr bashfully presented tin old patri arch with a recipe for digesting hash, and then" The remainder of the discourse was rudely cm tailed. Niagara Index. asssssssm
