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Cltvpixos. 119 Hint the lime had not been unprofitnoly spent Wo are informed thai during the sum mcr vacation there will be a school opened in this city for the preparation of touch ers. Prof. Jones, of the High School, with one or more assistants, will have su pprvision. It is possible that a teachers' institute will follow afterwards. Cutting down the pa' of teachers will fuioly result in drawing out the class whom we ought especially to wish to keep, and convening the school room into tem porary refuges for the unemployed. It is poor economy whioli hiies ttic very cheat)., est hands for woi k that requite-) trained ability and long experience. This is the opinion of the Maryland School Journal, and of anybody wli.i knows what schools are for. Ucn. Neb. Pre. Sensible! The Sttdiixt joins hands with the Press in opposing that '"penny wise and pound fonlUh" economy which is leveling the most destructive blows at school interests of this state. It is an in disputable Tact that in some cou.ities well qualified and experienced teachers have been compelled to leave and seek elsewhere for better wages, and a sphere of labor offering more remunerative employment. Lancaster county feels the loss of several experienced teachers who did not feel dis poned to underbid the many unemployed young men and women who offer to labor in the responsible position of tyiohor for a mere nothing. We call for economy in the expenditures of school monies, but a true economy cannot be inaugurated until our school funds reserved for teachers' wages are paid to those who leave an im press of their work behind. PUBLICATIONS. The American is the title of an illustra ted newspaper published at 800 Broadway New York. It is a laige sixteen page pa per, and apparently well conducted. One notable and commendable feature of this paper is its exclusion of questionable il lustrations, and its moral tone. Wo have received the "Year Book" of the Boston University, edited by the Un ivt'rsity council. It is n largo and neatly printed book, and contains interesting facts nnd valuable information in refer ence to that Univorsity. The Univeisity is divided into three colleges and five schools. Whole number of students reg istered GG5, of which 1G3 are women and 502 men. There arc 09 instructors in the various departments. CLIPPINGS. An up town girl sat on her lover's hat the other night, and kept him three hours over time. The next time that young man goes to see h is girl, he should hnnj' his hat on n nail, instead of holding it in his lap. Ex. SciiSK in PiiTSiOi.OGY. Prof., loq.: "The human body is a stove and the food is the fuel. When we oat we simply coal up." Junior, sotto mcc: How would a stovepipe hat do on such occasions for a draft? General howl. Ex. Tiik N. Y. UnivcrM'y students intend to wear the gown and cap, after the Eng lish custom. They may look out for the Bowery boys, and divers and sundry oth er things. There are exotics that do not thrive in this land Ccn. Neb. Prcst. Sck.ni" is Rkcitatiox Room Prof. "The air seems to bo very foul here. Let me open the window and air the room. What is it smeils so here J" Wise Freshman, promptly "1 think it must be this dead language, Doctor." Ex. A very bashful Junior had the temeri ty to approach a lady with a child in -its carriage, for the purpose of petting the little one; when, to his horror, the child lisped in accents of infantine joy, "Papa, papal" The bashful Junior, aforesaid, broke into a cold sweat, and turned from that sud place, muttering excitedly to himself, in -which were distinguishable such expressions as ''mistaken identity," " black mail," etc. Targitm.