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vSSSjSSM 4 2 Editor's TaimjK. Voii. vii M 1 I l ti m n ;i 3'1 I 'I :1 Pfis tliut capital was opposed to labor, and no mutter how anxious a man was to work, capital would mako no concession, lie wanted work himself, he said, and once lie had thought of giving up, but now his wife was able to take in washing, and lie never would yield. He intended to say more, but he was obliged to go oil' to at tend a ball mutch. I stood upon tliu ocean's briny shore, And with a fragile rued I wroto upon tho sand "Agnes, I love thee!" The mud wnvots rolled by, and blotted out The fair impression. Frail reed I Cruel wave! Tieaeherous sundl I'll trust yo no moru; Hut with a giant hand Til pluck From Norway's frozen shore Her tallest pine, and dip Its tip Into tho crater of Vesuvius: writo And upon the high and burnished heaven I'l "Agnes, I love thee!" And I would like to see any Dog-goned wave wash that out. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. In Cornell library no works of fiction arc to be found. Dr. Galusha Anderson lias been elected to tlte Presidency of Chicago University. There are ten ladies in tho regular Col lege classes of Colby University, Maine. The Weslcyan Female College of Cin. cinnatti lias suspeuded, having become bankrupt. The Boston University Law School has requested Col. Ingersoll to deliver the annual address. Many of the proleasors of Notre Dame University hold sinecure positions under the government. In the State Normal School at Oshkosh, the young ladies are required to learn the elements of military drill. Princeton Theological seminary recent ly graduated some thirty ministers, and Columbia lias afllcted the world witli nearly two hundred verdant sprigs of tho law. Harvard's summer school of geology is to be held in connection witli the Held work of tho Kentucky geological survey, affording practico on tho problems of ge ology accessible between the Misssissippl river ami the Appalachian mountains. Lit. Notes. The Illinois Supreme Court has docid. cd that parents may determine what brandies their children shall study in public schools. That is one of the ncccs sary defences against pressing the graded system beyond reason. A judicious board saves the resorting to courts of law. Lit. Notes. The seniors that go to college this year from the two famous Phillips Academies have preferences as here shown: From Phillips Exeter, 2(1 are tor Harvard, 3 for Yale, 2 for Princeton, 2 for Dartmouth, from Phillips Andover, 14 are for Yale, (J for Havard, C for Amherst, 1 each for Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Bow doin. They intend to iiutilutc anew honor or oration for commencement at Brown, to be known by the mcllilluous name " His torico Psychical," tho delivery of which is to be bestowed upon that senior who has manifested tho greatest interest in the study of history and psychology. Tho juniors bury English literature at Brown. At the ceremony olllciato a chief-inarsli-al, a chaplain, a poet and an orator. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Orders have been issued forbidding the bakers and pastry cooks of Paris burning in their ovens wood which has been paint ed or impregnated witli any metallic salts, as it is believed that articles of food may bo rendered deleterioiiH through such In tent agency. An Invention providing tho motive-power of a sowing-machine in a coil of strong springs has been perfected in Vienna. The Hpeed of running the muchino can bo