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-WM HESPERIAN STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. Vol. XI. LINCOLN, NEB., DECEMBER 15, 1882. No. V. $fliticclhutcoufi cffqntiou. .Tupies Gordon Bennett Is well known to bo tlio richest newspaper proprietor in (ho country. II is paper, thu ITeraUh will pay him a dividend o( $850,000 the present year. A colossal sttitue of Chief Justice Marshall is to he placed in the grounds of the national cupitol as soon ns completed, which will be three or four years hence It will be east in Munich. A. Georgia undertaker has sent in a bill of $3100 for burying Bon. Hill. This may scorn exorbitant in' this caso but we think Nebraska could aftbrd to pay oven that if somebody would bury a few of our would.-be sen-alors. A Harvard debuting Club decided the other day that the Republican party liasout lived its usefulness. This will save a good dual of anxiety and expense, by doing away witli the necessity for the noxt national convention which a few lond followers of that deluded organization had intended to hold. Regent Pifleld, who has boon in Baltimore since Sep. tcnibor, writes that considerations of his health may re quire his return to Nebraska next spring. Ho is attend ing two or three courses of lectures in the Johns Hopkins University. His daughter is a student in the Woman's Medical College of Baltimore. Mr. Foflclc will necossa rily bo absent from the Regents' meeting in December. His first absence from any regular meeting in seven years His address is 120 N. Eutaw Street Baltimore, Md There is no end to the power ol the human mind to make great discoveries. A talented Parisian critic lias made the recent presentation of Victor Hugo's drama "Le Roi S'amuso" thu occasion to inform the world that Hugo is only a poet and is a failure a a dramatist and novelist A great many people have been laboring under tlio delu sions that the author of "Notro Dame" and "Les Mis. erables" had some rank in literature It is well that thoy are undeceived. Wo hope lese books will bo retired from circulation. The progress tno tolcpliono has made during the past few years is truly remarkable ; but five or six years ago it was used for talking short distances only; but gradully increasing in strength they were used at a mile distance, and now they connect cities which are miles apart. The latest connection iu the West is that of Omaha andLincoln a distnacc of 05 miles. If continued at tills rate it will not be long before the citizens of the eastern portion of a city can talk with their neighbors in tlio western portion by The male students up at Kingston, Ontario, do not ap pear to be overburdened with a chivalious spirit for their fair companions. At the medical college situated In that city, they have demanded the expulsion ofjthola'j stu dents, and as their wishes hive not been emptied with, they Intend to apply to Trinity College, Toronto, for ad- mission. Better go back, boys, and try to stand It a while ongerj we don't do that w.iy out hero. What is the matter any how; have you been holding a frcc-for-all-go-as-you-please sutlragc discussion?. Our reviewers bundle the of today without gloves. They tell us that Black has no plots, that Howell deals in mental vivisection, that Mrs. Phelps' latest novel Is of tho sensational order and so on through the list. It is sug gested by the impudent newspapers that the Poet Laureate had better confine himself to poetry and let the drama alone Wc hope they aro ablo to comfort themselves with the reflection that genius Is never appreciated 'until It reaches its centennial, especially as people arc found who read and admire all tho works of all of them They do not "nail a lie" or "repel an insinuation" in France. The London Bocicly t'ils the following good story ofM. Leon Gozlau, who takes the lead at present for neat refutation of newspaper slander. A smart journalist published an alleged account of his having been a sailor on u certain brig, who had not only incited the crow to mutiny, but had also murdered the captain. Gozlau im mediately published the following letter to tno editor .- "Monsieur: you say that I ltavo been a sailor, which h quite true; that I caused the crow of a brig to mutiny, and then killed the captain, which is also perfectly correct. But you forgot to add a detail which may particularly in tcrcst your readers; after killing the captain I ate him1 Leon Gozlau." Every one who has lived iu the South, and probably by this time, many a one who has never been below Masonl and Dixon's line, has observed the delight of tho old South! ern negro in largo sounding words, and his ludicrous at tempts to use thorn on all occasions, getting hold of some tiling slightly similar in sound to the word ho has heard I white people use in a like place. Here is 0110 instance. "So you applied for a ponslou, Uncle," said I to an old! darkey who was doing somo work for me. "Were youl wounded or hurt in the war?" "Oh, no, honey, I wasn' hurl none, but all dese odor men roun hcah got pensions and I was in do wall free years, and aint nebcr had pension yit. "What part of tho country were you fightlhg in, Uncle,'! said I. "Oh, Lor 1 chile, Iso fit all 'roun' de keulry, Norf andB Souf. Ise bin froo do war Why bres you, honey, II 2?EC