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HESPERIAN STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. f) ,' Vol. XI. LINCOLN, NEB., JANUARY 20, 1883. No. VII. cffjisccllmtconu Jjfaiidpn. Pluttsmoutli wits recently connected with Lincoln by telephone. This connection mnkes Omaha, Pluttsmoutli and Lincoln near neighbors. A Chinese chart of the heavens, made about GOO years J3. 0., giving corroctly the position of about 14,000 ctais, is preserved in the great Paris Library. A new man on the Omaha police force was caught -walking his beat the other night and was lined in the police court the next morning for somnambulism. The present spell of severe cold weather will confirm others to the belief that Mr. Vennor does know something about the weather after all. ."some of his phrophesics arc as remarkably true as Mother Shipmans'. It is very true he must necessarily do some guessing in this great weather affair, but as long as the guessing generally comes out true, what does it matter to you? We must have a wrather prophet any way. The liquor intercuts of the Stale arc being carefully -watched by men of brains and money; all that is in their power will be done to see free whisky throughout the State. No doubt it will improve the general class of citi. 2cns, but when the city of Omaha makes 2,354 arrests in one year under the Slocum 'aw it is reasonable to nclievo that the number would increase under free whisky, and thus Omaha could all'ord a few more beer shops and an addition to her polico force, which would make work more plenty all around. How lovely I Some weeks, ago Bob Ingcrsoll entertained a large ails dieneo in Hie opera house, and with his eloquence and sarcasm made many believe that his theory is superior to a hereafter. On hearing the lecture, Mr. Calhoun, of the State Journal stall', thinking it not the proper channel for the mind to follow, prepared a lecture opposing his theory, and delivered it before the citizens of 1 incoln Mr. Calhoun lias been highly complimented, not only in tills citi', but by the press throughout the state, for the able manner in which he handled the subject. The first ballot fer United States Senator from this state was taken on the 10th inst. There were only 28 candi dates for the Jlllcc. The number soon rose to 82. Morton received the highest number of votes cast on the first bal lot. Balloting has been going on every day since and the "chi d is still unborn," ns it were. It looks at this writ ing (20) as if the successful man will bo named before the end of the session, at least. The democrats and anti monopolists seem to bo working together, and the repub licans arc watching every opportunity to lay fine wires to ensnare them. Baxter wrote near tho end of his life: "I see that good men nro not so bad as I once thought they were, and I find that few are so bad as malicious enemies or censoris ous professors do imagine." Of all buildings erected in the world, none should havo more care exercised in the architecture than hotels. Every few weeks the terrible news comes to our ears of some large hotel burning and roasting in the ilr.mes its sleep ing inmates. The terrible affair it Milwaukee is only another example of the many sad calamities that are con' tinually befalling our people. These- painful experiences are certainly evidence? that more care should bo exercised in the constructing and management of hotels. Miss Mary Thomas, daughter of one of the trustees of of the Johns Hopkins University, lias taken the degree of Ph, I)., summa cumlaude, at the university of Zurich a distinction rarely attained by male graduates. Miss Thomas is a graduate of Cornell, and studied three ycais in Leipzig. She took- her examinations at Zurich, be. cause the university at Leipzig docs not grant degrees to women. Her subject was philology, a particularly difils cult one in German. An effort is being mado to get a bill through tho Nc braska legislature making it compulsory for teachers to attend teachers' institutes. While we arc highly in favor of teaches' Institutes, and have always advocated them, wo doubt the propriety of compelling teachers to attend. If they are a good help to the teacher, which they are, those desiring to attain a high degrco of excellence in tho profession will improve such opportunities without com pulsion. There arc many instances in which teachers can not attend, and others possibly prefer to occupy their time otherwise than litis Theicfore, we cannot seo the utility of making that compulsory which should bo a vol. untary pleasure. Some four years ago tho Otoe Indians were actuated toy some influential men to dispose of a portion of their Reservation, consisting of 115,200 acres of choice land. This was purchased by the government, surveyed, ap praised and sold to actual settlers on two autl three years time. A second time the Otoes wero approached, tltis tlnio consenting the disposal of the remainder of tlinli' limil tills limit II: ni' vit iw1iricr.il . rm tn l. T-. '! """ "" - - -..-J ..v.w ,,u,.g,.u " fiU IU IHU ill", dlan Toiritory. After some coaxing they consented to go, ami sold the remainder of their Reservation consisting of 1 nearly 40,000 acres to the Government!, packed their ponies and wended their way to tho last resort lor the I poor fallen American Indian. Tltis last section is now ' boinc appraised and will come into market in the snrlmr. 1 Thus Nebraska lias parted with licr last tribe of Indians that arc worthy of note, and soon their hunting grounds ' will be converted into homes for the white man.
