THE HESPERIAN. DIRECT POINTERS. -Manley has the cream of the candy trade. Fine clothing Emporium. Social prices to students at T. Ewing &Co's. Go to Mayer Bros, to get ready made clothing. Tjco. H. Phocler keeps a full line of bakery goods. Largest stock of overcoats in the city at T. Ewings. W. R. Dennis should be your hatter and furnisher. II. Y. Brown keeps a full assortment 01 students books. You will always find a large slock of hats at V. R. Dennis Go to F. Hurlbut to get soiled suits cleaned and colored. Hardsman &Gutton keep full line of confectioneries and fruits. Even- thing in"'lie fruit line at Manley's. The Junior class of Columbia was $700 in debt last year, and that of Cornell SS5 behind. Sam Westerfield is at his old stand and will make special rates to students. Students get your rigs at Skinners who keeps a full line of the most stylUh in the city. Students will do well to read Mayer Bros, advertisement. Fine clothing at T. Ewing &Co's. The name of Illinois Industrial University has been chang ed to the "University of Illinois." It is reported that all the prizes offered in the University of Missitsippi were, during the past year, won by women. Tenty-eiy ht memlers of the present United States Senate arc graduates of colleges and universities. Forty-eight are not. HcnryWard Beccher's average grade at Amherst was but 57 on a cale of 100. "Live, of great men all remind us.ctc. Cadet suits, gloves and caps at T. Ewing &Co's "Old Miami" College at Oxford, Ohio, founded in 1S24 and compelled to close its doors in 1S75 through lack of funds, re-opens this fall. The Lincoln Business College took first premium at Neb raska Mate fair for best business Course. Best course in bookeeing and largest and best collection of penmanship. It ig first class in all these departments. CAMPUS CANARDS. Captain Codding, if you please. Ask Frankforter if he can cut glass. Have you seen Fletcher's pompadour? Old stoves for sale. Inquire at the University. Miss Mar Jo.t, 'Z2, l (cubing iti Beatrice high-school. The hay crop from the campus was unusually large this year. What was the matter with Anderson's nose during fair week? Mifes Schell, of Beatrice, has resumed her University studies. H. C. Eddj', class of '85, is studying law .with Field and Harrison. C. G. McMillan '85 if. taking post graduate studies in the University. E. J, Churchill '85 occasionally looks at one of A. K. Web lers law books. Miss Cochran, instructor in music has charge of the class in English this term. The faculty as well as the students heard Barrett last Tuesday evening. Bring out the foot -ball. The I aboratory walls have reached the second story. Four hitching-posts have been added to the "equipments" of the University. The chapel is to be completed to-day. This is official and can be relied upon. Why can't the Professors order text books before the be ginning of the term? J. H. Holmes, '84, and A. G. Warner, '85, arc attending Johns Hopkins this year. The Philodicean Society meet in Room No. 7 until the chapel is read for occupancy. Dave Mercer and Clem Chase, alumni of the University, paid us a flying visit last week. The "swell" event of the present month is the Grand Con cert by the Arion Club to-night. The University is to be supplied with water from the -city mains. Special rates have been granted by the council. The hall of the University Union society has been beauti fied by new curtains and a chair for the president that is real ly stunning. The Freshman class adopted the following motto: "Mens regnunt bona possidet." Their badge will consist of a silver disc about the size of a dime, upon which will be en graved '89 Chapel exercises have been held thus far in Palladian Hall. The Pals, to protect their carpet, have purchased one hundred yards of heavy ducking which will in the future be used to cover his Royal Highness, the Brussels, whenever the room is used for other than society purposes. The Palladians had a "house-cleaning" in their hall dur ing the summer. They have procured new shades for their windows and two beautiful Smyrna rugs for the hall entrance. The sign also has been replaced by a larger one and the doors made gorgeous in ebony and gold. The Misses Pollard are absent from the University this year. Miss Addie wields the ferule in a district school, while her cousin, Miss Lottie, industriously and energetically swings the broom at the paternal mansion. Their return next year ;s anxiously looked for by more than one student of the mas culine gender. We trust that no student will be shocked at the progress made on the new Laboratory during the summer. It is a fact that as high as three men have been at work on the building at one and the same time. This force has been known to lay from fourteen to eighteen bricks in a single day. The hope that the building will be ready for occupancy during the present cen tury seems well founded. W. E. Johnson boarded a C. B.& Q. train, about the first of last August, with a ticket for New York in his pocket and a look of determination on his countenance. Inquiry elicited the in formation that he had been invited to attend the funeral of Genreal Grant, after which he purposed loafir.g in the pater nal front yard and basking in the smiles if his adored one for a few brief, sugary, weeks. Thfc Arion Glee Club appears ir: Grand Concert at Funke's Opera House on Monday evening, October 12. This pop ular organization will be assisted by Miss Ethel Howe, So prano, and a string quartette from the Musical Union Orches tra of Omaha. We would advise such of our students as are Interested in music to "take in" this entertainment, as it will beone of the most deservin'g of the season. V