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-A freshman being asked the name of Xenephon's wife, replied, after some hesitation, that he believed it was Anna Basis.-Ex.

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the round of our exchanges for a couple of months, and, just as an example of the profane taste of college youth, we give it a place: Scene-Young ladies' boarding school. Prof." What can you tell me of Pluto?". Miss D.-" He was the son of Satan, and when his father died he gave him hell."

SHORTEST AND LONGEST.

The longest day is in June, they say,
The shortest in December.

They did not come to me that way:

The shortest I remember

You came a day with me to stay,

And filled my heart with laughter;
The longest day-you were away-
The very next day after.

A farmer once called his cow "Zephyr,"
She seemed such an amiable hephyr.

When the farmer drew near,

She kicked off his car,

And now the old farmer's much dephyr.

-Century.

-The Campus.

-Stern parent (to a young applicant for his daughter's hand)—“ Young man,

can you support a family?

Young man (meekly)-" I only wanted Sarah."-The Tablet,

ALUMNIANA.

Τί γὰρ μητρὸς θαλλούσης εὐκλείας τεκνοις
άγαλμα μείζον, ἢ τί πρὸς παίδων μητρί,

-Dr. DWIGHT M. LEE, '63, of Oxford, is a member of the pension board of Chenango county.

-Dr. WARD M. BECKWITH, '80, sailed for Europe July 3d, and will spend the year with his wife in Vienna.

-The Soth birthday of Judge ANSON S. MILLER, '35, was celebrated Sept. 24, by a family gathering at Highland, Col.

-IRVING F. Wood, '85, for four years a tutor in Jaffna College, Ceylon, has entered the Divinity School of Yale College.

-THOMAS D. CATLIN, '57, of Ottawa, Ill., has been elected President of the board of trustees of the United Glass Company,

-M. RUMSEY MILLER, '68, of Bath, fills the office of Surrogate of Steuben county, as successor of the late Hon. GUY H. MCMASTER, '47.

-At the April communion of the church in Castile, Pastor JOHN C. LONG, '57, received fourteen new members on the profession of their faith.

-Rev. Dr. JAMES H. ECOB, '69, of Albany, spent his last vacation in a sketching tour along the coast of Maine with Rev. J. B. Morse, of Utica.

-EDWARD S. PECK, 73, and FRANK H. FIELD have formed a co-partnership for carrying on a general law practice, with their office at 261 Broadway, New York.

-HAMILTON B. TOMPKINS, '65, was one of the five delegates from New York City at the "International Conference," held in Paris from July 28 to August 4.

-Rev. A. S. WOOD, '61, for the past three years pastor of the Congregational Church in Philadelphia, has tendered his resignation and will remove to the western part of the state.

-Rev. J. WILford Jacks, '68, has received a hearty call to the church in Dunkirk. His acceptance of this call would terminate a prosperous pastorate of seventeen years at Romulus.

-One of the oldest of the charitable institutions of New York City is the Asylum for Lying-in Women, at 139 Second Avenue, whose resident physician is Dr. J. CONGER Bryan, '84.

-Rev. ENEAS MCLEAN, '75, of Medford, Oregon, delivered the charge at the installation of his brother, Rev. ROBERT MCLEAN, '76, as pastor of Bethany Church, at Grant's Pass, Oregon.

-Rev. WILLIAM P. Garrett, '86, for three years a teacher in the Delaware Literary Institute, has accepted a preacher's appointment from the presiding elder of the Central New York Conference.

-Rev. Dr. HERMAN D. JENKINS, '64, after a very prosperous pastorate of seventeen years in Freeport, Ill., has accepted a call to Sioux City, Ill. Rev. Edgar P. Hill, of Chicago, succeeds him in Freeport.

-ARTHUR A. STEBBINS, '87, formerly of the reportorial staff of the New York Sun, has accepted a position for which he is admirably fitted, as traveling correspondent of the Utica Saturday Globe.

—WILLIAM B. Goodwin, '59, president of the National Bank of Waterville, has sailed for Europe with his family. They propose to be absent for a year or longer, and will visit Egypt and the holy land.

-Rev. Dr. W. C. WINSLOW, '62, the archæologist and historical scholar, has been made honorary fellow in the Royal Archæological Institute of Great Britain, of which the Duke of Northumberland is President.

-Rev. JAMES A. SKINNER, '57. was ordained to the Episcopal ministry Sept. 22, by Bishop Coxe in St. Luke's Church in Buffalo. The text of the Bishop's sermon was, "He that winneth souls is wise."

-CHARLES B. COLE, '87, holds an important position in the law office of Miller, Peckham and Dixon, 29 Wall Street, New York, and JONAS F. MANN, '87, is equally fortunate in his location at 54 Wall Street.

—THOMAS C. Cairns, '86, has removed to Portland, Oregon, and has purchased a one-third interest in the match factory of Walker & Davis. The capacity of this factory is reported to be about 5,000,000 a day.

-At the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, held in New York, Oct. 2, S. N. D. NORTH, '69, was elected secretary and editor of the Quarterly Bulletin, published in Boston.

-Rev. WILLIAM REED, '71, of the Troy Memorial Church, has been appointed Chairman of the Committee on Sunday School work for the Synod of New York, to succeed Rev. Dr. Thurber, now pastor of the American Chapel in Paris.

-JOHN D. HENDERSON, '68, of Herkimer, has been nominated for assemblyman by the Democrats of Herkimer county and GEORCE G. MCADAM, '83, of Rome, has been re-nominated for re-election to the assembly by the Republicans of the second Oneida district.

-The leading article in the New York Medical Journal for June 29, is the address delivered at the fourth annual dinner of the Hospital Graduates' Club, by Dr. JOHN S. HAWLEY, '77, of New York City. It is entitled The Natural History of the Hospital Interne," and is humorously treated.

-The Presbyterian Society of Martinsburg has decided to extend a call to Rev. MURRAY H. GARDNER, '84, who will complete his course at Princeton Theological Seminary the present year. Mr. Gardner supplied the pulpit at that church during the past summer, and made many friends.

-The ten students of theology from the class of 1889 are F. B. CARLTON, D. H. CHRESTENSEN, G. D. MILLER, J. D. SPURLARKE and S. D. WATERBURY, at Auburn; C. W. E. CHAPIN, M. B. LOUGHLEN and D. G. SMITH at Union; ALBERT EVANS and FREDERICK PERKINS at Princeton.

-The law firm of Davies & Rapallo, (to which CHARLES A. GARDINER, '80, belongs,) at 32 Nassau Street, New York, employs twenty-five salaried clerks,

all of whom have been admitted to the bar. Among those are WILLIAM R. PAGE, '84, HARRY B. TOLLES, '86, and HENRY J. HEMMENS, '87.

-In Binghamton at the general September term, admission to the bar was granted on examination to HENRY J. HEMMENS, '87, FREDERICK P. PIERCE, '87, JOEL J. SQUIER, '87, all three of Utica, and EDMUND R. WILCOX, '88, of Watertown. Messrs. PIERCE and SQUIER will practice law in Peoria, Ill.

-A very valuable feature of the Andover Review is its monthly resume of German Theological Literature, prepared by Rev. MATTOON M. CURTIS, '81, who has been for a year or longer a student at Leipsic. These reviews of recent German books are prepared by Mr. Curtis after a careful and discriminating study of each author's purpose and method.

-In July last General EMMONS CLARK, '47, was appointed by President Harrison United States Consul at Havre, France. Yielding to the advice of friends and physicians he has declined this appointment. He will be honorably known in history as Colonel of the famous Seventh Regiment, a position which he resigned when brevetted general by Governor Hill.

-EDWARD CURRAN, '56, was the founder of the Homestead Aid Association in Utica, which at the end of its fifth year had assets amounting to $75,000, which has accomplished much good in helping wrokingmen to build permanent and attractive homes. Mr. Curran also favors the school savings bank as the best method of inducing children to form habits of thrift and economy.

-"Beneficence, its Ground, inward Principle, Obligation, Method and Measure, with Reason for its Practice," is the subject of a sermon preached by the Rev. W. H. BATES, '65, of Clyde, before the Presbytery of Lyons and published in accordance with the vote of the Presbytery. It is a large and important subject handled by one who has devoted to it the most serious thought.

-Prof. WILLARD B. RISING, '64, of the University of California, is busy with the interior plans of a new Chemical Laboratory that is to embody all the improvements and conveniences that money can command. As State Analyst and Consulting Chemist of the Grant Powder Works, he has special duties that made it impossible for him to meet his classmates at their quarter-century reunion.

-At the triennial council of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, held in Saratoga, Sept. 4, Hon. THEODORE W. DWIGHT, '40, was re-elected to the Senate for the term of six years. The Epsilon Chapter of Hamilton College was represented by Prof. EDWARD NORTH, 41, Prof. OREN ROOT, '56, and Superintendent EDWARD N. JONES, '82. Prof. GEORGE P. BRISTOL, '76, was one of the delegates from Cornell University.

-On Sunday, Aug. 25, Rev. Dr. WM. DELOSS LOVE, '43, preached his farewell sermon as pastor of the Congregational Church at South Hadley, Mass. During his pastorate of eleven years a church debt of $11,000 has been paid which had existed for 75 years. Of 128 members received on confession only one has been excommunicated. The pastoral calls have averaged 400 a year. The sermons were more than two for each week, mostly new or re-written.

-At the August meeting of the American Institute of Homœopathy, held at Minnetonka, Minn., its president, Dr. SELDON H. TALCOTT, '69, brought to the chair great ability as a presiding officer, the dignity which the position

demands, oratorical powers of a high order, and he presented an address that will rank among the best with which the institute has been favored. It was more than usually well considered, and, what is equally important, well constructed and well delivered."

-Dr. JOHN A. PAINE, '59, who is now associated officially with Dr. ISAAC H. HALL, '59, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, author of the article on "Pharaoh the Oppressor, and His Daughter," which attracted wide attention in The Century two years ago, contributes to the September number of the same magazine a fully illustrated paper on "The Pharaoh of the Exodus, and His Son." He endeavors, by a search among the monuments, to fix the identity of this famous king, and to clear up the mystery of “The Smiting of the First-Born."

-One of the pleasant, and thus far unreported events of the last commencement week, was a reunion held at the house of Mr. R. C. Owen, on Marvin street, of the ex-faculty of Park College, Missouri. Four-fifths of the Park College faculty for the years '86-'88 were present, viz.: Prof. LEE S. PRATT, '81, ex-Chairman of the faculty, now Latin Professor in Knox College, Ill.; Prof. WILLIAM B. FENN, '86, ex-Registrar, now of the University of Pennsylvania; Prof. EDWARD FITCH, '86, ex-Treasurer, now of the faculty of Hamilton College, and Miss IDA M. OWEN, ex-Secretary, now of Clinton.

-Pastor RANDALL PEASE, '70, presided at the dedication, July 2, of the new Presbyterian Church at Waddington. Rev. Dr. L. M. MILLER, '40, of Ogdensburgh, offered the consecrating prayer. This makes practically the third church this people have had since Mr. Pease became their pastor. Eight years ago the first building, erected in 1841, having become too small for the congregation, was rebuilt, with nearly doubled capacity, and that has given place to this. During the eleven years of Mr. Pease's pastorate, the church has more than doubled its membership. After a year and a half of worshipping in the Town Hall, the Society enters their new home, and upon the sixty-second year of their organization, “thanking God and taking courage."

-It is generally conceded that the Democrats have placed a very strong candidate at the head of their ticket in the nomination of Judge FRANK RICE, '68, of Canandaigua, for Secretary of State. He was born in Seneca, Jan. 15, 1845. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1870, and at once took high rank in his profession. In 1875 he was elected district attorney of Ontario county by a Democratic majority of 636 and was re-elected in 1878 by a majority of 834. In 1882 he was elected member of assembly from Ontario county by a majority of 1,256, and was re-elected in 1883. In 1884 he was elected county judge of Ontario county by a majority of 606. As a legislator, he was able and brilliant in debate, a skilled parliamentarian, and his integrity was never questioned. In a county though Republican, Judge Rice has never been defeated as a candidate for office.

-It seldom befalls a beginner in the ministry to encounter more exacting tests of character and pulpit ability than those which surround Rev. JAMES EELLS, '87, at Saratoga. His success is thus measured by Rev. Dr. MUTCHMORE, of the Philadelphia Presbyterian:

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