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J okdets and So 4th.
\\'hen Carrel kft for home Xmas, we heard that Jim .>!itchell s advice to the Freshman Cla•s in
he mistook a head light on a locomotive for a lightning English," Dott your eics, cross your teas, and don't
hug, and of cour~e we thought he had joined the Tem- use too many and "es.''
perance Socit!ty (" But the eat came back.' ) r,·es was asked by one of the Juniors how many
One of the Junior " Pearls " asked the Professor Spaniards he killed in the last war, and he answered,
of Philosophy " What is cause and dfect) '· a tid to " \\"ell, l killed as many of them as they did of me."
please tell her, as she did not understand the meau· There is a cadet in college who attends church
ing. The Professor replied, " \\'hen you go home regularly , and clasps his hands so tight during pra) er
to night, light a fire with about four gallons of k, ro time, that he can't get them open until after the col
sene. This is the effect~ funeral service at 2 o'clock. lection box has passed. He says that is not due to tl.e
:\o flowers." fact that he hasn "t the '' Price.''
\\"hen Uvingston left home for college, he took Carrel, being a;ked hb fa\·orite States, replied
leave of his mother in this manner " ~lothtr, l will mthout ltt:sitation , "\"irginia, -'latrimony and Cle\e
write often, and think of you constantly " \\"hen land.''
he returned home in June, he remarked to his anxious Snowden Miller was agent for a bible this sum·
mother, "Deah mothaw, I greet you once moah. '' mer, and, at one of the houses where he stopped, he
Imagine the feeling of the kind mother. asked the lady of the house whether he might leave
A "Young'' graduate of the Institution was asked some '' tracts '' there. '' Lea\'e some tracts, '' said
in his examination for his Professorship, " Do you she. "Certainly you may, and lea\·e them with the
think that the earth is round or flat?" " \\'ell, " said heels toward~ the house, if you please.''
the young man, "some people say round, some Aat, -'!ann was asked, '' Do you know why half farth·
but I'll teach just as the Trustees desire." ings are coined for your special use?" \'hen here·