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STARBEAMS

The southwest calls for a university that is a university. A grammar school will not satisfy.

Slagg, the famous Yale pitcher, hails from a Jersey farm. He is now at home pitching hay.

Bill Nye gets one hundred dollars per week for his work on the New York World. This may account for the fun in the cocoanut

It is not "Buffalo Bill" in Boston. There it is proper to speak of him as "Bison Americanus Guilliamus." Culture must have its way.

Is the Frechman to be snuffed out? Professor Biliroth of Vienna, perhaps the greatest living surgeon, pronounces Pasteur's hydrophobia treatment a naseo.

General Bonlanger has subsided, but the French say his retirement only temporary and that he will be up and about in a few days and will loom larger than ever before.

"Father Time" seems to be on good terms with Emperor William. The old monarch is reported as having recovered his health and as exhibiting more vitality than his iron flated chancellor.

The man who looked into his classical dictionary for a biography of Moses, and abused the book for never having anything in it that was wanted, is not considered high authority in the bible class.

Jules Verne, author of "Around the World in Eighty Days," lives at Amiens, France. He goes to Paris for one day in every month. (He is a warm admirer of English literature, but does no read it.) He takes everything through translations loving his own language above all others.

Fred Douglas will return from Europe in September. The colored people of Washington, D.C., expect to give him a grand reception. They intend to make Africa howl. Douglas will lecture the coming season on his European trip.

Senator Evarts is improving in the use of the English language, and is becoming intelligible. The longest sentence in his late address to the alumni of Yale continued only sixty-nine words. This was a great concession to perspicacity on his part.

It is sad that it is Mrs. Langry's love of America which induced her to become an adopted citizen. Freddie Gebhardt is in San Francisco, where her application for naturalizationpapers has been [?]. A divorce for the Lily is seen in the distance.

W. D. Howells is at Saratoga taking notes. A novel of fashionable society life may be expected from his facile pen. He will find an opportunity for exercising his wit, reflection and description on both snobs and the truly refined. Both classes abound at Saratoga.

Bob Ingersoll wants a new deal as to the laws of the world. He is quoted saying, "The only new party that is wanted in this country is one to agitate the repeal of laws. The only good laws that have been passed in 500 years have been laws that repealed other laws. The statute books ought to be a wiped clear."

An eastern paper says "Mrs. Fraley, of St. Louis is astonishing the public at Long Branch by the richness and variety of her gowns, diamonds, and early grammer." There is considerable primative grammar over at St. Louis occupying costly mansions. Full pur es and unict resting heads are not infrequently found together.