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DICKINSON LIBERAL.

The annual production of steel pens amounts to $4,000,000.

The millionaire John George left almost his entire estate to founda boarding school to educate Quaker children.

Byron-a dandy of sorrows and acquainted with grief-good, generous, hapless Byron, and yet when he died he was only a Kraftsman.

An Irishman, who had on a very ragged coat, was asked of what stuff it was made. "Bedad, I don't know!" said he, "but I think the most of it is made of air."

Bright student: "What animal is never dead broke?" Classmate: "Give it up." Bright student: "The bull-frog, because he always has a green-back."-Ex.
"If I were you," the schoolboy said,
Before his teacher quailing,
"I'd go and I'd a sailor be-
You are so fond of whaling!"
-Charleston Enterprise.

The Prince of Wales seems to take a fancy to the great personages of America. He has at last honored Marlborough house by entertaining Buffalo Bill there as a guest.

Undressed kid is the favorite material for slippers, says a fashionable journal. It may be added that slippers are not the favorite material with the undressed kid.-Living Church.

A Russian engineer claims to have discovered a process of reducing petroleum to the form of crystals, which may be esily and safely transported to any distance and then reconverted into liquid form.

The bread of Emperor William is not buttered. Well, poor fellow, he ought to be thankful. Undoubtedly many of his subjects would be willing to excuse the butter if they could only get the bread.

"I say, paper, heard the news?" "No, my boy. What is it?" "Why, they ain't going to have lamp posts any longer!" "I am surprised. What is the reason?" Why, they're long enough now."-Ex.

German royal, princely and ducal families cost the nation £3,200,000. Turkey pays the Sultan and family £3,200,00. The order of the other nations as to the salary is a follows: Russia, Austria, England, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Sweden and Norway, Denmark, Holland, Greece, Roumania, France, down to the Swiss Republic, who pays her President £600 a year.

"O, I do so dote on the sea!" she gurgled. "If you only had a yacht, Augustus, dear!" "I have no yacht, Wilhelmina," he sighed; "but I can give you a little smack" And then it sounded as if a cork had blown out of a bottle.-Ex.

My patient clock the moments ticks away,
But in eternity each tick shall be
An hour-stroke, and years shall be each day.
How swift our lives to their fruition flee!
O, not like laughing babes with moments fed,
And pleased with clocks that tick, our little space
Of fleeting life shall run, nor hear o'erhead
The stroke of the eternal years apace!

To the offer of $100 made by the director of the mint for a new design for the silver dollar the Macon Telegraph turns in this answer: "On one side the rising sun, a cornucopia rampant, and the legend, 'Honesty is the best policy.' On the other, in the long primer, 'Turn the rascals out.' Between the two, one dollar's worth of silver."

COLLEGE WORLD.
Harvard holds examinations at Paris.
Twelve colleges in Pennxylvania both sexes into equal standing.
The students of Yale College average about three thousand cigarettes daily.
Prof. Muller, of Leipsic University, has forty two titles and suffixes to his name.
The University of Pennsylvania will hold its commencement exercises on June 8th.
Within the past year the University of Pennsylvania has liquidated a debt of $140,000.
The University of the State of New York has received an anonymous gift of $100,000.
The University of Michigan has a department for the study of Greek, established at Athens.
The Sophomore and Freshman classes at Cornell have voted to have no wine at their banquets.
Dr. McCosh, of Princeton, thinks the student should be graduated at the age of from twenty to twenty-four.
Prof. W.C. Dole, the well-known athletic trainer of Yale, died recently at his home in Westville, being sixty-five years of age.
A gift of $25,000 to the Yale Law School was announced recently. The name of the donor is unknown, but the fund is intended to endow a Professorship of Commercial and Financial Law, to be called the Phelps Professorship, after Prof. E.J. Phelps, now Minister to England.