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Show HARRISON AT SCHOOL. He Was Oifted With All the Schoolboy Deviltries. . When President Harrison, Rev. David Swing and Dr. John Trembly of Ohio were students in Miami college, Oxford, Ohio, Prof. StodJard's rain gango was poured full of water one night in a storm, greatly to the astonlsh-ment astonlsh-ment of that instructor next day. The Chicago Times declares that while the other two conspirators here named stood guard, the grandson of "Tippe-canoo" "Tippe-canoo" was at work on the roof executing exe-cuting this little project. Before the task was finished there was an alarm, and Swing and Trembly fled while Mr. Harrfson, so the story goes, flattened himself against a chimney and stayed there until morning. The Times says that President Harrison, Harri-son, during his western tour, stopped at Wooster, Ohio, tho present home of Prof. Stoddard, and the latter gentleman was selected by the citizens of that place as ono nf the reccptioa committee and boarded the presidential train at Millbrook, just west of Wooster. After renewing the acquaintance of his former teacher the president remarked: "Doctar, from appearances there must have been a bfiitvy rain in this vicinity recently." "Yes." replied the doctor, '"a very hard rain last night." "Almost as heavy a rain as there was one night at Oxford," responded the president. "I have no special recollection of it." "Why, don't you remember that you recorded it as a remarkable rain-fall?" ' After some reflection Professor Stoddard ad-milted ad-milted that he recalled the occasion referred to, and the president then related the circumstances in detail, denying, however, that he was one of the culprits, and laying the blame for the delusion to which the professor of chemistry ws subjected upon Rev. Dr. Swing of Chicago. Processor Pro-cessor Swing will confirm the facts stated above, but refuses to be interviewed inter-viewed at any length in tho premises. - |