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Show A Line o' Type or Two "Fay ce que vouldras. " La Soiree Moliere. Vendredi prochain, a JIandel, Sur la scene universitaire, Amis, venez ouir Mn''c a. Precher son bon sens eternel. " Pour ajouter a votre joie, Vous verrez comment paiiielin, L'avocat hableur et malm, Vous fera gouter de son ole. Accourez tous admirer l'art De Pathelin et Poquehti. Vous sauverez un orphelin Et vous rirez . . . pour un dollar. The foregoing- might intrisue Lizy. the French operator who sets this column or the Paris edition of the Tnb bUe 4J whether French verse is cabled, because s of the hich cost of accented letteis. Mr. Gibbons informs us that Li2y who cannot ! understand a word of English, has been setting up the Line for more than e htecn months, and says she hasn t got a laufeb out of it yet. When we get hold of a ?eally good "joke we'll have it translated "to French, so that Lizy may have her well-earned snicker. Froutenbac. Get It? , Sir: The United States shipping board ' advertises for sealed bids, for the sale j of the S. S. Frontenac. -'Bow section at Erie, Pa., stern section at But alo is. Y." Hasn't the typesetter omitted at least a 'b' from her name.' . J w. . The movies are great educators of the young. To the question, "Who Participated Partici-pated in great political debates m lbob. a student in a lh utn'fco - v. 1 "Lincoln and Douglas Fairbanks. M doubt the rising generation is acquainted also with Charlemagne Chaplin and Jlary Pickford, Queen of Scots. Remarkable Presence of Mind. (From the Clinton Herald.) His engine had not been stopped, and when Mrs. Schuyler entered the car lie released the clutch. Within a fraction of t a second, possibly at the very same In- I stant, the voung ladies stepped off tne curb, directly in front of the car. lie; knew It was impossible for him to stop his automobile and called to them. He ; also realized that the shock of striking them was inevitable and thought it was best to continue over them. Concerning the authorship of "The Lawyer's Law-yer's Invocation to Spring," L. S. submits sub-mits a communication from the chief bibliographer bib-liographer of the Library of Congress, In replv to his inquiry: "This poem appears in William Cullen Bryant's 'New Library of Poetry and 1 Song,' New York. 1900. In the later edi- Hons it is accredited to Henry Howard ; Browned, but In the earlier it is given as anonvmous. The earliest publication of the poem which we have been able to i find occurs in London 'Punch' fur 131. vol. 20. p. 144, where it has the tit.e. . 'Lines Written In a Lawyer's Office on the Approach of Spring.' No author is given, but It is reprinted in The Knicker-i Knicker-i bocker. - or New York Monthly Maaa-; Maaa-; zine. for 1859, vol. 54. p. 105. where it Is said to be from the pen i f Tom Taylor. ! . one of the writers for 'Punch.' J. S. Crohe. : ; In' his Lvrics of the Law,' ISM. also cred- 1 its the authorship to Tom Tavlot. The j poem is not found in the collected edition i of Brownell's pnerns nor in tie earlier vol-! vol-! times of verse issued during his life time. The name of Austin Adams does not ap-i ap-i pear in the Catalogue of the Library of Congress." I Our languid attention has hen called to the following conspicuous sign: I THK lMAiiP"NAl;l,K s'" WITH BLANCHE SWHl'T. ! Princeton has dropped the derree of Bachelor of Letters, hut this department of learning will retain it. We last conferred con-ferred it. we believe, nn Mr. Yanking-houelensleinhouFenhouhenk'.atzr Yanking-houelensleinhouFenhouhenk'.atzr of Madison, Mad-ison, Wis., and Mr. Papr;i theodorokoum-mountourgeotopouics theodorokoum-mountourgeotopouics of Chicago. I , i I Have At You! j I Pir: Mr. Burlron hns Just rtf-livd 1 Thursday's rar;r. I wo rt.n vs behind th 'usual sf-hetlu'e. arid my attention hi V'-f-i ! cnlWl to W. F. Y.'s co;:ru-oi:s "correction" of my recent t-xecrpt frn-n r'nrh'Io. T am 1 not captious, but ( 1)( W. V. V.s use ol j "proctrupe" is very Mlp'nod; (2) his inl-i inl-i tin sentence wouldn't pas.i must or in u freshman "thevr.e" Ctlvs !s not iri'onded : to be rnsty, but merHv in th cnu"- ol . Truth as V. K. Y. writof: Ci) tho onpi-j onpi-j nal of my quotation (nin-e hastpned. i very properly, by Your M i 1' St a v;i r : ap:o, I have been iv.os t cau?;iors exactly i a-n the Line printed U. stands In C'.'s 'handwriting in a snu'll notebook once h's i property which I pun-hnsrd y,ir nco 'from tho late Bertram Mob. 1 oi ch'inntr Cross road. London. y.w ("hrst'-rton (or someone f!re) ?;iys tor winds moi-p or li r . to thia olfect) thiU mo:-t rnod-'rn ".'iii nism" consists In finding fau't with sonic-thint; sonic-thint; for not l-eiui? whn t it w;n't intended in-tended to be. 1 S'"'in to f NiuTiciu'e difficulty diffi-culty in rei-;nllii W. F. Y.'d coust n.ci I ve contributiona. l 1 . y. '.Vould'st Second-Coat the Lily? Rlr: One of our local pr.-ss aopis. In referring to a popular medium of theatrical theat-rical advertising, mentioned a bull Ijo-ird. Write your own headline. ic. M. u From tha rrccnily uhllshcr1 Tetters nf Alfroruon Charles Swh-burnc: "At to the character of the Americans ireiierilly, m-own m-own impression (confirmed l y experi'inct ) la that thoy are either delightful ,,r tie-testable tie-testable tha best or the vorsl e,nnpan possible th.re is no medium. (ISi'i,.) You Eomomber Doc. (From tiio CliarUs t'itv-. Town. Tress- leset niKht the pastor In his sot mop dedicated the new picture on "The Supper" by Dr. Vinci. For perst ns who riellcht in wliee.es nf a certain sort, tho halters' strike oflers an unusual opporlunitv. ")u, pli " "raise," "loaf one mny 'jork a do.t'ii Japo.a cut of the sllunlion. You mnv not la Inlrveslod ln tho lolll-nn.llon lolll-nn.llon of Ti.matocs, bul vou mav liho t know Hint A. (I. I!. Hi, uquot Is pi -n lessor of yeKelahlo Kiir.ui K ,, Lio (reKU,i Agricultural college. ' 'To liocso I--.1 Z,ii:nl Temple of Farn,)' will he the tilian f tl. nobles ,,!' The, local shrine." hatfto ( 'ouih i--, w s Mennliu;. perh. ipi. thai 1 ho ,-n 1 i.-onihs of the I emplo are to ho stocked n -alnsi the droituht. Uaclpo for bciaimli i; n. "mvsieiy rh" Take a Mvnllow or poison. One s i-i I In v may not make a mini 1, bul 11 make, ',. "mystery." "tint there are some con, so pas,.-,,..,-,, In Miss Austen. Iooi'mo Ml)'. 10. Tho coarsenl of ,vhloh aro "Under Ibo Lilacs" enmpaied ivill, ie must circumspect circum-spect of Mr. Moote's ,,.., "" Spcaklne: f boat!, and yacht-.. .,,, nfridav.is. end oisci-h nnd Hlndlihih tt, l'ni-ls onlllon r.r Hi- Trlb let,-, a l, anted men and out ortn liters." "ToMoha S.-ldel flays on We-. I .Side " Muslea I I 'oi'i-ior. Ol his I avV ( H10 can ,., a. poeul! -ir of fact by :iMK the weal side of , b,,w. .,",ilr'." :'th'-- MlhVlliikeo Hosiery,"- Adv. 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