Show j if G Home Hits flits and Happenings t e f JS J'S The educational exhibit is to be placed at Chicago on June 15 The Teachers' Teachers excursion to the Worlds World's Fair starts about June 15 Miss Adie Eldridge who has been very y ill for several weeks past is out again Mr M. M Bixby and Mr W. W A. A Taylor have both recently given mineral samples to the museum The bulletin board containing the pro pro- gramme gramme of examinations is the center center of of att attraction a tion Are you in it Alumni day Wednesday y June Commencement Thursday June Field d day r Friday June Mr Mr f Frank Swenson called on us m last las Friday ay He e has just returned from Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago where he v visited site the big show The Botany class went on one of their expeditions up City Creek Thursday along with all of the usual fun But the mud Oh Mr L. L G. G Wickersham has donated a specimen of a salamander to the U University University niver- niver sity muse museum museum m. m The amphibian was taken I from Puget Sound A few visitors are embracing the last opportunity p 8 tu ity of the year to vi visit it the s school hool Mamie ie Knowlton Rose Walker and Nellie Herman were added to th the list of last week y One or two of the Physical Culture girls made up their lost Jost sleep of the previous previous pre pre- night in school Wednesday morning morning morn morn- i ing g Miss Snell did have such a refreshing refreshing hing doze in the Library The other day a young lady found Prof Whiting at his desk poring g over the latest r 1 t O M fashion plate Perhaps he inte intends to study- study up tip a little along this line linein in connection n with his other w work rk Cadet Captain R. R C. C N Naylor ay or crashed through our front w window one day last week while he was paying us us' a pleasant visit A fine painting of Prof Augsburg is islon on exhibition in n Parsons Parson's b book ok store The picture was made without the P Professors Professor's Professors Professor's Pro Pro- o fessor's knowledge and we can imagine his surprise at finding himself on public exhibition The Mathematical society will meet forthe for for- forthe forthe the last time this season next Wednesday evening May at 8 Mr W. W D. D Neal will lecture Civil on Civil Engineering Engineer Engineer- ing and Mr W. W G. G Roylance on on theRel the the- Rel Relation tion of pf Mathematics to Reason Reason- in ing g. g The following graduates graduate have been n named med as the most mot distinguished in the the- mil military tary department during the past year Their names name will appear in the next army register and report of the inspector gen eral Captains Eugene T. T Hills and Ray Raymond Raymond Ray Ray- mond O. O Naylor and First Sergeant Geo N N. Sorensen Last Thursday the thermometer thermometer- thermometer must have b been cn down near zero Our visitors visitors- complained because the glass was broken out of our window and there was no steam turned on We wish to have it understood understood understood under under- stood that we are no hothouse plants We Ve believe in plenty of ventilation and scorn to work except in our shirt sleeves Commencing next year military drill will b be compulsory for two years only and no one will be excused unless physically physically physically cally incapacitated Those students de desiring desiring desiring de de- siring to take the drill for more than two than two years will register for it if as for a study and will receive credit for the work performed as asif if it were a a. class recitation citation if tion A record t r r rn Of I of M f merits rits and demerits in drill wn will be I kept and will count for or against a mans man's mansI graduation Drill will be held Mon Mondays ays Wednesdays an and Fridays at 3 p. p m. m the first and third terms and on Wednesdays at t 3 p. p m. m the second term This is not as asgood asgood asgood good an hour as 9 a. a m. m but suits a majority majority majority ma ma- of the faculty There are a few rifles in the hands of students or persons outside the University and any person knowing of their whereabouts is requested to inform Wright that he may take measures to have them returned before the close of school We attended the exhibition ion given by Miss ks k's physical culture class last Tuesday and were wel e agreeably surprised A great deal had been told us us' about the class by those who had visited i it and a great deal has appeared in the CHRONICLE about bout it We intended to visit the class lass ourselves ourselves one day but being naturally of ofa a modest disposition we retired very soon after entering because the ladies didn't s' s seem sem seem em to be dressed to receive visitors a although though we have since learned that they were were wearing the regulation suit And after fter all the suits are neat and modest enough n ugh The exhibition Tuesday night was rather lengthy but the young ladies were given plenty of opportunity to show what what a splendid thing physical culture is and how much it will do for one We repeat w we e were agreeably surprised and henceforth have nothing at at- atall all to say derogatory derogatory derogatory de de- rogatory to the physical culture class A good one on Mr 1 Hoopes There was large chunk of ore oie in the laboratory and he broke off a small piece and began to toss assay ss y it When the process was nearing completion one one of the boys with a joking t turn of mind dropped a large metallic bead very Iery rich in gold into the cupel When t the e results of the assay were figured out Mr Hoopes became intensely excited F 1 t f Why there would be enough gold i in the piece of ore left to pay his field da day expenses expenses expenses ex ex- and still leave him a snug nest egg The chunk of ore was soon crushed an and ground up In a few minutes the as assay ay furnace had a number df crucibles full of it Offers ranging from two to five dollars for the contents of the crucibles just a. a as ak they were were indignantly l u a. a L j. LAny Any Anyone one passing the laboratory that that- ev evening ning abo about t dusk might have seen a ayoung ayoung young man in his shirt sleeves wearing a a a. pair of white cotton gloves working about the assay furnace Reader we haven't th the tho- heart to to go on That ore didn't pan outs outsa a n bi bit Let us draw a curtain over the picture A large and somewhat odd looking lantern lantern lantern lan lan- tern was carried into room 27 of the U University University Uni Uni- ni- ni building last Wednesday It It contained contained contained con con- a present for Prof Montgomery in the shape of two quite large snakes all alive Not only were they snakes but they were also rattlesnakes each having having having hav hav- ing a sized good-sized rattle of horny rings at the extremity of the tail and the usual deep pit b between the eye and the nostril A small swift lizard accompanied accompanied accompanied nied them and appeared to be happy with his companions The contents of the lantern lantern lantern lan lan- tern were captured by a railway section man about zoo miles southward miles southward and were sent to the curator of the museum by Mr J. J H. H Young of the U. U P. P railway y in int tru's trus s city It is expected that that- the skeletons poison-fangs poison skin an and rattle of these two specimens of ophidian known as will in the future be exhibited in our museum At Burnt corral near where these two snakes were captured there is isa a chalk cliff abounding with rattlers They offensive offensive offensive offen offen- are so numerous and emit such an sive odor that all other living creatures instinctively avoid the loc locality lity The sec section section sec sec- e tion foreman asserts with all gravity and I sincerity th that t one day he and his companion companion compan compan- ion killed in the neighborhood of two hundred dred all that is necessary to capture or kill them b being ing a long handled rake or fork with the teeth close together and a club What a bonanza this would be f for r some J patent medicine fakir fakir who wishes to make a a specialty of rattlesnake oil |