"And tends to the meat and potatoes there,
Fixed to the stove with a vacant stare."
This is indeed a climax. Our blood boils with sympathy. Why was she fixed? Who fixed her? And why was a vacant stare substituted for a jack-chain? Why, the Inquisition was a fool to this!
THE Grand Duke Alexis has presented to the University of Michigan thirty volumes of the history and educational interests of Russia. - N. Y. Times.
THE Seminary Budget is the name of a four-paged paper published four times a year by some nice little girls in Mr. Perry's Seminary, Sacramento, California. Our first impulse was to drop it in the "dead" exchange basket; but suddenly we came upon this: "We are ready to exchange with all papers of high merit and literary worth." After such readiness, we can't refuse our aid to the education of these maiden Californians.