THE total number of volumes given to the Library in the Sumner bequest is 3, 750.

A DOUBLE-SCULL, shell, nearly new and little used, for sale, with oars. Apply at Holworthy 21.

THE Harvard Cricket Eleven intend to play a practice game with the Boston Eleven next week Saturday.

THE first meeting of Le Cercle Francais will be held next Monday night at No. 18 Stoughton. A full attendance is earnestly requested.

THERE will probably be a game of base ball, next week Saturday, between the Harvard Nine and the Rollstones of Fitchburg.

THE boats belonging to the Clubs will all be placed in the new boat-house; the old house being reserved for private boats, and Class and University shells.

WHAT historical grounds have we for saying Cleopatra had no pocket to put her handkerchief in? Sufficient in that she put her viper in her bosom.

THE annual meeting of the H. U. B. C. has been postponed until next Tuesday evening, at half past seven o'clock. The great importance of attendance is urged on all members.

THERE are several vacancies in the Glee Club in the base parts, and students desiring to enter are requested to present themselves for examination at the Glee Club rooms, in Holyoke, at half past seven, next Monday evening.

GENERAL F. W. LISTER has made a very generous offer of two silver cups, to be contested for in the spring races. One of the contests for the cups must be the high jump; the other is not restricted.

A SAGACIOUS Junior, wishing to dispose of some textbooks, displayed the following enticing notice: "Textbooks for sale cheap; affable clerks." It is needless to say he met with perfect success.

M. OFFENBACH has entered into an agreement to write a grand spectacular opera bouffe especially for England. This piece will be finished during the autumn and brought out in London during the Christmas season. The subject is the story of "Whitington and his Cat." M. Offenbach will superintend its production in person.

THE nuisance of daily calls from venders of every imaginable commodity of the slightest use to students is growing very disagreeable. The following manifesto is posted prominently on the outer door of one man whose patience has been exhausted beyond measure.

Notice. - All book-pedlers and canvassers who enter herein will be ruthlessly slaughtered and destroyed.

Now this custom is very annoying, especially as the virtue of many peripatetics is quite questionable, and more have never learned the Eighth Commandment.