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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

There are 18 lady students at Wesleyan.

The Great Eastern Railway, England, delivers in London all baggage free.

At the Paris Electrical Exhibition, out of six hundred diplomas awarded, only twenty-nine were received by American inventors.

The total number of students at Oberlin is 1325, of which number 809 are residents of Ohio. The total number is pretty evenly divided between the two sexes, there being 641 males and 684 females.

The gifts of Mr. George I. Seney, of Brooklyn, to Wesleyan University now amount to $550,000, and he proposes to give $100,000 more, on condition that an equal sum be raised to increase the endowment.

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There are more than twenty professorships in the academical department of Yale College, and none are fully endowed, the total endowments not being sufficient to provide adequate salaries for four professors. - [Independent.

The Prince of Wales, at a meeting lately held in Westminster Abbey to consider the scheme for a monument to Dean Stanley, after alluding to the dean as his teacher at the University of Oxford and as a friend, spoke in complimentary terms of our minister, Prof. Lowell, and of the cordial reception Dean Stanley had met in America.

Genevieve Ward says of his precious loveliness, now starring the country: "I've known him since he was a boy, and Oscar was very nice until he got this absurd aesthetic notion in his head. He began by wearing yellow cravats; sometimes he and Mrs. Langtry, who is really very beautiful, would come to see me play, and she generally carried a lily or two in her hand."

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