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FACT AND RUMOR.

Lampoon out today.

Three men obtained 100 per cent. in French 2.

Italian 2 will finish the "Orlando Furioso" next week.

The marks in English 1 will be given out next week.

There will be a German conference this evening in Sever.

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Barnes, '85, will soon re-commence to row on his class crew.

A sophomore calls his tobacco Maud S., because it goes so fast. - [Tablet.

There will be a large number of candidates this year for second-year honors in the classics.

It may be well to warn men at this time that there is a law against going sleighing without belles.

It is rumored that an anti-nicotine society has been organized in the senior class of Trinity, consisting of two members.

Several of the Yale Glee Club remained over for a day or two, and visited friends at Harvard yesterday.

The potato is a susceptible vegetable. It is constantly getting mashed. - [Commercial Bulletin.

Mr. Folsom, '81, and pitcher of last year's nine, was in the gymnasium yesterday afternoon pitching for the nine.

The musical and dramatic critics of the New York Herald were recently discharged for accepting theatrical tickets.

Howard University (colored), Washington, D. C., this year has 349 students, a gain of 84 over last year. It has 26 instructors.

The first mention of the stylograph as yet, in fiction, is in the continuation of Howells' story, "A Modern Instance," in the March Century.

Renewed interest is being shown in elocution, especially among juniors and seniors, who are considering their chances in the Boylston prize speaking.

About 200 of the Massachusetts Democracy celebrated the day by a banquet at Parker's yesterday. It required six hours to satisfy the Democratic appetite.

The first mention of aestheticism in the Bible is not when Balaam's ass was made to(o) utter, but more primevally - when the procession of the animals entering the ark was two-two.

At the Manufacturers and Mechanics' Institute, in the races of the Boston Bicycle Club, Mr. John S. Prince made five miles in 16 m. 28 1/2 s., beating the best previous American record of 16 m. 58 s.

Geo. M. Lovejoy has been appointed orator for class day at Tufts College; W. Eveleth and T. W. Lothrop, poets; C. B. Manning, odist; and Messrs. Howe, Manning, Riley and Peirce, executive committee.

The University of Pensylvania has over a thousand students. Plans are now being made for a new library building, with lecture and reading rooms, and it is endeavoring to secure from the State a new museum and an observatory.

Wanted - A Harvard student familiar with college preparatory work to hear four recitations a day in advanced classics in a high school. Graduate of Exeter preferred. Salary, sixty dollars a month. Address Box 997, Westfield, Mass.

We have received from the Pope Manufacturing Company an advance copy of their catalogue for 1882. It contains a fine description of their new "Expert Columbia," a model machine, designed as a medium-weight roadster for expert riders. The list of sundries is larger and the prices very reasonable.

FURNITURE. Parlor, chamber, dining-room, library and office furniture. An immense stock in the warerooms of PAINE'S manufactory, 48 Canal street, opposite Boston and Maine depot.

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