Within the last year $19,000,000 has been given by private persons to the cause of educational institutions.

The track on Jarvis Field will be ready for those who wish to practice running and walking the first of next week.

The first six men at the sale of tickets for the winter meetings, yesterday, bought all the gallery tickets for the last meeting.

An adjourned meeting of the base-ball league will be held in Rochester, N. Y., today, for the purpose of arranging a schedule of games for 1882.

A number of men from thinly-occupied tables at Memorial have been grouped at one or two tables, in order to economize in the service of the hall.

So great has been the demand for tickets for the athletic meetings that additional seats will be built, from the floor to the gallery. Tickets for these will be on sale the last of this week.

An English paper says: "There are some very small and light men in the English university crews this year. The idea of rowing a light weight stroke is one that is daily gaining ground. He can set a livelier pace and hold it better than a heavy weight."

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.