Steinitz defeated Zukertort in the first game at St. Louis in the International Chess tournament. The game took 5 hours and 20 minutes.

A course of lectures on the different professions will be delivered in Sever 11 on Tuesday evenings in February. They will supply a long felt want.

The Wesleyan catalogue has just been issued. The number of students is 193, fifty of whom are from Connecticut, and forty-seven from New York.

Judging from the large number of men who are trying for positions on the freshman tug-of-war team, eighty-nine will be able to select some strong men who will give the other classes a close contest next spring.

The Boston papers tell a story of a Yale poker game which was recently played. It was a jack pot and it had grown, after much heavy betting to $250. The loser, wonderful to relate, fainted on the show of hands. We are inclined to discredit this story for we think no Yale man would faint for a $250 pot.