If a man knows when he is weil off he won't die as long as he can help it. Barnum has been dead only a short time and one man is claiming all the credit of the sale of his book, and another the credit of his advertising methods, while another calls him old Skinflint, and says he never gave a dollar to charity. Truly, the old legend may be true-not a man dies who does n't remark after crossing the Styx, "I want to go back and lick somebody."-Judge. "Where is our manhood?" asks a woman editor. Well, well, that's a puzzler.-Judge. Not Immortal.-"Do you think Patkins, the poet, will live ?" "He may live, but his poems won't."-Puck. A Boston puzzle editor printed a facsimile of Jay Gould's signature and only six experts guessed it. But Jay's signature on a check will go just the same. "Mamma," said little Emerson Browning, of Boston, as she looked up from a newspaper, "what is the skin game I see alluded to in this journal?" “A skin game, my dear," replied Mrs. Brown. "is a cutaneous pastime.-Judge. He Knew What He Wanted. -Newspaper Clerk: Your advertisement reads: "Wanted, a little girl to mind a baby." Don't you think it would sound better if it read like this: "Wanted, a little girl to care for a baby?" Advertiser-No. Mind is the correct word. You don't know that baby.-Judge. An Old Time Editor-A legal friend reminds me of old Col. Rogers, who published the Boston Journal before the war. He was terribly conservative, and his paper was de. livered almost entirely to annual subscribers, although a few copies were on sale at the book stores. One day when the Colonel came down town he was horrified to see a boy with some Journals under his arm shouting out, "Journal, 4 cents; Journal." Dazed for a minute, he called the boy into a door way and asked, "How many Journals have you there?" Told, he took out his purse and paid for them all, and ordered the boy to run home and never to buy any Journals again. He was so scandolized by the occurrence that he said he felt almost ashamed to meet his business acquaintances for weeks. Times changed when the war broke out, and the Journal went on the street like other papers. — Boston Letter. The Achison Globe observes that "A man's idea of being good to a woman is to give her opportunities to be good to him. Blimbers: "I'll give you one ornithological fact-larks are bred from swallows." Briggs. "But I don't under stand." Blimbers: "Well, you just think it over." It is related of John Rogers, the sculptor, that he began life as a clerk in a dry goods store in Boston, and not until he was 31 years old, after he had run a locomotive, worked in a machine shop and been a surveyor, did he produce his first group, the "Slave Auction.” NORMAL COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. The commencement of the Peabody Normal College on the 27th of May, was the most auspicious in the history of the college, and was held in the chapel. The programme, printed below, shows that the higher classes were larger than ever before : INVOCATION. Song "Away, My Bark!" (Perkins)-Glee Club. Eva Grady Edwards-"Sidney Lanier." Piano Solo-Second Rhapsodie (Liszt)-Miss Lula 0. Andrews. Charles E. Little-"Gordon at Karthoum.” BENEDICTION. Twenty-third Psalm-(Schubert)—Ladies' Chorus. Alabama-Margaret Rosa Borden, Minnie Colins, Julia May Mathers, Rufus Allen O'Rear, Jessie Scott, Nellie Augusta Screws, Minnie Hill Snodgrass. Arkansas Ivy Fitzhugh Davis, Mattie Aliene Hallum, William O. C. Hamm, Richard Augustus Hearon, Albert Owen Nichols, Albert J. Pollard, Marcus Jay Russell, Wm. Knox Tate, Wm. Myers Wear. Florida-Yide Barry. Georgia-Lucy Anderson, Wm. T. Aydelott, Annie NewJesie West Clarke, Lula Collinsworth, Eva Grady Edwards, ton Bennett, Mary Myrtle Brooke, Margaret Lucy Brown, Columbus Lee Gunnells, Ada Jordan, Ada Jumper, Lila Handa Mahone, Florence McKemie, Edwin E. Miller, Nora Neel, Virginia Maud Speer, Mamie Turnbull, Loie Waters. Louisiana-James Wilson Bond, Robert Council Dozier, Lela Mims, Belle Trimble, James H. Browning, Agnes Hartz, Sallie Reeder. North Carolina-Thomas C. Amick, Marshall Lee Barnhardt, George Newton Bennett, Viola Boddie, Anna Josephine Coit, Mallie Asa Griffin, Elam R. Harris, James S. McIntosh, Joel Rufus Mosley, Fannie Rebecca Scales, Eleanor Stewart Smith, Mary Elizabeth Spann, David M. Weatherly. South Carolina-Julius Lafayette Eskew, Anna Evins, William L. Grice, Melton Lee Martin. Tennessee-Martha Elizabeth Allen, Daisy Anderson, Laura Vernon Hamner, Ada B. Hide, Mollie Hutton, Allie Johnson, James Moore King, Jr., Jeanette Moore King, Levi Stephen London, Cora Belle Lowe, Katie A. Monohan, Harry Robinson, Maud Ella Rogers, Amelia Terrett, Cora Wade Thompson, Virgie Tomlinson, William James Wade, Callie White. Texas-Mary Parker Johnson, Elizabeth Mary Jones, William Carroll Jones, Fannie Meriwether. Virginia Walter Samuel Flory, Wincelaus Addison Mathews, Edgar McMullen, Wilhelmina Susannah Oewel, Isaac S. Wampler, James R. Weaver, Lee Wicker, Zada Kathleen Wyant. West Virginia-Frank Lee Burdette, Jane Varenia Lee, John Nathan Simpson, William Wilson Smith, Mary L. Neal. Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science: Wm. Frost Davis, North Carolina; Walter Selby Lawrence, Virginia; Edward Clement Lewis, Texas; DeWitt Walter Odom, South Carolina; James R. Weaver, Virginia. Degree of Bachelor of Literature: Charles Marion Alderson, West Virginia; S. Bessie Trent, Indian Territory. Degree of Bachelor of Arts: Annie Claybrooke Allison, Tennessee; Preston Lang Bethea, South Carolina; Lee DeWitt Borden, Texas; Emma Eugenia Baown, Tennessee; Killis Campbell, Virginia; Nettie Courtney, Tennessee; Jefferson Thompson Cowling, Ar kansas; Lottie Fuller, Tennessee; Henry Lee Hargrove, Texas; Cleburne Lee Hays, Tennessee; Bessie Chew Jacobs, Tennessee; James Thomas Johnson, Alabama; Claudia Jones, Georgia; Ottie LeRoi, Tennessee; David Leonidas Lewis, South Carolina; Sidney Johnson Lewis, Texas; Charles E. Little, Georgia; Robert Narvæz Little, Texas; Russell Allen Lynn, Virginia; Charles Joseph Maxwell, West Virginia; Elias Emory Mercer, West Virginia; Tipton Mullins, Alabama; Jonnie Spence Nichol, Tennessee; John Thomas Paris, North Carolina; Lizzie Patterson, Alabama; Alice Totten Shapard, Tennessee; Fannie Matilda Stoltzfus, Tennessee; Florence Williamson, Tennessee; Zada Kathleen Wyant, Virginia. The Alumni dinner had been looked forward to by Dr. Payne with a great deal of interest, as he had long been desirous that it should become an annual feature. Of it the Banner of the 28th said: "Upon the conclusion of the commencement exercises at the Peabody Normal College yesterday afternoon, the gradu ating classes and visiting alumni, preceded by the faculty and trustees, proceeded to the gymnasium, where the first annual banquet of the alumni was held. The three long tables seated nearly 200 persons, and for over an hour strict attention was paid to the excellent dinner, which was served in courses. "Finally Chancellor Payne rapped for order and opened the speaking. He heartily welcomed the assembled guests and said it had long been his desire to inaugurate the annual banquet to the Alumni. He then spoke of the tender relaticns existing between university and pupil; of the wonderful internal development of the school, of the scholarly tendency of the pupils, much of which he credited to the library. "Ex. Gov. James D. Porter responded to the toast, 'The Peabody Board of Trust.' He referred to George Peabody's gift as the wisest and most munificent ever bestowed by man. Its results had been most fruitful of good. "Mr. H. M. Doak responded to the toast, 'The Trustees of the University of Nashville.' The opening part of the address was full of quiet humor. Mr. Doak thought the great dream of Philip Lindsley was about to be realized, and assured the Chancellor of the co operation of his Board. 66 'Gov. Buchanan was to have spoken to the toast, 'The State Board of Education.' Secretary Goodman presented a letter from the Governor expressing his regrets at not being able to attend. Mr. Goodman spoke of the interest of the Governor in the college and assured all of his support and encouragement. "In responding to the toast, The Old University,' Hon. John M. Lea, a graduate of the class of 1837, gave an interesting sketch of the career of the University of Nashville and of Philip Lindsley. "Chancellor Payne then feelingly closed the addresses, expressing an earnest hope of an annual renewal of the association around the festal boaed." BOOK NOTES. The JOURNAL has received from the Department of Public Instruction, New York, two valuable pamphlets-not necessarily valuable because all the opinions set forth are worthy of adoption, but because they are thoughtful and earnest talks by men accustomed to think. The Public School and Civil Service Reform " was delivered at Philadelphia, February 25, by Hon. George William Curtis. "The Spirit of School Administration" is an address delivered by Hon. Andrew S. Draper, Superintendent of Public Instruction of New York, before the State Teachers' Association of Georgia. "On Self-Culture" is the title of a little book recently published by E L. Keliogg & Co., New York, and written by John Stuart Blackie, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. The Culture of the Intellect," "On Physical Culture," "On Moral Culture," are the three principal divisions of the book. MAGAZINES. "Take the best first and you will have the best all the time," was once a current saying in the country, and one that the small boy was much inclined to respect when the pie was set on the table with the meats, as was usually the case. But how can one decide which is the best with The Century, Scribner's, Magazine of American History, New England Magazine, and The Quarterly Register of Current History before him? "Take things as they come another saw, and one which shall be respected to day for its convenience. was Next comes an older member of the same family, Magazine of American History, in its twenty fifth year. It is safe to say that it will be long before this journal, valuable as it is, will have the popularity enjoyed by the such magazines as Harper's, or the Century, or Scribner's. But to say that it is literature, is putting the fact but lightly. The "Portrait of one of the most valuable of all the contributions to current Columbus," which adorns the first page, is especially appro priate in this year of talk of the Columbian celebration. Some Rare Old Books" will be read with delight by some, while "Glimpses of the Railroad in History" will find sympathetic interest in almost every reader. And on through the magazine to "Book Notices," at the end, is there value to the student 66 Shading off from this heavy line of historicic reading, one will naturally take up the New England Magazine, which, from its organization, has given especial attention to historic matters. And yet there is much more in this number that is not usually styled history. That is well; for some will be beguiled into reading an article on Wagner, or Shillaber, or Priscilla, or even "The Message of Puritanism," who would not think of taking up a regular historic work. Scribner's Magazine is, as usual, full of interest to everybody. It continues the notable series on "The Great Streets of the World," and "Ocean Steamships;" Francisque Sarcey being the author of the article on The Boulevards of Paris" and William H. Rideing contributing the paper on "Safety on the Atlantic." The illustrations in both groups continue to be very rich, and appropriately supplement the text, adding to its significance and picturesqueness. Another group of articles-that on Practical Charityis represented in this issue by a sympathetic and often amusing account of "Boys' Clubs." The author, Evert Jansen Wendell, has for a number of years taken very active part in the work of these most charitable associations, and writes from the fullest knowledge and great personal interest in the clubs. Amateur photographers will find much to interest them in the article on "Some Photographs of Luminous Objects," with many illustrations reproduced directly from the nega tives by mechanical processes. The fiction includes stories and sketches by F. J. Stimson, Bliss Perry, and Maria Blunt. There is also an essay on Moliere by Andrew Lang, with a striking portrait as the frontispiece of the number; and a calm, critical review on large lines, of some of the most significant features of the Civil War, viewed as illustrations of military science and strategy. The author, John C. Ropes, is one of the closest students of military history in this country, and one well fitted to treat the subject free from personal prejudices. The paper on "The Boulevards of Paris" is by Sarcey, one of the most brilliant of contemporary French journalists, and a man thoroughly possessed of the spirit and color of all that is characteristic in Paris. He gives the life of the Boulevards from the opening of the cafes in the morning to the suppers at midnight, when the theatres close. The restaurants, the shops, and the theatres, which are most characteristic of the Boulevards, are brilliantly described. The illustrations are by G. Jeanniot, the distinguished French artist. William H. Rideing shows in "Safety on the Atlantic" how efficient and ingenious are the precautions which are taken for the security of the passengers on the great Transatlantic lines, so effective indeed that two hundred thousand cabin passengers were carried last season between New York and European ports without a single serious accident. Mr. Rideing's account of the dangers against which the officers and crew must be continually on the guard is vivid and most entertaining-including descriptions of fogs, icebergs, and rocky coasts He tells of the many devices recently adopted to counteract all these dangers, such as transverse bulkheads, water tight compartments, twin screws, double bottoms, etc. LITERARY NOTES. education. All communications should be addressed to the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, 1602 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. A London house has undertaken to bring out an extensive work called "The Poets and Poetry of the Century." Vols. I. and VI. are nearly ready. A. H. Miles is the editor, and in Vol. I., which is devoted to the Georgian poets, he writes the critical articles. Vols. II. and III, dealing with later Georgian poets, are not yet ready, nor are Vols. IV. and V., which deal with Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti, and others. The special aim of the work is said to be an anthology of unusual magnitude, the text of which shall be strictly accurate. Among the poets treated in Vol. VI. are William Morris, Swinburne, Robert Buchanan, Alfred Austin, Theodore Watts, Austin Dobson and Mr. Monkhouse. The critical articles upon these are written by J. A. Symonds, Buxton For man, Mackenzie Bell, Arthur Symons, Havelock Ellis, and others. This volume will be followed by others on later Victorian poets. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. The State of Texas has followed Tennessee and Georgia in making a diploma from the Peabody Normal College equivalent to a Superintendent's certificate. PUBLISHERS' NOTES. Those who desire to study during the summer, and at the same time get the most possible social life and happiness out of the time and means at hand, can find all they desire at Monteagle. Write to A. P. Bourland, Monteagle, Assistant Ellen Terry is writing her reminiscences for an English Superintendent, for particulars as to the schools. magazine. Rudyard Kipling's father and sister have both recently entered the literary field. Eugene Field is writing his first novel. "The Wooing of Miss Woppit" is the title. Miss Jeanette L. Gilder is one of the editors of the New York Critic, and the "Brunswick" of the Boston Transcript. “An American Girl Abroad," now so much read, is by Miss Sara Jeanette Duncan, who has also written "A Social Departure." She served her literary apprenticeship on the Toronto Globe, and other Canadian journals, under the name of Garch Grafton." The "Social Departure" is the story of her own adventures in a trip around the world with a woman friend. 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The course of study leads in succession to the degrees of Licentiate of Instruction, Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. The Peabody Normal College is a National, not a local, institution. It offers its advantages to the young men and women of the entire South. The Peabody Board of Trust has endowed one hundred and fourteen scholarships, worth $200 a year each, and good for two years, These scholarships are awarded on competitive examination. During the current year the membership of the College has increased 60 per cent. The enrollment from Tennessee has risen from 69 to 151. The next session will open on October 1, 1890. EDUCATIONAL Edited by Nicholas Murray Butler, Ph. D., Professor of Philosophy in Columbia College, President of the New York College for the Training of Teachers. Assisted by E. H. Cook, Ph. D., Head-Master Rutgers Preparatory School, New Brunswick, N. J. William H. Maxwell, Ph., D., Superintendent of Schools, Brooklyn, N. Y. Addison B. Poland, Ph. D., Superintendent of Schools, Jersey City, N. J. Contents of February Number. Simon N. Patten. Josiah Royce. The Educational Value of College Studies, EDUCATION IN FOREIGN PERIODICALS :—The German $3 A YEAR, TEN NUMBERS, 35cts. A COPY. HENRY HOLT & CO., Publishers, N. Y. |