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Joint resolution adopted by the lox and Maury Literary Societies.

As a joint committee representing the Lee and Maury Literary Societies of this Institution, we respectfully submit the following resolutions with reference to the proposed…

The beautiful brick residence of Col. Ronald will soon be completed, and is said to be one of the most conveniently arranged in town. A wood dwelling, to be occupied by Mrs. Emily Lybrook, is in course of erection in the suburbs of the…

Few men have expressed in more exquisite language than Macauley the affection which every good man feels for his mother. "Make much of it while yet you have that most precious of all good gifts — a loving mother. Read the unfathomed love of…

Mr. Editor:

You will please insert the enclosed advertisement in the next number of your paper, and thus oblige one who is anxious to enter the matrimonial state of perfect unalloyed happiness. The pay for the advertisement you will please collect…

WANTED — Three Cadets of the V. A. M. C. desire some lad correspondent. Full name sent with the first letter. Object : Self-improvement or matrimony. Address Carl Dayton, Clarence Vane, Alfred Leroy, Blacksburg, Va.

We are indebted to a friend for a copy of the following poem, which he states was first published in an English paper, several years ago, then in the New York Ledger, and lastly in the Protestant Churchman:


The Art of Book-Keeping.

How hard,…

Misfortunes are everyday occurrences, and we ought to hold ourselves in readiness to meet them. This little misfortune which I am about to relate, happened during vacation. The first day of this new year, if I recollect, was a delightful day, and…

Dear Gray Jacket: Not long ago I had the pleasure of witnessing what seemed at that time to be quite a novelty. Oneof my friends, who is generally known as "The Green(e)Mountain Boy," came to my "office" and kindly invited me to accompany him to what…

This dignified senior has lately been unfortunate enough to fall in love with one of our town belles, whom he declares to be the most angelic of the "fair sex." I say unfortunate, because I am fully sensible of the fact that no student should allow…

"We have a great many felt slippers, now-a-days." said a young lady to her octogenarian uncle.

"You have, have you?" responded the old man, with great animation; "well the slippers were felt in my young days, too, and no mistake."

What would…

OUR sanctum recently received a very welcome visitor in the character of a Literary Monthly, entitled the Suffolk Gem, edited by Messrs. Rawles & Briggs, of the "Lee Literary Society" connected with the Suffolk Collegiate Institute. It is attractive,…

A senior sat in his room with his text-book on Moral Philosophy in his hand. It was Saturday, and the next Monday would be the final examination on that subject, and, as his standing on this examination would seriously affect his final standing on…

Staff

Adjt., Fry. Color Corp'l, DARDEN.

Sergt. Major, Santos. " " Perrow.

Color Sergt., Christ. " " Lindsay.

CO. A. CO. B.

Capt., Watkins. Capt., Snavely.

1st. Lieut., Howard. 1st. Lieut., Hunt.

2nd Lieut., Nelson.…

"Preacher" S.—"Poverty is no disgrace, but darned inconvenient."

"Pappy" K.—Morning after a calathump. "How do the boys contrive to render the night so hideous?"

MESS-HOUSE TECHNICALITIES.

At the Muncey—"John, will there be any…

We are glad to receive as an exchange the Abingdon Virginian. It always has been ably edited, but since Mr. Ward has had control of it there has been a decided improvement. Mr. Ward is not only a first-rate editor, but is also a lawyer of…

When first we went to keeping house,
My little wife and I;
All that we wanted, that we had,
With plenty more laid by.

There is one tiling that worried me
And still goes very hard;
In the name of common sense what does
My wife do…

A few years ago on a hot summer's evening, as three young men were walking "through" from A— Station on the C. & 0. R. R., they came to the form of a man stretched out on the road side with his face upturned to the burning sun, his hands folded on…

On the 26th of February last, in company with a friend, we started from one of the valleys under-lying the Peaks of Otter, with the determination of scaling the heights of that majestic eminence.
Being well mounted, and fully equipped for the…

To those sceptics who consider Fish Culture to be a humbug, born of a few days, I would say that before the discovery of America, it was a recognized and practiced art in the older countries. The earlier histories of that wonderful people, the…

We hope the time will come when new pants will be so folded by the manufacturer that they would show a ridge along the front of each leg when the wearer dons them.—Danbury News

Alexander Hamilton once said to an intimate friend: "Men give me…

The Frog is a well-known amphibius animal.

The Frog lays eggs in the ponds in the spring;
the warm sun hatches them out into Tad-poles.

As they grow they loose their tails, and turn to
Frogs. Did you ever see a Tad-pole turning to a
Frog?…

Oh! for a night of sweet repose,
Where Bed-Bugs cannot come,
Where I can rest quite free from foes
That now infest my room.
Where I can place my bitten frame,
And dream of battles won,
O'er valiant chinches now so tame I cannot make them…

The author of the following letter is unknown, but from the numerous nautical terms it contains, we suppose it was written by an old sea Captain. Many thanks to a lady friend for it.,-Eds.Dear Dick: Now, as my nevy is to be my heir, I think it my…

He has been but an inattentive observer of human nature, who has not discovered that of all motives which impel to action, by far the most powerful is a love of popular applause.All men, however great their fancied independence or pretended contempt…

Dear sir; I've thought for want of betterTheme, I'd indite you a letter,Give you the news, and let you knowHow things are getting on belowUpon the earth. Please pardon meFor my presumption. It may beContrary to etiquette, for me,Au earthly maid, to…