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They have invented a system of hiving bees by electricity. This knocks the neighbors out of the fun they used to have under the old system, of seeing the man who attempted to do the hiving make a grand burst of speed toward the mill pond, clawing wildly at his legs, leaping at times four feet into the air, and yelling like a Comanche Indian. Modern invention will yet knock all the fun out of life...
Next March, Turkey's old and clumsy system of weights and measures gives way to the metric system. The unit of the new system is called the archius, and is equal to the French metre...
...doubtful. I don't agree with your views exactly in commending '85 for its quietness. While I discountenance anything which approaches rowdyism, I don't assent to the proposition that it is disgraceful to attend the theatre in a body, or indulge in such innocent amusements. It is an old, and I might say time-honored custom. Perhaps no class at present in the college, except '85, has omitted to "disgrace" itself in this way, nor any other class of recent years. Why '85 should attempt a reform in this particular I don't see, unless it is that they...
...years, is not a sign of manliness; and, refraining from such amusements, by no means proves that a class is composed of "dear, gentle, studious, good little boys," to quote from our correspondent. If '85 is desirous of showing herself a manly class, and desirous of keeping up old college customs, let her show it by her enthusiasm on the base ball field, at her rowing contests, and in a hearty pecuniary support of her class interests, and not by actions that have been presented annually to the public by the city papers as a blot and disgrace...