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native State. Jack graduated from Oak Ridge Institute, North Carolina, in '96, and joined us in the fall of the same year as a Sophomore. He is, in very truth, a jack-of-all-trades. As watchmaker, umbrella-mender, agent, tailor and barber, he has been decidedly successful in both obtaining a good trade and in filling his account book with plenty of good honest debts. He has "chalked" a great many of them "on the ice," and is still doing so. It is a rare occurrence that a person is permitted to carry a musical instrument with them at all times. Jack has a mouth-organ that cannot be excelled. It measures four by five when open and is four inches in length when closed. A danger signal is displayed when the distension begins, so that no one need be afraid of him. He has a very queer scalp, too, one of those adjustable kinds. It is indeed very funny to see the crown of his head perched on one side, his ears leaning forward, and his mouth on the other side. He does this only to accommodate friends. Jack is a joker and often drives his hearers into hysterics. One of his many witty sayings, and one which he takes especial delight in repeating over and over to the distraction of his friends, is: "Nothing like it was before it was changed different from what it used to be." Something else funny, too-while on bis way down town one day, a little urchin got a glimpse of Jack and broke out, "Gee, ain't that an ugly man." He's a good old soul, though, but there's only one trouble with him-he will smile at the girls. Caroline ~t the least noted of the counties of the Eastern Shore. Far and wide it has a .reputation for its products-sand, sand-bars and sorrel-topped natives. It is said of this county that when a man (or a woman either) walks across the street in any of its towns, he has to sit down on the other side, pull off his shoes and take out the sand-burs. Denton is the county seat, and there is where Mary Elizabeth Hobbs lives. She graduated from Denton High School and entered College as a Sophomore. It is seldom indeed that anyone has the good fortune of having five grandmothers, but she has and all are living. She is proud of this fact, and never ceases to talk about it. And why should she not 50