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among all classes, and holds lip nobly her title of America's representative of the fair sex in England. And lastly comes one who, even in his school days, earned the title of Professor Yingling. Truly can the old proverb be applied to him by his class- mates that" a friend in need is a friend indeed," for none ever ap_ pealed to him in vain for assist- ance in explaining some abstruse point in the lesson. After his graduation he took his degree in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he ...vas teaching at the same rime, but that did not hinder him from obtaining the highest degree of h 0 n or, so that the chair of mathematics in one of the best 8~R;N", colleges in America was offered to him, which he gladly accepted. Like all professors of mathematics he is somewhat eccentric, and the preference he showed at school for sweethearts taller than himself was followed in the choice of his wife, The stars say that Mrs. Yingling permits the professor to run mathematics provided she can run him when she pleases. On reaching the end of the parchment I sadly rolled it up, and with the others turned towards the hotel. There was an clement of positi veness in the predictions of the horo- scope which made us feel that the destinies there revealed were true, and in solemn silence we pondered over the mys- terious prophecy, as we separated for the night. -I- 78.,....