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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1900)
[ocCbjA^GE [)Ep/\Rjr|EjNT. -— We acknowledge receipt of the fol lowing exchanges: Southwestern Uni versity Magazine, The University Unit, The Walking Leaf, The Students' Herald, The Anchor, The University Magazine, The College Barometer, The Reveille, Add-Ran Collegian, The Herald, Academy Aegis, The Universi ty Calendar, M. H. Aerolith, The Aegis, Weatherford Collegian, The Mercury, The Coresophlan Journal, The Peacock Drummer, The Lake Breeze, The Athenneum, Red and White, Orange and Blue, Mt. St. Mary’s Record, The Kodak. Knight: “Why did you put two stamps on that letter to Miss R. ?” Jackson: “Why, to make it go fast.’’ —Ex. Professor: “How do you account for the phenomenon of dew?” Freshman: “Well, you see, the earth revolves on its axis once every twenty-four hours, and in consequence of this tremendous velocity, it per spires freely.”—Ex. What is the difference between a cat and a comma? A cat has claws at the end of its paws and a comma is a pause at the end of a clause.—Ex. v* John: “I heard of a baby six days’ old talking?” James: “That’s nothing; Job cursed the day he was born.”—Ex. d* Hoax: “Why is it that Jones is al ways afraid somebody will see the inside of his watch?” Joax: “I suppose there is a woman in the case.”—Ex. Ike: “Say, the European nations must have peculiar tastes.” Mike: “How do you mean?” Ike: “I see by the Hayseedville pa per that they are eating China a piece at a meal. Now, I rather think I would prefer some Turkey and Greece; it would digest much better.” Senior: “Can you tell why our college is such a learned place?” Freshman: “Certainly; the Fresh man always brings a little learning here, and the Seniors never take any away; hence it accumulates.”—Ex. Germany: “Say, Austria, it seems to me that the American Eagle and the British Lion are even more closely related than we thought.” Austria: “Do tell, how?” Germany: “Why, both the animals have claws and both know how to use them.” Why is a student of theology like a merchant? Because he studies the prophets (profits).—Ex. je Foolish is the woman who puts a special delivery stamp on a letter and gives it to her husband to mail.—Ex. J* There is one thing about the house which never hurts any of the occu pants when it falls—the rent.—Ex. d* Why is the figure 9 like a peacock? Because it is nothing without its tail. —Ex. d* Why should soldiers be tired on April 1st? Because they have just had a march of 31 days.—Ex.