Oldest College Man Dies. Reverend Doctor John Fryer Messick, who has the distinction of being the oldest living college graduate in the United States, died just two days after his one-hundred-and-second-birthday anniversary. Doctor Messick was born in Albany, N. Y., June 28, 1813, and graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1834 at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. He graduated from Rutgers Seminary three years later. In 1836, Doctor Messick cast his first vote for Henry Clay, Whig candidate for President of the United States. He reached his one-hundredth birthday without any physical defect whatever. Ball Players Dialect Different from Fans. Baseball fans used to talk about the same language as the players. But it’s different now. Whether they did it just to be different or just to amuse themselves, the present generation of ball players, including many young gents from our most famous institutions of pure English, have invented a new line of lingo, by which they converse among themselves. Here’s the key to a few of the terms now used by all our best players: Deceiver--A Pitcher. Monkey Suits--Baseball uniforms. Uniform--Civilian clothes. Dogs--Feet. Sneaks--Soft-soled shoes. Wolves--Knocking fans. Orchard--Ball park. Glue--Money. Him or He--The manager of the club. Agate--Regulation baseball. Sullivans--Upper berths. Also tourist sleepers which have cane seats. Ducat--A pass to the game. Stuff--The curves a pitcher puts on the ball. Bludgeon--A bat. Work--The act of playing ball. Geyser--A spitball pitcher. Groceries--Meals. Also used to denote prizes offered by merchants for early-season feats. At Seventy-two a “Schoolboy.” One never gets too old to attend school is a principle strongly advocated by Joseph Gillet, oldest “schoolboy” in the engineering courses of the continuation school in Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. Gillet has just turned seventy-two, but he has the appearance and memory of a man of fifty. Although he was denied opportunities of learning to a great extent when he was a boy, he has tried to grasp every opportunity in adult life. This is the eighth time he has matriculated at a school which would offer him advancement. He was born in Alsace, where he was graduated from the public school at fourteen. Later he attended a private continuation school for six months, after which he decided to learn the machinist trade. From 1860 to 1864 he was an apprentice. Three years later he entered a marine-engineering school, where he remained six months. Finally, before leaving France, he tried sea diving. When Mr. Gillet landed in Montreal in 1872, he at once entered an English school. His progress in the language was so rapid that in a little while he became a teacher in a night school, at the same time studying steam engineering and drafting. In 1906 he began an electrical course at Marquette College and continued it for six years.