There was an examination held in this city recently for clerkships at Washington. The announcement of it in the newspapers and the certainty of the successful applicants receiving appointments drew a large number of young men to the examination, among whom were Tulane University graduates and several principals of high schools. I had the honor of sustaining the reputation of "Old Straight," by leading the list. The affair created much local excitement and the name of Straight University is commanding much respect. I am pleased at the prospect of the increased opportunities a residence at Washington will afford me for the prosecution of my medical studies. * * * * * Fisk University is well represented in the journalistic world, says the _Tennessee Star_. The following graduates are pushing the quill: S.A. McElwee and W.A. Crosthwait, editors of the _Nashville Tribune_; H.C. Gray, editor of the _Galveston Test_; R.S. Holloway, associate editor of the _Dallas Tribune_, and Geo. T. Robinson, editor of the _Star_. * * * * * We print this letter from a boy who wants to go to school. We give it just as he wrote it, and hope to have the privilege of printing a letter from him five years hence with a view to the contrast. Augst 25th. Mr. Proseser D.: Der ser i hav bin in form of the ---- coldge and is it quite a distant and i thout i would rite you afew lines i want you to write to me how i can get Bord and what it will cost me a week or a munth and what is tuisson I want to noe before i come and i want to start in a short time rite to me all about it i will ickspeck anser soon, and Adress me. When I start in I want to goe 2 sesson's before I stop i think can conplet most of inlesh studys in that time. Does The Lord Understand His Business? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rev. J.H.H. Sengstacke. THEN. All through the early spring I heard complaints as follows: "The season is against us and we shall not make anything." "Unless a change we must starve." The season paid no attention to complaints but kept right on. Now. To-day God has blessed all with a good crop; plenty to eat and plenty to sell. What next? The grumbling still continues. "There is so much that we cannot get a high price for our produce." * * * * * If "resemble" means like, as one of the girls found when consulting the dictionary, why is it not proper to say as she did, "I 'resemble' very much to be at home?" * * * * * Letters From Very Little Pupils. ................................ _My dear teacher_:--I would like to have grace and truth before God, and I hope I am now his little girl.--LUCY. _Dear teacher_:--I want religion.--ARTELIA.