The youngest is seventeen years old, the oldest twenty-eight; average
age, twenty and one-half years.

The tallest member of the class is five feet, eight and one-half inches
in height, the shortest in stature measures five feet; average height,
five feet, six inches.

The heaviest weight turns the scale at one hundred and sixty-five
pounds, and the lightest at one hundred and twenty; average weight, one
hundred and thirty-seven pounds.

The longest attendance at this school is ten years and the shortest,
four; average term in school, six and one-half years.

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ITEMS.

We have received No. 1, Vol. 1, of the _Academy Student_, published and
printed by the students of the Williamsburg Academy, Williamsburg, Ky.
The little paper is large with promise. It is as bright as a new dollar.

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A teacher asked her class in geography where the Turks live. The
remarkable reply was, "In the woods." Thinking the pupil had confounded
the Orientals with the Aborigines, the answer was pronounced to be
"incorrect." The pupil rejoined, "Well, I have seen them there roosting
in the trees."