The first page opens with a poem titled "English Speaking," that discouraged students from speaking their native languages. The page also includes an article titled "How Miss Fisher went to Call on the President's Wife," that described Mrs. Fracnces Cleveland's dress and the decor of White House rooms in a visit by a Carlisle Indian School teacher. Page two contains a series of small news items such as the cholera epidemic in Italy and a small-pox outbreak in Chile, how two men went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, Queen Victoria of England's new cabinet, the solar eclipse, and Geronimo’s raid in the southwest.
Page three contains school news items, including summer activities, the growth of the "little Indian baby," harvest activity, swimming, a picnic in the grove, whitewashing quarters, and playing lawn tennis. Other stories include a girl was punished by being confined to the bandstand, there was a Saturday sociable in the sewing room, the Indian commission headed west to negotiate land deals and a warning was published about the danger of firearms. Page four gives the weekly Enigma and "Answers Wanted" puzzles, an article about "Ice-Houses" designed to cool off students that described an ice palace built for Empress Catherine of Russia, and a piece called "Ask the Price" that urged readers to know the cost of behavior, as well as the cost of items.