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Vol. 21.-No. 2.

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

A nickle-in-tbe Riot telephone has been invented and is asucsoss. Next! The great infidel Is now referred to as Colonel Robert Tnjuresoul. The term is indeed a fitting one,

Senator Vest is opposed to. woman suffrage. His reasons are said to bo as convincing as a women's "because."

The Hawaiian* are talking about annexation to the United States. Daylight is evidently beginning to dawn upon them.

In Chicago it requires a temperature of 88 degrees to bring about sunstroke. In 8t. Xouia'it takes 90 degrees. St. Louis trappy.

The Texas ball league and the Michigan ball association have,departed this life. Can it be that America's love for the great game is ebbing?

The midsummer number of the Bloomington, 111., Sunday Eye in a beautiful paper, and bespeaks much enterprise on the part of the publishers.

A person should pu^'Vgugh, not pull through life.—[Galves^ *"vN$ws. Yet it frequently happens that heJ^SO pushes barely manages to pull through.

The little thermometer smiled in glee As tho mercury upward drew To tho century mark and nUenlly asked: "IH it hot enough for you?" —[Shelby vlUe Democrat.

California handmade her appropriation and asks for ton acres at the World's Fair. Let Indiana como to the front at the very earliest opportunity and follew the coast State's noble example.

It has almost reached a point where Ketmnier will beg to be executed. The torture of waiting Is torrlble, and unless the electricity is turned on soon the poor man's soul will bo beyond redemption.

The British Govermontgives the owners of the cable between Bermuda and ^Halifax 140,000 as a bonus, England has the happy faculty of putting her money where It will do a great d»al of good.

Mr. Edison has invented an Instrument "by which one may sigh a check for any amount at a hundred miles distance." Such at instrument ought to be a groat invention for keeping down temperature at ttals time of the year.

Photography Is to bo taught In most of the best schools in Japan, notably in the archaeological, tho forestry and the military institutes. This means the American amateur will have a deadly rival in tho Jap In producing "awful" pictures. ________

Tho statistics show that there are now 105,&tt Sunday-schools in tho United StatM, having 1.120,438 officers and toachers, and 8,598,851 scholars. There is no other country In tho world that can boast of similar succeses in tills direction. _____

Sergt. Dunn, of the Signal Service Corps, says that our climate is ehanging in tho respect that the wUtters are growing warmer and that there is more coolness in tho summer. Does he expect us to believe this after the weather of last week and thlst

Those who envy ministers may modify their viows when they learn that tho average salary of Methodist preachers throughout the United States is $600 per year. Think of supporting a family of six children, which Is a preacher's lot, on &KK) a year. ______

Emperor William of Germany has la sued new orders and rules to the Navy, forming a volume of forty page®. Presumably the intention is to prevent the men getting "three© sheets In the wind" although It is deslreable to get as great speed as boaslbl# out of the ships.

One hundred boys and glrla of Woodland, Cat., whose aires range from la to l.»

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have formed tv co-operative fruit

canning and drying union. This is the «»0pemtlve age, for in ©very branch of business and among every class of humar'ty, eo-opereUon Is the order of the day.

Two hundred members of parliament -.have oxprat&ed dosiro that the British Om^rujiHjt bewme a party In the Arbitration arrangement for the international dUputes on this continent. Yet no offlcial action hasb«sn taken. Individual desire is one thing, national de*tre is another. .'

Wabash wJ lege authorities refused to let a copy of the Crawfonlaville Sunday Star W placed in the corner stone of the library building because It was a Sunday paper. This was certainly very becoming action on the part of a school which allowed Itt hall nine to mob a visiting team simply because It could not win from them, permitted a general riot on Washington4# birthday, «t*v, etc.

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President Harrison has not hesitated to use bis veto power, and to his great credit may it be said that he has treated it not as a frivilous privilege but as a power such as the constitution of the Uulted- States intended, for preventing hasty and improper legislation. This much could not besaidforGrover Cleyeland. ..

The da£ of legal murdS^ is slowly but surely passing just as the day of civil and International war is going. One or two years more and the hangman's noose will be unknown. Poople are coming to think that thecourt which sends a raurderor to death is guilty of a greater crime than the doomed man, for he may have committed his deed when highly exasperated and incapable of controlling himself, while the court could not sontence hipa to death unless all tho the details had been deliberately considered.

Prince Bismarck declares that Germans are over-educated and that that fact is responsible for much of the present discontent, and also for the prevalanceof suicide. "Too many people," announces the diplomat, "haves been educated for the highest'walbs of life, and, as much of life consists of tunnels and subways, to say nothing of mines and cisterns, thero Is not room for the motely throng that elbows and crowds and jostles. Somthing will have to be done, and soon too." This is an awful condition. You can't live If you are highly educated and you cant live if you are not.

For six yeans Greece has been looking for an wxecutioner and finally has found one in an assassin who seeks a pordon as executioner. The office of Executioner is looked on with peculiar abhorence in that country. The last capital execution occured in 1881, also after along wait for an individual who was willing to peform it. A man named Messenler, who had killed his wife, offered to serve the Statd for a pardon, and he guillotined seventeen murders, the accumulation of five year's dearth of an executioner. There are now five murders awaiting the penalty in Athens and eleven others in the rest of Greece.

Town Talk.

THK VOURTH.

Thore never was a more quiet celebration of t)ie Fourth in Terre Haute. Even the small boy seemed wanting in that wild oxuberance of joy and enthusiasm which so frequently makes the day one of prolonged torture to the patriotic but nevertheless nervous mother. In the business portion of the city quiet reigned, supreme—that is in comparison with what was expected. Occasionally a street urchin would explode a cannon torpedo or set loose a bunch of fire crackers, and then passersby would momentarily close their eyes and ears, while horses would shy and make pretense of running away. Once the Ringgold band passed down Main street followed by a uniformed division of the A. O. U. W. The "circus" music was enthusing for the instant and the doors of business houses were crowded with anxious clerks. But the little parade disappeared down the river bank and soon loft the city on the steamer Janie Rae for the picnic grounds. Later the Military band was out, but a rapid transit street car dashed off into the distance with the Inspiring strains that issued from the trombone and bass drum. Then quietness settled down, and every body that could went out to the base ball game. This was the morning to whioh dinner was a most glorious conclusion. In the afternoon there was another ball game and also a general free for all picnic at the fair grounds. It is not difficult to guess where the crowd w6nt, for Terre Haute defeated Burlington Thursday afternoon and repeated the operation as a little mode of celebrating the glorious anniversary day. Private families went picnlcing at Collett park, Otter creek, Barbour's woods and othor places of retreat, and thus the day was spent. Some will question whether this was a real or patriotic observance, and the majorlty will answer that it was, for personal comfort and pleasure was not sacrificed tor the sake of a little noise and the attendant headache?. We love oar country and we love ourselves. Therefore this was a celebration of the people, by th« people and for the people. Let us give thanks and praise the saints for having sent Barmtm here before the Fourth,

Ittoit SCttOOI. ORiaUSAMTV. oat as regularly as the commencement aeaswn cornea ronpd ungenerou* opponents of the High school take advantage of a very poor opportunity to declare that the graduate#, and in fau all the pupils, possess little originalUy. They do this by pointing to the list of essay subject*. The presence of oaCsueh subject as "The Future of Man" or "Man Proposes, God Disposes," Is thesonrceof much pleasure to them, simply because Utey have cultivated an idea and such a subject give* them a little nourishment for It, This Is not only the case In Terre Haute, but elsewhere as well. The tirade is wearisome to say the least, and to tiKWjl who oonaider aach criticism unjust, itiaa positive pleasure to find some

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one who will como forward in defence. This a gentleman undertook to do a few evenings ago, and in refuting the charge that all the subjects were "rusty with age," pointed out several in this year's list which to him were both new and novel. Among these were "Grandmother Told me all About It," "Does it Rain?" "The Wood Warblers," "Versatile Talents," "The Art of Pleasing," and others. Of course there were others that were very old, but what subject Is not old? In any event what is there in a subject. One which may be as old as this generation may be treated of in the most pleasing and original manner. The critics know this and it is not unreasonable to say that they are simply criticising because they have nothing elso to talk about.

AN APPARKNT MISTAKES.

At each of the entrances to tho Court house are signs which read "Keep Off the Grass." To the ordinary observer these area delusion and an imposition. Had they been lettered "Keep Off the Weeds" there would be some excuse for plaoing them where they are, but as it is they are useless./ It is an actual fact that there is not a public lawn in the city or a private one either, for that matter, that is so carelessly looked after. Weeds grow unmolested to a height almost rivaling the big while the grass hopelessly struggles to make Itself seen. Where are the half dozen janitdrs who are supposed .to look after tho Court house surroundings*? Let them take a walk out to the Polytechnic or High school and take a good long look at a lawn which is decently mowed as often af beauty makes necessary. 4

IT WAS EXPECTED.

It is not a surprise that the King resolution on the enforcement of the Sunday and eleven o'clock closing laws failed to pass the council. Such action was anticipated from the very start. When the measure was introduced an effort was made to avoid the issue by referring to the police board. There was no doubting the meaning of this. The action was cowardly and everybody knew It. The police board finally reported, saying they could do nothing although "In favor of enforcing the laws as we find them as far as practicable with the force at our command and without increasing the expense of this force to be paid by our overtaxed citizens." This report was adopted, but not tentil Mr. King bad vented hlkself. His remarks were so forcible and in all so much better than anything that has been given in tlie council chamber in years that tbey are given below: "We know we have these laws on the statute books," said he, "and we also know that they are not enforced. There is no pretense of enforcing the law there is »o effort made to enforce the SuncUj^d 11 o'clock "laws as they appear on fne statute books. When the police board makes such a report to the council as it does it falsifies) itself in every way by asking us to approve anch a report. If we can't meet this question fairly and squarely let us not meet it at all. If you are going to vote it down don't do It on the pretense of delaying it from one meeting Us another in the hope of killing It in that way, but vote' on it now and say whether you want these laws enforced. Everybody knows that thin report is not satisfactory to any right thinking man in the city of Terre Haute, We see these laws falsified every day. want to say right here that I stand for the enforce meat of the law. The people n*rt#t not be expected to look out for vi. lions and come op and aw«*r out warrants. We have a police force that is employed tor that purpose, a police fore© sworn to do its duty. If the council votes it down we will have to handle it again, for anch a jeport as made here la not satisfactory," The Second baa raaaon to be of its junior councilman. -**3^

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Hett ry L. Jones and EHa M. Co«ov«*r. HearvB. F*a#tt aod Meifesa J. Nobtifee.. ».x

Win. J. Gardner and Elisabeth Wicr. John E. Lamb and Katoglmt fg Win. French »nd Bow* Wilaoo. Henry F. Glmxvclte and Lydla BalttJm Robert a GUlum mxsA Helen 1* Gilt*rt,

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Isn't it peculiar? The Terre Hau can win when playing with Burlington, the best team in the league, but fall head over heels into the milk bowl when they try Evansville. Even from Indianapolis, the club every team could defeat, it was impossible to win throe straight. This, coupled with thi& unprecedented good luck Evansville is having in being practically presented with games, leads to the belief that ball playing is three-fifths luck and two-fiff^s science and skill. It has almost come to be that we wait for Burlington to come in order to win. As sure as this team makes Its appearance the home players work like machinery. The error column disappears from the score and the safe hit column is filled almost to Its fullest capacity. There are those wfco do not believe in luck, chance or anything of tho kind. It is safe to say that they do not attend the local ball gam®s else they would be quickly convinced of their great error in so believing^

To prove the soundness of the girl's sleep and her insensibility to pain while in it, the operator borrowed a scarf-pin from a spectator and thrust it right through the fleshy part of the upper arm so that the point stuck out an inch. She was then made to extend her arm and walk around us

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TERRE HAUTE, IND: SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 5,1890. Twenty-first Year

The Fad of Hypnotism.

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EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENTS WITNESSED IN PARIS.—A GIRL WHO COULD BE MADE TO DO ANY-

THING WHILE IN A HYP-" .. NOTIC STATE. 1:

The doctors of London and Paris are getting excited over the merits of hypotism, writes a Iiondon correspondent of 4he Philadelphia Times. The few believe It to be an immense gain and blessing to scionce the majority are either actively hostile to it or quietly skeptical to tho claims set up in its behalf. It requires a bold man to advocate the cultivation of the hypnotising power or gift, as will be seen fiom what follows: Dr. Charcot the eminent professeur de cllnique at the Hospice de Salpetrlere in Paris, is bold enough to publish in the fullest way the particulars of the experiments he has for a long time been making. So is Dr. Milne Bramwell, a pbysioian in Goole, who willingly shows his experiments to scientific investigators. I w\ll narrate my own experience of a number of medical and other gentlemen in London, following this with some of the doings of the two hypnotists named above and then give some of the practice and the proportion of those able to hypnotize and be hypnotized.

The person I saw experimented upon was a large-limbdd French WQman, young, comely and apparently of the peasant class. She was of a phlegmatic temperament, dreamy-eyed and generally what we would call a weak-willed woman. This description corresponds to that of the so-called mediums of the spirits, at least to those I have foutlid at all worthy of attention. The operator was a very positive person, a slim, wiry, keen-eyed, Mephistophelean Frenchman. The woman was dressed in a white gown with short sleeves, leaving, her arms bare almost to the shoulder. When she took her seat the operator came where I stood, about twenty feet or more away from her. He simply asked her to look into his eyes, he looking into hers afc the same time. In a moment she was fast asleep, with her bead sideways and her arms hanging listlessly down. We separately desired the operator to cause the patient to do certain things, suoh as to lift a hand or finger or cross or rearrange her feet. Though no word was spoKen or whispered to the sleeping woman, and though we were all at the opposite end of the room, tsho obeyed every command of the operator's silentSHll. When it came to my turn to test the experiment I took the operator right back to the door, quite forty feet distant from the sleeping girl, and there I whispered as low as I could in his ear something like this: "Let her raise her right arm, comb her hair with its fingers and then take hold of her left hand on her knee." The operator never opened hiH lips nor moved from thespot, but he stared piercingly at his patient and in a few seconds she performed the movements I had requested, slowly Indeed, but without failure in any point,

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which lasted ten minutes by the watch, a feat which few strong men could do without lotting the arm drop, even without a pin through it. There was no blood, and when the pin was withdrawn and the girl restored to consciousness she told us she only felt as though she had bem pricked slightly.

Dr. Charcot divides the action of hypnotism (which means the state of perfect sleep) Into three stages—-first, lethargy second, catalepsy, and third, somnambulism. On the recent vlalt to his place of investigation Dr. Charcot produced "a young woman of 24, stoutly built, with a bright and intelligent face. She was a highly hysterical subject, habitually insensible to pain on the left half of the body." Dr. Charcot showed this by pricking her with a pin on each aide. She was bidden to gaze intently on a point near and above her eyes, when she soon went off! to unconsciousness, and the doctor closed her eyelids. Now the probe could be inserted anywhere without any signs of pain. By touching certain muscles various actions were mechanically performed by the htnbs and fingers and muscle* of the face. Then the doctor pressed oaeerlain tendons of the leg, the result being the stiffening of the whole body so rigid was she that the doctor could plaee her head on the back of a chair and her heels oa the flour without the girl falling.

The second, or cataleptic, stage was induced by the forcible opening of the girl's eyelids, resroiting in a stare as of entraucemenU In this state the girt was made to believe everything and anything. A gong wa# atrack and she was told it ww* church bell, upon which she struck a devotional attitude. A bit of red gian was pot before her eyed, with the information that the bouae waa on fin, and at once she became frantic with terror. A number of other experiments followed, which moat of oa have aeen don* in exhibltiona of

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mesmerism during the last thirty years but whereas most of those vulgar performances were impostures, these hypnotic manifestations are undoubtedly genuine.

The third, or somnambulistic, stage, was induced by rubbing the girl's hair on the top of her head. She now saw things around her as they were, but the reasoning power was deranged. Again she believed whatever was told her. One man was an ice-berg, and she shivered when be came near her. She gnawed a steel file, believing it to be chocolate, and so on. In this stage the doctor could paralyze any limb at will.

If hypnotism were a recent discovery the high hopes that it has aroused in certain minds, as well as the fears ex cited by its possibilities for evil, would have greater foundation. But the truth is, hypnotism is so very old that it may very well be said that the wise King of Israel had It in his mind when ho uttered the maxim that there was nothing new under the sun. The phenomena which are exciting so much interest at the present moment were entirely famil iar to nations of the most remote antiquity. The Romans, the Greeks, the Assyrians, the Chaldeans and the Kgyp ttans knew bow to do just the things that wo are all wondering over in these closing years of the nineteenth century And more than 100 years ago all Europe was in a tremor of excitement over the experiments and theories of Mesmer. As the hocus-pocus of tho ancient priests the seances of Mesmer, the phenomena of "eleotro-biology" and "animal magnetism" have come and gone, leaving the world pretty much as they found it, we are safe in predicting that the same will bo true of hypnotism.

Geraldine Letter.

MY DKAII RUTH: I always had a penohant for wandering through graveyards, The quaint and curious inscriptions on old grave-stones are to me interesting reading, and if the name chance to be that of some one I have heard of through book or tradition, the interest is greatly enhauced. The Mecca in this country for all who enjoy this kind of a tour is in Boston and thereabout. I shall not soon forget that June day wfcen^I went through the old graveyard In Plymouth. Nearly all Who came over in the Mayflower are buried there and their grave-stones are so old and so weather-beaten the Inscriptions are almost effaced. How disappointed I was in not finding the grave of Rose Standish. I had pinned my faith to the poem and you know that it says Miles Standish, the Puritan captain of Plymouth, in the course of his talk to John Alden, walks to the window, looks out andsays: Yonder on tho hill by the sea lies burled Rose

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Beautiful rose of love that bloomed for mo by the wayside: She was the tint to die of all who came In the Mayflower, Green above her Is growing the field of wheat we have sown there, Better to hide re the Indians'scouts the graves of our people Lest they should count them and see how many already have perished.*

The bill is there close by the sea, as the stery goes, but when I asked the old man who had charge of the place to show me her grave he shook his head and said, "She ain't here. She is over there in Duxbury, and that is the Standish monument which you see over there." There is something wrong somewhere, for there Is no hill "over there," so the first line of Captain Miles' pretty speech is spoiled. The beautiful centetary at Mt. Auburn contains hundreds of Boston's illustrious dead, names with which one is familiar, from Charles Sumner down to the Chlckerlngs, but it is in the old burying grounds the chief interest centers. Right under the shadow of Park Street Church ia the "Old Granary Burying Ground," and the bronze tablet on the gates tolls you the names of the historic dead who sleep therein. Armed with a permit, I entered. Ttt» tomb of "His Worship," Governor Bellingham, first attracted me, It is a horizontal slab of white marble, lying close to tho ground. Six slender columns rise from this, which support another slab the size of the first. He wasKovaral times Governor of Massa chusett*. He bad no children and his wife survived him many years. At her death the tomb was sealed. About a hundred yafter tho aelontmeu of Boston gran 1 Mr. Jarne* Sullivan use of the tmab. A few years after, be was elected governor and died during bis term of TK», SO they skorp in the same tomb, tw« rr^vfmora, Belllngbam, the a /an, the Revolution.try patriot#

A lit:farther :i'. ag IKatablet of red aac!'Stone on a pedestal of the same and at eaeb wurner are carved pillars with armorial bearing's. Peep eat letters tell you that Pfcusr Faneull is buried there, the Httgenot merchant who gave to Boston the ball which be*r* his name and where some of the most stirring scenes in the history of the country have been enacted. Further on in tbo southwest corner to a low alone with rounded top, bearing the simple Inscription "Revere's Tomb," while close by Is a more pretentious, though still a very

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plain monument, to the memory of Paul Revere. Almost against the brick wall which forms the southern boundary of the burying ground, and almost directly under the windows of T. B. Aldrichs* study, is an upright smooth slab of white marble on which is just this:

No. 16.

TOMB OF HANCOCK.

And there John Hancock is burled. All these and others appeal to one's patriotism, one's pride in the great men of the nation but there is another which belongs to the realm of sentiment, a grave which but for Dr. Holmea would have been unnoticed and unknown. In one of his rambles with the school mistress the autocrat of the breakfast table says, "We walked under Mr. Paddock's row of English elms, the gray squirrels were out looking for their breakfasts and one of them came toward us, iu light, soft, intermittant leaps', until he was close to the rail of the burial ground. He was on a grave with abroad blue slate-stone at its head and a shrub growing on it. The stone said this was the grave of a young man who was the son of au honorable gentleman and who died a hundred years ago and more—oh, yes, diod! with a small triangular mark in one breast and anothor smaller one opposite in his back, where another young man's rapier had slid through his body and he lay down, out thore oh the common, and was found cold tho next morning, with the night dews and death dews mingled on his forehead. Stop before we turn away and breathe a woman's sigh over poor Benjamin's dust. Love killed him, I think. Twenty years olu, and out there fighting another young fellow on the common in the cool of that old July evening. Yes, there must have been love at the bottom of It. The school-mistress dropped a rose bud she had in her hand through the rails upon the grave of Benjamin Woodbridge." The grave is still there close to tho iron railing, so olose you could drop a rose bud on it if you wished. Tho broad bead-stone of blue slate is 4till there with its quaint inscription, but you will not

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by, nor will you]see Mr. Paddock's elms. They were cut down long ago to make room for the crowds that pasB up and down Tremont street.

In ICings Chapel burying ground, whioh is close by the chapel and the oldest in Boston, are buried John Endicott aud John Winthrop, both governors of Massachusetts. Governor Winthrop'a tomb-stone is so close to the iron fence the passer-by can almost touch it.

Old Copps Hill burying ground, although it is quite out of the way now, yet thero is scarcely a day that some pilgrim does not visit its shrine. Here are buried three men once so famous as theologians and men of letters. Increase, Cotton and Samuel Mather. The second was, perhaps, better known than the others because of his being foremost in the witch-craft delusion. Perhaps you have read some of his wonderful accounts of the doings of witches, of how Bridget Bishop went in spiritual form and whipped Deliverance Dobbs with Iron rods and afterward, only by a look towards the Salem meeting-house, caused a demon to enter it and tear part of it down. But he lived to see his error and had the manlinoss and courage to confers it to the world. Here, too, is the grave of Robert Newman, the sexton who Climbed to tho tower of tho Old North

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By the woodon Blair# with stealthy tread, and there bung the twin lanterns which made Paul Revere famous and saved the nation.

There is a spot in this burying ground whlcb'makefl one feel, I really cannot describe how. I leave you to imagine. It is a small mound, apart from the others, enclosed by a small wooden paling, and here, the records nay, were laid, apart from their kindred, tho little children who died without being baptized. Think of it, a tiny baby, a little child, not allowed io be buried by the side of parents and friends because not having been baptized it was eternally damned. Since the days of Adam waa there ever any doctrine aa fiendlah as that, and yet pious theologian# taught It and good people believed it, but thIs, with many other delusions, has long since passed away. Now it is even difficult to believe it erer existed.

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Professor Robert 0. Hum and Mia* Helen Gilbert were united In marriage Thursday morning at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Gilbert, on Fruit Rldge avenue, Bev. Dr. Crum officiating. Only the immediate relative* were present. Prof. Gillum occupies the chair of physics and chemistry at the State Normal, and for several ysars Miss Gilbert has been librarian of tbo school. The bride ha* just recovered from a dangerous spell of sickness, and for the benefit of her health as well aa pleasure they will take an extended trip on aud around the northern lake?.