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long before you will think of getting up and will close six days hence just at the hour that you retire.

I will enjoy a number of commemorating excursions in the shape of examinations and my parade will be a mile or so long, and will extend from College Terrace to the University - the parade will take place twice a day and probably oftener.

Thus you see I shall fittingly commemorate in my own peculiar way the discovery of gold by Marshall a half century ago.

The weather her to day has been terrific, violent, or what you will. The wind has blown to such an extent

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that a Kansas cyclone would be put to shame & would retire from business.

The sun ventured once or twice to shine, but his friend the zephyr carried of his warmth before his rays reached the terrestrial sphere. The atmospheric elements here seemed to be vying with the Chilcoot, and the chances seem to be in our favor. the mercury has sunk entirely out of sight in the thermometer - probably frozen.

Rabbi Vorsanger preached an eloquent and vigorous sermon to us to day in his usual sledge-hammer way.

The address was interesting in that it revealed the option-