Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-05-23
VOL. XIX. NO. "a

recitation rooms, aud towards night the
venerable President was surprised to find
that the majority of the students had ad-
iourned to the grove. The scene that follow.
ed was comical as well as serious. Some were
laughing, some were conversing, some
were frightened and all were vomiting or
in some way affected by it. Upon survey
ing the whole scene the President conclu.
ded that portion Of it resulted from SYM
Pathy, and proceeded to give philosoph-
ical lecture upon the sudden changes Of
the weather, the necessity Of observing
rules of health, and above all upon the
power of imagination. The students pro-
tested that they were really sick, and the
prevailing opinion was that they were poi.
soned.
A short time after the President himself
was struck with a similar freak of "imagi.
nation,' to the infinite amusement of the
boys.
An investigation was instituted and
every article used in the culinary depart
ment tested without any definite results.
Suspicion, at length, fell upon the water
tank, and the business manager-vho had
been but slightly affected, and who saw
from the effect upon others that nothing
worse than an emetic was intended-vol-
unteered to drink from it, as test. Wheth.
er the manager believed the water to be
above suspicion, whether his curiosity led
him to this expedient for solving the mys.
terry and magnanimously to suffer for the
public good or whether he took it as pre-.
scription for some acute or chronic all
ment We know not. 1t is only known that
in twenty minutes after be had hasty call
on special business of his own.
A motley group of pale. but comical.
visages wandered to and fro on the river
banks; while here and there might be seen
grenadier, stretched beneath the shadow
of the elms. as il resting himself from the
fatigue of the battle. The crowd continued
to increase until night, when one by one
they reported themselves at quarters. All
Of the Professors were more or less affected
at an early hour-save Prof. Lee, who pro-
ceeded TO close the managers investiga-
tion by chemical analysis, the result Of
which showed that tartar emetie was the
medicinal ingredient. After having scien-
tifcally demonstrated the reasonablensss
Of such step, he was Immediately taken
i'll with the same complaint.
I About bed time the pulse of the school
began to beat regularly /; although Adiu.
tant Brennan played the part Of Miss
Nightingale, with a portion Of the wounded.
until about midnight. The company was
fully represented at morning reveille; abort
addresses were made by the President aud
Manager upon the effect OF practical joking
and the students went to their morning
session secretly voting coat of tar and
feathers to the graceless scamp who had
victimized them.
The Institute Surgeon protests against
this wholesale innovation upon his rights;
but thinks, upon the whole, that it will
prove beneficial to health. The Faculty
have not succeeded in ferreting out the
miscreant, and the quiet people of the town
know nothing. and say little, about the
matter. AS editors are supposed to know
everything. will you Mr.. Hudson, please
tell us all about this in your usxtg
Q. E. d.