C. H. Wood, Supt. of New Harmony schools, is doing a good work. He has already secured enough names to insure the success of his proposed normal. He deserves success. W. B. Curtis, of Pensacola, Fla., writes that he will give 40 acres of good Florida land for the services of a good teacher from April till October '86. Here is a chance to become a land holder. Hon. Barnabas C. Hobbs recently returned from North Carolina, where he has been looking after the interest of Indian schools, concerning which he has promised an article for the Journal. M. A. Mess, Supt. of Franklin county, has a government appointment and is now in Washington City. He has not resigned the county superintendency and may return and take up his work again. W. P. Pinkham, for several years professor in Earlham College, but for the last two years principal of Spiceland Academy, is in poor health and is out on a vacation. Eli Jay is acting principal of the Academy in his absence. John B. Gough, the world-renowned temperance lecturer, died in Philadelphia February 18th. He was stricken with paralysis while in the midst of a lecture. His last sentence was: "Young men, make your lives pure.” J. G. Scott, who has had charge of the New Providence schools for the past five years, has accepted the position in the Borden Institute as instructor in Didactics and Normal Training. The Institute will open March 24th. Thos. Newlin, who for two years has been at Haverford College, Pa., will take charge of Spiceland Academy again next year. The Journal welcomes Mr. Newlin back to his old place, which he filled with eminent satisfaction. T. B. Swarts, the efficient Supt. of the Elkhart schools, has decided to enter the medical profession, and will close his services as Supt. with this school year. In Mr. Swarts the cause of education will lose a representative man, of much more than ordinary ability. A. J. Vawter, one of Indiana's oldest and best known teachers, died recently at his home in Indianapolis. He has many friends at Madison, La Fayette, and Ladoga, where he has taught. He was a man of high christian character, so that his life-work was teaching by example as well as by precept. Joseph Moore, who was compelled on account of ill health to resign the presidency of Earlham College, is now actively at work at the head of an academy at New Garden, N. C. If they will allow friend Moore to have his way this academy will soon be equal to most colleges. May he have the abundant success he deserves. G. W. A. Luckey is Supt. of the Decatur schools. When he took charge of these schools three years ago they were running on a low plane. He put new life into them and has made them among the best in the country. The high school contained but fourteen, all told, when he took charge-now the senior class numbers seventeen. Dr. John D. Philbrick, for many years Supt. of the Boston schools, and one of the leading educational men of this country died recently at his home near Boston, of cerebral hemorrhage. His life has been one of unceasing devotion to the cause of education, and he leaves numerous friends on both sides the Atlantic who mourn his loss. His book, "City School Systems," was a valuable acquisition to educational literature. He had a second volume about ready for the press at the time of his death. Mrs. Rebecca Rhiver, of this city, has taught school in this county for twenty-nine years, twenty-five of which she taught in this city, and for twenty-one years has taught the room in which she now holds forth, No. 1, or the primary department. The majority of the members of our Alumni, who are graduates of our high school, were students under her at their first school and received from her the foundation for their final education. She is now instructing children in the same studies that she, a few years ago, taught their parents, and she is still comparatively young and endowed with the best of instructive and disciplinarian qualifications.-Greensburg Review. BOOK TABLE. THE DEPAUW MONTHLY is one of the best college papers that comes to our table. A sample of WIDE AWAKE will be sent on receipt of five 2-cent stamps. Interesting Announcements and Full Premium List will be sent, if desired. THE COLORADO SCHOOL JOURNAL: Edited by Aaron Gove, Supt. of the Denver schools, is one of the freshest papers that come to our table. It gives no place to truisms and platitudes. THE WABASH: Edited by the students of Wabash College, is the handsomest college paper that comes to our desk. Its contents are sensible and of good variety. It should be patronized by every friend of the college. A FREE COPY of either BABYLAND for Babies, OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN for Youngest Readers, or THE PANSEY for Boys and Girls, will be sent to any one desiring some periodical for their little ones, who will write for it, mentioning this paper. Address D. LOTHROP & Co,, Boston. THE ANTIOCHIAN is the name of the college paper published by the students of Antioch College, located at Yellow Springs, O. The paper is well edited and deserves the patronage of all the friends of the institution. Its new cover is a work of art." THE NORMAL TEACHER is before us in its new dress and enlarged. It is now about the size of the New York and New England Weeklies. Its proprietors are J. B. Conner, business manager, of the Indiana Farmer, and J. E. Sherrill, founder of the paper. The number before us reads well and indicates enterprise and aggressive business, and this means success. VICK'S FLORAL GUIDE for 1886, the pioneer seed annual of America, comes to us this year a real gem, not a dry list of hard botanical names, but over thirty pages of reading matter, among which are articles on Roses, House Plants, Cheap Greenhouse, Onion Culture, Mushrooms, Manures, Young Gardeners, and very interesting reading, followed by about 150 pages containing illustrations, descriptions and prices of seemingly everything the heart could desire in the line of Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, Potatoes, etc. It is a mystery how this firm can afford to publish, and really give away, this beautiful work of nearly 200 pages of finest paper, with hundreds of illustrations and two fine Colored Plates' all enclosed in an elegant cover. Any one desiring goods in this line can not do better than send 10 cents for the Floral Guide, to Jas. Vick, Seedsman, Rochester, N. Y. BUSINESS NOTICES. SHORT-HAND. Teachers can learn short-hand evenings. Thoroughly taught by mail. Address A. D. 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