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, GENE1U1L MENTION AND Q088lP. 169<br />
CAtllLLl': FllLDlIOwiou, the French aaCrouOo<br />
nomer, after expressing his belief in apiritualism,<br />
8OYS: "This Spiritual bypothesis, liy<br />
which alone certain categori~a of thfSO pbenomeno<br />
would.eem to be ezplicable, bo.s tlffn<br />
adopted by many of oW' most esteemed sa·<br />
vlUlts, among o!.bera by ])r. Boeme, tbe lean...<br />
ed lIu!.b"Or of the 'llistory of Cbemlstry" aJid<br />
.. Oon ..... l EncycJopmdia i" and by tbe diligent<br />
laborer in the field of astronomic di!'<br />
covery, wbose death we bave recently bad to<br />
deplore, M. Berman Goldschmidt, !.be olliseoverer<br />
of fourteen planets."<br />
mediums, bas obrained proof that tbe man,i<br />
,fe,eatlons can oecur under oonditlollll that<br />
rendor It impossible for II to be supposed thllt<br />
either the medinm or 'oonicderate Is at work.<br />
It is time that all bum bug and imposture<br />
shonld be eliminated from Spiritualism, and<br />
Spiritualists would do, that work.<br />
IT is said that Simmons, Slade's agont, bl\<br />
arrived in New York. ,He was to bave leit<br />
Berlin !.be 21.t of laSt month, no 6ays tbat<br />
Slade received handsome presents in tbe<br />
sbape 01 diamond buttons, rings, I~ket, and<br />
watcb eet with diamonds, ete, The dOllor is<br />
,UIlknOwn.<br />
l'BOF,'Y..oU.N11:l1 . and Herr von 1I0lIman<br />
bav .. been lurtborlnvestlgat.lng spiritual plui ..<br />
Domena with a private medium at Welssbadell.<br />
There will he more 'about the phenomena<br />
lu tbe second volume of I"'of, Zollner's<br />
bock.<br />
Tbe Grand I)uke Constantine of Russia I.<br />
at the p .... ent time critically, and with In,<br />
creasing Interest, InvestigatinG tho c\alms of<br />
Splrltual18m. It is also a fact. tbat a number<br />
01 crowned head& of Europe regularly consult<br />
mediums.<br />
TBE managers of the Revue Spirite ot<br />
Paris rbave decided to open a reading room<br />
for Spiritualists In the be.,t qWlrwr o.f l'arie<br />
during the El!:po$ltlon. It Is lnteuded that Ii<br />
di.play of SpmtuoJlstie literature .ball be<br />
made.<br />
SLADE is ooginning to tnlk of <strong>com</strong>iDg borne,<br />
SinC01lel1ving Eoglnud bo b"" b""n to Leip.cig,<br />
wb~ he gun .~LUlC01S to the profc!Sore nt thb<br />
university. At Berlin be guve a. s"""ce to<br />
the chief of police.J].Dd ,the court conjurer to<br />
the Jo::mpcror, who made oath that t1i1' phenomena<br />
Were not tricks, At 51. l'etersbnrg<br />
be bas jpven seances to the Grand Duke,<br />
Constantine and other notable personages.<br />
Now he goes to Auslraua, and from thel'Ol<br />
<strong>com</strong>es bome by way of San }'ranaisco,<br />
MKLBOU~It, A ustralia, has' a medium,<br />
Mr, Arthur Doabin, thro.ugh wbom it is said<br />
that John Blwyan haS manifested, for the<br />
pnrpOBC 01 writing a book called the "New<br />
THE topic of conversatiOn is tho disappoar..<br />
ance of )(no. Maud Jo:. I..ord. While tbere<br />
are many speculations cqneemlng her wher& Pilgrim's Progress." It ,hss aln>ady been<br />
aboulS, the general oplDion is that she Is pnblished in that city. - Emma !Jardlnge<br />
allve and w~lJ, and will <strong>com</strong>e to IIgbt at DO<br />
distant day. She bas travelled too m'uch to<br />
be abducted by any stranget.<br />
COIIB&SPONDEl'lTS of tbe Banner of Light<br />
, are endorsing Mrs.Boo!.bby and Mrs. 1o'lynD.<br />
Thoro Is DoUling III the pubUsbe\l aceUIli.s,<br />
to indleate tbat any te&ts were applied at<br />
tbese soances. Tbe Banner, through other<br />
Uritten writes she ieelB confident ss she cau<br />
be that the spirit of John Bunyan breathes<br />
throngh every line of the more modern 'rem on<br />
of tbe "l'ilgrim's Progress'"<br />
, !JERMAN S~OW of San FrausiBco, Cal"<br />
form"r1y a· UniversalJat. minister of Massachnsetts,<br />
bas written a akotch describiDg the release<br />
of a spirit long imprisoned in a tilton"<br />
burial case, as given through a medlwu. The'<br />
intelligence sa:ys tbat iill elIorts to preserve<br />
the mortal body from decay are uDnatnral,<br />
and no indeSLn1ctiblo material sbould be used<br />
as rec~ptaclca; but, if the rule should not be<br />
followed, the nunost clro sbould be taken to<br />
make it sure that the apirit has enti.Nly left<br />
tbe body. If there is Ii sligbt liogering of tbo<br />
vital connection, there ,can bo no eseape until<br />
the air doee its true and most important work_<br />
Mrs. Mackdougall Gregory, widow of p~<br />
fessor G ... gory of EtlinbW'ah University, is a<br />
prom;nent English Spiritualist; and ss snch,<br />
frequently· jpyes ~ptiOD8. Among tbe<br />
gueats present May I, was the vcoerahle<br />
Archdeacon Dunbar, ill whose church ot St.<br />
Andrews, 'l'avistock 8Qlmre, a cburch of Enll'<br />
land clergyman, Dr. Maurice Davies, ,dared<br />
for ,be Brst time to cnd~rse tbo reallty of the<br />
pbenomena of modem Spiritualism from t!le'<br />
pulpit. ' .. "<br />
DR. J: M. l'ggllLES was in St. Jobn, N.<br />
11., May .16, and lectured in Dockrillllall on<br />
Ihe jJhinese,<br />
MEETINGS arc regulArly held at Ellat Dennis<br />
twice a mODdl,' under tbe auspicea ot tbe<br />
~ Religious Sodety,<br />
A.. B. Plympton of Lowell, Mas .. , writes<br />
to the b. J. May ,20th, thnt he recognized<br />
tonus at Mrs. Pickerinis.
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