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General Mention and Gossip'.
Spirlt""'iBm in F.n!l/ruui.
Say., J., J. ~o .. p., in tb~.l'rovillch~1 Spirit.
ualistu is manifesting Romo oi U.s usual wjntor
aClivl~y, aud .uce•••• ful m,"'tiug>! are
beiug held in ,'arioUl! tOWI.S. The cause ~
1,lverpool is not at preseiit very aC~h'e, tl 0
olle time public meeUng. being held In p
vate. l' Newcastle, 1I[3nche.t~r, I1rmifon]"
Keighley,. l~elper, Birmingham" WBsliow,
Shiehls, Sunderland~tockton, .nd many.
other u.wh~, up and down, Usings arc ruanifesting
.. liveUIIPs •. that a,.,'ues a deal of
vllality ill Spiritualism over hore yet.
Erid and Aim of Mm.
Say. Spil'it Jamos Nolan, tbrough hi. own
lDat~rIBIi.~d organs of speech. in the pr""onco .
of h,. medium, Mrs. lIollis Billin!,,,,, a.. re-
.' ported in r. p. j., Feb. 9: My highest Idea 0
Iho end .... nd aim of mall, is the greatest perle.tiou
he call att.'ln, and" the greatest
amount of good h. can perform 111 every pos.,
sible dlrecUulI; removillg superstition, dogmas,
alld all tbings 1 .... h,g been a curse to
,your earth; and, having tbe greatest charity
for all. ' •
'Splrltlla/I$/n and 1"",,nlty.
Ono remarkable fpatu~e' of modenl lifc­
Spiritualism-bas been said to 1>I'Oduce all
alarlDing amount of irl,sanity, ~.p.clally in
America. It ha., becnrccently stated by au
)o:lIgli~h ,writer that n~arly 10,000 persous
have gOlle In,allo on tbe subject and are,
confined In a..ylum. ill tlon United States;
but careful inquiry. madc ill cunsequence,
bas happily disproved tloe .tatem.llt, and we
learn that tpe au.ount of h,5anity produecd
from this cause i14 aJmost iUf\i(;;niflc&uL-mucb
, leso tban tbat cau.ed by religious t'Xeitemcl1t..
,-Dr. 'luke, in I'opular Science Monthly.
A methncl 11 U.e apparatns.
One pCr- . '
son only, takinu a l,en and passing a bai'd
(any) in the I,>op, letUng Ihe b"nd ",st there,
the arm horizont"I, DOi. touching tbe tablo
witbout stilIne,," in lial'd or arm, will see the
""" (0.' pencil) tracing characters 00 a sbeet
of paper placed on tbe tabl~, aud answor lLily
questlull or thougbt ask,,1 by another party.
It ~, not neee .. ary to ..peak to get answen,
and most striking oi.es. 1t writes In all
tongues, even unknown by the uuconscloias
writer. A cloild can ao it. The only *
mal-k'I mu.t add is that out of ten persons
two or three may mect a flat ref .. sal of al'Y
mmunlcaLioll. Ono must bear ill' mind
tb one converse. with free spirits. I ad·'
vi. you to try, and to bid yonr leaders do
t e .aru.... My discovery may lead to aston·
shing' re..ull.. If e~ peHmented on a largo
scale. ' tn tbe beginning, the band not being
used to yield freely to the impulse, commu·
nlC&llons are more sl6w. In flve or ten
minules ulle write. generally as f~t as usual.
It Is 10 luble.,.appino wbat telegraph is to
p().~ office a) stem. Tbe r. p. j. says, "tho
• above experiment i, not new in this country.
OD~ .uediuln.in partloliJar, whom WII know,
g.::~ comrnunieation~ jn that rnnnner."
Jte8mcr/",n 'and Spirliualism. Says the
nevue Si'ir1t~' for Jal1u~ry, "All tbe mem,
bers of the Parisiau Mesmeric Society are
Spirhuali_ts (Spirit •• ), with very fewexceptions.
Thor. are a.nlUlIg tbem mealnerlsts,
alld medium.. All