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Ing them between the hllnds en.eloped in
p:lper, not knowing what"'"" the drug und~r
expe,ilrieut. 110 oonellld~d that .. sub.
tie aura ptoceeded from met Ills as woll a.s
from the Jluman body. Jr u.e ~culiar
"sphere" ~rtainloll 10 metal. could be ascertained,
why II"t Ihat u(, hldivldual.l'
'fhe experiment wa.~ made and $ucceeded;
and l'rofessor Bnchanan called tbe new art
,"l't;ychomctry" or .. soul.m ..... u'lng." Whenb...,r
a portIon of magnetism ,or vital allra
flows from Ii person, It cOlllai1l" an epitome
of Ills whole developmeot. The psyehomo·
,trlot cau the,,,fore read the.inlDost ehamcler
of au Inw.ldllal by comlug ell rappOrt wltb
hi. influence on a lock of hair, hand· writing,
or photograph.
ACCOBIl,JI'IG to the New York IIerald
".,me .ollcltude exists ill Ihe l'r'p..., .... nda at
Rome regarding church discipline in tbls
country, diffiCUlties ariMiDg at Ijme.. between
bisllOp8 aud pastors, New York elty, it I.
.slated, bas a eluhollc popidatlo,u, of 600,000.
IN the year 1731-2 and abput the time of
the birth of Wa..llingtoll, the cOlnetery of St.
M~dard In Paris w ..... hut by au order uf
Louis XV. agaIn.t tbe crowd :0£ bysterical
patients who persl,ted In having all su'rts of
a time on the grave of Deacon, Jo'raJlcolse de
l'aris, aDd ill finally leaping up apparently
cur~d and walking away. Whereupon some
unknown wit cribbled on the cemetory wall
by tbe locked galC:
DC:! par 111 RoJ: -t>ctenAe a Dtrll
J)e raJ.ro mlraclo en Ce Ueul,
'which may be Interpreted: "lil the king's
llaDle :-Ueavell will please corumit DO miracle
bere." .N. Y. World.
, Rr;:v. FATIlEIl PRESTON, o~ St. Ann's
Catholic Church In New York, thus .tates
'tbe\authority?f his cburcb 'on ,the doctrine
of bell. lleli is a locality from which Ule
soul. of the damned can never I\Sc':~. It I.
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WI> are 6lItremely sO'l'Y to learn !.hnt !.h02!O
devoted Spiritualbts, Thomas Galea Forster
and ..tlfe have bot Improved In !lealth by
th ... ir voyage acro... the Atlantic; but we otill
entortalu the hope that tbelr pilgrimage In
the Old Worl.1 wJ\l bring them home III due
time fully ""'tored, fa; we rannot at pres~.nt
.pare such dc;'oled champions of our can_e.
rbelr u.efu) services ani ... eed~d more than
ever at this ti~e,-b, I .. Jo'eb. 16.
Tn.: ~bratcd clarlvoyant, Alexis Sidlpr,
referred to by 1Iou«lin, 'and made tho .ubject
or mai,y a .kutch by olbrr authors, is now In
l'ar", z,'mJ'ce.
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AN iu1lele· in the ltevue Splrlte of Paris,
January number, stille. that healing medl·
ums an. multiplying everywhere, and olle of
them ivas