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Vol. 1. No. f D. M. BENNETT, ( 335 BR 0 ADW VA.Y, N. y! } ISSUED FORTNIGHTLY. NEW YORK, JULY 18, 1874. ( E. y . WILSON, ] [ LOMBARD, ILL. j $ 1.75 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE SINGLE COPIES 8 CENTS. The Spiritualist at Work. P U B L I S H E D F O R N I C H T L Y . At 335 Broadw ay, N ew York. $ 1.75 per y e a r ; $ 1.00 for six months. 50 cents for three months. One copy furnished gratis for every ten sub scribers sent in by one person. THE TRUTH SEEKER, [Size and Style corresponding with this,] PUBLISHED FOKTNIGHTLY. and alternately. Price sam e as above. The two Papers will be furnished to one subscriber at $ 3.00 per y e a r ; $ 1.50 for s ix months, or 75 cents for three months. Remit in Postal Order or D raft on New York. R A T E S O F A D V E R T I S I N G : Ten cents per line for first insertion, and eight^cents for each subsequent insertion. Address D. M. BENNETT, 335 Broadway, N. Y. brevities mid Comments. A cco r d in g to the Earl of Shaftsbury, B is marck is of Jewish extraction. I t requires sixty love letters to influence a breach of promise suit ju r y in Iowa. B oston sent 1,000 books to Iceland by Dr. Hayes as a gift at her thousandth celebration. T h e St, Louis papers satirize the metropolis of the Northwest by spelling its name Shecaw- go. A yo u n g la d y is soon to s a il for Europe from Boston, who does not expect to m arry a Count. J o s h B illin g s sa y s “ t h e r e is tw o t h in g s in th is life f o r w h ich w e are n e v e r prep a r e d , and that is tw in s .” J am es T. F ield says that w h e n e v e r he hears of a “ pretty good sch o la r ,” h e is rem ind e d of a p retty goo d eg g ! “ T h e r e ,” said a little girl while rum aging a bureau; “ there now, grandpa has gone to heaven and left his spectacles.” R o m a n Catholics of Wisconsin are leaving the Granges, the Bishop of Milwaukee having issued a pastoral against them. I t costs the people of America $ 5 , 000,000 year ly to keep their teeth in order, and several hundred millions of dollars to keep them em ployed. T h e com e t in the northern heavens, it is said , is about to bru s h us w ith the lo n g t a il he carries w ith him . It m a y be, h o w e v e r, he can ’t ” corn-et.” S am Collyer, the prize fighter, has become a dramatic star for the lower class of Western theatres. And who is going to recklessly criti cize his performance ? A o o t e m p o r a r y says, “ Lot’s wife would not have looked back, but a woman with a new dress passed her, and she wanted to see if the back breadth was ruffled.” MosBY.the ex-guerilla, is preparing to prove his fitness for Congress. He tried to convince Mr. Bixby of Farquier, with a cane, and Bixby retaliated with a carriage whip. Two St. Louis women were refused places as drivers on street cars ostensibly because they could’t manage mules. This was frivolous. They had both been married for years. “ W e l l , grandmother I’ve come it over the hens this time,” said a m ischeviohs boy. “ I threw them your gold beads, one by one, and they tho ught they were cor n, and gobbled them down quick.” B e n d ig o , form erly a noted pugilist is now a Methodist preacher. He is preaching this sum mer in the midland counties of England, and devotes much time to religious work am ong the poorer class. “ I t costs less to take a weekly paper,” ar gues the Cape Ann Advertiser, “ than a d iligent hen can earn in a y e a r at the m arket p rice of eggs.” But what does a hen want a newspaper for, anyway ? T u r k i s h women now wear their vails so thin that their features are distinctly visible through them. This is a g reat im provem ent on the thick w rappings behind which they used to hide their faces. A m ong the arguments in favor of cremation is the alleged fact that magnets lose their en tire power in the v icinity of grave yards. Elec trical machines are said to be s im ilarly affect ed when near cemeteries. A m o d e s t lad accompanied his mother to a bookstore, and selecting the youngest of the clerks said to him in a v ery confidential man- mer, “ Say, have you any little books suitable for boys that have no religion in them ?” S e v e n t y - six Michigan journals are in favor of woman’s suffrage, and the State is being thoroughly agitated from lake to lake. We look for an emphatic verdict from that quar ter upon this im portant question at the ap proaching election. Epitaph on a tombstone in the north o f Eng land: Here lies the body of Martha Gwynn, Who was so pure and white within, She cracked the outer shell of sin, And hatched herself a cherubim.” T h e largest room in the world u n d er a single roof, unbroken by pillars or other obstructions is at St. Petersburg, in Russia, and is 650 feet long and 160 feet wide. It is used for m ilitary displays in rough weather, and can be convert ed into a ballroom at night, “ Do you understand the English language?” said a McLean county man the other day, ad dressing a lightning-rod agent. “ I do,” re plied the agent. “ Then I ’ll b e if I want any of your rods.” The lightning-rod man, somewhat electrified, drove off. A c o m p a n y has been formed in England with a capital o f $ 250 , 000 , to establish conservative newspapers throughout the land. The reason for this,according to the published programme of the company, is that “ the Conservative party has been placed at a serious disadvant age through the weakness of its press.” M r . W. H. D a l l has found on Amaknak Island in Onalaska, a cave containing human skeletons of great age, with many implements of bone, ivory, stone and carved wood. There were several layers of these rem ains form erly belonging to distinct periods of time, each lay er being covered by a separate mass of gravel. D r . T y n g , in his “ Christian Pastor,” rebukes the disgusting habits in which some ministers indulge, s aying he has seen a clergyman in a highly finished pulpit take a large piece of to bacco out of his mouth when he began to p r a y ; and after the amen pick it up from the marble slab and put it in his capacious cheek again. T h e following is a simple mode of rendering water almost as cold as ice: “ Let the jar, pitcher, or vessel used for water be surrounded with one or more folds of coarse cotton kept constantly wet. The evaporation of the water will carry off the heat from the inside and re duce it nearly to a freezing point. In India and other tropical regions where ice cannot be procured this is common. P l u t a r c h says, “ The eyes of the hog are so formed and disposed of in the head, that it is always looking upon the lowest objects and can in no manner contemplate things elevated and lofty. It cannot look upward unless thrown back with its feet upward. Although this animal is addicted to the most discor dant g runting and s q u e a lin g ; yet as soon as it is laid on its back it is immediately silent, so great is its astonishment at the heavens, to the sight of which it is gnaccustomcd and which causes such fear that it is unable to cry.” S e v e n young women graduated from the Michigan University at the recent commence ment and it is said very creditably too. This is just as it should be, give men and women an equal chance, in all fields and avocations. If women prove themselves the equals of men in literature, science, and intellect, there is no good reason why they should notstan 1 perfect ly equal with them. T h e Brazil Government 6 eems to be very much in earnest in the contest with the Ro man Catholic Church. Beside the conviction of the Bishop of Pernambuco, the Bishop of Olinds has been arrested, and the Archbishop of Bahia has form ally protested against the act. The bitter warfare between Church and State appears to have its origin in the efforts of the clergy to suppress and put under ban the order of F ree Masons. I f additional testimony be wanting to prove that the English language is rapidly becom ing the universal tongue, the card of a hotel proprietor at Havana is herewith offered to supply the lack: “ The Both Wold Hotel, Num San Ignatco Street, Plaza Yieja. In this establishment set as the European style, re ceives lodgers which will find an splendid as sistance so in eating as in habitation, there fore the master count with the elements nec essary.” S om e of the quotations from Jonathan Ed ward’s sermons are alm ost too bad to be re peated viz: “ The God who holds you over the pit of hell much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the f ire; abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. You are ten times as abominable in His eyes as the most venomous serpent in ours. It would be no wonder if some persons who sit here now quiet and se cure in the meeting house, should be in hell before to-morrow m orning!” S cen e in a graveyard. Wife—“ Ah husband do you see this b eautiful capping ? How deli cately cut is the pure white stone!” “ Yes, very pretty.” W ife—“ But, W illiam, have you no taste for art? you don’t enjoy these things as I do. Just notice this slender column of marble, with the touching question so beauti fully carved, ‘ do they miss me at home?’ ” “ Yes, I see: and here is her name on the foot stone , 4 G. A. B.’ Yes, I guess they miss her if that was her name.” Silence for a moment. C o m m o d o r e Vanderbilt wears a white tie, and looks like a minister. The correspon dent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean says he was coming down town on a street car. when two young men entered, both being intoxicated. Perceiving the venerable gentleman, one of the young men addressed him with, “ I spose yer think I ’m going straight down to h(hic)ell, don’t yer ?” “ Why—no,” said the Commodore “ I hope not.” The young man nudged hi 6 companion, and noddin toward Vanderbilt said* “ He’s a (hie) Univers’list.” A f e w evenings ago a colored preacher and doctor in Memphis, Tenn„ was approached by a darkey of the commoner sort. The fellow asked the doctor to go with him and he would show him whore he could get a trunk full of money. The doctor went, and near the Or phan Asylum the guide halted and explained that the reverend gentleman was to take off his boots and stockings and go barefooted to the point named, while his new-fcund friend carried the boots around to the place by a circuitous route. The doctor has given up the search for the trunk and is looking for his boots. T he author of a recent book about Africa tells of a forest of accia trees he passed through. They are called by the natives \soffor.” a word signifying a flute. Tho name is given because the accia trees are pierced with circular holes by a small insect, and the wind as it plays upon the openings, produces flutelike sounds. In the winter, when the trees are stripped of their leaves, and boughs white as chalk stretched out like a ghost, the wind, s ighing through the insect-made flutes, fills the whole air with soft, melancholy sounds. A T r a v e l l e r writes that nothing remains of the American colony which went to the Holy Land several years ago to reform the Turks and rebuild the Temple but the site of their settlement. The German colony from Wur- temburg, which followed the American, was more practical and successful. They number sixty fam ilies, and have converted the waste lands near Joppa into a garden, having hun dreds of orange and lemon trees. The Am eri cans, it may be remembered, were brought home at the expense of the Government. T he Domesday Book of Scotland, just pre sented to Parliament, shows that, within a fraction, half the whole extent of Scotland is beld by 106 landowners, every one of whom owns more than 20,000 acres. There are 52 persons among these who own more than 50,000 acres each. The Duke of Sutherland stands at the head of the list, having a domain of 1 , 176 , 313 , acres in addition to which his wife, the Countess of Cromartie, is the owner of 149,879 acres. The area of their combined property is greater than that of any county in England, except Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. I t is not certain the people and papers of this country will ever stop talking and m aking comments about Brother H en r y W ar d B e e c h e r . Some go so far even as to insinuate that he has been no better than he should be, and thathehas done what no one who sets him self up as a teacher, pattern and guide should do. Well we know how it is. Henry, after all his brilliant talents, his big salary, and his many excellencies, is only mortal, he has been g reviously beset with temptation, and if he has erred on the right hand and on the left he is not alone. When a boy or “ any other man’ ’ is overtaken in a fault it is the best way to honestly own up and not pretend extra inno cence. But Henry is sorry and so are we all. It is a pity. M r . Gardner Knapp and Miss La Mira P. Hobbs m arried themselves at New Albany v ery recently in the following very sensible fashion. “ We Gardner Knapp and La Mira P. Hobbs, believing that o u r hearts and souls are already matrimonally united appear before y o u now thus publicly to celebrate the consumation of our union, and now in the presence of these witnesses and our invisible Spirit friends, here assembled, we proclaim, publish and declare ourselves husband and wife and m ay God and the angel world add their blessing.” We can- notsee why this is not quite as good a way to tie the knot, as to employ a priest to do it. M arriage is sim p ly a contract and the parties to it can arrange it themselves just as well as to em ploy another to do it. A F ren c h physician. D r . B u isso n of Lyons, claim s that he has discovered a remedy for hydrophobia. When a person has been bitten by a mad dog, he should succesive days take a Russian vapor bath of 134 to 144 degrees Fahrenheit. This bath may be quickly pre pared by putting three or four red-hot bricks into a tub of water, over which the patient must s it in a cane-bottomed or willow chair for fifteen or twenty minutes. After the dis ease has declared itself, one vapor bath is sufficient, but the patient must be strictly con fined to his room until the cure is complete. Dr. Buisson says that he has applied this me thod to more than eighty persons bitten by mad animals, and that he never lost a single case. He discovered the remedy when taking a vapor bath him self for the purpose of killing him self by suffocation after he had caught the hydrophobia from the salivia of a patient. I When the bath was at about 94 Fahrenheit all ; the symptoms disappeared as if by m agic and never returned.
