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LATS8T BHOUSH BEW8 B7 HAIL BinKOlar Accident to ExroTSlonliU. A Berioas kcciiient happened last week on the large paueii^er steamer Dake o{ Can- naught, which ia at present engaged in taking paaaengera from Fleetwood to the lale of Man. When the vesecl loft Fleet- wood at 4 o'olook a gale was blowing from the west, and drenching showers fell at intervals. She had not proceeded more than a few miles when the mainmast snapped twenty feet from the deck, owing, it ia said, to the pitching of the steamer. The mast fell on the bringo with a crash, and there broke into thrtw pieces. The deck was crowded, and the fraotared mast and wreckage fell among the exoorsionists, injuring seriously six of them. The captain immediately tamed his steamer and ran back to Fleetwood as rapidly as possible, where medical aid was promptly procured. PUmliifd with Icnomlny. A singalar scene was witnessed at Col- chester the other day, when the volunteers encamped on the Abbey Fields were paraded to witness the "dramming out" of a pri%'ata of the 8rd Essex Volunteer Battalion for neglect of daty and insub- ordination. Thu shoulder straps and buttons having beun torn off the culprit's aniform, ho was marched under escort to the railway station and summarily dis- missed. l*olaoued by Hemlock. At an inquest held at Consett last week on two little boys named Bernard and Joseph MoUoy, who died suddenly on Mon- day, the medical testimony showed that they had sucked the ends of hemlock Btalka, absorbing such a quantity of poison as to result in their death. The doctor stated that hemlock was a very active and dangerous irritant at this season of the year. A verdict ef " I'oiaoned by the jaioe of hemlock" was returned. KlUed hj NwallowlDB FalMt Tcatb. A man named Daroy has died at Bir- mingham from swallowing a sot of false teeth in his sleep. Flo went to the Queen's Hospital the day after be swallowed the teeth, and, sU the ordinary methods to remove the obstruction having failed, his throat was cut o^ien and the teeth ex- tracted. P'or a time he did well, bat pleurisy set in as a result of the operation, •nd he died. The Itiukam Vorbldden. As the viciirof Hoath Acton parish church was pablisbiog the marriage banns from the altar at the morning service on Sunday week the oongre|{ation were startled by a Toang lady aanonncing in a clear and col- lected voice, " There is just canse or im- pediment." Her voice rang through the aacred building just ut the moment when Mr. Dunn h»d concluded tbo customary invitation, " Ve are now to declare it. The lady appeared to be quite yonns, about 10 or 17, and was pretty and welldressod. She bore herself bravely and refused to be hastled oat. Hhe v/m evidently laboring under a deep sense of injary. l>ir« lu London 81uuih. An in'ineMt was held at I'oplar Town Ilall on Haturday week into the oircum- etauoes atteudiog the death of a little fellow of 7 aamed Kphraim John Bond, ths son of a bricklayer, at 13 Bronswiok road. Poplar. The child was taken ill on Hunday and died on Monday night. The mother said herhouso had been flooded and a largo quantity of sewage matter still lay ander the lloor. Dr. Wadley said whua he saw the deceased on Monday night he was Huffering from bronnhitis and " dying as fast as ha could." Without doubt his ill- neis was attributable to the statu of the house, as owinj{ to tho water under the iloor and the dampness of the wallH it was a shocking place for the child or any one else to exist in. The cause of death was acute bronchitis. Verdiot accordingly. Other JoiUnca from tha Old World. Sir Beaumont Dixie has been reouvcd into the Church of Kom*. The important ooUeetion of engraved gams in the British Maseam has been catalogued by Mr. A. H. Smith in the form of a small volamo describing altogether 2,341) pieces. The friends of Canon Knox Little will be glad to bear that good aeoounta have been received of his health from Uenmark, where ho is on a walking tour, souietiinos cover- ing thirty miles a day. Lady Bailer's " Scotland for Ever " â€" probably tho best drawn of all her pic- tures has been purchased by an anony- mous bonefantor for £1,000 for presenta- tion to tho Art Gallery at liOeds. The same lady's " Floreat Ktnna " is about to be engraved in tho " mixed nietliod " tor publication by Messrs. Uravoe. A married woman named Jane Medlon was charged at tho Thames Police Coart on Saturday week with loitering in Wel- lesley street dre8s<!d in male attire ; bnt after hearing the evidence, which showed that tho accused had aiiopted this unsuit- able attire so as to watch tho movements of her husband, of whom she was apparently jealous, the magistrate, with a timely caution, ordered her to be discharged. A month ago, Ooorge Frnderick Curzon, Vi years of age, was attacked by a large black dog in the neighborhood where he lived, Bniithdown road, Liverpool. The principal wound was in the boy's Up. It was dressed, tho wound healed up, and the boy appearoil to be perfectly well until a few days ago, when symptoms of hydro- phobia supervened, and ho died in great agony on Saturday week. In an action tried in the Queen'H Bench the other day, before Mr. Justice Manisty and Mr. Justice Hawkins, in which a court milliner and dressmaker sued a lady for i;303, the balance of an account for drosses and other articles juppliod to tho defend- ant, Mr. Justice Hawkins caused considor- ablo laughter by inquiring what was meant by tlio items in the aooount "ladies' silk pants" and "gentlemen's silk vests." No answer was returned to the inquiry. Ijtieit from Iraland. Mr. A. J. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is to addrees a meeting in Glasgow on Ist Ojt. The Queen has subscribed £50 to the Boyal Irish Constabulary Fund, which was started recently. The yonng woman nariled Tjavory, who was shot during tlie progress of a Nation- alist domonutration at Lurgau on the 1,5th nit., diad next day. Mr. \Vm. llellicr lUily, a man wlirtse name has been familiar to scientists and others in Datalin for many years, has diad at the age of 6'J years. Major Dennis, of Ravenswood, New- townbarry, died on the 9th ult., after being hurt by a oar whioh struck him while train, ing a young horse. Bir Wm. O'Malley was married on the 7th ult., in Christ Church Cathedral, Dub- lin, to MissCaroline Favey. The bridegroom is a widower of 70 and the bride only jast oat of her teens. Mr. Pamell was born at Avondale, in County Wicklow, in 1846. He is a descendant of Pamell, the poet, and his family have been associated with Irish Parliamentary life for upwards of a cen- tury. Rev. John Smith, of Templetrine, County Cork, had a narrow escape from drowning at Tenby on the 14th ult. He was carried away by the current, and only reached the rocks two miles away when completely exhausted. THE FAITH OUBIBTB. Bapid Qrowtk of the Now Qoapel of Healing. * ^ SOUK WOKDKBFVi:. EXAMPI.ES. Itaat Hooka for Sunday School Libraries A writer in the New York Independent discusses what kind of books should be placed in Sunday School libraries. A supply of ouitable new books is clearly very necessary, if it be true as stated that since the " Congregational Sunday School and PublisbinK Society " came into being they havesoldfoor tons of the old " goody- goody " kind of books as waste paper. The Independent'! advice is as follows : I havo learned that it is not safe to accept any book on the merit of the anthor without careful examination. Mrs. Burnett has written the sweet, helpful stories of " Little Lord Fauntleroy " and " That Lass o' Lowrie'd," but she has also written " Through One Administration," a book which sboald go into no Sunday School library. While Pansy is almost always true and helpful, her book, " From Differ- ent Standpoints," is considered objection- able by many. This is also true of Louisa Aloott's " Moods." Very few persons would think of disapproving of George Mac- Donald's " Annals of a Quiet Neighbor- hood " or " The Marquis of Lossie," but many object to " Itobert Falconer " as unsettling to the simple Christian faith of the young. Mayne lieid is an author whose hooka must bo selected with care. They are very fascinating to the average boy and some of them may legitimately satisfy his taste for thrilling adventure. Such stories as " The Cliff Climbers," " The Wood Rangers,' " The Plant Onnters," " The Forest Kxiles " and " The Young Voyageors " havo undoubtedly stimulated many a boy to a healthful love of woods life. A minis- ter who finds his greatest recreation and pleasure during his summer vacation in plunging into the almost unknown wilder- ness, testilies that his flrst taste for his healthful enjoyment was given by the read- ing of Mayne Keid's books. I must, how- over, warn the boys afjaiust some of them. Banish " Uoeola," " The Scalp Hunters," " The War Trail," " The White Chief " and •' The Wild Huntress " from the shelves. Jules Verne is a writer condemned by many ; but some of his books I believe to be healthful and stimulating. It is a natural step his " At the North Polo" and " Desert of Ico " to Kane's " Arctic Kx- plorations " and other works on eiplora- tiou. It ia true that Verne blends fact and Action so skilfully that it is difficult to dis- tinnuiah between them ; bnt I beliovo that his books of the character of those men- tioned do stimulate a taste for reliable works of travel and exploration. The elder boys and girls should bo en- couraged to read Sir Bamael Baker's Paul du Chaillu's, Livingstone's and Stanley's wonderful ttavofs in Africa ; Parkman's '• Oregon Trail," Irving's " Astoria " and " (Captain Bonneville's Adventures," Bayard Taylor's " Travels," and Isabella Bird's "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan " and " Life in the Rocky Moun- tains." Ijibrariana testify that it in more diffloult to supply readint; for ^irls than lor h-\". This would not bo true if girls were uu- couraged, as I believe thoy should bo, to read the sanin books which their brothers road. Why should a girl not enjoy works of travel and adventure, historical stories and juvenilo books of popular science, as wt)ll as fairy tales, the ijuieter pictures of home life, and the never-failing love story? A girl has tho advantage of a boy in her reading, in that her mind develops and matures much earlier ; so that she may safely begin to read at the early age of 13 or 14 authors which boys had better loave until some years later. A girl of 13 may not appreciate the keen edge of satire and the line analysis of character in Dickons' and Trackoray's novels, but she will And mach that she can understand and enjoy, and her tasto will be cultivated for the best reading. These authors are not so safe for inmature boys, for too often their pictures of certain vices are painted in a light to awaken admiration rather than abhorrence in tbo minds of boys. 8pRClman Old World TrsKedles. Mr. W. S. Hosley, steward to Lord Brayhrooke, at Audley Knd, was found dead tho other day in the grounds surround- ing the mansion. It appears that hu attempted to drown himself in an orna- mental lake, but scrambled out again, and, opening a vein with his penknife, bled to death. Domestic troubles are said to havo preyed on the mind of the deceased. A terrible tragedy is reported from Kopaos, in Hungary. A man named Mati had a quarrel with his wife, a young and beautiful woman, whom ho had lately married. She sought refuge in his mother's house. Mati followed her there, and on his mother an old woman over â€" remonstrating with him, ho seized a chopper and literally hacked his mother and wife to pieces. « The woman who wades into the ocean with iier two-year-old child in her arms, and then ducks tho screaming unfortunate in the water until it becomes wild with fright, is still with na. Hhe is one of the things that never die. The Society for ths Prevention of Cruelty to Children should have an agent on the beach to ar- rest all such unnatural fools.â€" il/iir</ia'« Vineyard Herald. Sarah Ann â€" Oh, ain't my brother a clever hoy, Jane ? Why, he's only boon at school two months, an' he's got tho Catechism. Kllza Jane -Wot's that ? Why, my brother's only been to school two monHii, an' he's got tho measles 1" Interesting Letter from ths Hon. H. G. Joly on the Subject. The Faith Curists of New Jersey are developing in force and the congregations at their Sunday services are rapidly in- creasing in converts and enthusiasm. They are spreading the gospel of faith as a cure for all the ills that the body and soul are heir to. Brother Blsey ia the loading worker, and has for his advisor Rev. Dr. Simpson, of Forty-fifth Street Tabernacle, New York (formerly of Knox Church, Hamilton). The Mount Zion Sanctuary, which is also a home for invalids awaiting cures by faith, is under the direction of the Society of the First Born in Erie street, Jersey City. lUE LOBU WILL CUBE. On Sunday afternoon the sanctuary was tilled with devout worshippers and a fair sprinkling of curiosity seekers, who were addressed by Rev. M. D. Hanoox, of the Church of the First Bom, who preached from Leviticus, xxvii : " Whatsoever a man giveth to the Lord it shall be made holy." In illustrating his text the preacher said that if any one gave his body to the Lord, He would accept it and care for as His own property. If it was ill He would cure it. " If you have a headache or yoar liver is oat of order the Lord will cure it, for you are his peculiar property. He will take care of you so (hat you shall not dash your foot against a stone." AX KXl'EUIENCE. At the same hour the Klsey Memorial chapel members, converts and friends to the number of about 300 met in the grove on the high bank of Newark Bay at Pam- rapo, on the fifteen acres of ground re- cently boaght as a site for their proposed mission and held services. The ground roaches to the blue waters of the bay, where their baptismal services are performed. Rev. William Raymond, of Troy, N. Y., spoke on the subject of cures by faith. Ha said that during the last war he was so ill in Washington that the physicians told him ho coald not live. He wont into the woods north of that city to die. While praying to God to receive his spirit, a change came over him, and in one minute he was completely cured and stood on his feet a well man, after five years of intense Buffering. He ia now 70 years old and for fifty-one years has beau preaching the gospel of faith, and has cured over 2,000 persons. Ho said that men born blind had been made to see and tho deaf made to hear as readily as others. Let the healing of the body lead and salvation is sure to follow. WONDEBFCX BESILT8. He instanced the case of Mr. Osborne of Troy, who was completely paralysied on his left side. The speaker visited him, and taking the palsied hand in his own, offered a silent prayer. In a few minutes the fingers of the hands moved, the arm was lifted to the head, the paralysis left the leg, and within a week the man wai well and walking aboat Troy. UUN. II, U. JOLY's LETTEn. Hon. H. U. Joly, of Quebec, has written a letter to the press in which he says : No one can witness suffering without wish- ing to relievo the sufferer, bat few know how much they can do in that directiou. After reading the article on " faith cures " in one of your issous, I felt it might per- haps be of some use if I can give my expe- rience on thu subject. For many years past I have relieved a good deal of suffsring by very simple means, holding the patient's hand with one band and passing the other over tho affected part ; in a great many cases the relief has been a permanent one. INrLUINCE or A.N lUEl. iMRtnad of attempting an explanation whioh 1 have no authority to give, hero are some extracts from lectures on the principles and the practice of medicine, delivered by Prof.J. Ilughes Bennett before the Edinburgh College of Medicine. Un- der the head of " Intlaence of predomin- ant ideas on the body," he says : " In all cases cf relief there uan be little doubt that any benefit that did occur may be attri- buted to a strong belief on the part of the patient in the efficacy of the means em- ployed." He calls it from tha Greek mouoideism, or one idea, meaning, I sup- pose, the concentration of the minds of the patient and the operator on one single idea, viz., cure. WIUT I'Bor. UEMNUTT SAYS, This subject, however, says Prof. Ben- nett, ia iu ita infancy, and has to be sep- arated from tho charlatanism which has hitherto been mingled with it. The labors of Dr. Kssdale among the natives of India and of Mr. Braid in Manchester exhibit a worthy commencement of the rational treatment of diaordors by the means now alluded to, and there can be littlo doubt that in no long time ita inlluenoe, when further studied, will bo acknowledged. But how far this inlluenoe is dependent on the confidence of the patient, on the belief of some mysterious ciroumstanoe which is presumed to produce the effect, or on some unknown law regulating function through the mind, further observation alone can determine. He then speaks of suggesting thoughts to patients in different ways and creating impressions on the mind, and mentioned cures of insomnolonce, spasms, relief or care of hvBterioal paralysis of the limbs or special or).tni of sense, and torpid functions of lactation, perspiration, defajua- tion, etc., etc., have been rendered more active. HIS KXI'ERIUKMTH. With few exceptions, I have only suc- ceeded with uneducated people, whoso con- fidence was unlimited and who were willing to accept any suggestions as to the effects of my attempts at curing them. Tha pro- cess may be called " mind cure " or " mo- noideism," as Prof. Bennett calls it, or â-  faith cure," whioh ia tha best name, after all. I'or without faith the cure does not work ; faith on the part of the patient in the operator ; faith on the part of the operator in himself and iu the power above, whoso help he instinctively looks for. Any one can relieve suffering in this way who will give his whole heart to tho task. It you wish to test tho purest joy of life,' you will find it in relieving suffering among those whose only futore ia their health, m enaUing the workman, crippled with rheu- matism, to resame his work, or the poor mother to take, once more, charge of her modest household and her children. If yoa think that my statement may induce some of your readers to try the faith care, pub- lish it ; but I leave it to you to do what yoa think best. H. G. JOLY DE LOTBCJIEBE. EXPERIMENTS IN MBSUEKLSM. MaklDK SulvJecU Insensible to Fainâ€" A Girl la Fennaded that a Cow Sings, but Foaltlvelr Kefoses to Flay Carda. (W. A. Oroffut In North American Review.) Mesmerized sensitives do not see any of the objects or people in the room except the operator, or hear anything except his voice. They can be made apparently cognizant of their surroundings only by having their attention explicitly called to them by the operator. Even then they generally see imaginary objects only. Their eyes are open and their sight appears to an oculist entirely normal, but there is no co-ordination of the faculties. If I introduce " a gentleman," they treat him as suah. If I introduce him as a " young person," they wonder whether he is a boy or girl, and are liable to address him as either. Mesmerism is as perfect an autesthetio as ether and as harmless as water. Any mesmerized person can at onoe, by a single stroke of the band, be rendered totally insensible to pain, and can have a tooth drawn, a cataract removed, a cancer out out or an arm cut off without feeling the slightest pain. This has been so often demonstrated that amputations fre<)uently takes place under its infiuence in the Paris hospitals, and it is successfully employed in obstetrics. It is quite erroneous to suppose that the conduct of the responsive is directed in detail by the operator. He only suggests the general line of thought, and each responsive pursues it according to his own knowledge, experience or prejudices. I eay to my responsives, for instance, that I have a wonderful educated cow with seven heads. They all want to see it. I call their attention te the imaginary stable door near by ; they look toward it, and when I snap my fingers they all see a seven-headed cow enter. Now, by question- ing them, it becomes obvious that thev all see a different cow. Unless I have desig- nated her color, one sees a white cow, another a red cow, and so on. Then I tell them that she can dance â€" can waltz and keep time with moaio. I hand one of them a cane telling him it ia a flute and that he is an eminent per- former, and he goes through tho motions of playing to tbo dancing cow. They all hear different tunes, but the exhibition ia satisfactory. I now add that the cow can sing â€" can sing a different part with each mouth â€" can sing seven ballads a* once. At this point there is perhapa some incredulity expressed. They see the cow stand up on her hind legs and hear the seven balladsâ€" and this, I may as well add, is the narrative of an actual experi- ment. Five of the six mesmerized persons believed that sho sang. " She is singing Tit Willow," said one. " And a Warrior Bold," said another. " I hear singing," said thu incredulous ona, turning to me. " 'Annie Laurie,' isn't it? How do yoa work her? â€" the machinery, I mean 7" The others laughed at him. " Why, the cow sings," said a young lady. " Can't you hear her sing ? Can't you see her sing?" As a rule the responsives can be com- pletely dominated and made to do anythiug of which they are physically capable. Thoy oould generally be induced to take poison or jump off the house, or throw themoelvea under a locomotive, or attack onu auuinor with deadly weapons ; but there are some exceptions. 1 was unable to overcome tho fear of one of my responsives, whom I sent to asaault an imaginary Indian in the park. He refased to go and said it was " dilfionlt to kill an Indian." A young lady, one of the brightest sen- sitives I nave ever seen, steadfastly refuses to play cards. I tell her she is Buffalo Bill, and easily induce her to assume his character, but when cards is suggested, "No, I never play cards. It ia wrong! " (he sayi, and I cannot move her. I could make her jump out througb|||he window or put her hand in the fire, bn^lay cards she will not. I was puzzled by it, till, inquir- ing, I ascertained that her religions parents had brought her up very strictly and taugh'. her it was " wioked to play cards." BETEHTIVB MEKOBIEB. Valuable Medical Advice Gratia. We are not so sure that cheap quinine is such an unalloyed blessing. It has come about that nearly every family now has its quinine bottle, that it is sold at many general stores, and that the doctor rarely meets an invalid who has not been thoroaghly doaed with quinine. The drug, when taken continuously or excessively, ia an injurious one ; and its thera{)entic value is greatly exaggerated in the popular mind. "Tho value of (luinina in " coMh," bronchitis, epbemural fevers, anore.tia, general malaise, and various other minor ills, is most problematical.â€" J/fiiicui Record. LIvloK on Btewed Weed?. "I was surpriseti," said a prominont physician, "at what I learned of tho details of the dietetic hotels of Japan from so close an observer as John La Farge, who has recently spent a number of months in Japan. He tells me that the rice growers, the poanantry who cultivate the rice iu Japan, are far too poor to be able to eat it. The poverty that is too great to admit of a rice diet in a rice-growing country is be- yond onr imagination. What do they eat ? That is what I asked. Weeds, stewed weeds, as well as I can laarn." Just a Thlntbleful. Wife â€" Are you going oat this evening, John ? Husbandâ€" Well-or-yes, my dear ; I don't feel just right, and 1 thought I would step around the corner and get just athim'jieful of brandy. Wife (pleased that she could save him trouble)â€" Well, you needn't go out for that, John ; I have a little brandy in the closet. I So she filled her thimble full, and ho : gulped it down and tried to look happy. ' Some Bemarksble raats of Beoollectlon Chroalclad. Mr. Staunton, the United States War Minister daring the great civil war, had a very retentive memory, and was especially well up in Dickens' works. One evening in the early part of 1868 Dickens, then on a reading tour in the States, was d'ningwith Charles Sumner, when Mr. Staanton and some others were present. The War Min- ister was put to the test, and when started could repeat from memory a chapter from any of Dickens' books, showing a much greater knowledge of the works than their author could boast. Mr. Staanton ac- counted for this intimate knowledge of Dickens by mentioning the habit which he had formed daring the war of invariably reading something by the author of "Pick- wick" before going to bed at night. The late Bishop Prince Lee, first Bishop of Manchester, was similarly gifted. It ia related of him that being onoe, at an even- ing party, started by a lady with a line quoted from " Marmion," he went right on with the poem from memory, and could havo recited the whole. As a further test the same lady quoted a few words from a conversation in " Ivanhoe," whereupon the Bishop repeated the whole chapter correctly fron memory. But greater than any of these was Lord Macaiilay. From a very early age the retentiveness of his memory was extraordinary. When only 3 or 4 years of ago, hia mind mechanically retained the form of what he read so that, as his maid said, he talked " quite printed words." Once as a child, when making an afternoon call with his father, he picked up Scott's " Lay of the Last Miostrel " for ths first time, and ijuietly devoured the treasure while his seniors were engaged in conver- sation. When they returned home the boy went to his mother, who at the time was confined to her bed, and sitting down at the bedside repeated what he had been reading, by the canto, until she was tired. Later in life his wonderful memory was always a subject of interest to bis friends, and occasionally was put to searching tests, '^^ne day at a Board meeting of the British Museum, Macaulay wrote down from memory in three parallel columns on each of four pages of foolscap a complete list of the Cambridge Senior Wranglers with dates and colleges attached, for the bun- drud years during which a record of the names had been kept in the University Calendar. " On another occasion," says Trcvelyan, " Sir David Dundas asked : ' Macaulay, do you know your Popes 7' ' No,' was the answer, ' I always get wrong among tho Innocents.' ' But can you say your Archbishop* of Canterbary 7' â-  Any fool,' said Mac caulay, â-  could say hia Archbiahops < t Canterbary backwaida,' and hu went off at score, drawing breath only once iu order tu icmarkon tb- ' .Idity of there baring beea both an Archbishop Sancroft and an Archbishop Bancroft, aniil Bir David stopped him at Cranmer." Macaulay once said that if, by any possible chance, all the copies of " Faradiae Lost " and tha " Pilgrim's Progress " in existence were de- strayad, he oould writs them both out again, complete, from recollection. When O'Connell made his motion, in 1834, for the Repeal of the Union, Mr. Tennant, M. P. for Belfast, delivered a speech lasting for three and a half hours, full of figures and calculation, entirely from memory, in which hu trusted so completely that ho sent the MS. of his speech to the news- Sapers before he delivered it. His confl- enoe was not misplaced, for the oration was spoken without a single mistake, or even a momentary hesitation. Another Irish M. P., Mr. Robert Dillon Brown, member for Mayo, had the same useful faculty. He would dictate a speech to an amanuensis, and twenty -f oar hoars after- wkrds, without looking at it or thinking of thu matter in the meantime, could repeat it word for word. Woodfall, the editor of the Homing Chronicle and brother of Junius' publisher, was able to report accurately in the morning the debate of the previous evening, without taking any notes. In some cases the mental actiou involved in feats of this nature would seem to be quite mechanical and unintelligent. In the newa- papera of January, 1H20, there are accounts of an extraordinary man who was known as " Memorycornor Thompson." This man, althoagh he coald hardly remember any- thiug be heard, could yet retain perfectly the names and descriptions of large collec- tions of objects that met his oye. He could take an inventory of tho ooutents of a hoaao from cellar to attic merely by sur- veying them, and could afterwards write it out from memory. He could draw from recollection ucoarate plans of many London parishes and districts, with every street, alley, public building, publio house, etc., duly noted, down to the minutest topographical details, such as pamps, trees, bow-windows and posts, all correctly marked. Conspicuous instances of this mechanical kind of memory are to be found amongst the famous mental calculators. Jedediah Buxton was a celebrity of this kind about the middle of thK last century. He had but little education, and indeed was not able to write his own name. But in arithmetic and in abstrnso calculations his powers were wonderful. The following is a specimen of the problems which when put to tho test he solved mentally iu a few minutua : Find how many cubical eighths of an inch there arc in a quadrangle mass measuring 23,145,781) yards long, '2,642,73'2 yards wide, and 54,1)65 yards thick. When in London in 1754 he was taken to see Garrick as liichard III. at Drury Lano. Tho play did not interest him, but ho oi;cnpied himself in reckoning the number of words ho hoard, and iu counting tha number of steps made by tho dancers. Tho Amorioan boy, Zerah Colburn, who came to London in 1812, was a similar phenomenon. He had no knowledge of the rules of arithmetic, and was quitu unable to e.xplaiu how he arrived at the anawers to the problems submitted to him. Mental power of this nature would seem to imply an unwholesome duvelopment of one part of the brain at tho expense of the rast. Tho rotcutivenosa of such a memory as Lord Maoaulay's is greatly to be pre- ferred tu the abnormal mental activity of an animatod oaloulating machine. 1 • Mme. Mutau, wife of the Japanese Minister in Washington, is petite and slender, has dead-black hair, a clear olive complexion and kindling black oyea.