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LITTRÉ, the man of memory and facts-the lexicographer, had a low and bulging forehead, covered with a mass of tangled locks, and thick good-humored looking lips. His eyes, "quick and brilliant, like a sword-flash, and gleaming from under the stubby brows, their weird light would be unpleasant but for the long, pendant, deeply-wrinkled cheeks, which soften down the whole expression of the face."

GENERAL JOSEPHI LANE's death leaves only two surviving generals of the Mexican War, General Robert Patterson, of Philadelphia, 90 years old, and General Harney, 81 years old.

GENERAL GRANT is reported to receive from his son's firm, where he is a silent partner, an annual income of about fifty thousand dollars. Yet we were told by the New York Times that he needed $250,000 to enable him to live respectably.

WISDOM.

"Think truly, and thy thought Shall be a fruitful seed."

A FLOW of words is no proof of wisdom. Ir is not death that makes the martyr, but the cause.-CANON Dale.

EVERY man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

SYMPATHY is the key to truth; we must love in order to appreciate.-LINDSAY.

THERE is no courage but in innocence.-SOUTH

ERN.

HE that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.-BURKE,

REFINED policy has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be as long as the world stands.

He who cherishes his old knowledge, so as continually to acquire new, he may be a teacher of others.-CONFUCIUS.

A MAN who has learned little grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.-BUDDHA.

MEN are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.-GLADstone.

I HAVE read the Bible through many times. It is a book of all others for lawyers, and I pity the man who can not find in it a rich supply of thought and rule for conduct.-WEBSTER.

"SEE," said an ecclesiastic, holding out a bowl of money before Thomas Aquinas, "the Church has no longer to say, 'Silver and gold have I none.' "True," replied the stern ascetic, "and no longer is she able to say to the lame man, 'Stand up and walk.'"

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A DISTINGUISHED physician in the United States, who came over to the Church, was reproached for having turned his coat. "It is true," said he, "for I find I have been wearing it wrong side out for seventy years."

PERSECUTION produces no sincere conviction, nor any real change of opinion. On the contrary, it vitiates the public morals by driving men to prevarication, and commonly ends in a general, though secret, infidelity, by imposing under the name of revealed religion, systems of doctrine which men can not believe and dare not examine.-ARCHDEACON PALEY.

MIRTH.

"A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men."

NATUR luvs phun; if she doesn't she never would have made a munkey.-BILLINGS.

A COUNTRY Doctor being asked what was the best way to cure a ham, remarked before answering that question he should want to know what ailed the ham.

THINGS are not exactly right. A careful political economist closely calculates that women in this country might annually save $14,500.00 in ribbons which the men might spend in cigars. YOUNG Fred, a bashful yet persistent swain, Was very much in love with Mary Jane. One night she told him, in her tenderest tone, "It is not good for man to be alone." Said Fred, "Just so, you darling little elf; I've often thought of that same thing myself." Then said the lass, while Fred was all agog, "You ought to buy yourself a terrier dog."

"SAM, you are not honest. Why do you put all the good peaches on the top of the measure and the little ones below?" "Same reason, sah, dat makes de front of your house marble and de back gate chiefly slop bar'l, sah."

"OH, give me anything made of beans," exclaimed a Boston man taken sick in the West, when asked what he would have to eat. They obeyed his request. They gave him castor oil.

A PHILADELPHIA candy factory uses seven tons of clay per month in manufacturing sweets, and every fence within fifty miles of that town has a sign of some one's dyspepsia cure.-Free Press.

"WON'T you please pay us something, Miss Hammerandbang?" asked Fogg. "I should like to ever so much," she said, looking at her watch; "but really I have no time." "So I have heard," said Fogg; "but we will overlook that, you know."

Two countrymen went into a hatter's to buy one of them a hat. They were delighted with the

sample, inside the crown of which was inserted a looking-glass. "What is the glass for?" said one of the men. The other, impatient at such a display of rural ignorance, exclaimed, "What for? why, for the man who buys the hat to see how it fits."

WHEN a man and a woman are made one, the question, "Which one?" is a bothersome one until it is settled.

A MAN was just starting from home one evening for the "Pig and Whistle" (tavern), when his son, a right little fellow, said, "I know why they call the public-house the 'Pig and Whistle!" "Do you?" asked the father. "Why?" "Because," replied the child, "you feed the landlord's pig, and leave us to whistle for bacon."

"Is your wife a democrat or republican?" asked one Rockland citizen of another, in a store this morning. "She's neither," was the prompt response; then glancing cautiously around and sinking his voice to a hoarse whisper, he explained, "she's a home ruler."-Rockland Courier. THEY were discussing how to pronounce "oleomargarine." Fogg gave the "g" soft, while Jones declared it should be hard. Said he, "The

'oleo' comes from the Latin, and 'margarine' from the early English." "You are wrong there," said Fogg, who is given to levity, "evbody knows it all comes from grease."

"WHEN I goes a-shopping," said an old lady, "I allers ask for what I wants; and if they have it, and it is suitable, and I feel inclined to buy it, and it is cheap, and can't be got for less, I most allers takes it without clappering all day about it, as some people do."

MISTRESS (to new arrival, who had been sent to put a letter into the lamp-post box).-" Why, Bridget, where have you been all this time?" Bridget "Where have I been, ma'am? Sure I've been with the letther, ma'am." Mistress"I know that; but what kept you so long, and why didn't you put the letter into the box as I told you?" Bridget (with desperate emphasis) -"Why didn't I! sure enough! Didn't I go to ivery wan o' thim, and the doors of thim boxes was all locked, ma'am. I'm kilt intirely wid travellin' round the shtreets all day, so I am."

MILKMAN (to small boy): "Tell your mother she'll have to pay ready money for milk after this. I ain't going to chalk up any more." Small Boy: "What are you going to use instead of chalk, Mr. Granger?"

"On, Angelina," said Agnes, "Miss Gentian, on meeting Mr. Thorn, with whom she had a quarrel last week, turned as red as fire, and wouldn't even look at him. What do you think of that?" "I think it was a clear case of hatered."

POEMS BY WILLIAM WILSON. Edited by Benson J. Lossing. Third Edition. 18mo, pp. 224. Poughkeepsie: Archibald Wilson. Among the "minor" poets of America there are many of whom the reading public rarely hears; some, indeed, remain entirely unknown, and yet one here and one there could be named who has written sweet and beautiful lines which are fit to live. The older readers of the PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL must remember certain

noteworthy verses which have appeared in its columns from a source totally unknown to fame.

Generally, to be sure, these writers live in obscure, out-of-the-way neighborhoods, and may have a little notoriety there, but as a rule no adequate appreciation. This can not be said, it is true, of the poet whose name is on the title-page of the volume now before us; but we will warrant that not one in fifty of our readers ever heard of him. This collection is made up of flowers-" wildflowers of the spirit-sweet, modest, and unpretending," as Dr. Lossing very appropriately terms them, which were gathered and preserved with others, by the hand of a son. We opine no one pretending to be appreciative of real soulfull verse, could read without deep feeling, "The Rare Old Friends," "Mary," "Epistle to Lizzie Lee," and "Dark's the winter night, an' drear." Mr. Wilson was of Scottish birth, and many of his best poems are in the dialect of his childhood home at the foot of the Grampian hills. Elsewhere in this Number, the reader has already read one of those just mentioned. TURKISH BATH HANDBOOK. compiled by Geo. F. Adams, M.D., St. Louis, Mo. 12mo, pp. 242. Price 30 cents, Little & Baker, St. Louis.

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The Turkish bath has become an institution in this country. Twenty-five years ago its fame only trickled through the lines of newspaper correspondents who were traveling in Europe, and were occasionally persuaded to try its virtues as a depurant and tonic. Now every city worthy of the name has its "hammam " in one form or another of appointment. The Phrenological house in New York did not a little toward the introduction of the Oriental system of ablution, and met with severe criticism from the rank

and file of the faculty, for advocating a form of hydropathic treatment which could not be otherwise than "most exhaustive." Now the best of that faculty approve it as one of the best antispasmodics, and helpful in inflammatory diseases of the skin, congestions, etc. Dr. Adams' Manual tells what the Turkish bath is and its thera

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and Herbert Spencer, and the candid spirit of these discussions must impress every reader that the learned writer has sought to give cach one of these great minds a fair representation, and to assign their proper places in the grand structure of English philosophy.

BRITISH THOUGHT AND THINKERS: Introductory Studies, Critical, Biographical, and Philosophical. By George S. Morris, A.M., Lecturer on Philosophy in the Johns Hopkins University, etc. 12mo, pp. 388. Published by S. C. Griggs & Company, Chicago.

American life is assuming a character of its own, especially in the older settled States, and that character is expressive of the growth of abstract, philosophical thought among the people. Twenty-five or thirty years ago, the struggle of community and nation making was still going on, and political and social measures occupied the best attention of the great majority of the best minds. Now, however, a large proportion in educated circles are interested in the questions touching the nature of mind, matter, and life, and such a book as Prof. Morris has prepared is

a welcome contribution to their reading and

study.

The work covers a broad reach of English abstract thought, but it will be found to supply valuable aid to correctness of view respecting the essential nature of that thought. From the schoolmen of early English history to Herbert Spencer there has flowed currents of speculation, more or less founded on premises of vital solidity, and it has been Prof. Morris' aim to present in a well-digested shape their import and bearing. "On the whole," he says, "both in religion and in science, I think we may say with obvious truth that the characteristic disposition of the English mind is to lay hold upon alleged revealed or natural laws of fact in their immediate, practical relation to the life and interests of men, and as narrowly observable in detail with the microscopic vision of sense." He is a close scrutinizer of the tendencies of the late development of liberal philosophy, and we think is rightly critical of its nature when he says in connection

thor of "White Hands and White Hearts." 16mo, pp. 433. Price $1.50. Published by the National Temperance Society, New York.

The author makes an effort to picture the life of a Christian as it should be, and with tolerable success. He weaves in considerable information

of one kind and another-now a description of some far-off land, now a glimpse of some treasury of art, now a half scientific allusion to matters botanical or zoological or archæological. Uncle Hugh appears to be a cyclopedia of art, science, history, theology, etc., etc., but contributes vastly to the interest of the story. The character of Madge is wrought out with a happy earnestness, and should prove instructive and

helpful to the young reader of the book. The author has written with much feeling, and if an occasional chapter trend upon the sensational, we think its influence can scarcely be other than healthful. There are depths of passion in the

religious experience of strong natures which

may exceed mere romantic ecstasy, while they and bettered life. bear noble and permanent fruit in the chastened

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COMPARISON TO THE REVISED VERSION of the English New Testament, explaining the reasons for the changes made in the Authorized Version. By Alexander Roberts, D.D, a member of the English New Testament Company. With Supplement, by a member of the American Committee. Authorized Edition. Price, 25 cts. I. K. Funk & Co., New York. This highly interesting and scholarly work should be read by every one who purposes to study the new version of the Revised Version.

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE of the Senate of the United States, on the Regulation and

"With this goes a tendency to neglect that more comprehensive and penetrative mental labor which traces the rational connection of all law with its birthplace in the mind and will of an absolute spirit." This statement furnishes our reader with a clue to the earnest spirit with which our author considers the great topics of life and mind. Special discussions occupy the bulk of the volume concerning the life and philosophical records of Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Hamilton, John Stuart Mill,

peal to the Congressional members, in behalf of a system of office supply which shall be founded on merit, and not the sport of political manipulation and partisan intrigue.

THE NEW HOUSE AND ITS BATTLEMENT: The Annual Sermon of the British National Temperance League, in the Metropolitan Tabernacle. By Rev. Joseph Cook. 12mo, pp. 23. Price 10 cents. New York: National Temp. Soc. and Pub. House. Mr. Cook raised his trumpet voice again in behalf of temperance, liberty, and purity.

He says in the start with an emphasis as strong as it is true: "A drunken people can not be a free people." The point is too well illustrated in the political theatre of our boasted free nation where ignorance and ruin appear to hold the balance of power.

GOD BLESS THE LITTLE WOMAN. Beautiful Song and Chorus. Words by Howard N. Fuller. Music by Charlie Baker. Price 35 cts. F. W. Helmwick, Cincinnati, O. This song commemorates the well-known remark of President Garfield soon after he was shot.

We have received from J. S. Ogilvie & Co., publishers in New York City, the following additions to their "People's Library":

BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR; or, Only a Factory Girl. By Julia Edwards. No. 48, price, 10 cts. LIKE NO OTHER LOVE. By the author of "Dora Thorne," etc., etc. No. 49, price, 10 cents.

JOSH BILLINGS' SPICE BOX. Edited by Josh Billings himself. Crammed with droll sayings, laughable jokes, sharp repartee, wit itself. Price, 10 cents.

THE GRASS WIDOW; A Tale of the Indian Ocean. By Lieut.-Col. West. Price, 10 cents. NINETY-NINE CHOICE READINGS AND RECITATIONS. Compiled by J. 8. Ogilvie. Designed for use in debating societies, young people's associations, parlor entertainments, schools, etc. Price, 10 cents.

THE OCTOROON. By Mrs. M. E. Braddon, author of "Aurora Floyd," etc. Price, 10 cents.

THE RUGG DOCUMENTS. By Clara Augusta. First Series. The autobiography of Aunt Jerusha Rugg, a lone widow, who has outlived her grief for the late lamented Rugg. Price, 10 cents. FATED TO MARRY. By the late Mrs. May Agnes Fleming. Price, 10 cents.

DORA THORNE. By the author of "A Wife in Name Only," etc. No. 46, price, 20 cents.

A DARK INHERITANCE. By Mary Cecil Hay, author of "Victor and Vanquished." Price, 10 cents.

CAST UPON THE WORLD. By Charles E. P. Rhine. Price, 10 cents.

THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE N. Y. PRESS ASSOCIATION, held at Utica, Wednesday and Thursday, June 8th and 9th, 1881. A full report of a most interesting affair of which the August Number of the PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL contained a resumé. Mr. A. O. Bunnell, editor of the Dansville Advertiser, is responsible for this neat souvenir.

OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF N. Y., from its organization in 1828, and including 1881; being a complete list of its officers, trustees, and boards of managers of the annual fairs, etc., and their terms of service.

THE THEOSOPHIST holds on its wonted way, representing the mysteries of Oriental philosophy with as much earnestness as at the beginning. In the later numbers there are intimations that the principles it advocates are finding fresh fields, even in communities distinguished for the higher. Christian civilization. There is said to be good in everything; and, doubtless, there are some among us in this western world who are ready to avail themselves of the good outcropping from Occultism and the other sources of obscure psychology.

THE LAST POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, viz., that for Sept., contains notable contributions and selections of wit: That on the Development of Political Institutions, by Herbert Spencer; on Writing, Physiologically Considered, by Carl Vogt; the Blood and its Circulation, by Darwin; and the seasonable discussion of the healthfulness of cemeteries. We have always maintained that the location usually given to cemeteries is totally out of keeping with hygienic principles. A new burial-field corporation selects a certain portion of out-of-town land that is cheap, yet well elevated; and as the neighboring territory becomes occupied, danger arises from soil drainage; and it increases, especially for the people living on lower levels. Better far to select for burial-places low land. However, the author of the article in the Popular Science claims that no candid investigations have shown that much injury is done to the atmosphere by the decay of the buried dead. The gaseous products of decomposition are absorbed by the earth, and there is little or no escape into the open air. They are absorbed, too, by the veins of water, and tend to corrupt the springs and wells lying in their course.

PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL.-To all who are interested in the study of human nature, who find it interesting to read the characteristics and motives of the people with whom they come in contact; in short, to those who believe in phrenology, physiognomy, physiology, and hygiene, this magazine will prove valuable reading, and all night profit by its teachings, which are directed to a higher and purer life. Each month a portrait and character sketch of one or more notable persons is given.-Bath Daily Times.