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THE LOST CAUSE REGAINED. By E. A. I would like to know how the stains can Pollard. Cloth, $1 75.

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THE STUDENT'S SCRIPTURE HISTORY. The New Testament History. Edited by William Smith, LL.D. 12mo, with Maps and Woodcuts. $2 25.

GRANT AND COLFAX. The Lives of Gen. U. S. Grant and S. Colfax. Portraits and Illustrations. Paper, 85 cents; cloth, $1 15.

THE SERVANTS OF THE STOMACH. By Jean Macé. Translated from the French. Cloth, $2.

AMERICAN WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. By J. P. Stelle. 16mo, pp. 62. Paper, 30 cents.

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: being an Attempt to Trace to their Sources, Passages and Phrases in Common Use. By J. Bartlett. Fifth edition. Cloth, $3 40.

THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS. Illustrated by 2,000 Reflective Passages from the Sacred Writings. By the editor of "Truth Illustrated by Great Authors." edition. Cloth, $1 75.

Fifth

TODD'S COUNTRY HOMES, and How to Save Money; How to Build Neat and Cheap Cottages, etc., etc. Also, a Business Directory. By Sereno Edwards Todd, of the New York Times. 12mo. Cloth, $1 50. This interesting volume will be noticed more at length in the next JOURNAL.

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Ans. We know of nothing that will accomplish the desired object. The acid property of writing ink gives it the quality of permanence for which it is esteemed. The ink ordinarily used in printing does not sink into the paper like writing ink, and may be removed quite readily. Writ ing ink, unless it be of the specially indelible kind, may be removed by chemical agents from paper with a smooth or glazed surface without materially injuring the paper; but ordinary book paper is of a spongy texture, so that the removal of the ink would most likely involve the destruction of the paper. Blue ink is chiefly made from Prussian blue, and is less influenced than black ink by physical causes, i. e., chemical agents have a less effect upon it.

CONJURATION.-Would

you

be so kind as to inform me if there is such

an art as that of Psychomancy, and can it be acquired by practice? Can it be in such a degree acquired that I could instantly arrest the attention of any person that I desire to become acquainted with? How can it be acquired? Have you any books relating to it, and that will show the modus operandi?

Ans. No. There is nothing in it. The "Library of Mesmerism and Psychology" gives all the information in regard to the whole matter of fascination, charming, and of such influences as come under the head of "Psychomancy." There is no end to the pretensions of ignorant quacks who get their living by deception and

fraud. All that is known to be true on animal or human magnetism and its modus operandi is contained in the work referred

to.

EXPENSE OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION. What is the expense of obtaining a college education? Can a man of fair talent and a good English education make Phrenology profitable as a profession?

Ans. The expense of a collegiate educa

QUESTIONS OF GENERAL INTEREST'' will be answered in this department. We have no space to gratify mere idle curiosity. Questions of personal interest will be promptly answered by letter, if a stump betion differs in different localities, the tuiinclosed for the return postage. If questions be brief, and distinctly stated, we will respond in the earliest number practicable. As a rule, we receive more than double the number of questions per month for which we have space to answer them in; therefore it is better for all inquirers to inclose the requisite stamp to insure an early reply by letter, if the editor prefers such direct course. Your

BEST THOUGHTS" solicited. RAILROAD TRAVEL. The following "rules on the road" are based upon legal decisions, and ought to be universally known. The courts have decided that applicants for tickets on railroads can be ejected from the cars if they do not offer the exact amount of their fare. Conductors are not bound to make change. All railroad tickets are good until used; conditions, "good for this day only," or other admitting time of genuineness, are of no account. Passengers who lose their tickets can be ejected from the cars unless they purchase a second one. Passengers are bound to observe decorum in the cars, and are obliged to comply with all reasonable demands to show their tickets. Standing on the platform, or otherwise violating the rules of the company, renders a person liable to be put off the train. No person has a right to monopolize more seats than he has paid for; and any article left in the seat while the owner is temporarily absent, entitles him to his seat on his return.

tion being higher in some institutions than in others, and the price of board and room being more or less, according to the place. In the city of New York it costs more for board, room rent, etc., than it would cost in some of the rural districts. In order to enter college, considerable preparation is necessary. Say two years' study at an academy, even after one has what would be called a good English education. A full collegiate course occupies four years, and the tuition will average from $75 to $100 per year, and board, say $4 a week, or $208 a year, and then there are incidental expenses besides. The books for the whole academic and collegiate course will cost probably $100. In some places one may go through college for twelve hundred dollars; in other places it will cost fifteen hundred dollars. This, of course, is exclusive of the clothing and the time of the student.

In regard to Phrenology, it is very proper for one who follows it as a profession to be a thorough classical and scientific scholar, though it is not absolutely necessary, any more than it is for a physician, a lawyer, or a clergyman. Classical learning does much to give polish and mental culture to a physician; but one who has a good English education can be a physician or a phrenologist, and secure respectability and success. Two hundred dollars will furnish tuition, books, and board for a phrenological student, and give him a small but neat outfit on which to commence

A QUANDARY.-In a family business. The profit to be derived from

of my acquaintance a new book was accidentally blotted with ink-writing ink.

pursuing it as a profession will depend greatly upon the talent of the man, and

readily comes into the habits of civilia tion, while the Indian will not work, h up no property, and lives from hand to mouth. History gives us specimens of

also upon the amount of knowledge and culture he possesses on the subject. Those who are qualified by natural endowment and proper instruction, can do as well as they could in law, in medicine, in engin-full-blooded negroes who have stood fort eering, and better than men average in mercantile pursuits. The phrenological profession has a tendency to cultivate the man, to train his faculties, and to keep him growing as a human being.

POEMS BY MCDONALD CLARK. -Can any one furnish us with a copy of McDonald Clark's poem, in full, which contains the couplet

"When twilight lets her curtain down, And pins it with a star?"

the peers of able white men. Toissant l'Overture was the peer of the best men of his age; and there are men in Bak more and in Charleston as black as the above lawyer's lies, who know how to manage business and can make their

dreds of thousands of dollars. We fancy that anything less than a man would t be able to do this. But any man who say the negro is not a man is either a krave or fool, or a cross between the two m does not deserve the confidence of the

NEGRO DEVELOPMENT.-If lowest clodhopper. We pity the audience

the radical defect of the negro is a want of due nervous development (page 63, A. P. J., August), why need that portion of the colored race among us who have ample development of the anterior and coronal regions of the brain possess seemingly inferior qualities and abilities to the white race with similar development and formation throughout?

Ans. When you find a negro with a cerebral development equal to the average white man, and with a temperamental organization also equal to the white man's, there will be found in that negro as much mental capacity as in the white man. There will be no seeming of equality, but a real equality. A marked difference between the white and black races exists in their respective temperaments.

IS HE A QUACK?-An invalid lady correspondent writes us from the South, to inquire if a certain person in Philadelphia, who styles himself Dr. Young, and who advertises "Preventive Powders," etc., is a quack? In reply, we answer yes. He is not only a quack, but a low, filthy fellow, whose influence is all bad. He is even worse than his neighbor

of the so-called "Howard Association”— a private concern used to trap "indiscreet young men." We repeat, all these advertising "No-cure-no-pay"-doctors are low, bad men, who rob, poison, or defile all they touch.

STUDYING FRENCH. The following works will enable one to study French with facility:

Ahn's French Method. With Pronunciation. $1 50.

Ollendorff's French Grammar. $2. De Fivas' Elementary French Reader. $1 15.

who could believe such statements. Don't less the negroes in this country and in other countries have less intellectual brain than white men. The same is true of the Chinese and the American Indian, and the same is true of the lower ranges of our own white population.

"INSANITY."—In a family, if one of the parents has been slightly fert ed with insanity, is it probable that the children will be similarly affected, mi should they discard the idea of marriage on that account? If they were to beom insane, at what age would the symptoms be likely to appear? Can the hereditary fluence be overcome by a good constitution and correct habits?

Ans. It depends much upon the cause of insanity. Some people have no predisposi tion to this infirmity, but simply a suscepti bility to nervous excitement; some persons become light-headed or aberrated if their digestive system gets out of order others, if their reproductive system is deranged; others if they have depressed conditions of ambition or are troubled in property matters. Each has his source of excita ity, and the result, though it is in geneal denominated insanity, is as different as the faculties through which it is manifest ed. A mother may be insane from some special cause, and her children not inherit the tendency at all. Where, for several generations, insanity has been cropping out in a family, it would not be safe to count on exemption from the malady. In a family, six out of ten might escape, hat the chances would be against them. There are many more insane people in the world than is generally supposed; perhaps there are not more than five real sound sane per sons in fifty, and not more than one in s hundred who would show such marked eccentricity as to awaken general suspicion Surenne's Manual and Traveler's Comof his insanity. Probably three fourths of panion. $1 40. the insanity of this age originates in an abnormal use of the faculties; the strait IS THE NEGRO A MAN ?-ing of all the powers in the pursuit of "There is a lawyer in our vicinity who wealth, in the pursuit of education, and makes stump speeches, and wields a great the greedy grasping for advancement, ar prolific sources of mental breaking-down; and the bad habits, the stimulants, tobaeru, the lust which abounds, tend to unhin the minds of persons in a frightful degret. Ans. Whoever asserts that Fowler & Temperance in the use of all things ar Wells do not regard the negro as a man is,able, and abstinence from others, a ca to say the least, laboring under an unmititrust in Providence and active religions gated error. We are not alone in the sympathy, free from bigotry, intolera opinion that some races of men stand higher than others in the scale of intelligence and power. The Chinese, the Japanese, the American Indians are not equal to the English, the French, the German, the Italian, and other branches of the Caucasian family. But the negro is undoubtedly, in this country, superior to the Indian in some respects. He has less force, less pride and will-power than

Surenne's French and English Dictionary. $175.

influence among the baser sort of people; and among the many falsehoods he utters is one that the negro is not a man, and he tells his hearers that Fowler & Wells support him in his theory."

the Indian, but quite as much intelligence, and a great deal more of the moral and religious elements in his composition. He

and superstition, have a wonderful ex in raising the mind above morbid cond tions. Ambitions passions, exercised t der the whip and spur of intempe habits, make shipwreck of mental senta ness, by overburdening the parts thr which the mind acts, and our surpris excited by the endurance shown by men retaining their senses so long, not standing the excesses into which th plunge.

BOOKS-PRICES.-We can | send by mail, post-paid, a copy of "Be Thesaurus," for $2; onyms," $2 50.

"Crabbe's S

VEGETATING INSECT. Is there any truth in the statement of there being an insect called abishero, which on being put in the ground the legs take root and the body puts forth leaves and becomes a plant of a yard in height?

Ans. We never heard the statement before, and should not have believed it if we had heard it.

FACULTIES FIRST DEVELOPED.-What faculties of the mind are first developed?

Ans. The first faculty called into action is alimentiveness; second, those of perception.

ARTIST.-What phrenological organs are required to make a good

artist?

Ans. All that are required to make a good mechanic, and imagination added. In other words, large perceptives, large Constructiveness, Imitation, and Ideality, and as much of the manly and the moral qualities as may be, with a fine temperament, and an earnest and somewhat enthusiastic nature.

TOO MUCH FLESH.-Reading

your Answers to Correspondents in the July Dumber, has suggested to me the idea of applying to you for advice on the opposite subject, viz. of decreasing weight, or how to make a fleshy person lean without absolutely injuring the health. I drink nothing at meals except water, and eat very little meat or greasy diet. If you will please give me a few hints on this subject, I shall be very grateful for the information. Please answer this in your very next JOURNAL, and oblige one of your most devoted friends and readers.

Ans. For a full discussion of this question, see "Our Annual of Phrenology and Phys iognomy-combined-" under the title of Fat Folks and Lean Folks. 60 cents.

Publisher's Department.

THE SIZE AND PRICE OF THIS
JOURNAL- QUESTION. We desire the
opinion of our readers as to the future of
the A. P. J. First. It now has forty
quarto pages a month, and rates at $3 a
year. Shall we reduce its size and its
price one third, making it $2 instead of
$31 or,
shall we keep up both its present

size and price?
Second. What of its shape? Shall we
continue it in its present quarto form, or
shall we change it to an octavo magazine?
Its earlier volumes-up to 1850-were in
the usual octavo shape. The present
quarto began in 1851.

We wish to confer with those interested, and to adopt that plan which shall seem the most desirable to all concerned. Our object is to make the JOURNAL subserve the interests of the cause to which it is devoted; disseminating, widely as pos

sible, all that is true and useful in our God-given science.

When writing to this office, readers will confer a favor by giving us their views in brief. No change will be made in the present volume or during the present year. There is time enough to consider the subject for 1869. Reader, what say you?

NOT IN TIME. We frequently receive advertisements for this JOURNAL entirely too late for insertion in the current namber. We repeat what has been already announced, that our JOURNAL goes to press

a month in advance of its date; all except- |
ing the cover, which follows immediately
thereafter, being then complete; and to
insure insertion, announcements must
reach us at least five weeks previous to the
time they are expected to appear.

SPEAK IN TIME.-We would
again call attention to the WALTER GRAPE-
VINES, which we are enabled to offer as
premiums. For five new subscribers, at
$3 each, we will give one of the $5 vines.
Our friends in city or country can club
together, and by placing the vine in the
hands of one of their number to propagate,

may each secure vines the following season.
For a full and complete description, and
list of rates at which we supply this valu-
able Grapevine, see August number of
the JOURNAL.

offer as a special premium for a club of
A SPECIAL PREMIUM.-We
forty new subscribers to the PHRENOLOG-
ICAL JOURNAL, at $3 ench, a copy of the
NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA, which com-
prises sixteen large octavo volumes of 800

pages each. Price, $80, net cash.

The important work contains an inexhaustible fund of accurate and practical information on Art and Science in all their branches, including Mechanics, Mathematics, Astronomy, Philosophy, Chemistry, and Physiology; on Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures; on Religion, Law, Medicine, and Theology; on Biography and History, Geography and Ethnology; on Political Economy, the Trades, Economy, Architecture, Statistics, the Inventions, and Politics; on Domestic Things of Common Life, and General Literature. The work is a library in itself; opening to the student and general reader the whole field of knowledge.

No American library can be said to be complete without a work of this kind. Here is an excellent opportunity for those who do not feel able to purchase the work little time and trouble. A club of forty to secure it at the cost of comparatively ought to be made up in every village. If several persons choose to combine their efforts and secure the club together, they may do so, and own the Encyclopedia in in every neighborhood, second only to a common. Such a work is a real necessity large library.

MR. LODGE, of New Jersey, again places us under obligations for the skulls of a dog and a cat, which now grace being made by thoughtful friends, who our museum. Accessions are constantly have our thanks.

General Items.

YEARS AGO.-Mr. Alfred L. Sewell, the
BOSTON ONE HUNDRED
very enterprising publisher of The Little
Corporal of Chicago, Illinois, has re-
published Paul Revere's Picture Map;

which is worthy a place in the portfolio of
every American. The editor says:

The name of PAUL REVERE is one of the
most honorable connected with the first
scenes of the Revolutionary War. He was
one of the famous Boston Tea Party, and
the Colonies in their efforts to rid them-
in many ways rendered signal service to
selves of British tyranny. Paul Revere

was a silversmith, and engraved some of
the first pictures ever made in America.

One of these was made in 1768, just one
hundred years ago, and is a view of eight
ships of war, landing British troops in
Boston Harbor, for the purpose of "sup-
porting ye dignity of Britain, and chastis-

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ing ye insolence of America." Its size is
10 by 15 inches, besides the margin, and
there are only two or three copies of it
known to be in this country.

We lately paid fifty dollars for one of
these copies of this curious, old picture,
and have just published a fac-simile of it,
for the benefit of The Corporal's children.

"MORE MYSTERY."-" The Pendulum Oracle." This is the name given to a new toy advertised in all the papers, and in the A. P. J. among the rest. Those familiar with "Bonaparte's Oraculum" may guess the character of this. It is a piece of circular pasteboard, printed with words, figures, etc., accompanied with a little wooden ball, with a string and a ring. The "oracle" is placed on a table, the ball held over it, and in answer to such questions as may be put, the ball is expected to swing toward a certain word or figure. For example, if the age of one present be asked, the ball will move toward the figures, from 1 to 30. Or, if it relate to marriage, and the question be put, "When will he propose ?" the ball is expected to move to the name of the month-be it anywhere from January to December; and so on to the end. That it will furnish a dollar's worth of amusement in a company of young people there can be no doubt.

Ir is believed that the South,
where good crops have been secured, will
afford good fields for competent lecturers
and examiners. There are no practical
phrenologists at present in California, nor
in any of the new Territories.

SKULLS FROM
THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS. The artist, Mr. J. A. Kuhn,
now sketching at Port Townsend, Wash-
ington Territory, promises us a few rare
specimens of crania from that far-off re-
gion. Mr. K. will also bring a portfolio
well filled with photographic views of the
magnificent scenery abounding in that
wonderful country.

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Baillie, and he is a native of Dalrymple, Robert Burns. His name is Ebenezer near Ayr. He was born May 7, 1767, thus making him 101 years and three months old. When a boy he was at school and slept in the same bed with the poet; his brother, a tailor, also made clothes for him, and the two amused themselves writing verses together. Ebenezer came to Arran eighty years ago as a weaver, but farmed a little, and in summer employed himself at the herring fishing. He worked at weaving till he was ninety years of age. For the last six years he has mostly been confined to bed, but the other day he was sufficiently well to sit on a chair and have his likeness taken by a photographer. His faculties, intelligent and has a correct memory, he we are told, are all sound; and, as he is can talk freely of events which happened ninety years ago. He has a large and wellbuilt head, has been a temperately living has the appearance of living for some time man, and, notwithstanding his great age, yet.

["Temperate living." There is great significance in those words. Our modes of living have much to do with prolonging or shortening our lives. Most men-young and old-we meet are sick. One thinks it necessary to use cod-liver oil, another bitters, another tobacco, porter, "peach pits," and so forth. Nearly all dose one way or another. Hence they must be sick.]

Religious Newspaper." What is the meanTHE METHODIST," a National ing of this sub-title, "National ?" Are we and that, of the Methodist persuasion? to have, in America, a national religion? Our readers may find the prospectus on but we take it to mean that the Methodist another page, and judge as well as we; newspaper intends to occupy a broader field than that of the official Methodist

press. All official Methodist papers are local in circulation, representing certain patronizing Conferences. It is expected that each journal will confine active efforts, so far as circulation is concerned, to its own immediate field. The Methodist aims to be more than local both in circulation and the character of its contents, adapting itself to the Methodists of NEW YORK MEDICAL COL-designed to be the central organ of the the whole country. In other words, it is LEGE FOR WOMEN.-The sixth annual session of this institution will commence the first Monday in November next, at their new building, corner of Twelfth Street and Second Avenue. Dispensary at the same place.

SWEET HONEY FROM "NEAR THE LAKE."-While men hoe and plant, mow and reap; and while women cook, wash, and dress,

"The little busy bee

Improves each shining hour,
And gathers honey all the day
From every opening flower."
And then we sinners take it away from
them! Where is the justice in that? Not
to moralize more on the point, we are in
truth bound to confess that we like honey!
especially that clear, white sort in the
comb, made on white clover blossoms,
lilies, and roses-such as we received from
our friend George C. Turner, of Fair
Haven, Cayuga County, N. Y., close to
Lake Ontario. Why, the honey itself is
as fragrant as the richest nosegay; and its
flavor! we can compare it to nothing but
itself. And this makes us wonder why
every farmer doesn't keep bees; cultivate
orchard fruits, sow clover, etc., on which
the bees could live, grow fat, and lay up a
lot of sweetening for winter. It is easier
to grow honey than butter. Then why

not?

LONG LIFE.-There lives at Whiting Bay, Island of Arran, Scotland, a centenarian who was a companion of

Methodist Episcopal Church, and yet so entirely catholic in its spirit as to adapt it to all Christian people of whatever name.

prehensive. Sermons-every week-by The paper is ever fresh, crisp, and comHenry Ward Beecher, Newman Hall, or by their own bishops and ministers, are given. It is nicely printed, and every way worthy the very liberal patronage it already enjoys. We hope all our readers will inclose a two-cent stamp to the publisher, and ask for a sample copy, after which, if they approve, they may subscribe.

It will be seen that all those subscribing now or at any time previous to the 1st of the next year, will receive the paper for the balance of this year free, thus giving those who subscribe now, fifteen months at the price of one year's subscription.

THE ROUND TABLE.Among all the literary weekly newspapers published in this country, the Round Table stands at the head. Its writers are educated men; and if they did not sometimes walk "on stilts," they would make a more popular, if not so scholarly, journal. Authors, preachers, artists, book and magazine publishers, and literary men generally, patronize the Round Table. This journal is fashioned after the best European models, and is the most creditable specimen of newspaper typography pubtics, science, and religion it must speak lished in this city or country. Of its polifor itself. Specimens will be sent in accordance with advertised terms.

LIFE INSURANCE.

WHAT is its use? The American philosopher, Benjamin Franklin, is reported to have said, "A Policy of Life Assurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family." Lord Lyndhurst said: "A Policy of Life Assurance is always an evidence of prudent forethought; no man with a dependent family is free from reproach if not assured." Professor De Morgan said: "There is nothing in the commercial world which approaches even remotely to the security of a well established and prudently managed Life Assurance Company." Henry Ward Beecher said: "Once the question was, 'Can a Christian man rightfully seek Life Insurance?' Now the question is, 'Can a Christian man justify himself in neglecting such a duty?'" Elizur Wright said: "As population, intelligence, and refinement advance, Life Insurance must become a more essential part of the social fabric."

Where one has no family to provide for,-if he be a MAN, he ought to have a familyhe may have relatives whom he would be glad to benefit. Or he may wish to endow a school, a college, or found a public library, a church, or a public park. Is there a man who has no desire to do some permanent good in the world?-some act for which he may be kindly remembered? Here is the way to do it. Take out a paid-up Life Policy

and make it over to the person, relatives, or charity you would establish and perpetu

ate. The cost is moderate-the benefit great.

But in what company shall we insure? That is a matter for each to decide for himself. Of late there are springing up companies of "specialists." In London there is a Quaker Life Insurance Company, in which only "Friends" can be insured. In New York we have a company managed by, and in the interests of, Methodists Israelites being excluded from certain fire insurance companies, will, we presume, establish Jewish companies, and shut

out Christians. 1937

Why not? Why

not "birds of a

feather" together here as elsewhere? And now we have a HOMEOPATHIC Mutual Life Insurance Company-see advertisement-in which all who are treated, when ill, according to Hahnemann, can be insured at a lower rate. This, we learn, is the case in England. The New York Homeopathic Life Insurance Company is founded upon two prominent ideas, namely: 1st. That the adoption of what is called the Homeopathic practice in medicine may be safely relied upon to lengthen human life, and thus diminish the amount necessary to be charged for insuring a life at a given age. 2d. That it is not necessary to a safe and legitimate Life Insurance business to follow the custom now generally prevalent, of charging for premiums a sum confessedly higher than is required to insure the risk assumed, with a view to returning the overplus in the form of dividends.

Persons curious to know the creeds of all the various schools of medicine, Allopathic, Homeopathic, Hydropathic, Eclectic, Thompsonian, Magnetic, Mesmeric, Heroic, and the rest, may find a complete history of them all in the "Illustrated Hydropathic Encyclopedia," published at this office, price $4 50, post-paid.

Here is what Dr. James Johnson says of medicines and of the experimenters: "I declare it to be my most conscientious opinion, that if there were not a single physician, or surgeon, or apothecary, or man-midwife, or chemist, or druggist, or drug in the world, there would be LESS MORTALITY among mankind than there is now.

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On the 4th of May, 1863, the Surgeon-General of the Army of the United States ordered calomel and tartar emetic to be struck from the list of army supplies,

Dr. John Forbes, physician to Queen Victoria, says, that "Nature often cures in spite of the doctor," and adds, "things have come to such a pitch that they must mend or end." According to Dr. Routh (a dístinguished physician), the statistics of diseases treated homeopathically and allopathically are as follows:

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Of the correctness of this table we know nothing. But, if true, we should agree with Doctors Johnson and Forbes, that the little medicines given by the homeopaths are less fatal than the larger doses given by other schools. But why not get up a company by the rules of which no drug medicines are to be given? Would it not put the death rate still lower? Here is a chance for the hydropaths or water-cure doctors.

HERE ARE THE KINDS OF INSURANCE OFFERED BY THE H. M. L. I. Co.-They issue all the approved forms of Policies, with provisions rendering them non-forfeitable for failure to pay premium, or surrender of the Policies within ninety days.

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POLICY FOR LIFE.-This is a policy on what is called the ordinary life plan," by which the Company agrees to pay a certain sum at the death of the assured, on condition that he shall pay the Company annually while he lives, a certain sum by way of premium. This was the first, and for a long time the only plan of Life Insurance.

TEN-YEAR LIFE POLICY.-By this plan the assured pays all his premium in ten years, and then has no more to pay--the Policy being payable at his death. This is the favorite policy.

ORDINARY ENDOWMENT.-This Policy promises to pay the assured himself a certain sum of money at an age agreed upon, or to any person designated by him, in case he dies before reaching such age, on condition of receiving a certain sum in premium during every year of his life, until the time appointed for the payment of the Policy.

TEN-YEAR ENDOWMENT.-This Policy is the same as the last, except that, like the ten

year Life Policy, it provides that the premium shall be all paid in ten years, however long the time before the Policy becomes payable.

TERM POLICY.-This table provides for cases where a party desires to secure another for a loan or a credit, expecting to terminate the obligation within a given time. It insures for one or seven years, those being the terms which experience shows to be generally required in such cases, etc.

Now, we shall not oppose this enterprise. On the contrary, we wish it success. We see in it something educational. It will tend, so far as it goes, to dissuade people from killing themselves by drugging and dosing.

If any of the benevolent readers of the PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL choose to take out a Life Insurance Policy for $5,000, $10,000, $20,000, or for $100,000, and will assign the same to the Phrenological Society, it would be cheerfully accepted, and, at the proper time, the funds would go toward establishing an institution whose usefulness promises to be coequal with man's necessities. Let us have it.

Business.

[Under this head we publish, for a consideration, such matters as rightfully belong to

this department. We disclaim responsibility

for what may herein appear. Matter will be LEADED, and charged according to the space occupied, at the rate of $1 a line.]

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METHODIST;

AN EIGHT.PAGE WEEKLY, RELIGIOUS AND LITERARY. PUBLISHED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

This Journal has now entered upon its Ninth year of highly successful publication. Its course has been such as to win the approbation, not only of the denomination whose name it bears, but of all Christian people of whatever name or sect. It commands the best Literary ability of the

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

and represents loyally and courageously its various interests as well as the great
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Intelligence from the various departments of the Church; has an able Foreign and
Home Correspondence, and aims to cultivate a spirit of unity among all Christian
Churches.

THE METHODIST is and ever has been the uncompromising Advocate of

From the Buffalo (M. E.) Christian Advocate.

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From the New York Independent.

There is no more readable paper upon our exchange-list than our neighbor, THE METHODIST. Its selections are made with excellent judgment, it has an extensive and interesting correspondence, it has a literary department, provides well for the children, and furnishes financial and commercial reports like ourselves. The editorial page is marked by able writing, and always sides with justice in the vital questions of these

LAY REPRESENTATION IN THE GENERAL CONFERENCE. times. We wish it continued success.

As a FAMILY PAPER this Journal has no superior and very few equals; its various departments being made up with reference to the wants of all, from the eldest down to the little folks.

REV. GEORGE R. CROOKS, D.D.,

assisted by the following able corps of

Editorial Contributors:

REV. ABEL STEVENS, LL.D.,
REV. B. H. NADAL, D.D.,
REV. T. M. EDDY, D.D.,

REV. JOHN MCCLINTOCK, D.D.,

From the New York Evening Post.

THE METHODIST is one of the very best of the religious weeklies of this country.

From the Rutland (Vt.) Herald.

THE METHODIST, published in New York by an association of gentlemen, is not only the ablest and best conducted paper of the denomination whose name it bears, but is really one of the best and most spirited and thoroughly edited papers among the religious periodicals in the country. Its literary merits are certainly excelled by none. REV. JAMES M. FREEMAN, A.M., It reaches many families outside of its own denomination on account of its catholic spirit, as well as on account of its stories for folks. young

REV. H. B. RIDGAWAY, D.D.,

PROF. A. J. SCHEM.

BISHOP SIMPSON will hereafter be a frequent contributor.

The Sermon Department

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In typographical appearance THE METHODIST is unrivaled. It is printed on good paper, from the clearest of type, and is paged and indexed, for filing and binding.

The News Department is under the supervision of an Editor who makes it a specialty; so that the reader gets the latest, most carefully arranged, and reliable account of the current events, both Religious and Secular, of the stirring times in which we live.

The Children's Department contains a fresh story every week, written expressly

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Altogether, as a religious and literary weekly newspaper, THE METHODIST has been pronounced, by disinterested judges, to be without a superior. Its visits to any family will pay back its price, to every careful reader, a hundred-fold.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

The following are a few of the many notices which THE METHODIST has recently received from the press. We have cut out every notice that we found in our exchanges, and, in again looking over the selection, it gives us great pleasure to see that there is not one among the notices that dissents from the opinion expressed by the following: From the New York Tribune.

THE METHODIST has long been in the first rank of the religious journals of our country.

From the Western Methodist Protestant.

It is conducted with marked ability, and is one of the best, if not the very best Methodist paper received at this office.

From the American Presbyterian.

Among our entire list of exchanges none is more welcome to our table than THE METHODIST. As a religious and literary newspaper, it is a desirable visitant to any household.

From the Religious Telescope (United Brethren in Christ).

It is one among the few papers on our long exchange-list which we read carefully every week. It has a variety, fullness, and completeness rarely found in a newspaper. From the Witness, Indianapolis (Baptist).

It is conducted with rare ability, is especially rich in foreign intelligence-in short, is one of the best and most readable of our exchanges.

From the Round Table.

THE METHODIST is one of the best, if not the very best, religious journals in this country.

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GROUND COFFEE, 20c., 25c., 30c., 35c., best 40c. per lb. Hotels, Saloons, Boarding-plete, which no other machine can accom-
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N. B.-Inhabitants of villages and towns where a large number reside, by clubbing together, can reduce the cost of their Teas and Coffee about one-third (besides the Express charges), by sending directly to "The Great American Tea Company."

CAUTION.-As many parties in this city and elsewhere are imitating our name and manner of doing business, we hope our friends will be particular to address their letters to our principal warehouses, "Nos. 31, 33, 35, & 37 Vesey Street; Post-office Box, 5643, New York City." Attention to this will avoid mistakes.

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