"He casually added that the fisheries dispute might lead to trouble, and she would be prudent to let our boys get bait along shore where it seemed handiest. "I know of no other thing in which there is so much entertainment as mesmerism. For the benefit of those who desire to experiment I append certain conclusions from my own experiments here: "1. About one person in ten can be mesmerized. "2. The proportion of people who have the 'power' to mesmerize, if it be a power, I do not know. "3. Mesmerism is a trance and seems to me almost identical with somnambulism. "4. It is as harmless as sleep. My sensitives occasionally come to me in the daytime to be put to sleep for the purpose of obtaining rest. "5. Hallucinations that take place under mesmerism are seldom remembered in a subsequent waking state, but are generally recalled with vividness in a subsequent mesmeric state. "6. Mesmerized subjects do not see the objects or people in the room, or hear any noise whatever except the voice of the operator. "7. My sensitives could have an arm or a leg amputated, I have no doubt, without suffering any pain. "8. Some of my sensitives are able to tell what goes on behind them and where they cannot see it, by some occult sense of which I am ignorant. I am at present pursuing study along this line. "Others here are now experimenting, and I think mesmerism is the coming fashionable 'fad.' "W. A. CROFFUT." ANIMAL MAGNETISM.--Methinks that if some of our eminent (?) scientists were to investigate this much abused subject (as all of them might) they would soon find themselves _hors de combat_ in relation to their premises that all manifestations of mind are nothing but products of matter. Huxley, for instance, that the "mind is a voltaic pile giving shocks of thought," and many other quotations equally as absurd by other materialistic philosophers (?) who claim prominence as such. As long ago as 1843 I was induced to investigate and try this phenomenon mainly for a hygienic purpose and afterwards led on by curiosity. I had no teacher, consulted no works on the subject, but derived all I learned in relation thereto by my own individual experiments, and in parenthesis say that what I learned I hold as above all price in settling in my mind the vexed question, "to be or not to be."