to a knowledge of the 'occult,' exists, practises his arts, and through a period of years has retained his old patients, and the postulants before his supposed demigodship, while adding constantly to their number. In this he is a remarkable man. He has accumulated quite a respectable property, and is decidedly one of the 'institutions' of the enlightened and cultivated city of Hartford. "It should be remarked here that Worthy was, during the late civil war, a true patriot. He was attached to the twenty-ninth regiment Connecticut Volunteers, under Colonel Wooster (a 'colored' regiment), and was 'gone to the war' over two years. His powers as a 'clairvoyant,' or 'fore-seer,' served him in the war, and he 'always knew what was coming,' he says. As a part of the curious history of the war, serving to show how little the people of the North understood, in the first years of the contest, that they were fighting for a great humanitary end,--the abolition of chattel slavery,--it may be noted here, that Worthy wrote to Governor Buckingham, in August, 1862, proposing to raise a black regiment, and the governor, by his secretary, replied to Worthy's proposition, that he then did 'not deem it expedient,'--which fact institutes a comparison between the judgments of the governor and Worthy, not uncomplimentary to the latter." [Illustration] II. APOTHECARIES. FIRST MENTION OF.--A POOR SPECIMEN.--ELIZABETHAN.--KING JAMES I. [VI.].--ALLSPICE AND ALOES, SUGAR AND TARTAR EMETIC.--WAR.--PHYSICIAN VS. APOTHECARY.--IGNORANCE.--STEALING A TRADE.--A LAUGHABLE PRESCRIPTION.--"CASTER ILE."--MODERN DRUG SWALLOWING.--MISTAKES.-- "STEALS THE TOOLS ALSO."--SUBSTITUTES.--"A QUID."--A "SMELL" OF PATENT MEDICINES.--"A SAMPLE CLERK." There are few occupations wherein Old Time has wrought so few changes as in that of the apothecary's. What it was four hundred years ago it is to-day! Who first invented its weights, measures, and symbols, I am unable to say; but it is a fact that they remain the same as when first made mention of by the earliest writers on the subject. Drop into the "corner drug store,"--and what corner has none!--examine the balances, the tables of weights and measures, the graduating glass, the signs for grains, scruples, ounces, and pounds, and you will find them the same as those used by the earliest known _medical_ apothecaries, by those of the Elizabethan period, or when King Lear (Lyr) said, "Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination; there's money for thee." The money has changed; _names_ of drugs are somewhat altered; some new ones have taken the place of old ones; prescriptions changed in quality; but quantities, and modes of expressing them, are unchanged. "In the middle ages an apothecary was the keeper of any shop or warehouse, and an officer appointed to take charge of a magazine."--_Webster._