Professor Faraday and the Spirits.

Evening Post, Issue 69, 29 April 1865, Page 3

Professor Faraday and the Spirits.

-•Faraday sent a very good reply to an invitation to a spirit seance. He has been too much disappointed, he says, in the manifestations he has witnessed to waste any more time on them voluntarily. But "if spirit communications not utterly worthless should hapjrcn to 8 tart into activity, I will trust the Bpirws to find out foT themselves how they can move my attention. I am tired of them." And no wonder. A spirit able to interest Faraday ought to care for light and science, .and all the spirits hitherto manifested confessedly prefer darkness and encourage nescience. — Spectator. With four metallic qualifications a man may be pretty sure of success. These are — gold in his pocket, silver in his tongue, brass in his face, and iron in his heart. An Irish cripr at Ballinasloe, being ordered to clear the court, did so by his announcement :—": — " Now, then, all ye blackguards that isn't lawyers must leave the court," The embalmed Egyptian Kings have, no doubt, imparted more instruction as mummies than they ever did as living creatures. An eye-glass has been well defined as a toy which enables a coxcomb to see others, and others to see that he is a coxcomb. There are two ways of getting rich ; one by adding to our, possessions, the other by diminishing our' desires ; the latter is much the easier and readier. Moral reflection by a a policeman :— "lt seems to me that with many young men the most approved method of winding up the night is reeling it home." , What things increase the more you contract them ? — Debts. When is the wind of use to a country engaged in war ? — When it blows great guns. Why do cats see best in the dark": — Because they eat lights. When has a man four hands ?— When he doubles his fists. Break a woman's heart, and she will smile and forgive you. Break a joke upon her face, and she declares war — war to the scissors] An old lady who imagined that the sea must be very dirty because so many people bathed in it, was consoled on being informed that it washed upon the beach erery morning. A great many households, like ancient Rome, suffer grievously from the Tartars.