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Evening Star, Issue 3421, 7 February 1874, Page 2

Mr Walker, tbe now Mayor of Liverpool, has announced his intention to provide an art gallery for the town, at a cost of L‘20,000. Ihe Russians and Americans have from time to time discovered affinities towards eacli other of divers lauds. To these mav he added the capability shown by either nation for producing extraordinary religious sects. The latest thinin tnat hue which has come to our knowledge seems worthy of a passing remark. The fair sectarians—for with one exception they were all of one sex- dwelt in the Russian town of Porchov, and were named Seraphinovski, from their founder and teacher, Rather Beraphinus. Their creed was implicit belief in their reverend leader; their practice consisted in cutting off their hair. Women were converted in crowds, and soon there would have been little or no long hair left in Porchov, when the police were moved to inquire into the subject. They discovered that Father Seraphinus had a brother who dealt in coiffures, and that monk and barber united to drive a very pretty trade in the tresses sacrificed by the devotees. The , seraphic .doctor now lies in prison, \viih leisure to meditate on the disadvantages qf combining J poligioa and business.— ‘ J*alJ sudget. r * 1