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 mothers religion, and no pressure will draw
 ms into any avowal of hostility or unfriend-
 Illness to Catholics, though have never fe- ceived and do not expect any political sup. port from them. You are at liberty to show this to the gentleman who urged you to write me.
 Collector Warrington of Boston, who was charged with violating the civil service rules by appointing Mir. Whitehouse to position in the Boston custom house, has been vindi- Whitehouse had held position in the custom house, but some thought he vacated it by accepting an election to the New Hampshire legislature, and serving as a member during it's session But it appeared that his name had all the time been retained on the rolls of the custom house, SO that his office was never vacant, and that he had leave of absence from the collector during the ses- sion of the legislature. The Massachusett civil service reform league, through it's sec retary. John Quincy, called Secretary Fol gers attention to the case, asking whether Collectors Worthington's explanation was satisfactory to the treasury department, and whether the retention of Whitehouse's name on the rolls was consistent with it's rules Secretary Folger answered that the matter was submitted to the civil service commission, which decided that in retaining the services of Whitehouse there had been no violation of the civil service rules. The secretary says, however, that in allowing him to hold two offices at the same time there was violation of the executive order of January 17. 1873, which did not come to the knowledge of the department until after the violation had ceased. Thus is everything made smooth for the collector and for Whitehouse.
 Dr. Dumontpallier, 8 Frenchman, thinks he has discovered that in certain cases the hallucinations of chronic mania can only be accounted for by the fact that one, half of the brain may become more active than the oth- CT. circumstance which leads him to con- olude that there is functional independence between the hemispheres of the brain. The manner in which he demonstrates this fact is interesting. The patient Is put into the somnambulistic state. The object is to pro- duce two different yet simultaneous halluci- nations, one of them caused by the action of one half of the brain, and the other by a wholly independent action upon the other hemisphere. Accordingly the doctor tells the patient at his right ear that the weather is fine and the sun warm and bright; his as- sistant upon the left tells him at the same time that it rains. The result is that the pa- tient smiles with one-half of the face, while disoontent shows itself upon the other. The demonstration becomes still more marked when the hallucination of two different sem sorial organs, hearing and sight, are excited. For this the doctor tells the patient at his right ear that he is in the country, and draws mental picture, picnic, in which he is taking part. At the same moment an as- sistant is initiating the barking of a dog at the left ear. On one side of the face the patient smiles with delight, while the other expresses annoyance and terror. "There is 10 mimic,'' says the doctor, however skill full he may be, who can give expression sim- altaneously upon each side of his faceeto emotions so opposed ''