ich occur in the house at Woodstock,
New Brunswick, of Mr. Reginald C. Hoyt. The people of the town are
greatly excited about it, and great crowds gather to witness it, but
no one can explain it. The fires break out with no possible cause in
the clothes, the carpet, the curtains, bed quilts, or other objects,
as much as forty times in a day. The family are greatly worried and
alarmed, and have been driven out of the house. The _Herald_ reporter
went to examine, but found it an entire mystery.

A similar outbreak of fires has been reported in Pennsylvania, at the
house of Thomas McKee, a farmer at Turtle Creek. For some weeks the
invisible powers have been throwing things about in a topsy turvey
way. Since that, flames break out suddenly in the presence of the
family, and round holes are burned in the bed-clothes, towels, hats,
dresses, and even packages of groceries in the pantry.

PRACTICAL UTILITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY.

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There is no great reform, no elevation of humanity without
understanding MAN,--the laws of his culture, the possibilities within
his reach, the extent of the short-comings which exist to-day, the
very numerous agencies of brain-building and soul-culture, the wiser
methods of the school, the magnetic influences which are sometimes all
potent, the dietary, the exercises of body and voice, the power of
music and disciplined example, the lofty outreachings for a higher
life to which we are introduced by psychometry, the supernal and
divine influences which may be brought to bear, and many nameless
things which help to make the aggregate omnipotent over young life,
but which, alas, are unknown in colleges to-day, and will continue
unknown until Anthropology shall have taken its place as the guide of
humanity.

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P.S.--The doctrine so firmly maintained in this chapter that men are
incompetent to judge themselves, and need a scientific monitor of
unquestionable authority, has long been recognized. The Catholic
confessional is a recognition and application of the principles of
great value. But the confessional of the narrow-minded and miseducated
priest should be superseded by the confessional and the admonition of
Anthropology.

Sterne, in his Tristam Shandy, says, "Whenever a man's conscience does
accuse him (as it seldom errs on that side), he is guilty, and unless
he is melancholy and hypochondriac, there is always sufficient