e listened a moment, smiled and
said: 'I reciprocate those feelings, as do all Americans, and I
trust that the amicable relations so long preserved between this
republic and the mighty realm of which you are the honored and
beloved ruler may never be broken.'

"'Where can the lady hang her crown?' I asked him. 'It must have
a peck of diamonds in it. Can't I take it?'

"He looked scornfully at me and I added: 'Can't the boys manage
to get it away from her Majesty when she goes down stairs?'

"'You are a disgrace to this administration, Dan, and have got to
be fired out!' the President exclaimed angrily to me, and then
he humbly apologized to the Queen.

"He casually added that the fisheries dispute might lead to
trouble, and she would be prudent to let our boys get bait along
shore where it seemed handiest.

"I know of no other thing in which there is so much
entertainment as mesmerism. For the benefit of those who desire
to experiment I append certain conclusions from my own
experiments here:

"1. About one person in ten can be mesmerized.

"2. The proportion of people who have the 'power' to mesmerize,
if it be a power, I do not know.

"3. Mesmerism is a trance and seems to me almost identical with
somnambulism.

"4. It is as harmless as sleep. My sensitives occasionally come
to me in the daytime to be put to sleep for the purpose of
obtaining rest.

"5. Hallucinations that take place under mesmerism are seldom
remembered in a subsequent waking state, but are generally
recalled with vividness in a subsequent mesmeric state.

"6. Mesmerized subjects do not see the objects or people in the
room, or hear any noise whatever except the voice of the
operator.

"7. My sensitives could have an arm or a leg amputated, I have
no doubt, without suffering any pain.

"8. Some of my sensitives are able to tell what goes on behind
them and where they cannot see it, by some occult sense of which
I am ignorant. I am at present pursuing study along this line.

"Others here are now experimenting, and I think mesmerism is the
coming fashionable 'fad.'

"W. A. CROFFUT."

ANIMAL MAGNETISM.--Methinks that if some of our eminent (?) scientists
were to investigate this much abused subject (as all of them might)
they would