The Keim and allied families in America and Europe . Took a stroll, first polishing up afterthe journey, while awaiting dinner at7 p. m. Entertained by snake-charmers. ThePambatees or snake-charmers come fromthe Ghauts, in fact might be said to beborn and raised among venemous rep-tiles. The star performer in the snake lineis the Cobra di Capello or hooded orspectacle snake. The master carries sixor eight of these reptiles in a basket inwhich the serpents lie entwined to-gether. The lid is raised and the s?rpentstars crawl The charmer plays onthe magootee, an instrument resemblinga bag-p
The Keim and allied families in America and Europe . Took a stroll, first polishing up afterthe journey, while awaiting dinner at7 p. m. Entertained by snake-charmers. ThePambatees or snake-charmers come fromthe Ghauts, in fact might be said to beborn and raised among venemous rep-tiles. The star performer in the snake lineis the Cobra di Capello or hooded orspectacle snake. The master carries sixor eight of these reptiles in a basket inwhich the serpents lie entwined to-gether. The lid is raised and the s?rpentstars crawl The charmer plays onthe magootee, an instrument resemblinga bag-pipe. The snakes beat the ca-dences by bobbing their heads till theyfall asleep. They are aroused when the musicstops. The charmer puts a ring with apiece of red cloth on his arm. The ser-pent darts at it. but the charmer hav-ing extracted the poison pouch andpulled the fangs is exempt from harm. The musical instrument consists of ahollow calabash on one end a mouth-piece and the other a tube with holesmanipulated like a clarionet. (To be continued). Dr. George DeBenneville, the —Son of the Founder of Universalism in America—1850. UNIVERSALISM IN AMERICA. GEORGE DeBENN ES. ANNE DeB. MEARS con-tributes the following, hith-erto unpublished letter, fromher grandfather, Dr. George DeBenne-ville, the younger, to Eev. ThomasWhittemore, a ITniversalist clergyman,of Boston, Mass., in reference to theelder deBennevilles teachings of thefuture: Branchtowjst, Philada. Co., Pa.,Six miles from the City of Philadelphia,25 th September, 1829. Dear Sir: Yours of the 11th of August has cometo hand, and I should have answered itere this, but owing to some scruple inmy mind: For when I come to remem- flLLE, FOUNDER. ber that it was the wishes of my vener-able and honored father to have nothingpublished concerning his pilgrimagethrough life. His trance, which was pub-lished by the late Eev. Mr. Winchester,was done without his knowledge. He had written his life in the Frenchtongue, a
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