Miss Nichol, transport medium.

In these last days, the Hotel of the Two Worlds, on the rue d’Antin, was the theater of the supernatural sessions given by the celebrated medium Nichol, only in the presence of a few initiates.

Mrs. Nichol is going to Rome to submit to the examination of the Holy Father her extraordinary faculty, which consists of making showers of flowers fall. – This is what is called a transport medium. (Newspaper Paris, January 15, 1869.)

Mrs. Nichol is from London, where she enjoys a certain reputation as a medium. We attended some of her experiments, in an intimate session, more than a year ago, and we confess that they left us much to be desired. It is true that we are tolerably skeptical with regard to certain manifestations, and somewhat demanding as to the conditions under which they are produced, not that we cast doubt on the good faith of that lady: we say only that what we saw did not seem to us capable of convincing the incredulous. We wish her good luck with the Holy Father; she will certainly have no difficulty in convincing him of the reality of the phenomena that are today openly confessed by the clergy. (See the work entitled: The Spirits and their relations with the visible world, by the abbot Triboulet.) n But we very much doubt that she will succeed in getting them to officially recognize that they are not works of the devil. Rome is an unhealthy land for mediums who do not perform miracles according to the Church.

It will be recalled that in 1864 Mr.

Home, who was going to Rome, not to exercise his faculty, but solely to study sculpture, found himself forced to yield to the injunction made to him to leave the city within twenty-four hours. (Review of February 1864.) [see Transports and other tangible phenomena, by Erasto.]

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