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58 Toaugigua (fleshless women), alias Gigemine, More properly, Tzitzimimine 
(Anales II, 7, 7), the dreadful ones, ‘Lhe conclusion of a cycle was a grave event 
for the Mexicans, for, according to their religious ideas, it was possibly the date 
for the end of the world. ‘All the inhabitants,” says Torquemada, ‘were in 
great fear and trembling lest when the lights were extinguished they should 
never more be rekindled, but on that very night the human race would come 
to an end, and darkness eternal would reign over all; nosun should ever appear 
again, but the 7zitzimimes, fearful demons, would descend and eat up all man- 
kind,” <Anales, ée, II, t, 7. 
591. Se echaron wna con otra. 
59k Quey, ver, omitted? In which case the sentence read ste no pudo (ver), a 
Montezuma, could not bear with Montezuma, detested him, 
6 How much more humane than the maxim ofthe civil law, partus sequitur 
ventrem! One who lay with animmature girl, oranother’s slave, became a slave, 
(Garcia, 8, 2, 111; Torquemada, x11, 8; Herrera, IV, 8, 10 ) 
ot Tianguez should be more properly Tianquitzli, (Anales ITT, 2, 66.) 
® Paps, “The Mexicans called in their tongue the Supreme Pontiffs by 
the name of Papa.” (Herrera ITT, rr, vv, p. 690. Similiter, Garcia V, X11, 300.) 
Papachtic. “ He of the flowing locks,” corrupted to Papa, was one of the names 
of Quetzalecoatl (A. H. M., 69), hence the title may easily have been transferred 
to his priests, 
The Pennsylwania Prison System. By Richard Vaua. 
(Read before the American Philosophical Society, June 20, 1884.) 
The Pennsylvania Prison System had its origin in an effort to correct 
the abuses in the place of incarceration of all classes of violators of law. 
The common jail, under the colonial government of the Province of 
Pennsylvania, was the receptacle of every such offender. 
In the city prison of Philadelphia, located at Market and Third streets, 
in 1770, young and old, black and white, men and women, boys and girls 
were congregated indiscriminately in custody, for misconduct, misdemea- 
nor, and felony, either before trial, after conviction, or for want of bail 
for surety of the peace. It was a moral pest-house. Bad as it was, it was 
better than Newgate, for England was without a rival in the infamous 
management of her then chief public prison in London. 
So early as 1775 a sensible, thoughtful man—a merchant—Mr. Richard 
Wistar, residing near by, had his attention directed to the horrible condi- 
tion of this city prison. In 1776, on the Vth of February, a society was 
formed, styled the ‘Philadelphia Society for Assisting Distressed Pris- 
oners.’”? The occupation of Philadelphia by the British army terminated 
the labors of this society in the month of September, 1777. In the year 
1787, May 8th, the first society was revived by its successor ‘‘'The Phila- 
delphia Society for Alleviating the Misery of Public Prisons.”’ Some of 
the members of the first Society, and others like-minded, engaged in this 
revival of the organization of 1776. 
On the 16th of August, 1787, William White, D,D., Bishop of the Prot- 
