Purification 3882 Putnam on a huge car and drau Jim piuceshion through the streets. Tliis un-at uir testival attracts hosts of pilgrims every year. Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast of the, a festival nlwru-d on February 2, and otherwise known as Candle- mas, from llu1 ancient custom of piorosioninfjj with lapeis. Purim, the Jewish festival, observed on the 14!h and 15th Ad.ir, and intended to com- memorate the deliverance of the Jews in Persia from the plot of Haman. Puritans, a part> which, though nominally taking its rise at the time when Archbishop Parker, at the request of Queen Kli/aheth, formulated the constitution, articles, and rit- ual ol the national Church of Knuland, really owes its oriirin to the influence of \Vy* lii'fe and the Lollards. Already in the rritin ol James i. (i6,:o) the Tils-rim leathers' had tah- en their depart me in the Mttvflvwr to found in the New World a Puritan state. The\ es- tablished the colony of Plymouth, on the coast of Massachusetts. A lew years later, in the reign of Charles IM i\ great wave of Puri- tan migration built up the colony of Mas-a- chusetts Hay, an offshoot of which was the colony of Connecticut. The distinctive doc- trines and principles of Puritanism have been set forth by 'the Puritan divines,' chief among whom are, Richard Sibbes, John Owen, Thom- as Goodwin, Thomas Adams, John Howe, Stephen Charnock, Richard Baxter, and Mat- thew Henry. Purple, a color that in white li^ht emits principally red and blue rays the red pre- dominating; thus it varies from scarlet and crimson on the one hand to violet, on the other* in the latter of which the proportion of blue rays is the larger. In the ancient world the most famous purple color was Tyrian pur- in salad and the older ones for pickling. Purvcs, George Tybout (1852-10.00, American dergjman, was born in Philadel- phia. Kioiu moo until his death he was pas- tor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. Pus, in «urj.',ery, the thick creamy fluid which results fiom suppuration, and fills ab- scess cavities and i< found on the surfaces of unhealthy ulcers. Pusey, Edward Bouverie (1800-82), Knglish theologian, was born at Pusey House in H-rkshire. In iS.^5 he published his cele- brated tract on #i//'//sw. At that time Pusey was L'eni-ially ieco^ni/ed as leader of the Ox- ford Hi cih Church movement, and a few ycais later the word 'PtHcyism' came into vogue. On May i.j. iXj.<, he preached the celebrated 'condemned sermon,' whose subject was 'The Holy Kucharist a Comfort to the Penitent.1' The Memorial Pu«ey House at Ox- lord hold* his library and perpetuates his teachings, Pushkin, Alexander Scrgeievitch < i7«>r>-iX,<7l, Russian poet, dramatist, novel- i"-t, and historian, was bom in Moscow. He became the centei of every literar\ circle in St. Petersburg. Hut he led a wild and dissolute life, and twice within three years lay at death's door from fever brought on by his recklessness. Yet in tin* mitNl of his dissipa- tion he still had power and energy to work at Riuhiu and Lymhniltt (1X17-^0). Resides many smaller poems he wrote fix parts of KIWHI* Ont'i'jn (utilized as the subject of an opera by TchnikoV'-ki) and Boris Godutwff (iiS.i5). He completed Jhttft'Ht' (hwgin, his masterpiece, in is,s.\ His //7,',/wy oj the Pu- \\tit cttctf hiMtm'ctfon . Pustules, in medidne, pirn plus or olcva- tititih of the skin containing pus, which occur in many skin diseu^ crthyma, boils ekv IVvers ..... smallpox, Putnam, city, ecxema, acne, scabies, -and with certain of the Connecticut. The 'Wolf 3)ni* is the scene of (Jen. Israel Putnam's al- exploit with the wolf. (^irKill Falls was tin* site of the first cotton mill in Connecticut; P* 7,775* Putnam, Frederic Ward American anthropologist, was born In Salem,