THE REFORM ED BURGLAR. My-name-is-Louisa Law, and-I-am thé “scolded Jane for almitting him into. the |: wife—I am afraid that, to be quite truthful, I ought to say the plain and middle-aged wife—of a hard-working general practitioner im-one-of-the suburbs 6: Sado We have _ @ large family, who at the time of my story were still v: young, though now mort of them are aki their own way in_ the world. It is needless to add that we have never at any. od of our career over- bu with money, although we are now in comfortable circumstances, owing chiefly to the fortunate intervéhtion of a reformed thoroughfare near Oxford Street on my re- turn from a shopping expedition, w respectable-looking man, dre ike a me- chanic, suddenly stooped just in front of me lifted—or appeared to Hft—something from the pavement.’ ‘‘ Might this be your ped ma'‘am ?” he civilly asked, as he eld out a purse towards me. ‘‘ Have you lost your purse?” Following a custom of very doubtful wis- dom, I was at that moment carrying mine in my hand., Taken off iny guard, I involun- tarily held it out, to show that it was per- fectly safe, without reflecting whether or not it was advisable to do so. ‘Oh no; the urse does not belongto me. I have mine tas all right, as you see,” Before I could divine his intention, before I could even cry out, much less fol- low him, he snatched my property from my careless hold, and darted like the wind up a narrow court which just there opened into the street ; and I was left alone to lament my folly. The loss was irremediable, for the man was quite out of sight, and no policeman was visible in the quiet street. I felt deep- ly vexed, for not gnly had there been much more money in it thana r doctor’s wife could well afford to lose, Put also the purse itself was a good one, nearly new, which for additional sécurity I had had stamped on the flap inside with my name and ad- dress, so thatif I chanced to lose it among honest people, I might thereby recover it again. Imade my way to the nearest police station to lay a complaint, but the authorities were not very sanguine that any good would result from the inquiries they promised to mase. The whole thing was Intensely annoying, “the more so that with my purse I had lost all the bills for my day’s shopping, together with other useful memoranda, and my railway ticket ; and not having a penny in my pocket to buy another, I had to go to the expense of a » cab all the way home, which made the ad- venture fvieal s costly one. I was writing some letters in the dining- room next morning, when my housemaid en- tered, bearing a gentleman’s card, with the intimation that a visitor awaited me in the drawing-room. The name given was ‘Mr. T. Gerard,” with an cddress in Fenchurch Street. “But [ know nobody of that name,” I said dubiously. ‘Are you sure it is not a imis- trike? : : } “Oh, no, ma'am ; he asked for Mrs. Law. And he’s quite the gentleman, ma’am, or I shouldn't have shown him into the drawing- m.” _ ideas of a gentleman hardiy cor- sponded with imine ; but certainly the dark- | haired, well-dressed young man who present- ed himself to my yaze on entering must be escri as eminently respectable in ap- pearance ; and accordingly I asked hi: to be seated. He wasted no time, but plunged at once ipto business. Putting is hand into his pocket, he drew out a small parcel, which he handed to me, asking if it was mine, I was agreeably suneeteet to behold my lost purse, empty, indeed, but for the papers it contained, but otherwise unin- jured. *‘It is mine. Where did you find it !” “Tamaclerk in the City, madam, em- ployed, as you see, in Fenchurch Street ; and happening to be in-——Place yesterday afternoon on business for the firm, I_ picked up this purse—it is needless to say quite empty—at the entrance of a small k street which communicates, I believe, with Oxford Street.” ‘The turning is near an upholsterer’s shop ¢” i ‘Yes, madam.” ! “Then that is the very court up which! the man escaped. e must have thrown the purse away as he ran.” And in great indignation I related my story. ‘ Mr. Gerard was shocked and grieved te think that such an outrage could be possible in a civilized capital ; and heartily wished that he had been at hand to arrest the thief in his flight. He asked if I thought I should recognize the man xgain, to withot I replied that I believed so; and then, as delicately | as I could, I began to hint that I reall could not think of troubling him to come so far out of his way only to restore my purse. But he was up in arms at the mere sugges- tion of any reward, i The sl thing I could do to show my gratitude was to ring for cake and wine and press them upon him; repeating my thanks many times as we parted, mutually pleased. “Well, at anyrate it’s a comfort to think that there are some honest people in the world,” I reflected as I returned to the din- ing-room { related the incident to my husband when he returned from his rounds ; but instead of being pleased, he rather unsympathetically remarked that it was odd the young man had nothing better to do with his time than waste it in restoring my purse, and that he pitied the firm in Fenchurch Street. Somehow, | men never will see these things as women do; they are always so hard to please and so icious ! Next day, the truth came to light. Jane, songht me out with a very pale face to inform ; me that some of the'drawing-room ornaments were missing. In accordance with the rather senseless custom of the day, my_tables and what-nots were crowded with a miscellane- ous collection of small articles, many of them My smooth-spoken young friend his spare moments well while Jane departed in search of me. A pair of silver-candlesticks, a silver snuff-box, a very costly etui of Battersea enamel with gold fittings, and atortoise shell paper-knife with asilver handle, had disappeared—no doubt forever. I had been proud of my knick- knacks, which were more_valual “perhaps befitted the establishment-of a poor rT Saute but they had cost us little, being either heirlooms or wedding presents. I sat down and cried, of course; while my husband in terse language expressed his opinion o humbugging clerks. We both “80 than | anything~he~liked~ printed, just to~ satisfy drawing-room, altho le ap- inquire among pa but not a vestige of the stolen-property was ever forthcoming. Perhaps what annoyed me even more than the serious loss was-to think how civil I had been to the depreda- tor, pressing cake and wine upon him.when all the time my property was snugly stowed. meer in his pocket! How he must have Aaughed in his sleeve at my simplicity ! The effect of my strictures upon Jane was to make her ever after very chary of admit- ting any stranger to the i man 0 bishop and the historical name, standing forlornly on the hall mat, while she came to inform my hus- band that “there was a person in the hall who wished to see him!” In short, the an- noyance produced by that unlucky purse was almost endless; and for years it was a sore subject in our house, until lapse of time caused it to be forgotten. Some years afterwards I.went down to Brighton to pay a visit to a wealthy oldaunt of mine, Miss Symes, who had resided there for along time. She was between seventy and eight » but still active and strong, her mental ies being also in full- vigour. A distant cousin of mine, Fanny Gresham, lived with her for the sake of com- ionship ;-but her duties were light, for iss Symes was ano y of a proud and independent spirit, who disliked being waited upon, and still insisted on transact- ing all her own business. She was strict in er religious observances, and among the most constant visiters to her house was the vicar of the church she attended. The first day after my arrival had been chosen by my auntto hold a drawing-room meeting in advocacy of a mission which was doing much good in the slums of London, and the founder and conductor cf which, Mr. David Bryant, was to make an appeal in person, The vicar, Mr. Stephens, was one of the first to arrive with his wife and daughters; and ina short time my aunt’s spacious drawing-room was full of people, chiefly elderly. Doubtless many of. my. readers have attended similar gatherings, so there is no .need to give a detailed ac- count of the proceedings. Mr. Bryant, who was formaly introduced to. the assemblage by the vicar, was a tall, good- looking, dark-haired man of about forty, dressed in black, with a white tie, which gave him quite a clerical appearance, al- though he was only a layman. He proceed- ed to make a long statement of the work and results of the mission, which appeared tobe achieving a great deal of good, although until that momentI had never heard of it. It was very odd, but a fancy seized me, before I had listened to Mr. Bryant very Jong, thet-T-had surely seen” him somewhere before, though I could not remember where. I listened rather abstractedly, being puzzled over this, while one person and another rose to make asfew remarks ; and last of all asalver was handed round for donations. It was a very good collection, so much that I felt quite ashamed of my modest crown, asl looked at the show of bank-notes and sovereigns and half-sovereigns. Some of the old ies“ were in tears” over Mr. Bryant’s touching account of his experience as a missionary in the slums. nen tea and coffee were handed round, and after that the company dispersed, except the vicar and Mr. Bryant, who remained to spend the evening with my aunt. My conviction that I must have seen Mr. Bryant before became deeper and deep- er as the ‘minutes sped on; s ' asked him boldly whether we had not pré- viously met. The missionary turned his bright dark eyes upon me with a smile, saying that it was not impossible, although he retained no recollection of the circumstance. eh never visited that part of London in which y home was situated, and many years of his life had been spent abroad ; but I might seep have seen him on the platform of =xeter Hall or some similar p'ace. He was evidently in high favour with my aunt, who unbent towards him more than I ever saw her do toa stranger before. But I noticed that Fanny sat by with a disapprov- ing expression on te face. followed my cousin into her room for a confidential talk before going to bed that night, being curious to ascertain what I could from her respecting my aunt's new friend. ‘* Who is this Mr. Bryant, Fanny ?” I asked, as I took a seat. ‘“‘Qdious man! Don’t mention him, ouisa ; I detest him too much !” ‘* Why, whatharm has he done you?” _“*Harm! He has come here and inveigled himself into aunt’s good grace, getting a lot of money out of heron one ce an another, and making her believe he’s a saint and a hero, when’s he’s nothing of the sort ! He almost lives in this house now, and from morning till night we hear nothing but his praises.” ‘‘T thought his mission was in London. How comes it that he is here at Brighton ?” “« He gives out that he was ordered down here for rest and change of air. He came first about three months ago, and managed to scrape acquaintance with Mr. Stephens, who took an immense fancy to him, and in- troduced him toaunt. And now, as I told you, he is always coming here ; and aunt is tted with him, that unless something is done soon, I really believe she will let him coax her out of half her fortune. I hope m not more ly than other people; but you and I are the only -relations she has in the world. ‘I can see you don't believe in him.” “Not a bit! I’m convinced he’s nothin better than an impostor, and his mission anc all his other schemes are only dodges to get money out of people. For instance, there that large collection this afternoon, thank goodness, I only gave sixpence, for who is to kriow that he dosn't keep all the money himself?” . ‘Does he not furnish accounts *” “Oh, yes ; he professes to give youa bal- ance-sheet ; but it would be easy teshave people. No one could tell whether it was correct or not.—Didn’t you say you fancied you had seen him before ?” “Yes ; but, unfortunately, I can’t recollect where.” , | 1 was fifty, by-the-bye—‘* o at last J} com “* what he is, but I can never believe.in It was indeed true that aunt was besotted with him, as Fanny had said. When I ven- pearance had also taken me in; but nothing | his manner. was rather proprietor-like for a | Bia etapa be tot —Sahers compe a e gave information ta thé police, who. pro- | idea t she could muster. mised to inquire ai awnbrokers ; | ‘* Well,*1- said, “‘of course I don’t Know gi him deal of liberty.’ ive a t deal of liberty.” See ee y you'll be calling him a swindler next, as Fan- ny did the other day.” “T-must say, aunt, that I do think it would be better to be on your guard in deal- ing with a total stranger.” “Well, really, the way you young people” e upon your- our elders nowadays -is somethin ing! Surely, Louisa, a woman of my years might be trusted to ex- ercise discretion ! Do you suppose 1 should allow a plausible impostor to take’ me in? Mr. Bryant is what he professes to be, ‘be- yond e doubt.” I was afraid to say any more, although I was really very uneasy ; for alinost insensib- ly the stranger had su in ing such an ascendency in my aunt’s house that e would have been very difficult to dis- ge. selves to lecture SF (TO BE CONTINUED.) Rocky Moi n'‘ain Forest Fires. a foot or more with the pitchy accumulations of centuries of forest growth. Pine ncedles, cones, ranches, and the resinous trunks of fallen trees form a forest floor that catches fire like tinder and burns like a furnace. spark from a camp fire, pipe, orcigarette, may ute this forest flopr, which may smoulder for hours or days before bursting into flame. This flame once started, the fire moves rapidly before the wind, constantly finding, as it moves along, new food in the debris upon the ground. The foliage of the evergreen trees burns as readily as hay soak- in kerosene oil. Each tree, as the fire touches it, becomes ahugetorch, which flares up for a moment and then goes out, but in that moments the tree’s life been destroy- ed, and the thousand trunks of the forest are left to stand for years, black monuments of the fire’s destructive force. Before a gale, such as often rages in the mountains, a fire which has got into the thick timber rushes onward witha fury which is indescribable, and destroys in anhour timberthat a century of growth cannot replace.—Forest and Stream, England’s Great Prosperity. Sir J. Lubbock, who is an experienced banker as well asa man of science and a politician, evidently believes that the cycle of lean years has fairly passed. ‘ He told the London Chamber of Commerce recently-that prices were rising everywhere, and that the Jlearing House returns, which two years ago re six thousand millions, were last year ven thousand millions sterling, a rise of fifteen per cent. in the t barometer of pecuniary transactions. e tonnage of our shipping increased both absolutely and rela- tively, so that half the ships of the ocean carried the British flag—will nobody give us the statistics of coasters also?—andfof 800, tons which passed through the Suez Canal last year, 5,400, tons were British, an amazing and, to us at least, an inexplicable fact. Why should we thus beat countries like France, Italy, and Austria, which have every advantage of us in position for the Oriental trade, em can produce any number of cheap sailors? Is it all natural adaptability for a‘seafaring life, or ready mand of capital, or both together? We should like to comprehend, too, if we could, why, when Asia produces some of the best sailors in the world, and possesses some of, the richest merchants, she secures almost no part of the carrying trade. The Arabs have ad | @ sort of genius for the sea ; yet they do not carry now even the pilgrims from India to ecea Our Salmon-Packing Industry. Mr. B. Young, president of the British America Salmon Packing Company, which operates on the Fraser and Skeena rivers in British Columbia, was in T: ronto the ot‘:er day, having just arrived from England. Mr. Young says the first shipments of last season’s pack arrived in London while he was there. The pack is always sold in ad- vance, and he regretted that prices were dull for the coming season, being a dollar a case less than last year—a case containing 48 one- und cans, Last year was a good year, the t, in fact, in the history of the industry. Judging from the past this year will be a fairly good year, next year will not be as good, and 1892 will be, comparatively speak - ing, a failure. The sixteen canneries on the Fraser turned out last year 300, 1888, the bad year, it was only $0,000. This year Mr. Young estimates the pack at 150,- 000% The Skeena river six can- neries, with an output of 60,000 cases last year. ides these there are several other canneries on the Pacific coast. The dulness of the market, he thought, might perhaps be due to the unprecedentedly Tarcs catch of 1889. Mr. Young will interview the depart- mental officials in reference to the fishing regulations, Public Opinion. The most important thing in life Is what the neighbors say. The thing that stops or starts up strife Is what the neighbors say. No matter what the case may be, Just look around, and you will see The thing that governs you and me Is what the.neigh rs say. Your wife thinks when she gets a dress, What will the neighbors say ? She almost rests her happiness On what the neighbors say. The girl with a new diamond ring, A sealskin sacque or some such thing, Thinks, as she gives her head a fling, What will the neighbors say? You know yourself how much you care _ For what the neighbors say. Sometimes the hardest thing to bear Is what the neighbors say. You may pretend that you don’t mind, But still you wince when they’re unkind — The chief thing in this life, you'll find, ‘Well, time. will tell,” ‘said Fanny, [| Is what the neighbors say, cases. In |i | PERSONALS. Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, has thir- teen children. Beige ents, cae reeks Emin Pash now aks twenty-seven different languges and dialects. Gen. von Corivi, the new. chancellor of | -the-German erpire, is unmarried. The czaroutz and his brother, Prince George, will viit this continent the coming summer, being brt 22 yars of age. The most rmarkable contribution in the ish pe on Bismarck’sretirement is said to bea inthe Contemporary Reriew entitld ‘‘ King and Minister ; a Midnight Conersation.” The conversation is imaginary, ‘ut very like what such an in- terview wouldbe. The only toally blind member pf the pre sent British fouse of Commonsis Mr. Mac donald of Irelnd. He is brought into the lobby by Mrs. Macdonald every night and ven over tcthe charge of one of his col- eagues. Shereturns almost nightly to lead him home to dnner, and restores him to his parliamentary work when he is needed at 10 o'clock. ; Writing frm Samoa, Robert Louis Stev- enson says: ‘{’ve arranged for the purchase of 400 acres oland within a mile or two of Apia and I hpe to have a house there and to make it a lpme for myself and wife. It’s a delightful dace, on a piece of rising ground, with. splendid view of the country and the sea liyond. Sydney and Auckland are not far offas things go. As a specula- tion from a bwiness point of view, the affair would be mainess. But it will serve my purpose.” 4 There diedat Rheims the other day a woman who ilustrated the wonderful apti- tude of Frenci women for carrying on busi- ness enterprise, and who combined in her- self rare admitistrative ability with practi- cal benevolene. Madame Pommery be- came the headof a t champagne house on the death d her husband at the close of the Franco-Pmssian war. She personally directed the q@tire establishment, amassed a large forture, aud was princely in her charities and in her patronage of art. The Russiin Imperial family are at pres ent considerirg what route should be chosen or the sea wyage which the Czarewitch and his brother, the Grand Duke George Alexandrovitei, will undertake in the course of the present year. A Reuter’s telegram from St. Peteriburg says it is still undecided whether they vill make a simple cruise in European waters, followed by. a- voyage direct to Vladivostok, or take a more ex- tended journey, with stoppages at different ints on the Indian coast. The two Grand ukes will prcbably start in the autumn. ” Miss M. E. Braddon, dearer to the novel- reader's heart shan Mrs. Maxwell could ever be, is described as fair of skin, sandy of hair, and stout of figure. She works hard four days of the week, and plays three days. Among her recteations are horse-back-riding, play-going, an] entertaining her friends. She is a collecor of bric-a-brac, a lover of Dickens, a geaial hostess, and_an_accom- Cage cook, She has paniiatiens more than fty novels, is married to her publisher, who is rich, aad after all the ‘‘ copy” she has produced she still writes a legible hand. It is reportal in the Frankfurter Zeitung that in repairing the houge of Goethe a bu including seventeen love letters written by the author of ‘‘Faust,” has been found ina a hole in the wall. They were all in the handwriting of the poet, dated in 1774, ani dressed :‘*An die Jungfer Klarchen Lanbenthaler in der Goldfedergasse.” Ti up with these letters were five manuscript poems in Goethe’s handwriting, four of which ap; i works, thongh the fifth, called ‘‘Liebesg- luck” has never been printed, ‘‘probably,” says the Frankfurter Zeitung, ‘‘on account of its very free contents.” There were also a minature of Goethe as he was at about 20, twenty-nine letters signed by Klarchen, ad- ressed to “Dr. Goethe, the younger,”-and a miniature representing a beautiful young ' girl, as well as two locks of hair, one dark | blond and one light blond, which are sup- posed to have been Goethe's and Klarchen’s. Klarchen is thought to be the girl whom Goethe was in love with before he knew Lili Schonemann. This girl, as he said, he ‘‘car- ried in his heart like a flower of spring.” <larchen is also supposed to be the original of the character of the same name in Goethe's “‘Egmont.” The Simplicity of the Scriptures. To appreciate the simplicity and sublimity of the Genesis of Moses one has only place it in contrast with the scientific enunciation of the facts ccntained in the opening sentence of the inspired word. Taking the latest declarations of the science which ignores a personal God, regarding the time and manner of the origin of the maternal universe the New Genesis,according to Dr. Parker, of London, would run some- thing as follows: ‘‘Fourteen hundred and eighty two billions of ages ago there was an ‘etiulteesiooad and sub-microscopical deposit of carbon ; which simple subst ed a series of eccentric and immeasurable gyrations, revolving at a pace, technically called a velocity, which no mathematical fornmle can even rudely express; when suddenly there struck out a primary com- pound, ages afterward known as quartz ; and in course of milleniums primary com- ‘pounds yielding carbonate of lime, gypsum ‘and silicates ; and then began the mysterious process of crystallization. After countless wons we come upon the formation of chemi- cal rocks, igneous and aqueous as the case may be, beth kinds having concretionary, a or sparry textures. Ages after ages came Feldspathic lavas, Augitic lavas, c.”” Now place beside this account (which ; those who are familiar with the attempts of , science to state these far-off events, will not g found in the Genesis of Moses. ‘‘In the beginnin earth.” What simplicity is here and yet what grandeur and comprehension. It covers everything, as to time and expliins every- thing as to to manner by the one word “God.” That the cosmogony* of the old lawgiver will soon give place to that of those who would di with tke intervention of a personal and independent Will, is a statement that few will be rash -enough-to-hazard: —It—does “not appear a rticularly difficult task to find fault with Moats and the record he has left us ; but if we want to know the superior excellence of his story we have only to try and replace it. Then we discover that it is like trying to get @nough candles together to make up for the loss of the sun. . Boti are young, the future Czar | allowed ELECTRICITY. Se me of the More Recent Uses Which Has Been Pat. At a recent meeting of the British Associa- tion at Newcastle, Lord Armstrong related a - wond i erful-invident, “which illustrates the laws of diffusion of electric currents through conductors. A bar of steel about a foot long, which he was holding in his hand, was ] acc ly conmie ,in contact with the two poles of a dynamo in action. He instantly felt a se sensation of burn- ing, and he let the - He found his agers, where they in. t not enough of heat was generated sensibly to warm the whole bar ; in other words, that an exceedingly high temperature existed for an exceedingly short time in an exceedingly thin skin of metal. The electric snow plough, which clears the track more quickly an efficiently than an ordinary snow plough drawn by twelve horses, has shown its superiority so convinc- ingly during the past winter that a promi- nent company are at work on and have nearly completed a special electric sweeper and track cleaner for cleaning. the track of dust, dirt, slight snowfalls, and other im- pediments to the good running of the cars. According to present appearances electri- city may be superseded rs§ rapid suburban transit Parpors, under certain i conditions, by the sliding railway, to ex- periment further on which an overhead line is to be constructed in Paris between the r in the edition of his collected | - Place Clinchy and La Vilette, capable of carrying 12,000 engers an hour each way. The distance (about four giles), including stoppage at three intermediate stations, is intended to be traversed in seven minutes. The experimental line exhibited recently in Paris is to be re-erected at the Edinburgh Exhibition. An incident which occurred in the early days of the installation of arc light plants, and which illustrates. some of the benefits conferred by electric industries, is related by Prof. Elihn Thomson. An~—are~ light machine of about eight or nine-lights’ capa- city, with bare wire lines, was put up ina aw brewery in Philadelphia, two arc lights lighting the stable, in which there were thirty or more valuable horses.. One even- ing a fire started-in the hay loft, in the sto above, where there were no lights of any kind used, and soon the flame and smoke spread to the stable room and n the horses. The proprietor happened to strike the idea of starting up the electric lights at this juncture, Their brilliant rays saved e animals, which were removed without __ trouble, and-the-tights~ were Kept burnin during the progress of the fire. Its spreac was limited by the etlicient work of the Fire partment. The arc lamp globes were at times full of water, but to the surprise of the firemen the lights were not extinguished, He assisted them in their efforts very mater- ially. It is estimated that although there are over!00,000 telephone a day in the city of New York there are probably a million peo- Vos Siert } } talked I g who yeu ed|@ telephone. The long-distance telephone service has been made very efficient, as may be gathered from the fatt that the roar of ga Falls can now be distinctly heard in New York city over its lines. For a number of years exhaustive infor- mation on electricity in storms, wit! i to the influence of atmospheric elec- tricity on the telegraph service and on tele- ph apparatus, has been collected by the mperia elegraph Department, Berlin. At present QW eé \* 4 } 3 + +5. to keep a record of the cost, duration, and direction of storms. From the observations made it ap that, while not altogether free from the influence of atmospheric elec- ericity, such influence is materially smaller in the case of underground wires as compared with wiresabove ground. In regard to town telephone wires it is worthy of remark that notwithstanding the violence of several of e storms in the towns having a telephone system, th Ae | te f Hohti M4 Pp ] with former years were strikingly few, and the assumption does_not, therefore, appear to be without justification that the wires stretched over the roofs afford effective pro- tection in evualizing atmospheric electric- i y. Electricity is designed to play a perman- ent part in domestic life. Electric cooking utensils, utalizing its heating properties, have been designed, and in same instances ut into practical operation. One of the test novelties in this respect is an electric flatiron. It consists of a hollow flatiron in the interior of which a coil is placed which is heated by the current i through it. The ease and comfort Retyee from the use of such a device, in hot weather especially, is apparent. The question whether or not electricity is manufactured is now being tried in certain courts, If it is manufactuyed, the producers in numerous States are liable to taxation. Benjamin Franklin held that electricity was not manufactured, but was taken from one body to be delivered to another, and that ractically nothing was lost'in the transition. itherto our scientific men have held this to be true in a broad sense. In the Sikkim expedition a telegraph office was opened which enjoys the distiction of being the highest in the world. It is accuse of being exaggerated) the account as S¢ God created the heavens and the |. = situated at Bhutong, at an altitude of 13,500 feet, nearly 2} miles above the level of the ea. A simple method of curing the trouble- some creeping 0 ts on batteries is de- scribed by M. Ernest Gerard. © This is to smear the surfaces to be preserved with a thin coat of vaseline, The vaseliue is un- changeable by air, is not attacked by most chemicals, is easily applied, keeps in place, and does not cover up from sight the parts to be protected. Depended on the Result. }—Passer-by (to Tommy, who has just been fighting).—‘‘Wouldn’t your father whip youif he knew you had been fighting ¥” Tommy.—‘‘Well, that depends. Ifthe other boy ele me, pop would whip me too ; but if I licked ne at Pop would ‘just say, ‘I wouldn't fight, if I were you, Tommy.’”