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THE LASCE IN THE FrF.Ncn ARMY. The introduction of the lance into the French Army was due to Napoleon, who in 1807 organised a regiment of lancers (composed of Poles and Volun- teers) in his Guard. The regiment did excellent service for its country. Eight more regiments were organised on the outbreak of the war with Russia, in order to fight the Russians with their own weapons. But 11 on the fall of Napoleon they were abolished, only one squadron in each Chasseur regiment retaining the weapon.

A NOVELTY IN TABLES. The following table was worked out by a Harvard professor. It is interesting to look at, but one is thankful it is not included among the multiplication tables: 1 time 9 plus 2 equals 11. 12 times 9 plus 3 equals 111. 123 times 9 plus 4 equals 1111. 1234 times 9 plus 5 equals 11111. 12345 times 9 plus 6 equals 111111. 123456 times 9 plus 7 equals 1111111. 1234567 times 9 plus 8 equals 11111111. 12345678 times 9 plus 9 equals 111111111. 1 time 8 plus 1 equals 9. 12 times 8 plus 2 equals 98. 123 times 8 plus 3 equals 987. 1234 times 8 plus 4 equals 9876. 12345 times 8 plus 5 equals 98765. 123456 times 8 plus 6 equals 987654. 1234567 times 8 plus 7 t quals 9376543. 12345678 times 8 plus 8 equals 98765432. 123456789 times 8 plus 9 equals 987654321.

SMALLEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. The inhabitants of the Andaman islands are the smallest race of people in the world. The height of a full grown Andaman is 4ft. 5in., and few weigh over 761b. They are marvellously swift of foot, and as they smear themselves over with a mixture of oil and red ochre present a very strange appear- ance. Few travellers care to encounter any of these bellicose little people, for their skill in throwing the spear and in using the bow is only equalled by their readiness to attack strangers. 0

SPONGE FISHING. The sponge is an animal and not a vegetable, as some state. It breathes, eats, and, when in the water, is filled with mucus. The sponge in its familiar state is only a carcass. Sponges are known to grow at a depth of 200ft., and live even deeper, doubtless. At the depth of 50ft. they can be forked by an expert fisher, but at a greater depth they must be got by diving. Sponge fishers use a glass by which sponges can be seen growing on the bottom. The instrument is in the nature of a pail with a glass bottom, attached to the bow of the boat. It is submerged so as to steady the vision, which would otherwise be contorted by the waves. The water where sponges grow is very clear, and the bottom can be seen at a great depth. The home of the sponge fishing industry is in Greece, and is centuries old. A large percentage of the Mediterranean sponges come from the island of Hvdra. Some, however, come from off the coast of Tripoli. A few sponges come from the far-off land of Madagascar. There are two months in each year when the sponge fishing is practically abandoned. This is in August and September, the hurricane months. During the other ten months the industry flourishes.

THE JUDGE'S BLACK CAP. It is not generally known that the black cap has no specific relation to the hanging of a criminal. Its sinister reputation, its colour, and the fact that a judge when pronouncing a capital sentence always wears it, have combined to attach to it a meaning and symbolism which it does not possess. It is really, says the Genealogical Magazine, nothing more than a part of the lull dress of a judge. The origin of the "mortar-board" hat may not be known by all its wearers. It is a corruption of the skull-cap and biretta of Rome.

CONCERNING WOODEN TOOTHPICKS. One of the first wood mills established in Maine, U.S.A., was to maiiufacture wooden toothpiels. A small machine has been invented, which at present gives an annual output of 500.000,000 toothpicks. They are made of the smallest pieces of waste wood,the cost of the raw material being practically nothing. The wooden skewers used by butchers are manufactured at the rate of half a million a week. One mill alone turns out in the summer season 5,000,000 skewers and 50,000,000 toothpicks, besides a number of other articles. Reels for cotton and thread are manufactured at the rate of 250,000,000 a year. For this output more naQ 15,000,000ft. of white birch is needed.

wo countrymen went into a hatter's to buy a hat. They were delighted with the sample, inside the crown of which was inserted a looking-glass. "What is the glass for?" said one of the men. The other, impatient at such a display of rural ignorance, said" What for? Why, for the man who >uyi the bat to see how it an."

HINTS FOR THE HOME. TO BIO CUPBOARDS OF MICE AND ANTB. Stop the mouse-holes with eorks dipped ia carbolic acid, and scrub floor and shelves with a diluted carbolic acid. A tablespoonful to the bucket of water will be right, but it must be hot water, and the carbolic must be stirred in with a stick till incorporated with the water, for carbolic is a power- ful corrosive, and, therefore, great care is needed in handling it. This method has been successful when cayenne and other remedies have failed. FATHER AS DISCIPLINARIAN. A father who ably executes the office of discipli- narian in his home has been giving a hint to fathers generally. "I endeavour," he says. to resist the inclination to reprove little faults that are not worth noticing and really will be lost sight of entirely as the child outgrows them. I don't 'nag the boys, or tease the little girl. Their desires are promoted in every possible way if worthy of such approval. When they are cross and impatient, they are separated until fit for the company of one another or of their playmates. Often they need a restraining hand, and, more than that, need to be punished, but the form of punishment in our home is becoming milder and milder. 'Corporal punish- ment is no longer my way. In its stead a sacrifice is suggested, a gift or holiday is withheld, the weekly money allowance is assessed." GREASE ON THE KITCHEN TABLE. If hot grease be spilt on the kitchen table or floor. pour cold water upon it. This will cause it to harden quickly, and prevent its snaking into the wood. To remove grease which has soaked in, cover the stain with a paste made of fuller's earth, mixed with hot water, and leave it on overnight. In the morning it may be swept off, when piobably the grease will have disappeared; if not, repeat the process. WHITE BREAD SPOILS THE TEETH. There is no greater fallacy, says ('a,<>-ell's Saturday Journal, than to suppose that white bread is of equal value to wholemeal bread. To make bread look white the baker begins by extracting all the bran, and thus all the brain and nerve and muscle forming properties that should be present in a loaf are absent. The phosphates that go to produce bone and sound teeth are carefully excluded from the household loaf, with the result that decayed teeth in early life arc now the rule. Some years ago several bags of teeth of old people were found in an Etruscan graveyard. They dated back to thousands of years before the Christian era. Having belonged to aged persons, the teeth were worn and ground down, but not a single one of them was decayed. Contrast the condition of these teeth with" the teeth of to-day. How many individuals have sound teeth ? Very few. Wholemeal bread is what we should eat—a point on which one cannot iay too much stress. Bread is the staff of life of the working classes. It is the staple article of diet of hundreds and thousands. These hundreds of thousands should be informed that, in eating white bread they are not doing justice to their systems. SPOTS ON CARPETS, Clean these with ox-gall. Allow a gill to a gallon of rain water, and stir it into the water with a stick. Hub the carpet with a soft brush dipped in this. making a lather. Wash the lather off with clean water, changing it often. Dry with clean dusters. A whole carpet may be cleaned in this way, bit by bit, and it will look wonderfully bright and fresh afterwards. Of course, the carpet must be beaten free of dust and relaid before this cleaning operation is begun. THE TRUE SECUET OF BEAUTY. A great deal is said and written nowadays about beauty, and as never before women are counselled about the care of the skin. the teeth, the hair, and the general hygiene which ensures a perfect phy- sique. There is a secret of beauty which goes deeper than any of these things it is the possession of a happy heart and a sweet serenity of temper. The soul writes its own lines on the face. She who lives calmly and unselfishly, who begins and ends the day with God. who thinks high thoughts and communes with the Unseen, who is pure in heart and restrained in emotion, and gentle to all. will inevitably grow beautiful. For beauty is not a thing put on from the outside; it is developed from within, and the plainest may in time grow comely if the heart be right with (Tad, THE TONGUE AS HEALTH INDICATOR. Old-fashioned doctors'always looked at the tongue first, and although nowadays the tongue may be less considered than formerly, it is a very valuable aid by which to judge the health. "A sound mind in a sound body," quotes Kingsley, hut a sound tongue must be in a sound body. No one can possibly be in health who suffers from that most disagreeable symptom—a foul tongue. The tongue indicates the condition of the blood, the state of the nervous system, and the functions of nutrition and excretion. The tongue, in a word, speaks as plainly on health as on any subject, and it will be wise to listen to what it has to tell us. The elongated and pointed tongue indicates a condition of irritation and determination of blood to the bowels. The full tongue, broad and thick, is evidence of want of action in the digestive tract; the dry, pinched tongue expresses a want of functional activity in the bowels and digestive organs. If the tongue is very dry, we are sure the stomach and intestines can do little digestive work. A tongue heavily loaded at the base calls attention to accumulation in the stomach, and suggests the use of an emetic. The broad, pallid tongue gives evidence of a want of the alkaline elements of the blood. MAKE YOURSELF AND OTHERS HAPPY. When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow-creature. It is easily done a left-off garment to the man who needs it. a kind word to the sorrowful, an encourag- ing expression to the striving—trifles^in themselves light as air—will do much good in t/ie twenty-four hours. And if you are young, depend upon it. it will tell when you are old: and if you are old, rest assured it will send you gently and happily down the stream of time to*eternity." By the most simple t arithmetical sum, look at the result. If you send one person, only one. happily through each day, that would be three hundred and sixty-five in the course of the year. Supposing you live years only after you commence that course of medicine, you have made 14.600 beings happy, at all events for a time. XICE DISHES. EGGS AND KmNEY A LA WILTON.—Slice three sheep's kidneys, toss them in flour, pepper, salt, and chopped parsley. Put, them into a stewpan with an ounce of butter, and cook them briskly on the stove until slightly browned, then add a few spoon- fuls of gravj-, boil up, and remove them to the side of the stove ro keep hot without boiling. Break four fresh gg- into a stewpan containing- 207.. of dissolved butter, season them with salt, pepper, and a spoonful of white- sauce, stir them briskly on the stove until they begin to set. Then put the egg on round pieces of fluttered toast, arrange them in a border on a dish, and put the kidney in the centre. RABIUT s CASSEROLE.—Dress the rabbit and cut into pieces for serving, dredge with flour and fry in butler until delicately browned, then put into the casserole. Melt two"tablespoonfuls of butter in the frying pan,add an onion cut in slices, and when well browned add two tablespoonfuls of flour and slowly add two cups of hot water, stir until smooth, then pour over the rabbit, add a bit of bay leaf, enough water to half cover, and salt and pepper to taste. Cover and let cook in the oven slowly for an hour or morp. When tender, add one ami tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice,three tablespoonfuls of sherry. Cover and serve at once. If a thicker sauce is desired, add another tablespoonful of flour. BAKED RHUBARB PUDDING.—Butter a pie-dish, and cover the bottom of it with a layer of white bread- crumbs. Then place a layer of rhubarb, cut into pieces an inch long, and scatter a teaspoonful of moist sugar over it. Fill the dish with alternate layers of breadcrumbs and rhubarb, not forgetting to add sugar. The last layer must be breadcrumbs. Scatter some little bits of butter on the top, and bake in a moderate oven for one hour. LEMON JELLY.—Soak loz. of gelatine in one and a-half pint of water for ten minutes, then set in a lined saucepan with Goz. of loaf sugar, lin. of cinnamon, three cloves, the rind of three or four lemons thinly cut. the whisked white of an egg, and the shell crushed into half a pint of lemon- juice. Whisk all together till it begins to boil up. and then simmer for ten minu'es. Strain through a clean and scalded cloth. Return through the cloth until clear, each time putting a basin rinsed with hot water underneath. When clear set in a mould rinsed with cold water, and let it stand till I firm. To turn out. dip the mould for one minute into warm water and turn 0\1(; on to a cold dish. CABINKT PUDDING.—Take one pound of stale sponge cake, half a cup of stoned raisins, half a Clip of canned peaches, half a cup of blanched almonds, half a erp of citron. Lay some of the cake in the bottom of a mould, cover with fruit, put more slices of cake, pour over half a pint of milk, four 1"gS, and a cupful of sugar. Steam an hour, and serve with fruit sauce. GERMAN TABT.—Stew half a pound of prunes with a quarter of a pound of sugar and a strip of lemon peel in half a pint of water till almost soft. Then pare, core, and slice one pound of apples. Add these to the prunes, and cook together till tender. Place the stewed fruit in a dish, and add half a teaspoonful of mixed spice. Cover with a good short paste, and bake in a hot aven for half an hour. Serve either hot or cold. For the third time within ten years Frein:h:iv Church, near Bristol, has been broken into and several articles stolen. At Coblenz the sixteen-year-old son of a ho' proprietor fatally shot a young American girl seventeen, an apprentice in his father's bl1"in The slates used by the children in the 1'. r schools are to be disinfected each week, it be believed that infection is carried fro.n child child when the slates are used indiscriminately.

BITS FROI BOOKS. HARD TACK AT SEA. It his entertaining book, "Round the Borrf Bafore the Mast," Mr. Baird Lubbock gives a graphic description of life on a large barque front San Francisjjp to Liverpool. One of his stories about food all board ship, told him by the doctor ot large liner, is worth quoting: We had not been many days at sea, he said, before our crew came aft and complained that the hard tack was of such stony substance that it was impossible for any but a shark to bite it. They stated that if you hit a biscuit with an iron belaying pin it made no impression upon it. and soaking it in water made it no better. "Here, doctor," called the captain to me, "here's < case for you to decide. Is this biscuit fit for the men to eat ?" and he handed me a regular bad- looking Liverpool pantile from the bread-barge which the men had brought to show him. I took the biscuit, and made a great bite at it. There was a crack in my jaw, and I found that I had hardly made a dent in the biscuit with my teeth. As I took the biscuit from my mouth, something white came with it and fell to the deck, where if glistened like a pearl of beauty. "Holloa! what's this?"cried the skipper, and he picked it up. "By gosh! doctor, you've carried away a tooth." There was a roar of laughter; it was only too true, the pantile had broken off my port eye-tooth. "Captain," I said, gravely, "this bread is not fit for human consumption, and if you throw it to the sharks, they will be calling at the dentist's in a very short time." There was a cheer. My poor tooth had solved the bread question. ON THE "ROOF OF THE WORLD." Here is an interesting description taken from Mr. Thomas W. Webber's invaluable work, "The Forests of Upper India and Their Inhabitants," of a scene viewed from the "roof of the world "—literally from a part of the Himalayan range which divides India from the table-land of Thibet: The contrast was surprising and startling. Sloping away gradually northward from the summits there were gently rounded hills, smoothed and levelled off almost like plains. To the south the best roads were but dangerous tracks, where the most surefooted might slip and fall down into depths unseen. To the north there was an endless stretch of smooth surface, where a coach and four might be driven without fear of an upset. To the south was a climate where the rainfall for half the year was two hundred to three hundred inches, and the snow-line was about 16,000ft. above the sea. To the north was an almost rainless climate, I with a snow-line at an elevation of 19,000lt. to 20,000ft. Towards India was dense forest, and vegetation covering every spot and clinging to every hillside where a bush or a blade of grass could grow. To tie north there was not a tree in a thousand miles, or perhaps ten thousand [?], not a bush to be seen, scarcely a blade of grass—nothing but stones, gravel, shingle, or clay. To the south you could not see the soil for its dense parasitic clothing of vegetation, green and blue, stretching to eternity under a deep and sombre canopy. To the north not a scrap of green in the whole landscape—nothing but brilliant crude yellow and purple and white, dazzlingly marbled out under a blazing sun. Lastly, to the south lay a region of rivers and torrents, noisy streams and cascades, perpetually roaring and cutting up the soil into an endless network of deep ravines and water-courses, while to the north there lay vast and arid plains where (except from scantily melting snow) no water was to be found the beds of streams could be seen but rarely, and they were often dry, and what rivers were found flowed gently and with feeble current. A SAFEGUARD AGAINST COLLECTIVISM. Here is a characteristic extract from Mr. Alfred Austin's volume, "The Haunts of Ancient Peace": One cannot well drive about England with one's eyes open without observing indication after indication of the strong, independent individuality of the English character which may yet prove our best safeguard against that exotic "Collectivism" of which we hear so much. The very landscape— its shapeless fields, its irregular hedgerows, its winding and wayward roads, its accidental copses, its arbitrariness of form and feature—are a silent but loving protest against uniformity and precon- ceived or mechanical views of life. Who divided these fields ? Who marked out these roads ? No one did. They divided and marked out themselves, just as strong characters divide and sever themselves from others, settle their own boundaries, and define irregularly their own place and position. A square field you will no more find in an English landscape than a round one. They are all informal, swerving and sweeping in and out in a manner unaccountable, which endows each of them with life and a kind of personality. The very lanes meander and zigzag so. you might almost think their course has been decided by the steps of some of our deeply drinking Saxon ancestors, whoso legs were more or less unsteady as they wended homeward after a day's thatching or threshing. That this irregularity of the landscape, so delight- ful to look on, is accompanied by a good deal ot waste from the economist's point of view, may be true enough. We are a thriftless people. But is not part of our unthriftiness part of our masculinity, part of the negligent bigness in the national character, which feels it can afford to be heedless of trifles and details, and in any case will on no account he reduced to slavish formality ? Like the poet. England was born, not made, and has grown in its own lavish. wide-spreading fashion. That everything in English country life is growth, not a mechanism, may be seen again in the diversity of aspect worn by its various counties. An accurate observer of Nature ought to be able to tell, within a dav or two, without any calender to help him, what day of the year it is; and he will equally be able to surmise what county of England he is in without the aid of map or guide- book. Why should Sussex be utterly unlike Kent ? I will answpr the question when anyone tells me why one Englishman is unlike any other English- man. We are hewn, not sawn, and no Consular Dictator with a Code has decreed that we shall be this, or do that, or that our dear old haphazard land shall be divided into departments. THE LOOTING AT ROODEWAL. At Roodewal railway station General De Wet overcame the small garrison, and seized stores of provisions and ammunition to the value of three- quarters of a million. Besides the stores there were heavy post-bags. Hero is an extract from De Wet's account in his "Three Years' War "of what was done with the loot. De Wet allowed the captured soldiers to help themselves: But before we could start, I bad to find some method of removing the ammunition which I wished to take with me. Since I possessed no waggons available for this purpose, my only course was to order my burghers to carry away the quantity required. But my burghers were busily engaged in looting. Those who have had any experience of our com- mandoes will not need to be told that it was a difficult task to get any man to help me in the work. I did succeed, however, in dragging a few of the burghers away from the post-bags. But the spirit of loot was upon them, and I was almost powerless. Even when I had induced a burgher to work, he was off to the post-bags again the instant my back was turned, and I had to go and hunt him up, or else to find some other man to do the work. Yet, in spite of this, I succeeded in removing the gun and Lee-Metford ammunition. We carried away some six hundred cases of this ammunition, and 'hid it at a spot about three hundred paces from the station. When the sun set, the burghers were again on the inarch. But what a curious spectacle they presented. Each man had loaded his horse so heavily with goods that there was no room for himself on the saddle; he had, therefore, to walk, and lead his horse by the bridle. And how could it bo other. wise? For the burghers had come from a shop where no money was demanded, and none paid But the most amusing thing of all was to watch the" Tommies" when I gave them the order to march. The poor Veldtcornet, who was entrusted with the task of conducting them to our camp, had his hands full when he tried to get the:n away from the booty; and when at last he succeeded, the soldiers carried such enormous loads that or.e could almost fancy that every man of them was going to open a store. But they could not carry such burdens tor long, and soon they were obliged to diminish their bulk, thus leaving a trail of parcels to mark the road they had taken! And now it was time for the fire to do its work, and I ordered fifteen men to set the great heap of booty alight. The flames burst out everywhere Simultaneously—our task was completed. In an instant we had mounted our horses and were off. When we had covered fifteen hundred paces we heard the explosion of the first shells, and wheeled round to view the conflagration. The night was very dark, and this rendered the sight that met our eyes still more imposing. It was the most beautiful display of fireworks that I have ever seen. One could hear between the thunder of the big bombs the dull report of exploding cordite. Mean- while the dark sky was resplendent with the red (low of the flame.. o§o A verdict of suicide wniisr, or unsound mind was returned at an inquest on Florence Annie Harris, seventeen, bookkeeper, of Goldney-road, Padding- ton, whose body was found in the Regent's Canal. Mr. Chamberlain will preside at the annual meeting of the Birmingham Liberal Unionist Association, which has been fixed for May 6th. It was at last year's annual meeting that he first raised the Fiscal question, and it is expected that he will review the year's tariff reform progress.

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SCIENCE NOTES AND GLEANINGS. ACETYLEXE gas light is used for signalling in the German Army. Mixed with oxygen it yields fcbrica the light of the oxyhydrogen lamp, and can be Been by day for five miles, by night for fifteen miles. PROFESSOR BACFXT.I'S method for treating tetanus Or lockjaw is to administer hypodermic injection* of diluted phenol; and it appears from trials in Italy to be superior to the treatment by anti-tetanic serum. The rate of mortality was 12 to 13 per cent. in the case of phenol and 30 per cent. in that of the serum. The Dolmens of Brittany. An interesting account of the niegalithic monu- ments, or dolmens, and other "standing stones" of Brittany, has been given by Dr. Zambaco Pasha, who points out their resemblance to the Phoenician monuments of the East. He has discovered a number of images and marks or signs common to both, and considers these proof that I'i oenicians, in the course of their long voyages, raised these monuments in Brittany. Lunar Frosts. Substantiation of important facts was obtained by the astronomical authorities in their observations Of the recent lunar eclipse. The crater Linne was carefully measured with a micrometer, confirming the belief that the bright spot grows noticeably in area during the time of maximum darkness, iScience Si/tiny* says it has been maintained that the light from the spot is that of hoarfrost. The fact that the spot grpw perceptibly larger when the sun's heat was cut off during that night of the eclipse is thought to confirm belief in this theory. Earthquake Effects. Professor John Milne, our greatest authority on earthquake disturbances, has been giving a series of interesting details regarding the effects which these terrestrial upturnings may produce. An early observation was made in Chili, where it was found that the whole coast lire was suddenly elevated, just as at the Runn of Cutch depression of the crust was noted to occur. In 1855, in New Zealand, Professor Milne tells us 4.000 square miles were elevated to the extent of from one foot to nine feet. Hpre there is a clear gain of territory to the world. In 1897, in Assam, 10,000 square miles were displaced about sixteen feet along a thrust plane. Under British .soil, it was stated, earth- quake waves pass like an ocean swell. Happily, the breakage of the wave, as it were, does not often occur within our territory. The Crescent Venus. The crescent on the head of the goddess Astarte is usually believed to come from the new moon, but. according to Ir. Offord in Knowledge, the planet Venus was the starry symbol of Ishtar, Ashtoreth, or Astarte. a divinity of the Babylonians, Phoenicians, Assyrians, and Svrians, mentioned in the Old Testament, and in Carthaginian or Phoeni- cian inscriptions as Ashtoreth Karnaim, that is Ashtoreth with two horns. Her temples were generally in valleys between two peaks, forming a crt-scent on the horizon. The Greeks also wor- shipped her, or even identified her with Venus Aphrodite. Assuming that she was the personifica- tion of the planet Venus, not of the moon, it is argued that since the crescent was her symbol the phases of the planet were visible in the clear atmosphere of Mesopotamia, either with or without a g'Ia.io. A Strange Sea Light. Lieutenant Musereau, on the Yangtsp., reports that on February 8th. 1902, about 8 p.m., the Indian Ocean near Mabe became green, as though illuminated by electric lamps below water, and the wake of the ship resembled a luminous fountain. At 3.30 the greenish tint became clear, as though the light in the water was intensified. The sea was now what is called "milky," or resembling a "sheet of snow," and although the night was dark, one could see by its light as well as at full moon. At 9 p.m. the sea again became as green as it was at 8.30. and towards 9.15 the phenomenon terminated. At 10 p.m. the display began again in the same order as before,and finished about mid- night. The phenomenon is pretty wc-11 known under the name of "milky sea," but Lieutenant Musereau has remarked a coincidence between the "phosphorescenceand the passage of a violent cyclone over the Mauritius at the same time. It is possible that the effect was electrical, especially as the seawater drawn and examined by doctors on board the ship did not shew any animalculse or anything abnormal. Arsenic and its Distribution. The distribution of metals in the tarth is known to exhibit certain curious phases, represented, for example, by the fact that gold is contained in sea- water and that copper forms a constituent part of the feathers of cprtain birds. The fact that arsenic is found as a normal element in living tissues is, however, not so widely known. I notice, writes Dr. Andrew Wilson. that the French Academy of Sciences has been discussing this latter topic. Chemically tested, the tissues of a wide variety of animals, from mammals down to tllP sponges, have given evidence of the presence of arsenic in small quantities—one might more correctly say mere tracts—but still shewing the actual existence of the metal. The explanation given is that arsenic is itself an element entering into the innate com- position of livill matter. It is also shewn that arsenic is chiefly to be detected in the external or skin-tissues, while an additional fact of ii terest credits some sea-plants with exhibiting this sub- stance. If it is contained in seawater, as is probable, it will have been washed down from the Jarid, but the id^a of its being iZlt in:at..Jy associated with living tissues, although not an absolutely new idea, will be regarded with interest by science at large. Geology of New South Wales. In a series of Notes by the late Ir. C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S., F.L.S., State Government Geologist, we are told that New South Wales presents a most interesting and important field for geological research. Probably no other portion of Australia of the same area (323,437 square miles) could be selected wherein so many of the more remarkable and characteristic physical features of the continent are represented. Thus it embraces the highest mountains and the largest rivers in Australia its seaboard is marked alternately with high rocky headlands and low sandy beaches, while conveniently situated for maritime traffic aro several deep inlets, forming magnificent harbours. Its ranges, particularly near the coast, are covered with dense forests of the finest timber trees, and inland occur vast plains, celebrated for their rich pasturage. Many of its mountains are furrowed by deep.precipitous ravines.opening out in places into broad valleys clothed with luxuriant pastures and cultivated fields; whilst amidst all— in the valleys, mountains, plains, and the coast districts-iliexhaustible deposits of mineral wealtt abound. In addition to all this material wealth, the geographical position and orographical features of New South Wahs are such as to ensure at all seasons a varied climate adapted for persons of almost any nationality—a fact which also explains the varying nature of the rainfall in places. The Greatest Inventions. A correspondent wants us to name the ten greatest inventions of the nineteenth century, and modestiy requests that we arrange them in the order of their value. The question, of course, cannot be answered with any certainty. We can name ten inventions which in our opinion are great, but to name them as the greatest and in order, even the order of opinion, is impossible, says the American Inventor. So many factors enter into the value of an invention or discovery that it is beyond our power to decide which is worth the most to humanity. How can it be decided, for instate, whether the invention of the cotton gin or the discovery of other is of the greatest benefit? One makes money and clothes, the other saves suffering and lives. However, among the inventions and discoveries of the nineteenth century which have been of the greatest benefit to humanity are anaesthetics, the telegraph, the cotton gin, the X-ray, the telephone, the electric light, the sewing-machine, the spectro- scope, the reaper and binder, the typewriter, the electric motor applications, the various photographic improvements, the power printing-press, the wire- less telegraph, the type-setting machine, and the radium-aroup discoveries. It is easily seen how absolutely impossible it is to say which of these is the most important to humanity. The telegraph has probably had the greatest and most far-reaching effects; the business world could spare telephones, typewriters, and electric lights much quicker than the wire. On the other hand, medicine and surgery could spare the telegraph much better than the X-ray, the electric light, the ansesthetic, and the spectroscope. No process of eliminative reasoning, such as was applied to the question about the greatest science, is possible here. It is a matter for individual judgment, and from individual pfiiuts of view. A man sent a note co a nun neighbour with whom he was on friendly terms, to know if he could borrow an ass for a few hours. The worthy old man was no scholar, aad happened to have a guest tilting with him at the time, to whom he did Dot wish to expose his ignorance. Opening the Dot.. and pretending to read it, he reflected a moment, and turned to the serrant: "Very good," said be your master come 1P1ltH pUItQtll.

A REPTILIAN HlIm. With their rudimentary tails and queer aquatic habits-for none of the grebes can stand upright, much less walk or run, on land—the dabchicks seem to have departed less than any other common birds from the type of the common ancestor of birds or reptiles, says Country Life, while their action in swimming is so exactly like that of a frog that you can hardly believe it to be a bird that you see beneath you, oaring furiously about in the shallows, twisting and turning and darting about in 6in. depth of water without once disturbing the mud. This the dabchick is able to do because its legs, with their extraordinary lobed feet, shaped some- thing like a horse-chestnut leaf and with the texture of black kid. kick straight out sideways from the body, and are brought together with a wide, sweeping stroke behind. Its legs, too, are flat almost as knife-blades, and toothed like a saw behind with the sharp edges of the scales, thus giving the bird a splendid purchase against the slippery water-weeds, through which it can shoot itself at great speed.

ANCIENT JRWEL-CI-TTINR. There are many arts which have been lost to the present generation. Jewel-cutting is not one of these, but according to a French scientist this industry has not improved much since the year 4000 B.C. Among the mummies of Dashbour were discovered jewels which, notwithstanding their incredible age, are cut in a manner which would do credit to the best modern jeweller.

+ OF INTEREST TO BACHELORS. In one of the States of the Argentine Republic a man is marriageable when he has completed his twentieth year. If from that date and till he passes his thirtieth year he wishes to remain single, he must pay 5dols. a month to the State. For the next five years the tax increases 100 per c?nt., between thirty-five and fifty he has to pay 20dol.-a month, and from fifty to seventy-five 30dol. After the seventy-fifth year has been reached a bachelor need only pay 9dol. per annum, while after eighty he is free from the tax.

0 DOMKSTIC SERVICE IN JAPAX. The relation between mistress and maid or master and man in Japan is a curious combination of the democratic and the feudal. It is something of an honour to be a servant, and jinriksha boys and grooms are not reckoned good enough to be classed as such, but are called "tradesmen," a class which in Japan is only a degree higher than the eta or outcast. Grooms are excluded as a betting, grumbling, cheating lot (the Japanese think it impossible for a groom to be honest), and the 'riksha boys as rough people without anv manners. A Japanese butler has to have sufficient knowledge of etiquette to entertain his master's guests it his master is out. The number of servants in a Japanese household is large, and the pay small. They only get a few shillings a week, and have to board themselves. This is because in Japan a servant's bedroom is his castle, and in it he often houses his wife and his children and his parents. There are two classes of servants-personal and kitchen. The personal servants shew a humility to their employers which would paralyse an Englishman with any sense of humour, and their masters assume an etiquette air of command but there is in reality quite a democratic relationship between them.