A COSRK3P9NDENT of the Lancet, who has been assisting at a large bazaar by holding a small Rontgen ray gallery, gives the following examples of specimens of the many gems of exquisitely unconscious humor encountered while so engaged : — No. 1. An elderly gentleman of pros perous appearance, fitter examining the unique collection, and absorbing a brief resume of x-rayism, objected that the show was not " up.to-date," as he had "read somowhero in n newspaper that now you can see the liver palpitating, and the heart circulating." No. 2. Two elderly ladies entered the small room and, solemnly seating them selves, requested me to close and fasten the door. Upon my complying they said they wished " to see each other's bones," but I was " not to expose them below the waist line," each wishing to view the apparently dismantled osseus structure of her friend first ! No. 3. A young and anxious mother asked me to see if her little boy had really swallowed a threepenny bit, as ho was uncertain himself. She had read in the papers that Sir Something Blister (fact), in a speech at a large meeting in Liver pool a little while ago, said that a half penny had been seen in a boy's "sacro phagua !" No. 4. A young girl, of the domestic servant class, taking advantage of her opportunity, as she thought, and my sex, asked me in confidence if I would " look through her young man unbeknown to him, while he looked ac the pictures, to see if he was quite healthy in his in ternals." ! No. 6. When showing a photograph of the invisible spectrum, and mentioning the fact that the mystic X rays, owing to their enormous vibration frequency, should take their position far above ultra violets, whereas in reality they have a place in the prismatic spectrum as if infra infra red, one dignified dame remarked, "I don't wonder they call them ' infra dig ' rays when they penetrate even one's most intimately protective apparel."

Parliamentary Eloquence.
