t essentially
German; yet it must be confessed that the prevailing features were
of this guzzling, and, for the want of a more descriptive word, I
would add, "sweltering" type, not fully appreciated by the ordinary
travelling Briton, who, whatever else he may be, is not a gross
feeder, though he does set the proper value on a breath of pure fresh
air.

"Get him up? Of course we can get him up," rejoined Dr. MELCHISIDEC,
warmly. This in answer to some doubts expressed by one of the more
cautions spirits of our party as to the possibility of dragging the
Dilapidated One over one of the stock excursions of the neighbourhood,
to wit, the Fuerren Alp. "Why, put him into a _chaise a porteur_, and
we could get him up the Titlis itself, and throw in the Schlossstock,
and the Gross-Spannort, for the matter of that, as well. _Baedeker_
makes only a two and a half hours' affair of it."

And so we find ourselves in due course, doing the "Fuerren-Alp" in
approved style.

"By Jove, I'll be hanged if I think it's a bit better than going up
Primrose Hill, twenty times running: and not near such good going
either," observes young JERRYMAN, after we have been struggling up a
precipitous mountain path, occasionally finding ourselves sliding and
slipping backwards in the bed of a disused watercourse, for about two
hours and a half.

And really I think young JERRYMAN's view of the matter is not so very
far out, after all.

* * * * *

ONE RITE, AND ALL WRONG.--The "Service of Reconciliation" in St.
Paul's seems to have had the effect of setting everyone by the ears.
Quite a muddle,--a Western Church, and an Easton rite.

* * * * *

SCIENCE AND HEART.

[Illustration]

"A Correspondent of '_the Field_' records an experiment which
he made with a wasp. 'Having,' he says, 'severed a wasp in two
pieces, I found that the head and thorax with the uninjured
wings retained full vitality.... It tried to fly, but
evidently lacked the necessary balance through the loss of the
abdomen. To test the matter further, I cut out an artificial
tail from a piece of thin cardboard, as nearly following the
shape of the natural body as possible. To fasten the appendage
to the wasp, I used a little oxgall ...; gum or more sticky
substances would not do, as it impedes the use of the wings
in flight. Presently the operation was complete, and, to my