At the solicitation of many of our readers we have decided to offer premiums for the sale of single copies of the magazine: - To anyone selling 12 copies, the premium for one yearly subscription will be given. Anyone selling 25 copies may have their own subscription extended one year. It should be a very easy matter for many to secure a few orders for each issue of the magazine, and when the necessary number have been secured, obtain a premium. Should the desired premium call for the sale of more than 12 copies, a record will be kept and the premium sent when the number of copies are sold, necessary to secure it. Regular subscribers, desiring to secure premiums under this plan, may order the number of copies they find they can sell, remitting for same after delivery to customers, but within 30 days. Readers whose names are not on our subscription list should send money with order. Unsold copies cannot be returned, as handling them is liable to so deface them as to make them unsalable, so only the number should be ordered which can surely be sold. A little work each month will enable anyone to secure many useful tools, the turning lathe, or some other valuable premium. Try it.

Arrangements are being perfected for a considerable increase in the size of the magaztne, and the opening of several new departments, all of which will increase the interest manifested by our readers in all sections of the country, and which we gratefully acknowledge.

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The most curious specimens of vegetable or plant life in existence are the so called "living stones" of the Falkland Islands. Those islands are among the most cheerless spots in the world, being constantly subjected to a strong Polar wind. In such a climate it is impossible for trees to grow erect as they do in other countries; but Nature has made amends by furnishing a supply of wood in the most curious shape imaginable. The visitor to the Falklands, says an American writer, sees scattered here and there singular-shaped blocks of what appear to be weather beaten and moss covered boulders in various sizes. Attempt to turn one of these boulders over and you will meet with an actual surprise, because the stone is actually anchored by roots of great strength ; in fact, yon will find that you are fooling with one of the native trees. No other country in the world has such a peculiar "forest" growth, and it is said to be next to impossible to work the odd shaped blocks into fuel, because the wood is perfectly devoid of grain, and appears to be a twisted mass of woody fibres.

Timing clocks electrically by the Western Union Telegraph Company of America is said to bring in a revenue of more than $1,000,000. The company keeps 70,000 clocks going on correct time at an average charge of apparently a little more than a shilling a week each. The clocks are set at noon each day by an automatic arrangement connected with the great sidereal clock in the National Observatory at Washington. A few minutes before noon every day business over the Western Union wires is suspended, and operators through the country put their instruments in shape to form an unbroken circuit from the observatory to every place where ticks a clock to be electrically influenced. When the time ball strikes, the time message immediately flashes over the wires.