A new premium list is in preparation and wil probably be ready for distrubution to our readers with the February issue. It will include a large number of new premiums, which we are confident will be found of value by those who are willing to put in a little personal effort in calling the attention of their friends to this magazine Many of our subscribers have obtained numerous additions to their tool outfits in this way, and many others could do the same were they to give the matter attention during their leisure time.

Our premiums are all of the very best quality obtainable, and should not be compared with the inferior articles offered by some mail order houses. We have received numerous letters from those receiving premiums, expressing their highest appreciation of the value of the premiums received. Our forthcoming list will include a wide variety of useful and instructive tools and instruments, and our readers should be able to secure some of them with but little effort. In this way they will be rendering a double service, as the new subscribers will be pleased to have the magazine called to their attention, and they will personally benefit by receiving an appropriate reward for having done this. Those who have not as yet done anything in this line will find it to their direct benefit if they make the effort.

We have received several requests for a description of a small, easily made runabout. We shall be pleased to publish a description of such a vehicle, provided a sufficient number of readers should express their desire for the same. One of our readers has constructed a light carriage fitted with a 3 h. p., air cooled motor, and with wheels of the size and type used on auto-bicyles. It will carry two adults at a good speed over the roads to be found in this country, and a similar one may be made by any one of ordinary skill at a total expense of not over $100. He has cheerfully volunteered to give us the complete description, should we desire it. We shall be pleased to have those of our readers interested in such a vehicle, write us regarding the publication of a description of the same, and if a sufficient number of requests are received, the first chapter will be given at an early date.

All previously accepted conclusions as to the therapeutic value of metals are challenged by a communication made to the Acadamy of Medicine, says the Echo de Paris, by M. Albert Robin. He declares that metals, when administered to the human subject in doses so minute as to be altogether inappreciable, exercise an influence that is almost magical and quite inexplicable by any theories hitherto known to science. The action of the infinitesimal atoms is apparently analogous to that of organic ferments, which, as is well known, possess some mysterious power quite irrespective of their quantity.

The whole region of the Great Lakes is undergoing a slow tilting. The waters of each lake are rising on the southern and western shores. At Toledo and Sandusky the advance of the water amounts to eight or nine inches in depth in a century.