Our readers are invited to submit topics which they would like to have presented in these columns. Those interested in Amateur Work desire to make it the most helpful and interesting magazine that can be published for young men and boys. If readers will write about what interests them, the information thus obtained will be of much value to the editors and guide them in their work of preparing suitable subjects.

"Having seen a copy of Amateur Work, I am much pleased with it," and similar statements, appear so frequently in our correspondence that we are led to ask our readers to mention the magazine to their friends. Being a new magazine, many who are interested in the subjects it presents are not aware of its publication. If brought to their attention, they would become regular readers, thus greatly increasing the circulation, which, in turn, would enable the size and scope of the magazine to be enlarged, something the publishers are very anxious to do. If our readers will speak a favorable word to those of their friends whom they think would be interested in it, this result can soon be accomplished.

As many of the things, the construction of which are described in the magazine, are beyond the attainments of younger readers, arrangements have been made to present articles especially adapted to elemental work. This will enable the beginner, as well as the more experienced amateur, to find in each issue something of interest upon which skill may be developed that will lead to more advanced work.

Two or three weeks ago the electric lights in Buffalo went out with a wink and all the street cars stopped. At the same time Lockport and Tonawanda were similarly afflicted, and considerable excitement reigned until the trouble was removed. It was found that a cat, of the common or back-yard variety, had climbed a pole on the transmission line, driven thereto possibly by a dog, and managed to short-circuit the 11,000-volt transmission line. The cat was killed.

The wave motion of the sea is utilized to run the electric-lighted buoy at the mouth of the river Elbe in the North Sea. The least motion of the water is sufficient to generate the electric current, which, when not needed, passes to storage batteries. The success in this case and in the generating electricity by means of floats off the shore of Los Angeles, Cal., is encouraging to the belief that the power of the waves will later be made valuable to coast towns.