First, as to the fumigating material. Buy'some good leaf tobacco. Mind, leaf, not roll. Next, make "touch" of it. Every boy, whether he be a growing boy of fifteen, or a grown boy of thirty, knows how to make *' touch." But as your lady readers may not be so wise, I will, for their sake, add, that the way to make "touch" is to take some nitre and dissolve it in warm water. About a table-spoonful of crushed nitre to a pint of water. Steep brown paper in this solution, dry it, and you have touch. Now, instead of brown paper steep the tobacco leaves in the solution, and then dry them. You have then "touch tobacco," which will burn rapidly, without fumigating bellows or any other implement of the kind.

The plan I follow is this: I have an old flower-pot with a hole pierced through the side on a level with the floor. Then, inside, I have a piece of perforated zinc, to prevent the tobacco from falling to the bottom, and thus choking the draught of air through the hole. I place a couple of lighted matches on the perforated zinc, throw in the touch tobacco, rush out of the house, shut the door, and keep it so till morning.

I have often tried, and succeeded, by laying the matches on the floor, and heaping the touch tobacco over them; but of all the plans I tried, the old pot is the best. I have just done it now, and I suppose that the time which elapsed, from my going into the house and leaving my fumigator in full operation, was not two minutes.

Some friends, to whom I have communicated it, have found it most useful as well as easy. The nitre evidently adds to the effects of the tobacco. - Simplex.