It is not France, noble and democratic, which inspires these movements, but a plutocratic situation which has taken the same positions, but on worse grounds, as the German metallurgists before the War.

The facts of the case are briefly as follows: The prosecutor in this casemost unwilling prosecutor, gentlemenis Mr. John Hornby, who is a metallurgist and dealer in precious metals.

One of them is a chemist or a metallurgist, or something scientific.

The chemist or metallurgist or something scientific is Professor Titus Peebles, who is going out to prospect for gold.

So much for the chemist or metallurgist or something scientific.

We are all going to California together, and I wonder which one of the three will turn up trumps firstBeaver, or the chemist, metallurgist or something scientific, or Yours respectfully, JOHN PHOENIX.

One was about an old German farmer on whose land a prospecting metallurgist found zinc ore; the scientific man brought him the bright yellow button by which the zinc proved its existence in its union with copper, and the old fellow asked in an awestricken whisper: 'Is it a gold-mine?'

There was Juan de la Cosa, cartographer, who traced the first map of the Antilles; there were the father and uncle of Bartolomé de las Casas, the apostle of the Indies; Diego de Peñalosa, the first notary public; Fermin Jedo, the metallurgist, and Villacorta, the mechanical engineer.