A dainty samovar, a tiny tea-pot, a spirit-lamp and the rest, all in the wonderful silver-work of the Slavonski Bazaar in Moscow.

" She turned the wick of the spirit-lamp, and the peaceful music of the samovar was still.

The best plan, however, to be adopted, if it can be managed, is the following:take a common wine-glass, and, holding it upside down, put a lighted candle or a spirit-lamp into it for a minute or two.

LUMBAGO.A "new and successful mode" of treating lumbago, advocated by Dr. Day, is a form of counter-irritation, said to have been introduced into this country by the late Sir Anthony Carlisle, and which consists in the instantaneous application of a flat iron button, gently heated in a spirit-lamp, to the skin.

Rapidly she lit her silver spirit-lamp and heated the water almost to boiling-point, and held the envelope of Stafford's letter over it until the gum was melted and the flap came open.

Just as the disc started on that fatal dispatch, and Cogs bent over it to read, his spirit-lamp blew up,as the dear things will.

So the two installed themselves on each side of the stone knight's armed feet, which helped to support the tea-basket, and Lady Maud took out her spirit-lamp and a saucepan that just held two cups, and a tin bottle full of water, and all the other things, arranging them neatly in order.

Now light the spirit-lamp, please, and then we can talk.'

The steam was lifting the lid of the small saucepan, which stood securely on the spirit-lamp between the marble knight's greaved shins.

At some distance, but still on the table, a kettle moaned over a spirit-lamp.

Instead, he conceived the notion of brewing chocolate inside his desk with a spirit-lamp and a silver patty-pan.

Schmidt set up our spirit-lamp behind two great stones that protected it from the wind.

I'll get out the spirit-lamp and we'll soon see.

To fix it, a solution of hyposulphite of soda containing chloride of gold is poured on the plate while this is held over a spirit-lamp.

"I remember I was sitting and smoking and boiling up the water over a spirit-lamp business I used to take on these expeditions.

The snaky branches of the deeper weeds flickered like the flames of spirit-lamps; but, after a time, there were no more weeds.

Mrs. Gangewer, of the Ohio Aid Society, had sent me a tin tea-kettle and spirit-lamp; folks at a distance had sent plenty of the best tea; and that little tea-tray had become a prominent feature of Campbell long before this poor fellow specified his want.

On the sideboard stood a plateful of biscuits, and on the stove a spirit-lamp, with a kettle already beginning to sing, and a teapot and three cups and saucers.

They returned to find their hostess disrobed and in bed, and again she had the tea-equipage arrayed and the kettle singing over the spirit-lamp.

"Eat your panada, Miriam, and ask no questions," she said, lifting a bowl from above a spirit-lamp on the chimney-piece, and bearing it toward me.

On the mantel-piece were the inevitable spirit-lamp and bowl of panada, recognized at once as part and parcel of my malady.

But there is cream, you see, for those who like itboiled down and bottled for the use of the children before leaving homeone of Dominica's notions;" and here the smiling maid, with her little, respectful courtesy, tendered me a reviving cup of Miss Lamarque's morning beverage, Mocha, made to the last point of perfection, dripped and filtered over a spirit-lamp by Dominica, the skillful and neat-handed.

The kettle hissed merrily on a spirit-lamp.