PERSONAL.Will the individual who was driving a Midget Car which ran over old gentleman in the Strand be good enough to come forward and pay for the watch-glass which he cracked? BE ECONOMICAL.Our Midgets only smell the petrol.

The captain stood as if stupefied, the little professor's eyes were as big as watch-glasses, and the mate had to catch hold of a back-stay to prevent himself from falling.

"As far as I can judge by the appearance of these fragments, they appear to be portions of a small watch-glass.

"I am sorry," said he, "that there are no more fragments of the watch-glass, or whatever it was.

I should say that these are portions of a watch-glass.

That we found in Blackmore's chambers a framed inscription of large size, hung upside down, together with what appeared to be the remains of a watch-glass and a box of stearine candles and some other objects.

But only one kind of glass possesses these properties; namely, that which, like an ordinary watch-glass, has curved, parallel surfaces.

But for what purpose could a person wear 'watch-glass' spectacles?

It is that of using watch-glass spectacles such as I have described.

But the small part which remains of the original edge furnishes proof in two respects that this was not a watch-glass.

In the first place, on taking a careful tracing of this piece of the edge, I found that its curve was part of an ellipse; but watch-glasses, nowadays, are invariably circular.

In the second place, watch-glasses are ground on the edge to a single bevel to snap into the bezel or frame; but the edge of this object was ground to a double bevel, like the edge of a spectacle-glass, which fits into a groove in the frame and is held by the side-bar screw.

It is slightly convex, like a watch-glass, on the upper side, where the bread is laid on; the under or concave side being, of course perfectly black.