I have less than no patience with those principally clerical revisers; albeit for their chairman, Dr.Ellicott, I retain a pleasant memory from Orkney recollections in old days.
* * * * * But this is a digression, wrung from me by my righteous wrath against those who have done their worst to spoil for us The Angel's Message, the first word uttered by the telegraphic wire under the sea.
Returning to the subject of Electrics I have something of interest to say which will be news to my readers.

One day when casually dipping into Addison's _Spectator_ at Albury, I made the following discovery which I recorded in the newspapers at the time, and give the extract now fully as thus:-- In the 241st No.

of Addison's _Spectator_, bearing date Thursday, December 6th, 1711, and as signed "C." (one of the letters of the mystic Clio), by the great Joseph Addison himself, occurs the following remarkable anticipation of our presumably most modern discovery.

Those who have access to the London edition of the _Spectator_ of 1841, published by J.J.Chidley, 123 Aldersgate Street, can verify the verbatim faithfulness of the following extract from page 274:-- "Strada, in one of his Prolusions (Lib.II.prol.

6), gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain loadstone, which had such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner.