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OCTOBER 1901 85 A QUARTETTE OF AUSTRALIAN GOOD ONES. I have sent records to England lately to relatives and friends of mine by mail. Let me tell you how I did it. I find it is a good way to first wrap them up in the cotton wadding. Then put them in the card board box. Then take a coffee tin and put the box in it and pour sawdust all around it, ramming down with a lead pencil. Put a little sawdust over the top and close lid of the coffee box tightly. I have never yet had a record broken when packed in this manner. * * * While exhibiting my Phonograph at a Cricket Club Smoke Concert, away in the back blocks of New South Wales, I was supplied with a table, with a cloth which hung down to the floor. During an interval, while smok- ing a cigar and chatting with some friends, I saw a couple of natives steal up to the table and lift up the cloth cover. They were greatly surprised and disappointed at not finding a brass band and several singers concealed there. * * * An acquaintance of mine, whose wife had a habit of asking him, just after he had got into bed whether he had wound the clock, or put the cat out, or switched on the burglar alarm has used the Phonograph in the following way. He prepared a special cylinder one day, and that evening he brought his machine into the bedroom, with a piece of string attached to the starting lever, so that when the questions started he switched her on, and “Yes my dear,” “I did my dear,” came out at intervals of a few seconds, while he turned over and went to sleep. His wife said he was a brute. B