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natives of the Islands of the South Seas to gather on the coast in large numbers 5 and vessels go there to recruit laborers. The captain of one of the recruiting vessels adopted a novel method of getting natives to enter into contracts with him. He secured a Phonograph; and before leaving Queensland had a native, already engaged on a plantation, talk into it, telling of the good time he was having. This was taken to the native villages and turned loose. The natives flocked to the recruiting ship. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The discovery of the Edison Phonograph brought happiness to thousands .— Chapin. THE PHONOGRAPH AS AN AID TO DENTISTS. A Paris dentist gives gas and music when extracting teeth. Gas has the peculiar effect sometimes of filling the mind of the immobile patient with horrid fantasies and grotesque chimeras, in which sheeted ghosts, leering hob- goblins and reptilian monsters play leading parts, and the victim, on emerging from the anaesthetic trance, shrieks and carries on. The polite Paris dentist cast about him for a remedy and hit on the Phonograph. Connecting the patient's ears with the machine and starting its strain of he administered gas and pulled the offending tooth. During the operation a look of beatitude illuminated the the half-closed eyes of the patient, and it was with reluct- anoe that he was aroused and left the chair, no doubt with a complaint of losing the crescendo. Dr. Laborde was so much impressed with the merit of the dentist's discovery that he lectured on it before the Academy of Medicine and recommended the use of the Phonograph in the oper- ating room of hospitals.—New York Evening Sun. music