of honor once before; so he is not only his own successor, but also his own ancestor. By this circumstance he becomes a selfmade man, and as such is the first instance of a self-made man in the ancient dynasty that rules the Bohemian Club.

IT is one of the greatest blessings of this century that science has become popularized. In bygone ages science was the monopoly of a caste. The most important discoveries were kept secret, and, as a natural consequence of such egotism, the progress of the human race was retarded. Champollion, the celebrated scholar of Egyptian antiquity, has established beyond any doubt the fact that the ancient Egyptians knew the corkscrew. The hieroglyphic sign heretofore believed to represent a snake is in fact the hieratic representation of a corkscrew slightly out of shape. But the discovery of this important instrument was never made publicly known, notwithstanding the extensive use

of it at the celebration of their religious mysteries.

When the Caliph Omar, who was a fanatical W. C. T. U. man, destroyed the library of Alexandria with all its spiritual treasures, the key to all the spiritual comfort was lost with them. Centuries have gone by and a great amount of valuable time has been lost in the effort to open bottles unscientifically by mere brute force. The great Euclides, when studying the qualities of the spiral line, did not strike the idea of the corkscrew, and it was not until the time that French enterprise perforated the Isthmus of Suez that the corkscrew of the ancients was rediscovered. There they found the venerable antiquity at a depth of two hundred and seventy-five feet below the bottom of the Red Sea, in a shaft perforating the metamorphic formations of the surface, on a stratum of brown cake laterally compressed and evidently of volcanic origin.

The implement bore an inscription in

hieroglyphics, of which I here give the English translation:

To MOSES,

City and County Assessor of Egypt.

Dear Baron: -We, Pharaoh I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt, send you this decoration as a Christmas-box and a token of our Royal Grace.

Egypt, 26th December,

in the before Our Lord 1500.
year

From this moment began a new era in the history of man. Discovery followed discovery. Steam-power, the telegraph, the telephone, and the great Dr. Pinchipinchi's celebrated flea-powder were discovered in rapid succession, and are at present the inalienable property of the human race. For all these benefits, of course, we are indebted to our learned organizations, the Microscopic Society, Bohemian Club, Academy of Sciences, the Society to Promote Cruelty of Insects to Man, but at the same time to public lecturers, like Artemus Ward, who expound science to the many and combine