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many rats, which can only be kept down by a cat or by having snakes on the premises—the latter not a pleasant precaution—is sometimes a source of amusement as well as annoyance. On one occasion a missionary, travelling in a recently opened-up district and sleeping in a temporary house, built of grass and reeds, according to custom put his false teeth on a box at the side of his bed. When he awoke in the morning he looked for his teeth, but they were not to be found. After hunting all over the premises for nearly an hour, he at last discovered them at the top of a rat-hole, down which they would undoubtedly have been dragged, but that the hole was too small to admit the palate. The rats evidently thought that they had found a new kind of food. The number of jumping creatures it is impossible to count. They vary in size from the jigger, smaller than a flea, up to