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The last scientilic story is told thus: The Saturday Review once declared that tliegreatest benefactor oftlie human race would be he who could enable man to drink au iinlimited quantity of wine witliout getting drank. Such a man has been round. Dr. Bell invented the telephone, biit its wondera pale before the telegastograph. Thi.s is an eléctrica] machine by whicb the pal ate au be tiekled. and pleased by any Havor, and tor any lengt Ir of time, without any f ear of indigestión or taebriety. By putting soup or fish or wine hito a receptad e connected with a powerful battery, the taste of the daintiest vianda can be conveyed along a telegraph wire for miles, and to an.y 1111limited number of bon eivants. ïhey have only to put the wire into their mouths, and they seem to be eating and drinking. They mayget drunk or overfed, luit Huí moment the contact is broken the evil eflects pass off, and nothing remains bat a "delightful exhjlaration." The inventor, liovvever, kceps the tnodus opei'andi a perfect secret, and wishes to perfect his discovery before In' iliscloses il tu the worlil.