The _Times_ Paris correspondent describes some telephone experiments between Paris and Brussels with a new apparatus known as the "microtelephone push-button," which he believes to be the most perfect yet produced. As its name indicates, it has the form of an ordinary electric push-button. When the button has been pushed in, and has made a sound at the other extremity, it is taken out, and is found to be attached to a long electric wire. There is thus exposed the telephonic plate, which is extremely sensitive, so that when it is necessary to speak at short distances, it is not necessary to come close to the instrument. For communications in the same street, or the same house, the operator places the upper part near himself, and without changing his position he can speak with the correspondent at the opposite extremity. He is not obliged to put his ear to the part which contains the button and brings back the reply. Thus, for short distances, those who make use of this apparatus speak in their ordinary tone, without changing their customary attitudes. They may sit or walk about, and speak just as if those they are addressing were present. When great distances intervene, in which the speakers and hearers are separated by two hundred miles, it is necessary to come nearer to the apparatus, but without being obliged to speak quite close to it. What makes this apparatus the most successful of telephonic instruments is, that it can be made for half-a-crown, that is to say, for not more than the price of the ordinary push-button. As it can be fitted to the electric wire of the ordinary ringing apparatus, it follows that it introduces a complete change in our ordinary modes of intercourse. The railway companies are making experiments with this apparatus as a means of communication between compartments of carriages, and it is being fitted up on trial in hotels. The inventor is Dr. Cornelius Herz. "ASK ON." (1 KINGS ii. 20; JOHN xiv. 13.) I hear "a voice from heaven"-- I hear my Sovereign say-- "Ask on" (He speaks to me); "I will not say thee nay." I would not doubt His word, For truth in Him abides; I would not doubt His power; In Him the Godhead hides. And since I know He gave Himself, Himself, to move Jehovah's curse from me, I would not doubt His love. And so I'll breathe my wish To Christ, my King, to-day; And rest me on His word-- "I will not say thee nay." ISA. "IS NOT A MAN BETTER THAN AN EGG?" "Bacon! bacon! bacon! always bacon! Why don't we have eggs sometimes, like we used to?" was the discontented question of a little boy, one morning, as he surveyed a rasher of bacon on his plate. "May you never get anything worse to eat, my boy, than this nice streaky bacon," remarked his father, looking up from his newspaper.