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     Somebody having recommended the employment of hedgehogs to exterminate beetles and other household pests. Mr. Frank Buckland, the well-known writer on Natural History, gives the following account of his experience with the animals: "I have tried hedgehogs to kill beetles; they don't act. A hedgehog cannot possibly hold above a pint of beetles at a time, and in my kitchen there are gallons of them. I once tried the hedgehog plan at the Deanery, Westminster. The first night after his arrival the Abbey watchman was frightened out of his wits--it was the hedgehog. The next night, fast asleep, I felt a cold nose on my face, and then a prickly thing trying to get into the bed--it was the hedgehog. The next night the servants came trembling to say there was a burglar in the dining room, rattling the plate--it was the hedgehog. The next night the cook put some soup away, and in the morning the soup was gone--the hedgehog was found coiled up asleep in the tureen. The next night nothing was heard of the hedgehog, and for weeks we could not tell where he was gone; the cook was thankful, and the crickets sang, O, be joyful, while the beetles had free run in the kitchen. 'Years rolled on,' as the novelists have it, and a skeleton was discovered in the flue, which had smoked the whole of the house out for weeks. The hedgehog again. Thank goodness, I have seen the last of that wretch, and never wish to have another of his kind on the premises. Unless, therefore, my friends will run to the chance of a hedgehog becoming the same pest to them he was to me, they will never introduce them into their homes. Hedgehogs will only