FUNDING SOLAR ENERGY

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt in eight years more, that he should be able to supply the Governor's gardens with sun- shine at a reasonable rate; but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me to give him something as an encourage- ment to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers. JONATHAN SWIFT