ers of distress are also to be
registered under the Act to be of any validity against the trustees in
bankruptcy or execution creditors.

1615. Registration of Bill of Sale.

Every bill of sale must be registered within _seven_ days of its
making, instead of within _twenty-one_ days as under the old law; and
provision is made to prevent the evasion of the Act of 1878 by means
of renewed bills of sale in respect of the same debt--a practice much
resorted to up to the passing of that Act in order to avoid
registration.

[WISE PEOPLE ARE THE MOST MODEST.]

1616. Renewal of Registration.

Registration of unsatisfied bills of sale must he renewed every _five_
years.

1617. Voidance of Bill of Sale.

A bill of sale executed within seven days after the execution of a
prior unregistered bill of sale, if comprising all or part of the same
chattels, and if given as a security for the same debt or any part
thereof, will be absolutely void.

1618. Bills of Sale to be Executed in presence of Solicitor.

To prevent necessitous persons being inveigled by sharpers into
signing bills of sale for sums in excess of advances, or in blank, as
has been done in some cases, every bill of sale had to be executed in
the presence of a solicitor, but under the Bills of Sale Act, 1882,
this is no longer imperative, the condition only affecting bills drawn
under the Act of 1878.

1619. Preserving Fruit.

The grand secret of preserving is to deprive the fruit of its water of
vegetation in the shortest time possible; for which purpose the fruit
ought to be gathered just at the point of proper maturity. An
ingenious French writer considers fruit of all kinds as having four
distinct periods of maturity--the maturity of vegetation, of
honeyfication, of expectation, and of coction.

1620. The First Period.

The first period he considers to be that when, having gone through the
vegetable processes up to the ripening, it appears ready to drop
spontaneously. This, however, is a period which arrives sooner in the
warm climate of France than in the colder orchards of England; but its
absolute presence may be ascertained by the general filling out of the
rind, by the bloom, by the smell, and by the facility with which it
may be plucked from the branch. But even in France, as generally
practised in England, this period may be ha