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ascribed to Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, in Campania (400 A. D.); but there is no evidence of their existence for a century later. The first tunable set of bells known in England were used in Croyland Abbey, in Lincolnshire, in 960. The great bell of Moscow is 19 ft. 3 in. high, and is 60 ft. 9 in. in circumference at the edge; its value for old metal is £60,000 or $300,000. The bells of China rank next to those of Russia in size. In Pekin there are 7 bells, each of which, according to Father Le Compte, weighs 120,000 lbs. The weight of the leading great bells of the world is-King of bells (Moscow), 443,732; St. Ivan's (Moscow), 127,830; Pekin, 120,000; Vienna, 40,200; Olmutz (Bohemia), 40,000, Rouen (France), 40,000; St. Paul's, 38,470; "Big Ben" (Westminster), 30,350; Montreal, 28,560; St. Peter's (Rome), 18,600.