MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 359, 12 March 1869, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Mr. Buttl , in Victoria, has constructed a patent cradle specially a 'apted to goldfields where water is not obtainable. The length of the cradle is five feet. It is provided with two incline i hoppers, both moving latterally with rapidity. Dry earth, or matrix, is supplied at the top of each hopper Perforations of graduated dimensions are adopted in the hoppers, those at the top being the smallest. A fan, also graduated, revolves with great rapidity between the hoppers, and the dust is blown away, leaving the fine and coarse gold in separa e compartments partitioned at each side of the cradle It is said that, if skillfully used, the operation will be equally as effective as by washing, and much cheaper, The longest artillery range on record, viz , iO.SOOyardswas attained at Shoeburyness, by Mr. Whitworth's nine-inch muzzleloader gun of fourteen tons firing a shot of 2501b., with a-shot of 501b. This range is 225 yards over that of the seven - inch Lynall Thomas gun, which in IS6I ranged 10,075 yards.—“ Pal! Mull Gazette.” The patent Safety Coffin has been advertised under the head of amusements in the “New York Times.” Mr. Jefferson Davis, ex-president of the Southern Confederacy, was present at the last Warwick Meeting, and appeared to take groat interestin the sport. Bya curious coincidence, he witnessed the success of a horse named after a former enemy of his— President Lincoln.