MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 413, 18 March 1870, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

An Engl'sh paper remarks Last week we remarked that a victim of the Overe.'d md Gurney downfall was in Haddington Workhouse. It was also hinted that he was a relative of a peer, and the nohle lord with whom he was said to be connected turns out • he L ird Hatherley. We are glad to cam that Mr. Hamilton Wood, whose story is now more fully reported, is no relation to the Lord Chancc’lor. Eetiring to the life of a country gentleman, with am: le means gathered in a Manchester business, Mr. Wood found the monotony of of ease insupportable, and came up to London, where he became a prominent ilireetor in a hank, which hank collapse , with the result of beggary to himself. Again, in the Southern States of America,.'he amassed considerable wealth, an I the war of independence stripped him again of every penny Yet a thir t time, with successful energy, he wooed Fortune, and in London sho smiled upon him ( but her favors were wasted by the failure of Messrs. Overend aud Gurney.

The New York “Tribune ” says “We • riove to say that an old and eloquent friend of ours, who has often been particularly mentioned in those columns—the American Demosthenes, otherwise known as Mr. George Francis Train—is most dia" respectfully spoken of by several of the Western journals, and that he never was pasquinadod before with such versatility of rhetoric and ingenuity of abuse, except, may be, in some woman’s convention. He is called—l. L An addlepate i swindle-bag ’ 2. He is thus addressed; ’Good-bye, old windy, good bye, old gas-pipe ; go home and soak your head in whisky, so as to give some strength to your apology for brains ’ all which, to say the least, is not complimentary to Mr, Train phrenologically. We must, with all our force, protest against this light method of inentioningamau who, in our opinion, can in one hour talk more ami say less than any other being that ever existed,'oris ever lidkly to exist. Honor to whom honor is due ” James llenforfch, the champion sculler, hj is sent a letter to Mr. Robert Claxton, of Newcastle on-Hunter, New Smith Wales, in which he offers to allow Hickey £2OO for expenses to vow a match on the Tyne, for £I,OOO aside, over a course of from four to five miles. Renforth asserts that he is sure the Australian will he handsomely treated by all Tynesiders, in proof of which he instances the reception given to Wa'ter Brown, the American. A correspondent says that Mr. Tennyso" has returned from Swifzland utterly disgusted with the trip. Wherever he went he was mobbed by other tourists. If he put his head out of his bed room door he found a number of girls hovering about in the passage, waiting for a glimpse of the author of “The May Queen." On one occasion one of the gentle nen of Mr. Tennyson’s party found his hat gone and another substituted tor it. He made a great, hue and cry, and discovered that the missing article had been taken in the belief that it had covered the brows of the Laureate A still more disagreeable incident occurre'. A well-known literary man, who accompanied the poet, had kept a diary, in which he noted down from day to day the leading event and principal topics of conversation. This diary can nowhere be found. It is supposed that some very ’cute person has got hold of it, and that some equally enterprising American publisher will bring it cut in New York where they are accustomed to such sharp practice. Science and art.— A striking instance of the immense value a small piece of steel may acquire by the great power of skilled mechanical labor is the balance spring of a watch. From its extreme fineness and delicacy four thousand weigh not more than one ounce, and exceed in value £I,OOO. A most interesting little work, ’escribing the rise an ( progress of watchmaking, lias been published by J. W. Benson, of 20, Old Bond-street, aim the City Steam Factory, 5S and GO. Ludgatc. hill, London. The book, which is profusely illustrated, gives a full oescriptiou of the various kinds of watches an clocks, with their prices. Mr. Benson, who holds the appointment to the Prince of Wales, has also published a pamphlet on Artislie Gold Jewellery, illustrated with beautiful designs of Bracelets, Brooches, Ear-rings, Lockets, &c., suitable for wedding, birthday, and other presents. These pamphlets are sent post free tor two stamps each, and they cannot bo too strongly recommended to those contemplating a purchase, especially to residents in tbe country or abroad, who are thus enable ’ to select any article they may require, ami have it forwarded wiih perfect safely. Holloway’ sOjntment andlT lr have been placed by the common consent of mankind at the head of internal re mo ics. To say that in warm climates generally, an i in that ot the Cape more especially, they save thousands upon thousands of persons annually trom falling a sacrifice to dyspepsia, dysentery, ciarrhcea, constipation, liver complaint, general debility, remittent fever, &c., is simply to relate a fact attested by crouds of cur Colonial witnesses. No sufferer from scorbutic affections has ever failed to experience relief from them, an i they are giiaianteoil to cure chronic diseases of the internal organs which have previously haffied the skill of tbe most successful practitioners.