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Dunstan Times, Issue 417, 15 April 1870, Page 3

The three P’s.—The press, the pulpit, the petticoats—the three ruling powers of the day. Tho first spreads knowledge, the second spreads morals, and the third spreads considerably. One day some one said of a very handsome woman, whose feet were immense, “She’s v'ery pretty; hut she completely upsets the ordinary system of measurement by proving that two feet make a yard.” Goldsmiths’ Work. The process of fine-art manufacture in this branch of trade is strikingly exemplified in a little work published by Mr. J. W. Benson, of No. 25, Old Bond-street, and of the City Steam Factory, 58 and CO, Lungate-hill, London. It is enriched and embellished with designs, by Italian, French, and English artistes; of brooches, bracelets, ear-rings, and other articles, suitable for personal wear, or for wedding, birth-day, or other presents, with their prices. Mr. Benson, who holds the appointment to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, has also published a very interesting pamphlet on the Rise and Progress of Watchmaking. These pamphlets are sent, post free, for two stamps each, and they cannot be too strongly recommended to those contemplating a purchase, especially to residents in the country or abroad, who are thus enabled to select any article they may equire, and have it forwarded in perfe safety