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Dunstan Times, Issue 523, 26 April 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

I beard a good story of an old gentleman, of eighty, whojmanied ajyoung wile, and in due course of time was presented with a son. On the day of christening the nurse handed young master about, with the usual exclamation that he was “ the very image of his papa.” “ Very like indeed,” said a lady, “he has no teeth.”—“ Recollections of John Adolphus.”

We learn (says the Ironmonger) from the New York Times that among the many improvements in cities which the enforced rebuilding of Chi cago has suggested is that of heating the entire town with steam in a man ner very similar to that by which it was formerly lighted—by means of pipes running underground from some central reservoir to each house, thus doing away for ever with the annoyance caused by bad coal/ damp wood, kindling, &c. It may be doubted whether the time is ripe for so extensive an improvement; but when we remember that steam may be forced through these pipes to an immense distance, with a very slight diminution of heat, and at the rate of seven miles per minute, it does indeed seem as if the day could not be far distant when a practical application shall be made of what has long been theoretically admitted.