MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 536, 26 July 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A nugget of gold, weighing 538 ounces was lately found at Dunolly, Victoria. The largest and heaviest woman in Paris died recently. Herlwelght was 5141b. She was named Geniot, and in 1848 appeared at a national fete as the Godness of Liberty, at which time her figure was quite slim We” learn from an American newspaper that the great chimney of the Cabot mill at Brunswick, Maine, has been moved 20ft, to allow of the enlargement of the mill. The work was done by a process similar to that by which ships are launched, the chimney being slid along on greased planks The chimney is 70ft. high, and nearly Bft. square at the base, and it was moved, the flues connected and the fires started in eight hours and a half. Josh Billings says:—“ Moat men concede that it looks foolish to see a boy dragging a heavy sled up hill for the fleetin’ pleasure ofridin’ down again. But it appears to me that the boy is a sage by the/aidee of a young man who works hard all the week and drinks up his wages on Saturday night. The greatestwm of luck on record is that of a Baltimore cigar dealer, wlwqwitbin the last three moths has inherited a fortune, drawn a big lottery’prize, found 7000 dollars buried in the cellar of his house, amlAost his mother-in-law. An instance has been related to us, on undoubted authority of the sagacity of a dog which although it occured some time ago is nevertheless worth recording. A mother finding a little boy, a child just able to toddle, doing something that he ought not to do in a yard in which a large Scotch Collie dog had a kennel, administered a a sound slapping to the youngster, who of co urse, squalled lustily. The dog being unchained ran up to the child and growling at the mother seized the little fellow by his clothing ami dragged him into the kennel and there he kept him until the father came home defying eveiyone else to approach the place in which he had sheltered the child. This story has been told to us by an eye witness of the occurrence and as it serves to show the large amount of intelligence and sympathy which some dogs possess, we have given it as we received it. —Bendigo Advertiser. It was well known before Risk’s death that a breach existed between himself and Gould which was gradually widening. As a proof that Fisk thoroughly appreciated Gould the story is told that inOctober last the former meeting a friend who was about to start for Europe, said: “George, I hear you are going to Europe I‘d like you to do me a favor. It’s this keep youeyesopen and look around you and if (you can find a mean man who can do'a meaner thing to his best friend or tell a bigger lie t ham Jay Gould, I want you to telegraph me at once, I want that man, I dont care if the despatch costs l(),000dol. I’ll agree to payit for this reason, I know d—d w'oll yon will never send it for you won’t find tho man.”—Now York World. An economical lowan who had the toothache determined to remove his tooth in the Indian fashion. Accordingly he bent down a sapling in the woods lay down himself and attacked a stout cord to his tooth at one end and the sapling, at the other ihen he released the sapling and the next thing he knew was that he had jumped over a grove of about 40 small trees and was trying to get out of a pond which he had happened to alight. Fond Mother: “John do look at that child —it has your watch in its mouth, and will swallow it!” John (who is a bachelor broth-er-in-law, and very fond of babies): “Oh, don’t be the least alarmed; I’ve got hold of the chain. It can’t go far.” At a billiard match lately played in London for 60/. a-side, 1,000 up, between a young player named S. W. Stanley (who is said even to excel Cook in the performance of the spot hazard) and F. Beanett, Stanley scored in seven breaks the extraordinary number of 959 points, which included 293 spot hazards, running out with an unfinished break of 79. The game only occupied one hour and twenty minutes, the play being the fastest ever known. M. Hatin, a gentleman of great experience in journalism in France, has recently given much attention to the papers published generally throughout the world, and comes to the following conclusion : that there are 7000 published in Europe, 5000 in America, and 500 in Asia and Australia. Of these 3000 are issued daily, and assuming the average sale of each to be 2000 copies there are twelve million copies of newspapers printed every day We take the following from Pall Mall Gazette: —“ One of the longest and most exciting rifle matches that has ever taken place between two individuals has just been completed at Sir Henry Halford s seat, Wistow in Leicestershire. The match was between Mr. Edward Ross and Captain Fenton, two of the best shots in England. The primary object of the match was to settle an undecided tie for the National Association Cup of 1870, but it eventually assumed quite the character of an international match, and the excitement among spectators was very great. The conditions were:—loo rounds each of which 50 were to be fired at 200 ya.ds and 50 at 600 yards. The match was to be shot in two days, 25 shots at each range each day. The first day was very stormy and in consequence tho scores on each side were indifferent, Captain Fenton having the best of it. The next day was more favorable, and the shooting was extraordinarily brilliant. Mr. Ross won the match with a score which has never, we believe been equalled—certainly not in public —by him or any one else. At 200 yards, out of' 22 shots, 24 were bullseyes and one centre ; at 600 yards, 23 Were bullseyes and 2 centres—giving a total of 197 points out of a possible score of 200. .. The North German Gazette hints editorially that Germany will make its influence felt at the election of the nest Pope.

An adjutant of a volunteer corps, being doubtful to all men, cried, “All you that ar* without arms hold up your hands." It U said of Boulter, a highwayman, that one day .iding on horseback on the highroad, he met a young' woman who was weeping and who appeared to be in great distress touched with compassion he asked her what was the cause of her affliction; when she told him thatacreditor'attended’ by a baliff bad gone to a house which she pointed out and threatened to take her husband to jail for a debt of 331, Boulter gave her the amount, telling her'to pay the sum and set her husband at liberty; and she ran off loading the gentleman with benedictions. Boulter in the meantime waited on the road till he saw the creditor come out he then attacked him and took back the 331, besides everything else he had about' him. A New Effect From Guano.—A Yankee lad, whose father was a farmer, went into a barn to play a short time ago and being detained by a thunder-storm, he fell asleep upon a bag of guano. The aid gentleman, when the storm was over went into the farm-yard to look for his son and found a giant eight feet high coming out of the bam “Hollo? Who are yon,” he cried “What are you doing here?” “Why father.”’ squeaked the Goliah, “It’s me don’t you know Tommy?” “You,” the astonishedparent exclaimed “Why, Tom how oh airth did you get stretched out so long in such a short space of time?" “Why, father,” replied the boy, looking down upon the gaping old man. “I slept upon them bags of guano as you put into the barn and that and the lightening together just did the business.” Holloway’sPills —Truthful Experience —The United testimony of thousands, extending over more than 30 years, most strongly recommends these Pills as the best purifiers, the mildest aperient, ami the surest restoratives. They never prove delusive, or give merely temporal relief, but attack all ailments of tho stomach, lungs, heart, bead, and bowels in the only safe and legitimate way by depurating the blood and. so eradicating those impurities which are the foundation and support of almost disease. Their medicinal efficacy is wonderful in renovating enfeebled constitutions. Their action'embraces all that is desirable in a household medicine. They expel every noxious effete matter and the energies stimulated.