MISCELANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 560, 10 January 1873, Page 3

MISCELANEOUS.

Thoysay female compositors get through their copy very rapidly, being anxious to get the liist word. A Paris paper says that a gentleman purchasing a number of photographs purporting to be likenesses of some of the female Communists then in custody was susprised to find among them the portrait of his mother in-law. Having discovered the name of the p.iotographer, tho gentleman, accompanied fiy two police agents, callel upon him and cx- tracted from him anjavowal that" ho had availed himself of the negatives of some of hia former patrons least remarkable for personal attractions in order to r orm a collec tion of portraits representing the inma es of tbe Versailles prisons and the Brest hulk, tho sale of which ha I be.n extremely large. The Californians, says the Engineer, are about to fish for gold from the sea, and a large diving bel! is now being constructed in Son Francisco for the purpose. It appears that the shores of Gold Bluff, on the northern const of California, abound iu tho precious but as tho time between the chb and flow of the tides is too short to work with advantage, they propose to work under that bell unmindful of the tides. Another plan has been devised. Tho black sand which covers the bottom of tbe sea all about the region is largely mixed up with gold dust. They are building a schooner provided with a large vacuum pump, and an elastic tube Gin in diameter, which will cause the sand to rise in tho vacuum chamber, and by this means they estimate that 100 tons per hour can bo elevated. Of | course tho success of such enterprise depend | entirely on the amount of gold obtained in i return for a certain amount of labor and capilal invested. p . Benson, son,, gives the following “Books for Playin Onto a Organ into -Meet-. I in:’—“When the preacher dims m and j ncols down in thopoolpifc pull out all tho i stoppers That’s wot the stoppers is for. When a him is gave out to be sung, play over tbe wdinal toon before singm, but be sure to play it so that they cant tell wheather its that toon or some other toon. will .amoose the people to gess When you play the interloods surnames pull all the stoppers out and sumtimes pull them all in. The stoppers is made to pull out and in., Play the interloods* about twice as long as ■ the toon. The interloods is the best part of the mewsic and should be the longest. Play from tho interloods into the toon without 1 le l ting them kno when the toon begins This will teach them to mind thare bismes I Always play' tne interloods faster or slow'd* |' than tho toon. This will keen it from hein ! the same time as tho toon. If the preacher j give out S vorces play 4. To monny vorces is teeins. Doorin tho sermon go out of tho church and cum hack in time for tke next toon. This will show ypu doant mean to he hard on the preacher by ..bavin too menny listenin to him at,-wunst.”—“American paper.”