MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 574, 18 April 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The charges made against priests for intimidating at thelato galloway election has proved a failure, “As to being conflicted wit’ll tho gout,” said Mrs. Partington, “high living dosen’t always bring it on. It is incoherent in some families, and is handed .down from father to son. Mr. Hammer poor soul, who ha, been so long ill with it, disinherits it from his wffe’s grandfather.” “ Is ray face dirty 5” asked a young lady from the backwoods, on a steamboat running from Cairo to New Orleans. “ Dirty ! No. Why do’ you ask ?” “ Because that insulting waiter insists on putting "a towel beside my plate. I’ve thrown three under the table, aud every time he comes round he puts another before me.” Twelve Indians wore hung in a row iu Texas, recently, for drivingoff surreptitious beef. After having their faces washed, eleven turned out to'be white men. The Ballarat Rlar says that tho cost of working the Education Act for Victoria will bo over 700,0001, per annum. Sixty thousand tons of breadstuff's, have been exported from South Australia during the year. This little joke, told by a writer in a Mel. bourne paper is not bad:—The effort of our parveneus to obtain a footing in English society remind me of the digger who told his mate that ho was sick of the goldfields, and should go to Melbourne and resume his proper position in society. “Your proper position in society, Jack.” was the reply. “You know what that is? Why it’s selling trotters in Bonrke-strcet.” Ahiow quilestine has been adopted in Paris, which has the novelty of not demanding from the victims the exertion of clambering up a flight of steps,.as in the old and cumbrous machine . From experiments made lately at Ballarat it is found that a large proportion of gold is lost in the crushing of quartz, from the use of gratings, containing holes which are too large. The machines that crush for the public aro referred to. The Ballarat Courier draws attention to the same as follows:—“ Tho holes number 80 to tho square inch An experiment with two samples of stone from the same heap showed that nearly twice as much gold was saved where tho holes were flue IGO to the square inch —as was saved when the holes were coarse—Bo to the square inch. Of course the one sample may have boon a little richer than the other but the stone was not picked. Coarse gratings have been used because it is supposed to bo well to lose a few grains to the ton iu order to got the stone through but iu the experiment mentioned above though tho one crush ing was too poor to justify tho continuation of operations, the other shewed that tho reef could be worked profitably.” The mormons are greatly cxcilcd over the contemplated legislation in congress. Brigham young,proposes to purchase one of tho Sandwich Islands and remove his flock there. A clergyman in Melbourne attributes the visitation of Jocusts, which the farmers ever there are suffering from, to tho passing of tho impious secular Education Act. Tho Pari? Figaro gives the following do. tail of the late Emperor Napoleon’s domestic life at the Tuilerics. Every morning his son used to knock at the door of his study. “ Who is there?” the Emperor would ask. “It is I, the .Prince Imperial, Papa,” the hoy would sometimes answer, or “ I, Prince Louis,” or some other title. The Emperor, however, would not open his door till his son replied, “ Well, then, Vest mci, Coco!” ;■ A novel tribute is to hopaid to the memory of Horace Groeiy by the compositors of tho New York Tribune. They propose to erect a statue of him out of old type. Napoleon 111., a great historical drama, is in cou-so of preparation by an eminent and enterprising Austrian dramatist. It will take two nights to perform, and will include tho principal events of tho late Emperor’s life, down to his death at Chislehurst. A singular sale is shortly to take place' in Paris—that of the collection of hi. Hoindreioh, tho late principal executioner of France, who died sonic weeks ago. Monsieur do p aris, with a true love of his business, had gathered together every imaginable picture relating to capital punishment—a ghastls array of gibbets,[guillotines, crosses, &c. Each picture has several annotations on the margin, and M. Heindreich, who ought to have been a connoisseur on tho subject, has noted on an engraving of the Spanish garotte, that is the most painful of ail modes of execution. Tiro infernal machine exploded in the streets of Paris after Bonaparte’s carriage had passed but before Josephoue’s came up which being the subject of conversation in a miscellaneous company in England, sonic one asked what they wore talking of. “Nothing material,” answered a wit; “only a blow up between tho First Consul and bis wife.” A New York scientific journal gives the following recoipo to make a fashionable woman:—“Taue 99Ibs. of flesh aud bones —but chifly bones—bore holes iu tho cars, cut off the small toes bond tho back to conform to tho Grecian Bend, tho Boston Dip, tho Kangaroo Droop, or tho Saratoga Slope as tho taste inches; then add three yards of linen, 109 yards of ruffles, 75 j arils of edging, IS yards of dimity, ono pair of silk or cotton hose, six yards of flannel embroidered one pair of Balmoral boots with heels threo inches high, 41bs of whalebone in strips, 260 yards of steel wire, half a mile of tape, 21b of cotton or whiro hemispheres, 50 yards of silk or other dress goods, 100 yard of point laco, 400 yards of fringe and other trimmings, 12 gross of buttons, ono box of pearl powder, one saucer of carmine, one bushel of “store” hair, frizzled and fretted a, la maniaqno one quart of hair pins, 11b of braid one lace handkerchief nine inches square, with patent holder,.perfumed with otto of roses, and—“clear the track.” '