MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 576, 2 May 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

—or ■ A Philadelphia man recently lost his wife, and a young miss of six said to his little daughter of about the same ago, “Your pa will many agaiu won’t he? “ Oh, yes” was the reply; ‘ ‘ but not until after the funeral.” London has a new industry, namely, the manufacture of cripples. The police have iliscovcred a firm of human fiends that take children of tender age and twist their limbs so that they may he bandy-legged or otherwise deformed, according to the wish of the parents The object of this is to make the unfortunate infants objects of charity. A regular tariff of prices is demanded, a thorough and complete maiming costing four pounds. Tho members of the concern and about a dozen employecs have been imprisoned. The writer of “Talk on Change” in the Australasian, says “Here is a scrap of statistical information which illustrates the wealth of the two principal Australian Colonics. In New South Wales and Victoria there are 13 hanks of issue, six of the number carrying on business in both of these places. The average quarter of 1872 amounted to more than 21| millions sterling A further fact. Tire deposits held bj one bank, (the Bank of New South Wales) at all its places of business amount to more than 5,900,0001., upon 3J millions of which no interest is paid. At the current rate of accumulation it would not bo beyond the range of possibility to find foreign nations after a while endeavoring to borrow money in the Australian money market. An ingenious American journalist tho Scientific Review tells us, has invented a mechanical eat, which is made of sheet iron, with cylindrical attachment and steel claws and teeth, and is worked by clockwork. A bellows inside swclls’up tho tail at will to a belligerent size, and by a tremolo attachment causes, at the same time, the patent cat to omit all noises of which the living animal is capable. When you want fun, you wind up your cat and place him. on the roof. Every cat within half a mile hears him, girds on his armour, and sallies forth. Frequently fifty or one hundred cats attack him at once. No sooner does the patent oat'fecl the weight of an assailant than his teeth and claws work with lightning rapidity. Adversaries within six feet of him are torn to shr°ds. Fresh battalions come on to meet a similar fate, and in an hour several buahe’e of bar, toe nails, and fiddle strings alone remain. Speaking of steam in the street, tho Philadelphia Leihjer gives currency to an announcement that a new engine for propolling street cars has been invented, so compact as to occupy no more space than a parlor stove. It is stated that the smoke is consumed, and there is no soot, cinders, or noise. The engine has the power of five horses, and tho cars, winch are of tho usual dimensions, can be controlled, as to stoppage and propulsion, quite as handily as those drawn by horses. Tho power can be increased at pleasure up to the capacity of a twenty-five horse power engine, thus enabling it to ascend grades of four hundred feet to tho mile. The engineer can “slow up in the space of thirty-two feet when the cars arc going at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. Tho engine is placed upon the rear platform, so that the windows can be left open in pleasant weather, without tho annoyance of smoko or cinders, while any dust that might bo raised is left behind. An American adventuress, giving her name as Maria Graiirdorgc, has been arrested in Paris on the following charge of • impudent and ingenious swindling : —“ She appeared well-dressed, and with a handsome baby in her arms, at the houses of wealthy Parisians, asking to see the proprietor. As soon as she was admitted to his presence, she would rush at him, exclaiming, ‘Traitor! wretch ! villain! have I found you at last!’ At tho same time, the handsome baby, having been trained for that purpose, would extend its little arms towaads the astonished gentleman and cry, ‘ Papa, dear papa ! ’ It may be imagined that ‘ papa’ preferred to give the swindler some money in order to make her leave the house. When she was arrested at her residence in the Rue Duvivier no fewer that seven trained babies were found in the house, also nine or ten thousand francs in money, Mile. Graindorge, upon being closely pressed by the examining magistrate, confessed that her real name was O iks ; that she was a native of New York ; and that she had been before at the St. Lazaro prison. The Paris Assizes found her guilty, and she was sent for seven years to New Caledonia.” Dr. Briout’s Phosphodynb’ Multitudes of people are hopelessly suffering rom Debility, Nervous and Liver Complaints, Depression of Spirits, Delusions, Unfitness for Business or Study, Failure of Hearing, Sight, and Memory, Lassitude, Want of Power, &c., whose cases admit of a permanent cure by tho new remedy—Phosphodyiie (Ozonic Oxygen)— which at once allays all irritation and excitement, imparts new energy and life to the enfeblcd constitution, and rapidly cures every stage of these hitherto incurable and distressing maladies. Sold by all ohemists and storekeeper’s throughout the Colonics, from whom Pamphlets, containing testimonials, may be obtained. Caution. —Be particular to ask for Dr. Bright’s Phosphodyne, as imitations are abroad ; and avoid purchasing single bottles, the genuine article being sold in eases only.

Goldsmith’s Woek.— 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, 53 and 60, Ludgate-hill, London. It is enriched and embellished Mdth 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.E.E. 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 theycannotbetoo 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 require, and have it forwarded in perfect safety. Holloway’s Pills.—A certain cure for headaches, biliousness, loss of appetite, and lowness of spirits. Persons engaged in literary pursuits or commerce are informed that these pills can be'taken without danger from wet or cold, and require no interruption in business or pleasure. They act very mildly on the bowels, strengthen the stomach, and promote a healthy action of the liver, thereby they purify the blood, cleanse the skin, brace the nerves, and invigorate the whole system. They effect a wonderful change in a debilitated constitution, as they create a healthy appetite, correct indigestion, remove inspissated bile, giddiness, headaches, and palpitation of the heart. Plain directions for the use of this medicine—at once both mild and efficatious —are affixed to each box.