MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 735, 19 May 1876, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

- o Some people say it is dark-haired women that marry soonest, but elderly spinsters maintain that it is the light-headed ones. A woman who tells fortunes from a teacup need not be a sauceress. Good audiences for an auctioneer —Buystanders. An unprincipled bachelorsays that troubles never come single. Don’t be a miner if you can be anything else. There will be time enough to stay underground after you are dead. T wo great jewel robberies were committed lately. From Lord Teynhams house at Shooter’s Hill nearly LI,OOO worth wer« stolen, and the Countess of Egmont'w ' robbed of L 4,000 worth, which was taken from her ladyship’s chamber at the residence of the Earl of Banstead. There are no bettor relations than our real friends. A corn crib is a gnawful place for rats. Is that a second-hand watch ? No; but its a watch with a second hand. The best skylights ever known are the sun, moon, and stars. It is reported that a popular authoress, who died recently, left an unprotected husband without visible means of support. The more reckless ship captains are, tho more wrecks they are apt to have. Lots of trouble are the lots which have too much mortgage on them. A little man having written a ponderous essay on weights and measures, a critic said : His weight dosen’t amount to much, but his measures are intolerable. Blacksmiths and machinists are said to be more or less given to vices, and it is alio said that carpenters will sometimes chisel when they think it will pay, t A. man tamed a dog that somebody sent him, until the docile little creature would eat off his hand. At last it ate off about three-quarters of his thumb, but died of concussion of the brain before it could finish the hand. The thinking man has wings ; the acting man has only feet and hands. The famous wit and beauty, Lady Wortley Montague, made the most sarcastic observation ever published about her own sex. “ It goes far,” she said, “ to reconcile me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one,” Hard on the women. There can be no mistaking what is meant by a Victorian editor when he inserts the following paragraph : Referring to a certain Shire President in tho Western district, the Warrnambool Examiner writes “ When the President of a Shire Council has the ignorance and impertinence to say that it was only by the courtesy of public bodies that the Press reporters were admitted to take notes of their prrceerlings, we think it is quite within our province to say that ho is a consummate fool ” The Queenslander of the 4th instant gives an account of a very successful attempt to evtract the residue of gold from tailings ; - “In the course of nine weeks—from the 24th of October to the end of December— Mr Barton crushed 498 tons of quartz from a number of claims, which produced an average of only one ounce per ton. The tailings (hitherto regarded as of no value) were then operated upon by the ‘huddle,’by which they were reduced to fifty-seven tons of concentrated stuff, and this having been turned over to Wheeler’s pans, yielded 111 J ounces, representing, at L 3 6s per ounce. L 368 13s. The cost of treatment amounted to LU4, being a fraction over LI per ounce, leaving a clear profit to the miners whoso stone had been crushed of L 253 15s 6d. Science and Art.— A striking instance of the immense value a small piece of steel may acquire by the great power of skilled mechanical labor, is the balance spring of a watch. From its extreme fineness and delicacy four thousand weigh not more than one ounce, and exceed in value £IOOO. A most interesting little work, describing the rise and progress of watchmaking, has been published by J. W. Benson, of 25, Old Bond street, and the City Steam Factory, 58 and 60, Ludgate hill, London. Tho book, which is profusely illustrated, gives a full description of tho various kinds of watches and clocks, with their prices. Mr Ben«on, who holds the appointment to the Prince of Wales, has published a pamphlet on Artistic Gold Jewellery, illustrated with beautiful designs of Bracelets, Brooches, Ear-rings. Lockets, &c., suitable for wedding, birthday, and other presents. Illustrated catalogues sent post free for two stamps each, and they cannot be too 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 with perfect safety.