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Evening Post, Issue 121, 29 June 1865, Page 3

A New Method op Hardening CastIron.— A patent has just been taken out in France for a method by which cast-iron maybe made as hard as tempered steel. When the object in cast-iron has been filed up and completely finished, it is to be heated to cherry, red, and plunged until it was cold again in & solution containing 70 ozs. troy of sulphuric acid, and 4ozs. troy of nitric acid, to two and a-half gallons of water. The thickness of surface hardened is sufficient for odinary wear, and the form of the object is not at all altered. «fehe notorious "poet," Close, lias been giving readings at Kendal from his doggrel pieces, and has been pelted with peas by the audience. \ The following racy anecdote of Lord West, bury, the Lord Chancellor of England, is extracted from the Liverpool Albion of 6th March :— " He is always able, and never was more conspicuously so, as far as ready arguments concerned, than when pitching into one of his own judgments the ether day in the Court of Chancery. By mistake a barrister cited this judgment as one delivered by the late Lord Chancellor Campbell. Bethell (Lord Westbury) at once declared it to be one of the most monstrous decisions he had ever read ; wondered that Lord Campbell ever could have laid down such a preposterous doctrine as it contained ; and proceeded, in terms the most contumelious, to expose its several fallacies 1 He finished by ruling the other way, and when one of the official reporters came to consult the authorised reports, in order to quote the condemned judgment, he found it to be one delivered by Lord Westbury himself ! This may appear incredible ; but it is true nevertheless." A milkman, finding that his business was not what it should be, resolved to sell milk, instead of milk and water, as he had formerly done, and thus test the soundness of the old maxim about honesty. A day or two after he had effected the aforesaid change, he was told by one of his customers, a matronly old lady, that he need bring no more milk to her. In great surprise he asked her the reason why. "Because," said she, "the article you sold me yesterday was the queerest stuff I ever saw. It had not stood there two hours when it had a nasty yellow scum on it."