ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3285, 30 August 1873, Page 3

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

The number of exhibitors in the American section of the Vienna Exhibition is 645, of which number 228 are from New York. A chemist and druggist named Forster, living at Preston, has been summoned for the twenty-fifth time for the non-vaccination of his child. A revolving signal light has been invented, to be attached to the rear of trains, by which engineers behind can tell by the speed of their rotations, as shown by the succession of different colored lights, at what rate of speed the trains are moving, and when they are at rest. A correspondent of the The Colonies writes on May 12th:—“I have recently heard from South Africa, under date February 3rd, of the discovery of a r>ch alluvial goldfield aboqt 50 miles in extent, 26 miles from Leydenburg, Transvaal Republic. The gold is found three feet under the surface. A Dutchman got 4oz. in four days by rough washing. Leydenburg is 440 miles from Durban, Port Natal. This information may be relied on.” In his eaHy life the late Mr Giliott (the late celebrated penmaker) worked privately as the emplojfc of half a dozen different pen* maker?. One day the manufacturers met together at dinner, and each backed himself to bo the possessor of the best workman. 1 he} 7 severally wrote down the name of the special artizai who c »uld make more pens in a day than any other man. “ Giliott ” was written oq e\ r «ry master’s paper. This led to the discovery that Gilliott had invented and was using a machine for '.making pens, which enabled him to do the work of a dozen men with one pair of hands.