MISCELLANEOUS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 735, 4 October 1870, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

A recent work on California describes ! the artettian well at Stockton, which is the deepest in the State, being 1002 feet in depth, and discharging 250,000 gallons , of water per minute, eleven feet above • the plain, and nine feet above the city grade. The temperature of the water is 77degs., although the snrrounding atmosi phere only averages 60degs. This well is L stated to have cost 10,000dols. A. new explosive, which has been i invented by Mr Noble, the inventor of nitro-glycerine and dymanifce, and which 1 he calls dualtne, consists principally of ; nitrate of ammonia and very fine sawdust s which has been acted on by nitro-sulpheric . acid. It is said not to be decomposed by • accidental contact with acid, and will not . congeal or lose any of its properties during cold weather. Its explosion does : not produce any noxious gases, and it : will burn in the open air without explosion. The Invalide Busse announces forthcoming mighty musters of warriors. At least three-fourths of the colossal Russian army is to bo exercised this summer in 34 camps, formed in every park of the empire. One hundred aud thirty-eight regiments of the line, 15 of light infantry, 40 brigades of artilleiy, each of three batteries, and the whole of the cavalry, will be put through the course. The first series at the camp at Warsaw will alone, and without counting the engineers and the ad- , ministratior, include 80,000 men, disposed i in six divisions of infantry, two of cavalry, six battalions of light infantry, and six brigades of artillery. On the afternoon of June 28, Dr May, of Great Crosby, near Liverpool, had occasion to cross the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at that place in a trap drawn by a spirited horse. When about to pass through the gate at the other side the horse became suddenly restive and backed. Dr May strove to force it on, but the animal still kept its place in the centre of the rails. The noise of an approaching train attracted Dr May's attention, and on turning round he saw, to his horror, that the express would in a second or two be down upon him. There was no time left for consideration, and he sprang from his trap and alighted safely on the other side of the line Almost at the same moment a crash betokened the fate of his trap, and in the distance he saw the head of his horse rolling in the dust, it having been completely severed from the body of the animal and carried on by the engine. The conveyance was entirely destroyed. We are informed by the Chemical Neivs that during a lecture on the preservation of food, at Dresden, Dr Stein produced a tin canister of good size, containing buther's meat, which had been preserved by Appert's method nineteen years ago. When the canister was opened, the meat was found to be as fresh and full of flavor as when it was first placed in the canister. A wonderful example of newspaper enterprise in America is in the edition of the San Francisco Bulletin, published on 11th August, a large sheet of eight pages comprising sixty-fouv columns of closely printed matter, including advertisements, leading articles, special correspondence from various parts of Europe, and from numerous districts in California and other states, and various articles of interest, and a budget of brief paragraphs condensed from the uttermost limits of bald brevity. On the front page of this paper is an engraving of a map of the seat of war in Europe, full of the requisite details, and replete with interest to those who study the movements of the opposing forces. Above all, as a noteable feature, there are no less than seventeen and a-half columns of telegraphic intelligence, of which three-fourths are cable telegrams, ! transmitted during the week through 3000 miles of copper wire, lying at the bottom of the Atlantic ! Much «.f this had been sent to the New York Tribune, the Herald, and Times, and re-transmitted ' by the associated press, but a large portion is special to the Bulletin. Such is newspaper interest in America ; but then there is an enormous population, eminently an educated — (the word is not ■ used in University sense), and a newspaper reading people ; and what is not less necessary eminently a people given to advertising which they find to pay them well, and for which they pay well. The < New York Weekly Tribune charges five 1 dollars a line for certain portions of its < paper. A pound a line ! Why talks of i ' ' penny-a-lining " after that 1