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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 204, 9 December 1864, Page 3

How to Draw a Tooth.— A New Discovery ik Dentistry.— At the village of Mount Tabor a well-known sawyer has hit on an entirely new but most effective method of drawing an aching tooth. He had suffered horribly for several days from a molar, which though sound enough ached terribly. First of all he filed his pocket-knife blade down into theshapeand sharpness of a lancet, and carved away into the gum surrounding the offensive tooth. This was on Saturday night, before he went to bed. This sharp bit of surgery was not effective, however, but he bore the agony all dav on Sunday. On Monday he came to the conclusion that he had had enough and rather more, and resolved to “do or die” —to have the masticator oat, or perish in the attempt. 11 is method of procedure was peculiar, to say the least of it. He first got a piece of strong string, and fastening one end to the aching tooth he passed the other through the handle of the oven door, and began to tug away. It wouldn’t do, however—the pull was too weak. As a last resort the sufferer told a mate to make a fire poker red hot, and apply it to his (the. sufferer’s) nose. The mate, willing to oblige a friend and ready for a joke, complied. The poker was heated to a fiery red, and brought with speed towards the nose of the sawyer, who, hastily jerking back his head, and holding on to the string still passed through the handle of the oven door, the tooth came out in an instant, and all was serene. —Halifax Courier.

New Screw Propeller.—Mr. James Steel, a working joiner of Liverpool, has invented a screw propeller, and he states, from experiments made on the Prince’s park lake, that with this screw he can get four times the speed of the ordinary screw with the same engine and the same pressure of steam. The screws are worked reverse by means of two wheels at the centre boxes of the screws, and can be replaced at sea at any time, and, being only one-third in the water, can be unshipped without any difficulty. There are six blades in one frame, the reversible one catching the back water as the ordinary one, giving thereby live times the velocity, as proved the last three or four years on Prince’s Park lake. The steam on his model is raised by naptha. The Admiralty has been communicated with, and the Duke of Somerset has ordered the tracings to be sent, which was done on September 1.

Crinoline and Mice. —The following statement has been supplied to a London paper : —On Sunday, when about to partake of tea, our Tom came pouncing into the parlour with a mouse in his* mouth. After he had played with it for about the space of five minutes, puss lost all traces of his prey, and careful search was made for its recapture, but without success. Nothing more was thought of the little creature until we had been in church an hour and a half, when the young lady with whom I had taken tea started up and shook from off her crinoline the mouse, which must have made its escape to this very curious part while the young lady was assisting in the search, and stuck to the place of its retreat with wonderful tenacity —the church being about a mile from my residence by the distance walked.