MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 37, 22 February 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Tarnnaki ll< Mid has. tho follow.-, ing \— Some time since, a dog bel<i"t:i"g; to Mr Bishop, farmer, of the Kgniont road, was eimaued wot vyinn a sheep, when, a foal twelve months old came to tlu\ icscuo, nciaed iho dog with i,ts teeth, and, threw it over nn adjoining fence.— ln » certain shop in iSow V'y mou .'h. where Maori houesty is not implicitly believed in, it is tho custom when a native with adhesive-looking fingers makes his ap-\ pearnnco for ono of the employes to sing out to tho other. " Mr Blank, that nrticlo is two ton." Whioh, being interpreted, moans not two pounds ton shillings, but simoly wafch two aiwpioious. hands and, ton suspicious Ung^rs. Tho metropolis has awakened, and great changes aro to be made for tho. botlor. Temple Bar has at length boen, sontonccd to death, nnd will bo at onco removed, and FJcot street, widened whero. tho old city boundary mark has so Ion,; narrowed the roadway. London Bndgo. is to bo windpnod lift one oitbor aido. Tho wrotohodi sluma nod dpns.in, enttj around tit. Paul's will bo planted with troos, and adornod with flower, beds,, among which City men may stroll away a midday half. our. Freo libraries «r.» to, bo established ovorywhero ; and last, bu& not least, a mighty effort is to bo made to, crush tho monopqly of tho Water Companies, nnd to 1 supply tho humblest cottago nud tho palaco ahko with «n inexhaustible nnd unr^ttfotod supply of, puro wntor, and makq it po««^«-----sion instond of tho hjgh-pricod and un«. satisfactory luxury it HQ* »»• Most wonderful, says an^i^ghsh writer, is tho latest telephonip vention, again from America. Just as tho Morso telographio mnchino will print its own mos*. sago on a strip of tape as ni} unfailing record, so will Mr Edison's telopliono put upon record its own ufteraqfios, nod, bo able, whenever roquircd, to. reproduw the words, tho voice, the v.ory inflection of tho doad ; and futuro ages may yot bo. able to hear tho powerful oratory, of flir Gladstouo, exactly as it flowed trow «"*. lips; tlio sweetest notes of Potti,oro Ktolka Geistor; or tho living wotfaot J)can Stanley in tho pulpit, years.after, tho illustrious authors aro dead nnrt buried. This most wonderlul and m«. credible marvel is thus ntta mod:. Wo. two human voices being iho 6(imo no two voices give the same number of vibrations ; wlico, then, ou a Mrip of paper d?atra

filowly nndor ifc by clockwork : by reversing the process on another infltrumont, jiml drftwln/ (ho murkod papor uivlor it« ini-ttllifi diiy,hraßn), tho p^net word^ ond voico of tho apouker-arn identically ropro Ijjcpil. Sq tlmt, say Putti sipu'" tho music of Juliet thrrtugh ft teloqlione. tho purest, notes of tho djva aro fiutufijlly ro floivicd by tho silent instrument, and wo pjay beftp of the amateur of tho future purchasing a yard of Patli tape, one tliorcupoi.Vittirint; to \)h or her room nml by tho pr aauro of an lmndlo fenst l.is pirn upon divined, musio. Vorilv tnifl is t,bo mo«fc nstonialiing nnrl p<tno dmary pioturo thfrfc tho maroh of suiono..' has yet rovoalod tQUB{ nnd day by day wo Hoem to bo Rotting riearep to tho • renliHiition 0 Iho startling words. of Mr Kusk>o, who in one of hit? olinrnotoristio lortijros a low My ««o, wound up thus : '' and I bolicvo tlio d.iy ifl not f.)r Mi wh«n every p\An with bis own littloeleclrio.il mnoliino, I •will bo ablo to * turn on God. 1 '