MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 175, 12 July 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A gentleman called on i» rich miser, and found; him jit-.the • table.- endeavor-ing-to catch a fly. Presently he sueceeded in entra'ping one, which he ■.immediately .put into the sugar-bowl, and shut down the cover The gentleman asked for an explanation" of this'singuLir sport. ."I'lL tell you," replied the miser,-a triumphant- grin overspread,ing his .countenance as .he. spoke.; " J want to ascertain • if " the servants steal the sugar." •,.-.-

Miss Deborah.Bates was married to aMr Joy. A..local editor gave- the following first-rate notice :—r. "JN T o more D. Botes ; dissolved in Joy A bride-harf found a-home'. : -' \. With pleasures now without alloy, ■ ■ A nd other Joys to come." "■ .

Wiio will Haul is still :a trieolored.nagon tha. spire of the Cathedral of Metz. This is .irritating to the Prussians—it is a kind, of dumb defiance, A. large reward was promised to any man who would haul it down,, of course no -Frenchman would undertake the task', and no Grer r man dared. The Governor of the town having-doubled the s-im of the reward, a Baden workman attempted to win the prize. '.'He arrived within, about three metres of the famous banner, but dared not go higher, and was obliged to descend amidst the laughter and enthusiastic cheering of the crowd.' The flag, we believe, is still waving by the cathedral. * A hand-bill in English, offering large- rewards to Muhammadans - to murder the Queen, the . G-overnor-GJ-eneral, and other high officials- has been found stuck up on some lampposts in Calcutta."'

A young lady at-Council Bluffs, JT.S., being informed:by her "feller" that he iutended to cease "his attentions,' cowhided him.around the room-and, as he sprung through the" open window told- him '.with a ■ parting- lick, ' that would teach him to be- more careful for the future not to trifle with a gentle and-loving heart. The-Emperor.of Grermany has bestowed the following gifts on- his chief warriors : —The Red Prince,.-Moltka, Von• Ro on," and Manteuffel' : roccived each 300,000 thalers, or nearly £50,000

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.ciol-ati.uis-.or >ev : -nEtv,Q .moregenerals and statesman; ranging] from 100,000 to 150,000 thalers. inclaflingr'a sum 0f.300,000 to the King o£Bavaria'forliis.(xeuWiul* r the Imperial " benevolences;'epirie ' to the good round figure of £6oo', f 6'oo'.- ' IiEMEDT TOE"- COLD : -EeET.—Cottoni socks next the-skin, and -woollen outside of them, are represented as a suro .preventative of co]d .feet. At night the eo'ttou sock's will be quite dry, and. the outside ones damp. , .' About one English coin- ther^e.existsa very singular delusion—Queen Anne's ■ farthing. Often and' often have the officers of the British j\luseuin received letters asking whether, as the" writerwas in possession of.the .third, .of., the farthings, of which the Mriseum had the other .two, he, was not entitled'' to someLlOOO or so; and grietoiisj-no-doubt, has been his disappointment,* at - being 1 old his fancied treasure might possibly be worth 'some four;-or-five shillings. How the delusion ever originated it" is impossible'to "'say '-"'but ,one account, tells.us that, a -lady-in "Yorkshire, having' lost one of "these • farthings, which she valued as the' bequest of a dear friend, offered a very ' large sum for" its recovery,-*'and,.this gave false impression or the value of any specimen. It is", commonly believed that only three samples of these farthings exist. Steam Superseded by Electron a.gitetism. —The standing" title of " Steam superseded" has, notbeen" much in use of-late, and-now-when ;\ve hear" of;it again, there is, not much novelty'--'in ilea. Ifc has-long been thought possible, ;however, that electro-magnetism might supersede steam. t An American paper gives ,now,a. description of the action of ;.'a powerful magnetic sawmill" at some-works at Newark; in'the State of .New York. The motive power is derived' from an. electro'-magn'etie battery,'whirth was "vyat'ched for -nine consecutive" hour : s" without "manifesting any. perceptible decline -of power, and with a consumption of less than half a pound dfzincT The-force obtained was rated •at 2 r horse, and it isasserted that it could be obtained for four-and-twenty" hours at a maximum" -costof sd.- It is also affirmed that,'by increasing the diameter and width; or , multiplying the wheels 'and the ".niim- , ber of magnets, thepowercan: be largely increased', without -multiplying- 'the cells, which in this instance ainountecl ~tp~fdui\ 7 The' Chemicali-NewV "thinks that "We may'yet 'see the 'Atlantic crossed by huge propelted without an ounce of. coal, by a power the-initiative of which the captain :may place beside his- writing-desk in this , cabin,, which a child can apply, and I the smallest finger may stop." • ; There used to be'a pious old negroin "Boston, named. Cassar, and- he was-- ; in the habit of praying su,loudly as to be heard by many of the neighbors, iOn retiring-for the night his ; petition , invariably was—" Lord, send dy angel 1 forole Caesar"—-ole Cassar-alway ready/' One evening,- two of' his neighbors, good men, but sometimes bored by his " style,".thought they would' try him on. They took, position at. his door, and when the usual petition was made, that " the Lord would send the angel-,' •ole Cassar being always .ready, ..they loudly knocked at the door. ■-'"' Who dar ?" said the darkey. " The (angel of the Lord, come for old Cassar" was -the reply. Out went the lights a scrambling into bed was -heard,'' and then, in trembling voice, that" same old uncle said, " G-o away, dar! go"away:! Ole Cassar been dead.dis ten years .'"