MISCELLANEOUS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 178, 2 August 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

" Forty-five thousand 'lrish men*' * more or less—are said to have paraded the strsetslqf.Ne.w Patrick's .Dav. The most astonishing ci reninstance in conne r ctiou''wltlii ,; th'e' JJ d"em , bn-- v stration was that it came off without a fighl. There does not seem to. have,heen a shillelagh flourishing or'a heac& broken. l ,';'.../,.?,'',_" _ ~ f< *"! A re , volution','it ; ap[)eai7S,;js plated in wine glasses;' l Porter-requvresM pewter,' 'hock- a"'g're'eri :; glass.- "'"'"lt *h'(s"f- r ' been disco'vered'^that"" 'ffot * sherry unless druiik out "of wpod^/.-Ar : tis'sint'-us materi;iL, therefore, have a '"' fine field.before'them'in theVay of ornamental carving. ,

Curious Facts.-—Xteiiwenhoeck tells 'us of an .insect^©on-.with the microscope of which twenty-seven millions , only," equal a:mite.:';-;.ln.sectg of various s lands may be seen,in the cavities of a ! of sand. -.-Mould-is-aforest of. I beautiful trees, wit'i .brandies, leaves';-, and'.fruit'.'..-Butterflies are"'fatly,feathered,. Hair^ : are , ' o Kbribw. ; ''tu%esv l ' : ' !r J:b ! .surface of .our bodies, is .covered- with seal!es like"'!a fish' :'a siiyWle- 'krai'ii ,J o'f.s'.and would cover one hundred and fifty'' of these c ,sc : ales, and yet ,-»* ,syale, covers .fisTe hundred pores.' Through* these , na.Tcrosv-\openinnfs-' the i sweat, .-.forces-lit-seli^l^ke-water through a-sieve/ Mites 1 malt'e five' : Hundred : steps';;a rseeoiid.'-'Y Earch drop of stagnant" wafer ''contains"' 1 a wrprijd ofanimated,beings,- s.\vinxming with «is 1 -much, liberty as whales in, tKe...sea.'.\ Jsach leaf has a colony of insects. grazing'"v;on.»it;like'CoHva'iii:.<a ..iheadowl Moral : Have some care as-W the ! "air " you breathe; the*fpoi. yon eat, and.the iWatef! you drink:'" ' 4 "" '" f '' !' 1 '" .!."',,-,; 7 : cf Krohman's . gold company, Tarn'-" bar 3 oora,-has' J pai(l a dividend 70f { ,75. per cent, for the quarter," 'so say the tele-~-grams, arid; the - result .is very goodj, and dbub'±l'e® v S'pleasu>abl^'td i: the shsire 1 - holders. .NiQW" side ' of' tt?e' 7 Murray! TW_J; Hustler's Tribute Company/ at Sandhurst, ; since No member, t r pftid. 22,000 !!per. .cent. • in other returnedits pai.d-ap7cuipit;ar'2'l'r;times.:. '"We won't givey iuyefc— '*' iEgles. ! ■ A;, beirig.fornied dn- : the, \! Eangitata tojbny.the-'.prrpumatic appar-V; atus lately employed in sinking of the-' Kangitata bridge/ in order to utilise - them in/ the Molyneux* river, Otago,for the purpose of gold prospecting in that river. The' Molyneux ha* the reputation of being!the. .richest gold-'*; ■bearing.river in< .the- colony, :butl the"--d(jipth and the exceedingly strong : cur-v : '-: rent'prevailing, have baffled' hitherto' all attempts at systematic' prospecting of its,bed.., The trials, though, which from-time to time-have -been-made— r by - dredging in favorable positions have proved, beyond all: - manner of doubt, that the is exceed- "• ingly Tich • in- gold'/ and- 1 if : ir ; 'thought that omly by means of./cylinders sunk on the pneumatic - plan could these golden jfcreasures-be thoroughly brought,, to light:'"Tli ere "can be no/possible £ reason why, under this, cylinder..sink'-" ing. process; the river.sliouijd nVt'b,e/ex/ v ; plored- invito every-, part ; and-if. ;n'o i unforeseen difficulties occur, there' is ' m every reason to anticipate'a retuni % to .•*..company prospecting* un- ■ uer such/cemdiitons. . One of the * chief pro rooters of the'"new company" is, we hear, 1 a'.gentlemen well ■ versed ' in,' mining matters, and he, moreover,--has thorough '- knowledge of the river whose depths are about tp._be.ran-' sacked." -•■''' ' ■--. -•' ' •

The wonderful".statement is given in the ' Pleasant Creek -Chronicle'-' of a recent K new -pro-^ 1 cess, of treating quartz is said to have ' been perfected b'y ; will shortly takeup jiis.- v residence, in. Stawell, for the purpp,s& of applying his method to etone obtained'here; We OL? are, of course,; unaware of the details, but we understand that the quartz is in-burning reduced to, the consistence of soft clay, whereby it is rendered much -lighter and easier to crush. To;? '\ gentleman in question promises to ok-" 1 ---* tamrlsdvkts of gold from stone' whicß £G usually averages 9 dwts,, f and he ,ia perhaps authbris&fin r 'tKis ' statement' a ° as be extracted 1 dwts of gold, vfrom 6<J quartz in Castlemain, which, when cmshed/liy:,theib.est : miH"s; only yielded 4i dwts-per ton."