CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 180, 16 August 1872, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE CALIFOIiNtAI* NOZZLE.

(To the Editor of the Slotjnt Ida Chhoxic:le.) Sib, —Enclosed is a letter I lately received from a friend in bun Francisco. A 8 it contains information that may be valuable to your readers, T forward it to you for publication, if you can find space in your columns.—lam, ; Ac, ■ R. W. Daniel. ! Naseby, Aug. 13, 1572. San Francisco, '"; March 27th, 1572. Mr. Daniel. Silt, —I have been making enquiries about the patent nozzle. Them is only one place here where I can find they are made. There is one description called the Smith ant: Son : Bto 1J in.inletand4to 6 outlet, 85dols. 15„16 „ 4„6 „ 100 „ 15 ~16 „ 4„7 „ 110 „ 11 to 15 or 16in. inlet and 2 to 60r2 to 7 outlet 100 „ 16 to 15 inlet and 2 to 11 outlet ..-. .. ... ... ...130 „ The other description is called the Hoskms' Little Giant:— 7 inch inlet ... 120dols. 9 „ „ ... 170 „ 11 „ „ ... 225 „ Each of these latter is supplied .with six feet of discharge pipe, two nozzles, and one brass butt. In regard to the piping, they could not tell me what the price or weight waSj and I dare say it could be got in Otago as cheap as here. The nozzle weighs aboujfe 3001bs.—I am, &c, J. Dayidso]*. P.S.—They were telling me they were making another sort that would weigh three thousand pounds, but did not know the price. .

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida OaitoxiCLE.) Slr, —It is a very remarkable thing to see, in this age of national, degeneracy," the mental and material progress of Germany, and of the English-speak-ing are scions off the old German stock—while other nations, with scarcely a single exception, are making a retrograde movement. * ' Look sit JSpain, that was once a great nation, now divested of her Colonies abroad arid disturbed with internal commotion and insurrection at home. And Mexico, with her gold, and silver mines, and all her natural resources, is a wretched country, always suffering from, civil war —one man rising and cutting another's throat, and then the brother of the dead man stabbing the c ut-throat for revenge >'o tL ere is no security for life or property, no peace or happiness in the land. Austria for fifty years was the ac-

' knowledged head of the German con- • federation, though the political and military doctors* of Prussia thought '"that Germany was ruled by a monster having the head on the wrong end. So, by a skill all operation and a lucky turn of the wheel of fortune,-; they brought the head to where the tail had been, and, stripping Austria of her high power, compelled her to lay aside her lofty pretensions... France, under Napoleon 111., showed signs of national vitality; and Napo/ leon imitated Ca?sar by writing a history, and then thought, to imitate birri still further by showing some practical military exploits. So he mustered his grand army in Paris, and having everything ready for the invasion cf Germany, the cry was raised " To Berlin; to Berlin," but it was easier said than done. And Napoleon, when ho knew i so much' about history, should have known that the remote ancestors of the Germans shook even Imperial Home to it's very foundations, when at the height of its pride and the summit of its power: And the Germans are still worthy of their noble ancestors, for they have proved themselves to be a nation of heroes. With fearless bravery they stood the shock of war, and turned the tide of ruin on the invader of their rights and the enemy cf their country. John Bull, as head of the first branch of the German family, is getting along prosperously. He is laying telegraphs to the ends of the earth, and building ships superior to any that ever floated on the ocean ; and his language is every day getting more widely diffused throughout the world, and, in proportion w its progression, the•inllueuceof ■England will extend, and her commerce will increase, to add to the wealth and prosperity of her free and loyal people. —I am, &c, A Mine it,.