Misscellang.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 12, 13 January 1877, Page 2

Misscellang.

Pins Knivltsh Wesleyan Conference at its last sittings at Nottingham passed the following resolution by 369 votes to 40 : — ' ; ' That it is expedient that lay representa- ' lives should be admitted into, and take ' part in, the proceedings of the Conference during the time when such matters shall ! be considered and decided as are here^ after declared to be within the province of ministers and laymen acting conjointly, but that details of the scheme shall be submitted to the district meetings when the laymen are present, and their report shall be submitted to the next Conference." The Dutch have built a splendid ironclad, and can't get it into the sea because they have not a canal big enough- to float |t£&gre ! i_Jjet^fiuj^Jß__L-h. ■ ■ friends: '-.km-m:-

At the Childrk^'^lowe^^cw in the Dulce of 3Ves,tmifi£fce_.V^ Mn > Glatlstdne^ said that; the flowers V preached!' to -_us. If flowers do anything of tlie kind, they have this advantage over most other preachers, that they do know when to shut up. Nankin Justice. — " I have seen strange sights. Turning a corner on Saturday, 1 saw two men struggling, and became! aware that one had the pigtail of another strongly twisted round his left hand, while with the right he was chopping off his bead with a big knife. He. managed this in about a dozeu blows, severed the remaining flesh, and chucked the head away, leaving the trunk in "the middle of j the street. A bystander , went up to the 1 head, lifted it up by its tail; and looked, it j in the face' to see if he knew 'it, but' apparently did not, dropped it, and; went;his I way— and there it lay. People standing thirty yards further on did hot appear to remark anything, and a small boy smilingly volunteered the information that the beheaded one, who was very well dressed, was a thief, and had stolen " quite *a number of dollars.'" — '^Journid of -Commodore Goodenoiigh. ■ -.-Tr..- ----.; • *.*.-• *. •- •-.". StrenqtuofMatmqials.— The following figures show the. weights which! can.be sustained befpre breaking by rods-* of various, material's a quarter; of an inch in diameter :— Best ■ ■ steel, 9,000: lbs.; soft steel, 7,000 lbs:; iron .wire,' 6.000 lbs. ; good iron, 4,000 lbs. ; : interior bar iron, 2,000 lbs. ; cast iron, 1.000 lbs. to 3,000 lbs.;' copper wire, • 3^ooo lbs.; silver, 2,000 lbs.; gold, 2,500 l.ba; tin, 300 lbs.; cast zinc, 160 lbs.; castlead, 50 lbs.; box-wood, 1,200 lbs.; tough ash, 1,000 lbs.; elm, 800 lbs.; beech, ,. cedar, white oak and pitch pine, 600 lbs.; chestnut maple, 650 lbs.; poplar, 400 lbs. . ,_j[ Perishable Printing Inks —The great merit' of printing ink is' that carbon,' il_ cblorih£ rftiatter, is absolutely unaffected by air or bleaching agents. Hence' books printed by the earliest printers are Justus legible now as when originally produced The only drawback to this unalterabiHty is tbat waste printed paper cannot be remanufactured into white pulp. ; Two German inventors are, however, ho \f.> making au ink which can be removed and bleached by tin. alkaline .washing, followed by 1 an acid one. Tlie basis of this ink, which strongly resembles Hodge's and other .inks used in this country for printing cheques and olher documents liable to be tampered with, is magnetic oxide of iron treated with tannic and gallic acids, so as to produce a fine blue black powder: This kind of ink might possibly suit newspapers and other sources of waste paper supply- ; but its use for books of any importance cannot be too strongly deprecated.. Fugitive inks slioulH never be used for important documents. \ •■ — «— i , ■ ' _____■__________■■______________________