MISCELLANEOUS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 267, 1 March 1877, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

THIRTY AS £* * THX&. Pfople sometimes grumbte (says a Lendon correspondent) at wfmt they call the Imge ealancs wfuch a'.e pant to Ministers of stater* What wwuld they say to £30,000 ft year tf* a banfe manager f I happen* ti» know that the head manager of Coutts bank receives this- sum, and the tw*> assistant managers E a. year each. I admit these are big figures ; but then them Cotttts' is not an ordinary bank. Many of the crowned Pie acta of Europe keep an account there, anil the manager has r as a matter of coursu, to nits in the moat aristocratic society. WATB* RATS ASO KtO CItLMEH. Cfalignani states that recently see rat lad* were seen to enter the main sewer on the Teft Tbank of the Seine at Parts by one c£ the barred) outlets to the river. A policeman, anxious to know what they about to> do, followed them, and found them seated; by the edge of the turbid current, fishing for rats with a strong line and hook, the tatter baited with a morsel of bacon partially fried. W hen taken to- the Commissary of folic© they •xplained that they sold the skins of watt-;r mt» at 25c. to SOu, each, according to sizo, for manufacturing into ' kid' gloves for ladies. TICK KKKX.Y MOTOR. There is said to bo much talk in American scientific circles about the Keely Motor. Mr. Keely, a working man, declares that by means of a mac hi nwhich he has he can, without the use of fuel, and by merely turning a handle, generate out of water a vapour so much more powerful than steam that with a gallon of water he can drive a heavy train from Philadelphia to San Francisco ; and with a hogshead he could impel a Cttnard steamer from Liverpool to New It ork against a continuous westerly gate Tie inventor, it is stated, has induced Mr. Collier, a patents solicito™, 1.0- examine into- the matter, who was so struck with what he saw that he got a scientific man to verify it. "Both agreed that Keely did actually produce extraordinary results, bnt they could not Sett hew these rtsuks w«re obtained. The Chief Engineer of the United States Navy, who witnessed the experiments, was equally assured fiat the thing was actually tl»ru\ but et-|;ually at a toss to explain tl.e doing of it. Mr.jollier then formed a company in New \orfc. A smalt capital for cat-vy ing out the preliminary tsperiiuents was raised. Mr. Keely is said to- have refused to- receive a cent, until the world is thoroughly convinced of tlie reality of his invention, and until patents have been secured in every country.