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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1232, 23 December 1882, Page 2

The Director of the Fino Arts in Paris ha* authorised an old woman, who professes to have a divining rod, to dig in the vaults of the Church of St, Denis for the buried treasure of the cathedral, which disappeared during the Revolution. She has deposited a sum of money as security, and is prosecuting her researches by the aid of what appears to be an ordinary divining rod. So far, although workmen have dug down to a depth of five feet, they have discovered nothing.

At the Lambeth Police Court, London, Anderson Nicholas Bock, no homo, described as a “ correspondent," and a native of Holland, whose appearance fully showed traces of want and privation, was charged with stealing from outside the shop of Mr Tucker, 147, Newington-butts, three waterproof coats, value £l. The prisoner was seen to take the coats, which were hanging up outside the shop, and walk away wj*h them. He was soon stopped, and Police Constable 10 M Roame up, and the prisoner was given into custody. He then said he would sooner be in prison than in the wretched condition he was. Prisoner; No, constable ; I asked how Is a man to live as lam? I had better be in prison. Mr Saunders : Do you wish to go to the sessions, or will you have the matter decided now ? Prisoner : Decided now, sir, I am mortally sorry for what I have done, but want and privation urged me on, and the temptation was too great to withstand. Mr Saunders: What are you! Prisoner: I am a correspondent, and can speak four or five languages. I have done a deal of translation for captains and owners of vessels. Mr Saunders : How Is it you have got into such distress ? Prisoner .- Through being in the hospital a long time with a bad leg. Newbutt (the under-gaoler) He has a very bad leg now. Mr Saunders : If you are destitute there is provision made in this country for relief, and you could obtain that. You must not steal, although the temptation was great. Will you promise not to act so again ? Prisoner ; I will, indeed. Mr Saunders then ordered the prisoner to enter into his own recognisances to come up to receive sentence If called upon. The prisoner thanked his Worship, and left the dock.

Photoobaphy from Trains.—lnstantaneous photography, in its most familiar aspect supposes motion of the objects photographed; but another form of it is that in which it is the camera, more especially, that has motion of transalation, as in photographing from balloons or trains. The practicability of photographing landscapes from the windows of a train running at the rate of even 40 miles an hour has been recently proved by Dr. Candeze,who uses what he calls a gyrog. raph for the purpose. The apparatus comprises a copper tnbe similar to that which carries the lenses in ordinary cameras, but the lenses are placed on opposite sides par rallel to the axis. Within is a shutter similar to ths box of a stop-cock ; it presents W two quadrangular apertures, which, according to the position of the shutter, do or do not let pass the light rays in making a quarter of a turn. This rotary movement is obtained by means of a spring liberated from a catch. An exposure of only 1-100th of a second may be had. Witli a little practice wonderfully distinct views, it is said, can be obtained witli the apparatus.