MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2590, 9 July 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Governess—“ What is the future of the verb ‘to love,’ Mary ? ” Pupil, after a pause—“To marry, Miss Jones." A gushing critic describes a ypung actress as having “ a face a painter might dwell upon." Probably a painter does dwell upon it daily. Ground for objection : “Me buy the property, sorr ? Me be a landlord and be shot in the back I Shure, there’s to be no more landlords !—we’re all goin’ to be linnants!” —“ Punch.” That settles it. We all know how to pronounce the late Earl Beaconsfield’s title. Two men out West quarrelled about it, and the “ Beck” man was the survivor. As an instance of the benefits of farmers’ analytical associations, it is mentioned that a member of the Inverness, Nairn, and Blackisle Analytical Association last year bought six tons of manure at £l3 each, The analysis showed, however, that the value of the manure supplied was only £B, the result being that the manure merchant had to refund the farmer £3O, or a sum nearly equal to the entire expenses of the association during the year. An Illinois man was arrested and fined twenty-five dollars for disturbing a debating club. We should like to know him. The man who has got the voice and energy to disturb a debating club, provided the latter is_ heartily and active in its diabolical mission, is worthy of onr acquaintance, and ought to bo given a Government position as a foghorn on a stern and rock-bound coast.

According to a correspondent of the “Geelong Advertiser,"who professes to have heard the secret of the new patent gas, Mr Dixon’s discovery is the carrying out of an old idea—the separation of the hydrogen from the oxygon in water by a process of the simplest character. It has been the dream of scientists for*years to accomplish this. Water will be the fuel and light of the future. The possibilities of the future are enormous, as the discovery will not only be applied to supply gas, but also heat and motive power. Mr Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, the railway king of California, is understood to have invested £25,000 in the discovery.