MISCELLANEOUS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 21 July 1864, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

-<■- -Airlrish^girk; nt play on Sondayfbpirig accosted by the,-priesfc,j /{ Gqod,;moiming, daughter of the Evil* Oii_," * m4eKly"* "replied — " Good morning, .father." d\r >. •;•- y *vj yQi 'j- >■} tt £ * '"'"Faded may jMJ'grestored in a few minhtes' by immersing the prihts^in a bath, coh?posed*ofk)ne grab- of bichloride of mercury to one ounqeftf frater, ;); , .„" X^Ji. remarkable that yQ;ii,are,alKay§.forgetting my name," said a quasi-acqiiaintancenamedPlint. «"/\YhyX' Baid£^u_tgj^a|l?;»|deuced hard name to remember I" The old copper coinage will shortly be declared illegal. v Those t who hold or receive copper in any quantity- sifOiiWOibt dblSytA effecting the necessary exchange. The capitaT^'invested in railways— nearly £40sPA00OjO0p-nhaß>proyided the jneans of cons^ctiflg _.i; 500"" miles J 6f^ailway^in the United, Kingdqm *which„ar^t this moment open to traffic. T. P. s ldodKE's"aLaughter was married not a long while since, ancLifc is generally understood she had a dowry of £40,000, the whole of which Was the IfrpiiCilElidrfathSl'sldi^Stic laßcfiu^.j'i The Blackburn Magistrates have fined a man £stfbr .Sis'sihgm ■ladyla^dnist'.her will. The fellow committed the outrage ih a pubhc thoroughfare, and tho lady wasquito a stranger to him. iyere)^4spyda%]^) v apers in tho T^ited^t^tesj. , -Y^e'-rb^ere ? jbes^def , 4QQO weekly papery aii^j,^s6jj^9^tlmes x jan)d^ Injf^p .H^mied,^^gdo^the^ejgre^bou^fty daily papbriV '*'j^' l %so'unii Jt&toiL Dootoe Bolus, who was very angry wlien any joke wasjpasse.d ojavhwyiprofession, once said, "I defy any person whom I ever attended to accuse ibe! of ;%norah£</;,or ne^lecfi'l-ra'iirSat^you may do safely, doctor," replied a wag, " dead men tell no (ales!" c ,.A.wl]dte;mannot; : Jon man in oiie of the courts 'of a Freei^t^te,; jan^while the trial was befo£pJ;he judge the litigants came to an amicable settlement, and so the counsel stated to tlm'^qurttM 'SlE&O'SS'erbal settlement will not answer," rephed the judge ; "it mußtbe in writing'. I '—'' .Here . is_t^^jigreemejU}^^_black and white/" responded the counsel, pointing to tho parties ; 'ipraylwhafc does your Honour want more than this?" -- T SrHiiiouS PHOTOOSAPHsf-^Purchasers of socalled " pqrtraitsj'.^wo-fear, are frequently iniposed on. The following extract from a letter shows how portraits .ai*o;, manufactured at,J;he]gHil4podcs : — ." HVnd J^wch^a foyd^sagpr to seej the White Swan Hotel, in ' Chandbs- J sfi*eef, *kept ? by a Mrs. Haller, who, has a pretty daughter. As soon as H. sa^v the latter, she "said, VBless me, how hke you are tb'the Princess Alexandra !' ' Yes,' said the young lady, laughing, ' I believe so.' ' Indeed "y 6uT" arej r 'c"bhtinued* r H77' '**' has" nobbHy^ever told ypu.so,?'. rxVQh, y.es/.i'epliedntho'' other, laughing again ;" and ''then added m'an"hhder tone, ' To tell you the truth; I havestood for~a"~portrait of tho £rinccss,^and,.mapy, hundreds of my likenesses have been sold for hers.' ' Then 6he explained that a photographic artist who frequented the house.had'a^ked.herjto oblige him by * standing ' for the purpose, and for the fun ..of , the_thing she had' consented ; i arid ' that is ' * the : , 'way? in which some of the ' exact-, liketiesses of the Princess have been, produced.''~-Xp*»do*» Review. Sayino and , Doing. — An individual having been to church returned home earlier than usual, and was asked-"." Is. ifc all done 'already ?**' " No," he rephed, " it is all said, but very little, if any, of what was said, has' been dOh'e yet." •'• ' The New York STribune 'gives' 'a' very curious story of a.' man for whom.' the -hospital surgeon provided an artificial face on theidisappearance of his own. He had; beem so; thoroughly salivated by mercury that a sort of cancerous formation mado its- appearance in his throat,* which afterwards ato away the upper jaw, lip and eye, and a large part of the nose. ; Dr." Buck^ one of the oldest surgeons in the New York Hospital, set to work to remedy the evil. " Incisions were made in one cheek, and a piece bf .flesh drawn over, from wliich a lip was formed. A piece of -the frontab. scalp was drawn down to make a new nose," an artificial jaw was formed, and a glass eye put in, and the whole iface so changed ;thafr, tliough'the Lmau recovered, his face, was a new, one to all his friends. It is aca.se; in' fact' 'in' which " the identity of Mr. Bergen — that is the man's name-^-is toallliisfriendß pimply a question, of histbrieaU evidence. An exchange -says that one of the frozen roosters found, hanging by itscla'wsito the limb of a tree at "New Albany, Indiana, had his last crow sticking eleyen incheCoutJpf hi^TniOuth and frozen stiff. I ploughs, Ifsowsjlreapsjlmowsjlgetupwood for winder ; I digs; I hoes,4and ( -taters grows and for" what I knows I owes the printer. I do sup„ppse all knowledge fronij'.the-printing-press ; so ofi" t'goes, ih^hesp ; '.ere .ctothes, to Bettle ; TOt-I £upss. . ..;,, \.. S,iXXiii;ziii% " A Dear Kiss.— -WdndererAsUß;&,fcp)l atory of an incident at the fancy fab* at .Pesth,' the stalls were as usual tenanted by youngYhoble, and beautiful ladies. Anflungariah noble, the Count P. de S , approached "too; near ; . to ; .the .charming Countess Z-^—-^,' who. commenced, of course,, insisting on hia selecting some .article from her stall. "Is there 'nothing that will suit you ?_". " Yes,. a loss." And as the lady seemed; to, hesitate, he.pressed thesupject, "How much ? " "A thbiisancl florins." He drew the note from his pocket-book., laid it on the counter,* .leanfc[ toyer/jand'f obtained promised "guerdon, the noble lady going throWgH. the ceremony; not, as the Lady G-odiva rode through the streets of- Coyentry, where every window was discreetly closed, but coram publico in the presence of-inany- a peeping -Tom. r The- Count-is- esteemed ; toYhave made a. ; good; -.bargain; sincerthe lady is reputed as' virtuous a's beautiful. . ( __ ._. 'CtrEiOOT PtjzzLe.- : — A farmer "died," possessed of seventeen ploughs and three sons. He left by his will, half of the .ploughs .to the eldest son ; onethird to the; second son '■;.• one-ninth to the third son. The executors were puzzled ; but an adjoining farmer undertook r to make' a division, so that^each'sonishould-haVembre than he was en.titled to by the will.^He^ added a plough of his 0-wn to the > Seventeen— makmg eighteen. Then the first son- Imd half— nine j second son, one third — six ; third son one nmth— two. Thus each son took more than hp was entitled to by the farfcher's will ; and then the farmer who made the division ;took his Own /plough back agamy.'- A CoNsuMP-TioNbpCoit..— -The foUbwihg statistical returns will doubtless prove interesting to some of our readers :--rAt the last sitting of the Academic des Seience~s°Mbraies > et Pohtiques M. Dalloz gave the following .niteresting particulars on the consumption"'of' coal :— ln 1789 Prance consumed 500,000' tons of coal, 220,000 of which were .imported., J[n .lSll.the.quantity-was^^OOO tons. During the four following ..years, there was a considerable ? -dimihutioi^ : the in France being-reduced to 4,000,000 tons, -and the importation to 2,100,000 tons. -\ln:zlßp3 tl^e consumption rose to 9,-«3o,66o'foris, and in 1859 %rjL2,400,000 tons. fcjlß63,:'the third year after the Conventions . pf rr consumed was ;sh'owing Itheriimmehße'increas'erbf manufactories duxing^periodiof.tranquihtp.'and order, At the commencement- of the present century England •porducedJl3iooo^oootohsT2hi-YIB3B the quantity rose to 26,000,000 't0n5, ; and-in-ise^to 84,500,000 tons/- Eiigland^albh-g pi^uce^;'muen^£iore than ■• half thb;%oailextmcted- f thrb%hbuf?the world. The production of coalin the 17. S. Arvalueaatls,ooo,ooo tons ; that at Belgium at 9,000,000 "; the Zollverein produced uqwards of 14,000,000 tons in 1862 ; so that;,if England be omitted, Prance, is.one of the richest coal-prodiicing countries in rthe world. The production" of f coal is ihtimately- 1 connected with' that iron jin 'which England again holds the first rank. In 1789 Prance only produced "69J000 tbnsTof'casf iron. This .quanfiiy rose to 115,000 toils in 1812 ; in 1830 to 347,774 the figures were respedAvel;jr6o2,772 and 376,636 ; in 1850 Ythe production had __den~to*"4p6,ooo tons of cast irbh^and '237^372 of wrought" iron. A new rise occurred immediately after the Eepublic ; in 1859 < Pfahee produced 856,000 -tons 'of casff iron, and '520,000 fof ! wrought iron. \> and in 1863ais vaguely -stated" at-'the 'enormous figure bf 1,180,000 tons of 'castr irmvand^7oa,soO tons' of -wroUglifc iron. Tlie production of England is nearly-^OOOj-dbO tons of cast iron : that-of the iZcllverein, 551,593 j of Sweden,7l'^)oo";ro£ Austria, 170,000 j aaid of Belgium. 16t,0G0.— GaHgnani. *•!..»'.•« A -ySA: v_,>A •y-jCi.ii-LxztSJiX. 9