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Southland Times, Issue 1666, 22 November 1872, Page 3

An old French Marquis has taken such a fancy to the working of the new guillotine, that he follows Boch-— the head executioner — in all his business visits in France. A Time Taster. — M. de Villayer, a member of the Academy of Sciences, who lived in the seventeenth century, exercised his inventive genius in constructing a chronometer which might indicate to a sense never before consulted on such an occasion — that of taste — the time of day, or rather, the time of the night." 8 In pur time, such an invention would have been considered as merely ingenious idling ; but in the time of M. de Villayer repeating watches were unkuown. He therefore contrived a clock with a large dial, the figures of which were hollow ; in these hollow figures he placed variously flavored sweetmeats ; and when he wished to know the hour of the night, felt with his finger the position of the hand, and ascertained the hour by the taste of the sweetmeats. Supply of Lumbeb in Amebica. — A late number of the Pittsburg Post states that the enormous supply of lumber necessary to the growing wants of the market ia that section, is in clanger of becoming inadequate to the demand. Pittsburg alone consumes 100,000,000 feet per annum. At the same time not much more than that quantity has passed down the Alleghany this season, one half of which has gone to the markets below. This would leave the Iron City 50,000,000 feet short, which sheis compelled to procure from Michigan and Canada, a thing she is now doing. The Post Bays that the pine of the Alleghany region is nearly all cut. Careful estimates show that, at the present rate of cutting, five years will absorb the greatest portion of that now left. The supplies from the Monongahela are trifling. The history of lumbering by water, it is stated, is nearly at an end in that region, and the rail must be looked to for supplies in the future unless new fields south-west of Pittsburg are opened. Since the scarcity of pine, hemlock is coming into more general use. The supply of that timber, it is said, however, will not last over a period of more than 20 years.

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