General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4949, 19 November 1884, Page 2

General News.

Georges Auguste Lsschot, who died at Paris at the age of eighty«foar years, was a very remarkable man. It ig to him that we owe the plan of employing the black Brazilian diamonds, or " carabonados," for piercing rocks, an invention which has proved of immense value. Leschot was the son of a skilful mechanician, Jean FredericLeschot by name, whose automata, singing birds, artificial limbs, and so on, were the admiration of the celebrated Vaucanson. He also effected great improvements in the manufacture of watches by mechanical means, iv connect tion with the Geneva house of Vacheron and Constantine, receiving ia 1845 a prize from the French Academy of Sciences in recognition of his services. In 1861, the black amorphous, but veryhard, diamonds of Brazil, known as "carabonados," came to Europe, and Leschot's son, being then engaged in Italian railway work for the house of Vitali, Picard, et Cie., knowing the idea of his father that diamonds might be used instead of ateel tools to cut rocks (an idea which had 00 curred to him in examining the fine striations cut in some specimens of. ancient porphyry), communicated with his father on the subject, and the result was that Leschot devised the diamond per« forator, which has been in use ever since, especially in England, Germany, and America.

The owner of a brewery in the country commenced last autumn to erect new premises ; but despite the large number of hands employed, the work of digging out the foundations progressed very slowly, to the great annoyance of the proprietor. Suddenly it seemed as if new life had come into the men. From early dawn till late in the evening they now worked away with unparalleled industry, bidding defiance to. the wind and rain, and barely taking suffi* cient time to snatch a hasty meal. When the ground had been excavated to the proper depth, the men had almost to be restrained by main. force from going deeper still, and appeared to depart with lingering regret from the scene of their activity. The brewer rubbed his handg and chuckled to himself. And how was the mystery explained P He had placed in an old worn* out earthern jar a slip of old parchment bearing the following inscription in an antiquated handwriting : " Great store of monyee lyelh buried beneath dis spotte ; he that fiudeth ytt may kepe ytfc. Remember yer pore!" He then covered the jar with a piece of slate, and buried it where the workmen would be sure to find it.

j. Holloway's PiMa and OiNTHfiirr.— Eheumatism/and Q-out.—-These purifying aad soothing remedies deaerre the earnest attention of all persons liable to gout, sciatica, or other painful affections of th G muscles, nerves* or joints. The Ointment should be applied after the affected parts have been patiently fomented with warm water, when the unguent should be diligently rubbed upon the adjaceut akin, unles3 the friction causes pain. Holloway's -Pills should be simultaneously taken to diminish pain, reduce inflammation, and purify the blood. This treatment abite* the violence, and lessens the frequency of gout, rheu, i atism, and all spasmodic disease* which spring from hereditary predisposition,, or from any accidental weaknejs of ousitation. The Ointment checks tbs malady,whil* the Pill 3 restore vital powsr.