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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 487, 6 April 1869, Page 3

Mr James A. Hogg, gas engineer/of Edinburgh, has discovered a method of producing intense light with coal gas by mixing it with atmospheric air. The mixture of gases is lighted after passing through a tissue of iridio-plat-ina wires at a determined pressure. In a few seconds the metal becomes heated up to a white heat—the flame disappears, and an intense white light is the result. An enlarged picture has been taken by its aid on prepared photographic paper. The light—so it is said—will continue to burn in a gale of wind, and it is not affected by a shower of rain.

A Paisley man, visiting Glasgow, •was being shown the lions, and among other things admired the statue of Sir John Moore, which is an erect figure. He brought another Paisley man soon afterwards to see the statue, but not being topographically posted arrived at the statue of Jas. Watt, which is in a sitting attitude. Feeling somewhat puzzled as to the identity of what was before him with what he recollected to have seen, he at length disposed of the difficulty by explaining, " Odd man! he's sat down since I saw him last."

A person who was recently called into court for the purpose of proving the correctness of a doctor's bill,- was asked by the lawyer whether the doctor did not make several visits after the patient was out of danger. 'No,' replied the witness, 'I considered the patient in danger as long as the doctor continued his visits.' A writer in the " Leisure Hour" calculates that a copy of the Times, with its full supplement, contains about 20,000 lines or 200,000 words, and is equal to a printed octavo volume of 500 pages. The most rapid writing of a lawyer's clerk, if he wrote for ten hours a day, would not be able to transcribe it in less than a fortnight.