MISCELLANEOUS

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1009, 1 October 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

A magnificent cake of gold has been exhibited n the window of the Union Bank at B illarat- In shave, it resembles a brick, but somewhat larger, weighing 1020oz, and was obtained from the mine of the Pleasant Greek Cross Rtef Company. A Ballarat reformer proposes that a tread-mill be erected in the gaol to work a quartz-mill, where poor miners' quartz shall be crushed by prison labor,—the treadmill and the quartzmill to be in separate apartments, so that the auri sacra fames may not have felonious development. The Ovens and Murray 'Advertiser' reports that a Chinaman was caught while robbing the sluices of Morris and party, at Reid's Creek. The proprietors of the claim fixed a spring gun in the rac», and the Chinaman in his haste to get rich, fired the gun. He was so severely injured that he had to be taken to the hospital. The loss in the gold by the imperfect methods of amalgamation that arc; in use in the various goldfields in Victoria, is estimated by a practical correspondent on mining, who writes in the ' Daily Telegraph,' to be not less than £IOO,OOO in value in a year, and be arrives at these figures by calculating that for every ounce obtained 12 grains are never recovered.

A new license law, advocated by some politicians in Wisconsin, is to grant licenses to both sellers and drinkers. Every man who drinks must pays 10 dollars for a license before he can get a drink, and in order to obtain this license a man must have bondsmen who will be held responsible for damage done by him while in a state of intoxication.

Boys, hear our solemn adjuration, and be warned in time. Never be editors ! Deadhead tickets to circuses and dog-shows are all very well in their way. But don't let them lead you into that dingy den of inky horror and iniquity, burloquingly known as the editorial sanctum. Stand back ; keep out. Be stock-gamblers, railroad directors, presidents of a sige stuffing machine, ragvendors or ch; rcoal bawlers. But never, no never, no never be editors!