TO FIND GOLD AND SILVER. A Man who says he has Invented a New Divining-Rod.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2030, 11 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

TO FIND GOLD AND SILVER. A Man who says he has Invented a New Divining-Rod.

A wRLii kvou x contradtor and builder now living in this village ha3 recently perfected an instrument by means of which ho ia able, as he say?, to discover the location oi hidden gokl or silver, or of either metal in the shape of ora. Ho won't talk muoh about it, because he lias not yot obtained his patient. He calls the instrument a mineral rod. To a friend he said — 11 1 take a small, wide mouthed bottle and put into it a combination of minerals. Then I inaort two slender piecea of whalebone about ten incb.l33 long, after which tho mouth of the bottle u do?ed air-tight w!(h wax, and a backsiiin coyer is drawn over fhe mouth and tied afonnd the neck of tho bottla wiih a strong cord saturated with flhellao varnish. Tho combination of metals i3 the secret which will not ba divulged, evon when the patent is obtained." To operate this rod the inventor takes (he enda of the whalebones in his hands, so that the bottle is above his hands and his thumbs between the endi of the whalebones. In this position ha walks ovor tho supposed location of the precious metrUs until the right spot is reached. Then (he battle drops down, bending the whalebones double if Che attraction ia great. " f hero ia no inagic about it," he naid today. "It is simple enough. Cartain combinations of metals produce certain magnetic effects. By experiments 1 found the combination whtah would, In my hands bi attracted by gold and 6llver. A tf'2o gold pieco was placed under a plank without my knowledge to see if it would attract the bottle. I was directed to tall under which portion of another plank it had been placed. The bottle bant down find over toward tho right plunk wlnld I waa twenty feet away. I really beliiva it would bo attracted by §11,000 in gold placed one mile away if there wore no counteracting attraction. I can make a rod to find copper, one to find iron, or ono to find hard coul. The rod ia good only for the find for which it is intended. When I explained the matter to tho editor of the Sclentijlo American Home time ngo, he laughed, and paid if it would work in ono man's hand it would in another's. My only answer ia an actual (rial. I can do it. Other men who happen to have as muoh electrioity in them us I have can handle tho rod successfully. Theory may laugh at it, but I am ready to do the deed any time." The inventor in aboot (>."» years old. He has been in the lumber and planiog-mill business for jear?, and hna also taken contracts for all sorts of buildings, including \ wooden brid 6 ea.— Neva York Sun.

" Mamma, why is p»p& bald ?" " I am his fourth wife, darling."