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Bruce Herald, Volume v, Issue 242, 16 December 1868, Page 7

Magnitude of London. — The ' Nation ' says of London :— " The houses number more than 370,000, and its streets > if placed in line, would extend from Liverpool to NewyYork^and are^gated at night by 360,000 gas lamps, consuming in every twenty four hours about 13,000,000 cubic feet of gas. Of the water supply, 44,383.328 gallons is used per day. The travplling-p.nbjic sustain. s,ooo, ; cabs, r £ud 1,500 omnibuses, besides all 'other sorrof vehicles which human need can require or human wit invent. Its hungry population devour in the course of every year 1,600,000 quarters of wheat, 240,000 bullocks, 1,700,000 sheep, 28,0p0 calves, 35,000 pigs, 10,000,000 head" of game, 3,000,000 salmon, and inuumerable fish of other sorts ; and consume 43,300,000 gallons of beer, 2,000,000 of spirits, and 65,000 pipes of wine. As a consequence,. 2,4oo. doctors^ find constant employ meht.— London.' finaliy^ supports 952 ch arches, which are presided over by 950 divines of greater or less note. An Editor's Proposal. — If our readers do not think :that;it requires nerve to edit a newspaper out West, let them read this, the experience of " one of them fellers" as told by himself :— " One evening — it was moonlight, in the summer time — we sat alone on the porch by the cottage door, holding that little white hand in a gentle pressure: on&arm JiadjStolenr^ound her waist, and 'a silent song of joy, ' like the music of the night,' was on our soul. Our lips met in a swieet. delicious kiss, and, bending softly to her ear, we whispered a tale of passionate devotion — we proposed. In a moment she tore her hand from ours, and with a look of ineffable scom^said, .': What marry an editor? You git out !V We slid." — 'American Printers' Circular.' : Hardening the_Mould Board of Ploughs. — A new metal has been discovered for the manufacture of the mouldboard of ploughs, which gives them all the hardness an^.temper of steel, mi combination with the toughness of iron. The mould-board (good iron) is heated and dipped into, moistened iron. It ; remains there ten seconds, when tneVwo surfaces become heated to a white heat, while the centre is not heated through. It is then immediately dipped into water; : the 'sutfaee^come' put harder than the highest tempered ste«l, vjrhile the interior is still iron and retains all the toughness and strength of the iron. ihe advantages churned for this inventioo is that the ploughs made by this process will take the fin^^tj an ; d rt liardg§ti fßpHsh, while they will be nard enough to endure a|ny reasonable 'knocking about in stony soils. — ' J>lew Yor\,V^ek ; ljr c ßeral^.'f :u^