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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1025, 16 March 1894, Page 6

An Australian correspondent of tho English Machanie sends an account of what is described as ' A revolution in motive power.' The inventor and patentee is Mr Harold, a marine engineer, who has been many years in perfecting it. Instead of using water and generating steam, the new engine utilises fche atmosphere. The air is compressed and imprisoned and by some means is made to drive the engine, which is ' worked by a jet coming from a hole the size of the finest needle.' ' A small flame of oil is burned, and by creating a variation in temperature creates a natural vacuum.' An engine of several horses' power is said to be worked at the extraordinary low costs of twopence per day.

A woman in Vienna is the rare possessor of a musical heart. She is 42 years old. Her story is that she constantly hears music from her heart, and is so maddened by the ceaseless tones that she has to keep her ears filled- With wadding. The medical experts who have : had" the case under consideration confirm the statement of' the lady—^continuous noise composed / of musical tones in. a high pitch was to be heard during the medical diagnosis, which runs—^Diastolic musical- heart,'