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Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 72, 14 October 1897, Page 3

SNAPSHOTS UNDER THE SEA. The problem of taking snapshot pictures at the bottom of the sea has at last been solved by a scientist.

The enterprising camera expert went down with his camera to the bottom of the Mediterranean, and succeeded in taking some strange photographs. A magnesium powder apparatus for making a flashlight is used. This is hermetically sealed from the water by a round-glass cover. His camera is also watertight, so that he can use the ordinary sensitive dry-plate. The magnesium powder is exploded in its glass case at the same time that the plate in the camera is exposed. The strong light which this powder makes penetrates the water for a long clisiance. When the flashlight was burned, hosts of fish, with their wide-staring eyes, were instantly pictured on the sensitive plate. The photographs of the submarine forests are startlingly novel. Seaweed makes an altogether different appearance when seen in its natural element from that which it presents when seen floating on the surface, or driven up on the beach.

HARD OR SOFT BOILED EGGS. Bishop Parot of Baltimore was a guest of a family in West Virginia. Learning from the bishop that he was very fond of hard-boiled eggs for breakfast, bis hostess went to the kitchen to boil them herself-

Whilst so engaged she began to sing the first stanza of a hymn. Then she sang the second verse, the bishop, who was°in the drawing-room, joining in. When it was finished, there was silence, and the bishop remarked : “ Why not sing the third verse ?” “The third verse V” answered the lady as she came into the room, carrying the steamin" e"gs ; “ oh, that is not necessary!” “ I really don’t understand,” replied the bishop. “ Oh ! you see,” she said, “ when I am cooking eggs I always sing one ver3e for soft-boiled eggs and two verses for hardboiled 1”

INJURED, BUT NOT MURDERED

Mr. Curran, the celebrated Irish advocate, was walking one day with a friend, who was extremely punctilious in his conversation. Hearing a person near him say “ curosity ” for “ curiosity,” he quickly exclaimed : “ How that man murders the English language 1" “ Not so bad,” replied Curran; “he has only knocked an I out.”