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New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1130, 28 June 1867, Page 4

A New Heading .—" Dirt cheap !" is tho usual expression; but the connexion between lilth nad disease, which wc know to our cost exists, makes it certain we ought to say " dirt dear. _ The Tbve Medium ! —An editor speaking ol spiritiualism, savs; "Wo don t believe in any medium except tho ' circulating medium,' and that has become eo scarso that our faith in it is ehaky. T , Lrrri.i; "Watches. —At the first of our Great Exhibitions, the Swiss exhibited a watch, only three-six-teenths of an inch in diameter, inserted m the top of a pencil-case; it showed hours, minutes,seconds, and the dav of tho month. An English specimen, the size of a threepenny-piece, was a giant to it. The Annual Kcistor, about a century ago, told of a watch only tho°fifty-iburth part of an inch in diameter ; but this wc suspect, must bo a mistake for fifty-four hundreds of an inch, a very different affair. Arnold presented to George the Third an exquisite watch of the size of a silver penny, set in a ring ; it consisted of l'iOsopa- ! rate parts, tho whole of which weighed together less than sixnennweiahts. And so intricate were the works thai Arnold had" to make the tools himself before lie could mako the watch. The King was so delighted with the work that ha sent Arnold 000 guineas. When tho Czar of Bussia heard ot this, he ottered Arnold 1000 guineas to make u similar one for him; '•but this the artist refused, determined that his own sovereign's watch should be unique.—Dirfw 4 - AIL the Year Soimd."