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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1679, 4 May 1904, Page 2

The constant duty of every man to Ins fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. —Rusk in. Cavaliere Pino is the inventor of a machine called the hydroscope, to which reference has already been made in these columns. The instrument consists of a long tube carrying an optical instrument at the end. Objects at the bottom of the sea are reflected upward, where they may be readily'studied from the deck of a steamer. By means of the hydroscope. Pino succeeded in bringing up objects from the sea that have been concealed for 2000 years. These were found off the Grecian coast, and include some valuable are objects'—creations of ancient Greek art. It is estimated by a writer in "L'Echo des Mines” that the world contains about 30,000,000,000 francs-worth of gold and 20,000,000,000 francs of, silver, an estimate whieh has led a humorist to remark that if all these riches were distributed in a brotherly and socialistic spirit amongst 1,500,000,000 it would give to every one fSie large sum of 20 France in geld and 10 francs in silver, or 33 francs tajge£ker=