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Otago Daily Times, Issue 318, 26 December 1862, Page 5

Novbl Watt op Destroying Rats —Take a barrel: say a. flour or herring barrel—and fill it about one-third its height with water.. Put a bit of wood, a foot long and ten or twelve inches in diameter, into the water, so that the end of it will just rise above the surface. Make the lid or cover of the barrel a little too'small .to fit, and suspend it by two pins to the inside of the top of the barrel, so that it will hang1 as if on a pivot, and easily dip by touching either side. On the lid thus suspended secure a piece of savoury meal. The first rat that scents it, to get the meat will leap on the barrel cover. The M will tip, or tilt, and down the fellow will go into the water, and the lid will resume its position. The rat in the water will swim to the log, get on the toft and squall most vociferously. His cries wilt bring other rats, all of which will be tilted into the water and all. will be fighting for the only dry spot on it, namely, the end of the lpg i; : As only one;, rat can hold it the victor will drown all the rest, and in the morning can be dn*whed him^f. ;Mbre than thirty rats have been caught in one~Aigbt by this tii<sk.--<JorresDondeni of Relfa^;NewsLeitisr> '■■-'■ -;i: >-<;V;:'- :-^..>:;W" • ■:' /'■■•

A, "Boghead Mikbkai." iw Ameb;ca.—lh the neighborhood of Cairo, on the North-Western Railway of America, the discovery has been made of a so-called "coal/ which seems to resemble thatof Mr Oillespie, of Torbanehill, as to which there has been so much litigation. Placed on a plate of hot iron, it melts like sealing-wax, and runs. " It has been, termed crj^allifea mineral oil. By simple fusion 760 litres of mineral oil are obtained from every ton ofthe"coal. M-J^7?«& Paper. ' * ' Thi famous chicken-gloves of limerick, retaifed at 5s per pair—each pair < being packed in s walnut* shell, fastened with a tittle silk ribbon—are m*de ot the skin of very young Galres. -. French glovemakers I deny« a handaoine rerenue from the rats pf the Paris I sewers, the integument*, of which vermin are con-, verted into the most nlmy of white jloref, for tt*e In