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Western Star, Issue 143, 3 June 1876, Page 6

When the railway works in hand are completed, the North Island will have 373 miles, and the South Island 610 miles, i - The following, advertisement appears, in the Dunedin Star ‘ Notice.-rlf Mr# .Jack wishes to come home, she has my sanction to do »o. — John Jack.’ Now this is very kind of John Jack to allow, his wife to come home, and if Mrs J. doesn’t accept the offer she ought to be ashamed of herself., > A correspondent, writing from Wair<wf, Hawke’s Bay, to the Napier Telegraph, complains that thb natives of the former place hats'Jneariy starved themselves out by entertaining Visitors who have been attending from time to tithe the many ‘ tangis’ that , have; beenheld there during the , past nine months. v v ■ Loo Lespos, the -Brilliant- French writer, who died recently, tells why the. fashionable seldom or never go on foot. The custom was introduced, gays ‘ Charivari,’ by Count d’Alton Shee, and bad the following origin. One day he was walking in Paris with a young lady, who suddenly said, c Oh, what a charming bracelet! Look there, my friend.’- So he bought it. A little further oa she saw a.ian,, ‘Ah, what ft lovely fanl* quoth she. He bought it. A little farther on she saw an ebony casket. ‘Ah, what a casket!' said she. *• I’ve wanted just such a one ever so long!’ How could he help buying it ? The next day the Count said to himself, ‘I will always take a cabrioletit will not cost somuch as walking.*' The Scientific American states .that , guar or rides may be cleaned in a veiy simple manner by quicksilver. If fe muzzle-loader, stop up the nipple or communication hole with a little wax, or, if a breech-loader, insert a cork in the breeoh rather tightly ; next pour some quicksilver-Into the barrel, and put another cork in the muezif, then proceed to roll it up and down the barrel> shaking it about for a few minutes. The mercury and the jlcadwill form an amalgam, and leave the barrel as clear and free load as the first day it came out of the shdpj The same quicksilver cau bo used repeatedly by straining it through wash leather; for (he lead will be left behind in the leather, and the quicksilver ■. will be again fit for use. .' ■ The phonometer, an invention of an-English-man, Captain It. E. Harris, promises to he an important acquisition to the safety of Moan-navi-gation. Without describing it in detail, •i( suffices to say that it is intended to afford pro* tection to vessels in ease of fog, IDkg danger pf running, even in mid-ocean.at full spabd-rand it is almost or quite as dangerous : to lie to—in a dense fog, is perfectly understood By navigators, and somewhat ‘ appreciated* % passengers.,By means of this invention, the captueinrpf a st&fher may know in what quarter of tHe vessel is steering.- * That is, to-say, he epn,jpoi!p&jf make known the presence of Ilu#.veßml,‘ < bafr,t]ae'; e direction of her the duration of its |>ttst| givis tion to all vessels furnished with thepbofioinetorof the coarse of the shtp,giying,notioe. ‘