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Dr. Farmer's Triplets.-There were three things which Dr. Farmer, the celebrated commentator on Shakspeare, loved above all other, viz.-good old Port! old clothes! and old books! and three things which nobody could persuade him to perform, viz. to rise in the morning! to go to bed at night! and to settle an account!-Spirit of Literature.

Charles the First's Portrait-In St. John's College, Oxford, there is a very curious por trait of Charles I., done with a pen, in such a manner that the lines are formed by verses from the Psalms, and so contrived as to contain every psalm. When Charles II. was once at Oxford, he was greatly struck with this portrait, begged it of the college, and promised in return, to grant them whatever request they should make. This they consented to, and gave his majesty the picture, accompanied with the request-that he would return it.-Ibid.

Safety Lock.-We have been favoured with an inspection of a new safety or protector-lock, apparently of great merit. It has been declared that, however complicated may be the wards or interior of a lock, it cannot be called perfectly secure from an ingenious artist. The inventor of this new lock therefore proposes to guard the keyhole, so that any attempt to force or pick the lock, must of necessity be discovered. For this purpose a small box or chamber, with a lid similar to a snuff-box, is affixed over the front of the lock, with a key-hole corresponding in size with that of the lock. The lid of this chamber being open, the bolt is turned, and the key with drawn in the usual way; after which a small paper label is laid over the key-hole, and the spring-cover shut down, so as to prevent any possibility of its removal except by violence. The person having the key can thus, in all cases, see, before he again opens the lock, whether any attempt has been made to open it during his absence. It is the invention of a Mr. Gottlieb, who holds an appointment in the Excise-Office, -Literary Gazette.

Efficacy of the Essential Oil of Lemons in some Diseases of the Eyes.-M. Werlitz cuts a slice of lemon peel and places the upper part opposite the affected eye, and, the eyelids being opened, squeezes out the little drops of volatile oil contained in the tissue of the rind into the eye. The sensation produced is acute, and continues for an hour. If the pain caused should be severe, cold applications are to be employed. The effects attributed to the oil of the lemon peel are those of increasing the capillary circulation, and causing the absorption of morbid de compositions. From experiments which have been made at Berlin, it would appear that the following diseases are remedied

by this treatment :-First, Inflammations of the eyes, which are passing into the chronic state, and which affect the external parts.Second, in the rheumatic and scrofulous forms of opthalmia. Third, in pannus and pterigium.-Fourth, in albugo and opacity of the cornea. Fifth, in cases where the texture of the cornea has lost its healthy density, and becomes soft and spongy. The remedy may be employed frequently during the day, depending on the irritation it produces.-Medical Gazette.

The Stage. In spite of all the odium which bigots have attempted to cast upon it, the stage is, in every civilized country, a great moral engine. It has, indeed, its defects and its faults-but ought the art of printing to be discouraged, because the press may occasionally disseminate falsehood and error?-ought the pulpit to be pulled down, because it is sometimes taken possession of by the hypocritical and the depraved? It is through the medium of our external senses that the mind is, in general, most powerfully affected; and hence the very 66 pomp and circumstances," the glitter and the show, of a theatre, are to the great majority of the audience a thousand times better concomitants to the lessons of fortitude, integrity, or patriotism, which the poet may inculcate, than the bare walls and uninterrupted solitude of one's own closet. It is upon this principle that the more sensible portion of the Roman Catholics countenance that multiplicity of ritual observances and empty ceremonies with which their religion is loaded. Abstract excellence-pure and unadorned virtue, is of too spiritual an essence to attract the regard, and fix the attention, of the multitude. The wholesome draught must be crowned with flowers and seasoned with sweets, else the goblet will be sent away untasted. It is also worth observing, that the stage invariably follows, and never attempts to precede, public opinion. It does not, therefore, so much guide, as it is guided by, the moral character of the people at large. Before the Reformation, the theatre varied little from the cathedral, for within the walls of each the rites and mysteries of Catholicism almost equally prevailed. In the dissolute and profane days of Charles the Second, the stage, carried away by the current, was obliged to admit the ascendancy of such men as Vanburgh and Congreve. In later times, as the national manners improved, the stage has assumed a purer and a higher tone, for the authors who write must invariably adapt themselves to the audiences who judge. This being the case, he who attempts to convict the stage of immorality, pronounces a libel against his fellow-countrymen. The author of a recently published work, entitled "the Drama brought to

the Test of Scripture," not only declares all stage representations immoral, but is strongly inclined to believe, that every sober citizen whom one may see in the pit, or respectable mother of a family whom one may behold in the boxes, will be consigned to devouring flames through the whole course of eternity. As for the performers themselves, they are irretrievably damned; and the hackney-coachmen who convey parties to the theatre, have no more chance of salvation, than if they were so many Beelzebubs. Dramatic critics have just as little hope; and a whole convocation of bishops could not keep writers of plays one hour out of the bottomless pit. With a person who entertains such sentiments, it is hopeless to argue. Wrapped up in the hairy mantle of self-righteousness, he looks half in pity and half in scorn, on the rest of the world; and though he richly deserves an hour or two of the gridiron for his pre sumption, we think it better merely to ac knowledge that we are aware of his existence, and then to pass him by with the calm su periority of silence.-Edinburgh Literary Journal.

Anecdote of Bunyan-Banyan may be supposed to have been always vehement and vigorous in delivery, as he frequently is in his language. One day, when he had

preached with peculiar warmth and enlargement, some of his friends came to shake hands with him after the service, and observed to him what " a sweet sermon" he had delivered. "Ay!" he replied, " you need not remind me of that; for the devil told me of it before I was out of the pulpit." This anecdote authenticates itself.- Southey's Life of Bunyan.

Improvement in Lithography.-Senefeldor, the inventor of this art is now at Stutgard, where he is busily employed in bringing to perfection a new invention, which is of the following nature:-By means of a single plate he prints off a painting in oils, and is thus enabled to illuminate either an engraving on copper or from stone, in all the modifications of its shadings. We are told that he has already made such progress with this invention, as to afford the promise of re sults, which bid fair to form an era in the art of illuminating prints. He has also invented artificial plates of stone, which are a most essential improvement upon the natural plates hitherto made use of; inasmuch, as their portability and cheapness will greatly reduce the expense of the plates, and, at the same time, give facilities of transmission and carriage, which the ponderous stones at present employed have never possessed. Athenæum.

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Animation, how to restore when suspended,
416

Antediluvian remains, 32

Apoplexy, 507

Apple pie, 119

Buddagurs, mode of salutation by them,
160

Burns, songs of, 263, 438

Burns, efficacy of flour in, 416

Burning springs in South America, 400
Buildings in Europe, height of the principal

ones, 318

Byron, his poetical character, 168
anecdotes of, 472

Cambridge, three years at, 393
Campbell, his poetical character, 168
Carriers, liabilities of common ones, 126
Cat fish, the, 96

Cavalry tactics, 402

Celeric rave, to dress, 507
Census of the population, 443
Chalmers, Dr., 335

Cherokee newspaper,
Chess en quatre, 217

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tree, the experimental one at Goll- China, wells of salt and fire in, 505

nitz, 508

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Blood, transfusion of, 463

Chinese dainty, 185

Christiania, 93

Chronometers, Captain Owen's plan for
rating, 360

Ciphering, Egyptian method of, 95

Clapperton, note on his journey into Africa,

544

Clubs in London, list and number of them,
128

Coals, tax on, art.-" Good Fires," 149
Coast lights on a new principle, 269

Cochineal, method of its being inoculated
with Nopal, 31

Coffee, wholesomeness of, 415

Cold in Norway, 185

effects of it when intense, 474

Combustion, spontaneous human, 441
Composition, secrets of, 348

Compression, theory of it applied to discover
the internal constitution of the earth,
108

Blue appearance of the heavens, cause of the, Consumption, experiments on the production
317

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extravagance, 318

Delivery of goods, nature of evidence on, Gibbon's history, 348

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-, sagacity of, 96, 182

Gluttony, 252

Good sort of people, 241

Gooseberries, method of retarding, 508

Gooseberry wine, French way of making,

507

Gross-beak, the, 27

Donkin, Sir Rufane, on the course of the Grottos of Pratolino, 412

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Etna, 397

Evangelical ladies, 89

Extracts from a sea book, 496

Eye, curious account of the regeneration of
one, 256

two remarkable cases of insensibility of
it to particular colours, 50
Eyes of insects, compound, 127

Famatina, the two miners of, 214
Fated man, the, 212

Fever, recollections of a night one, 302
malt liquors a preventive of, 57
Figs, dried ones to improve, 416
Finnerty, Peter, 158

Fire wells in China, 505

arms, improvement in, 318

Fires, dress to walk in, 128

-, good, 149

First and last crime, 121

appearance, 175

kiss, 370

Fish, re-animation of frozen ones, 415
Flea, the power of it, 58

Flour, efficacy of it in burns and scalds,
416

Flowers, love of, 159

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Landscape gardening, on forming artificial
seas in, 219

Laocoon, occurrence, similar to it in reality,
185

Foot-marks of cattle, skill of the Boyeros in Law making, English, 57

tracking them, 127

Foster, Mr. Leslie, 82

Lawyer, notes of one, 94, 126, 157
Leather sheathing for ships, 350

Fractured limbs, Arabian method of curing, Leeches, reproduction of, 384

384

France, the Anglo-mania in, 128

French criminal trials, 351

Fruit, how to preserve without sugar, 350

Fuseli the painter, 173

diseases communicated by, 349

Liabilities of husband and wife after a sepa-

ration, 94

Libel, law of, 157

Linnæus, anecdote of, 349

Lisbon, mode of knocking at large houses Parr, Dr., the life and writings of, 476
there, 32

Liquors, 243

Locked jaw, improved sand bath for, 30
Locusts, devastations of, 238

Londonderry, Marquis of, remarkable cir-
cumstance connected with the, 540

Magnetic needle, experiments with it, 202
Mahomet's journey to the seven heavens, 94
Malmaison, the palace of, 539

Malt, the sweet potatoe a substitute for it,
440

Man Mountain, the, 85

Manners make the man, 156

Marine animals, poisonous effects of fresh
water on some of them, 367
Martin, Mr., his plan for coast-lights, 269
Maundy Thursday customs, 58
Measels, sulphur a security against them,
256

, eruption of them on one side of the

body only, 508

Mesmerism, 129

Milton, French critique on, 442
Mimes in Italy, 75

Molluscous animals, 209

Monkey, anecdotes of a Diana one, 25

Monsters with two heads, 542

Mortality, law of, 443

Murderer's last night, the, 466

Musical fame, instability of, 39

instrument, new, 256

Mutton hams, 542

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Partridges, the snaring of, 127
Periodical press, the, 251

Perouse, discovery of the fate of, 491
Persia, royal method of killing time there,

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Lines, 132, 147, 280, 282, 313,
332, 424

written in a cemetery, 166
Norwegian drinking song, 152
Ode to Beauty, 82

On a modern Orpheus, 143
Remember me, 412

Song, by T. Campbell, 70
Songs, by Lord Byron, 474
The departed, 182

To Egeria, 380

Who loves me best? 218
Woman, 248

Poisons, the guaco a cure for, 56
Polar enterprises, 59

Pompey's statue, 508

Portrait painting, on, 504
Post, the, 181

Potatoe, the sweet one, a substitute for malt,
440

Pratolino, the grottos of, 412

Prescribers, gratuitous, 17
Proverbs of Solomon, 392

--, chapter on, 433

Prussic acid, experiments with, 251

-, efficacy of in various diseases,

442, 508

Northern languages, on the study of them, Quarters, recollections in, 49

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