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Weiss's Stomach Pump. In a late num- 

 ber of a respectable contemporary journal, 

 the Sporting Magazine, we savr an account 

 of a novel application of Weiss's Stomach 

 Pump, which cannot be too widely circu- 

 lated ; it was to a valuable mare, suffering 

 from inflammation of the bowels, on which 

 occasion a very large quantity of warm 

 soap suds were injected by this machine, 

 and a disease which frequently proves fatal, 

 completely removed. The construction of 

 this simple instrument, without valves, not 

 only prevents any liability to derangement, 

 but insures its efficacy in the hands of every 

 practitioner two advantages which cannot 

 be claimed by any similar contrivance. The 

 same very ingenious artist has in prepara- 

 tion an apparatus for restoring suspended 

 animation, which, from its success upon the 

 brute creation, promises to be of infinite 

 value when applied to man. We shall here- 

 after give a detailed account of the process. 



Columbus and his Discoveries. Some 

 new documents relative to Columbus, have 

 recently been published by authority of the 

 Spanish government, by D. Martin Fernan- 

 dez de Navarrete, to whom access has been 

 allowed to all the archives of the govern- 

 ment, and of the most noble houses of Spain. 

 Among much that is curious and interesting, 

 we think the following remarks worthy of 

 insertion here, as setting at rest a question 

 which has given rise to much conjecture, viz., 

 the island which Columbus first discovered 

 in America. He gave it the name of San Sal- 

 vador ; and it has generally been supposed 

 to be the island now called St. Salvador, or 

 Cat Island. The position of this island not 

 agreeing perfectly with the admiral's course 

 and description, Munoz conjectured that Wat- 

 ling's Island was the true Guanahani. But 

 Senor Navarrete adduces very strong reasons 

 for believing it to be the largest of the Turks 

 Islands. The course of Columbus, from Gua- 

 nahani, was continually west, from island to 

 island, till he arrived at Nipe in Cuba. Now 

 this fact is irreconcilable with the idea, that 

 Guanahani is Cat Island, which lies nearly 

 due north of Nipe. Beside, the great Ba- 

 hama bank, and a long chain of bays, called 

 Cayos de la Cadena, stretching between St. 

 Salvador and Cuba, interpose a most serious 

 obstacle to holding such a westerly course as 

 Columbus pursued. But by setting out from 

 Nipe, and proceeding in a retrograde direc- 

 tion along his course, as he very particularly de- 

 scribes it in his journal, we may easily trace 

 his path, and shall be convinced that Guana- 

 hani is no other than Turks Island. Add to 

 this, that his description of it accords exactly 

 with the latter, especially in the circumstance 

 of there being a large lake in the middle of 

 it. This point is perhaps of no great conse- 

 quence, but it is satisfactory to know pre- 

 cisely what spot in America was first revealed 

 to the eyes of Europeans. 



Hindoo Dwarf. An extraordinary dwarf 

 has recently been exhibited in India. His 

 came it Dhunna Ram ; he was born at Be- 



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goo Serai, district of Monghyr *, is of the 

 Baheliya caste, and forty-two years old. His 

 stature, from the sole of the foot to' the 

 crown of the head, is three feet one inch 

 and a-half high. He is well proportioned 

 throughout, and intelligent and pleasing in 

 his manner. Though so diminutive him- 

 self, his mother and father were of full 

 growth ; and he has four brothers and sisters 

 full grown. Indeed he was accompanied 

 by one of his brothers, who is a tall able- 

 bodied man. Dwarfs usually have some de- 

 formity about them ; but the little man in 

 question is perfectly well formed, with the 

 exception, perhaps, of the elbow-joint being 

 higher situated than we generally meet with. 

 The expression of his face is pleasing, lively, 

 and somewhat quaint. His voice is clear and 

 strong, but partakes somewhat of a boyish 

 shrillness, as if he had never attained the 

 vox rauca which is observable at puberty. 

 He has lost one of his eyes by the small-pox ; 

 his appetite and health are good, and he is 

 light and active. India Gazette. 



Second Inventions. At the end of the 

 last century, the celebrated Lord Stanhope 

 proposed an improvement on reflecting tele- 

 scopes, by fixing both the great mirror and 

 the eye-piece, and employing a large plane 

 speculum, moveable in every direction, to 

 reflect the image on the object mirror so 

 that the observer in his closet or elsewhere, 

 might contemplate and examine at his leisure 

 the objects placed before him, and no more 

 light be lost than in the ordinary Newtonian 

 telescope. With the able assistance of the 

 late Mr. Varley, this design is said to have been 

 carried into execution, and the latter has left 

 an account of its effect. With the death of 

 his patron, however, all further attention to 

 the subject was relinquished in England ; 

 but in 1812, Professor Amici, of Modena, 

 succeeded in executing a telescope on the 

 same principle, but on a much smaller scale 

 than the former one ; and an Italian society 

 rewarded his discovery with a medal. This 

 reminds us of a travelling railway, for which 

 an ingenious gentleman, George Hunter, 

 Esq., has recently taken out a patent in 

 England, when almost the very same inven- 

 tion was submitted to the Society of Arts for 

 Scotland, on the 27th December 1822, by 

 Mr. Heriot, carpenter, at Duddington, under 

 the title of " A model of a new construction 

 of wheels for carriages, called a moveable 

 Railway." Well may Dr. Brewster say, 

 that the British minister who shall first esta- 

 blish a system of effectual patronage for our 

 arts and sciences, and who shall deliver them 

 from the fatal incubus of our patent laws, 

 will be regarded as the Colbert of his age, 

 and will secure to himself a more glorious 

 renown than he could ever obtain from the 

 highest achievements in legislation or in 

 politics. 



Botany. An institution has been esta- 

 blished in Germany, of which the professed 

 aim is, to employ zealous and properly-edu- 

 cated botanists in Germany and other Euro- 



