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no fluid whatever, not evcji watei'*^ Gn this he lived in 

 perfect health for man}' years, went through a great deal of 

 exercise in the open air, and was able to carry five hundred 

 pounds weight, which was more than he could lift in his 

 youth when he ate Animal food and drank freely of Ale. 

 A gentleman who was fond of good living, and becoming 

 more corpulent than he thought convenient, having heard 

 of the salutary effects of Mr. Wood's regimen, ordered his imitation with, 

 cook to prepare the Miller's pudding, which he at« with out judgment, 

 great regularity every day after his usual dinner. However 

 ridiculous such contluct niay appear, it is not very uncom- 

 mon. People should be very cautious how they make any 

 partial change in their diet or habits of living, without 

 adapting the rest to it Were a peison, for example, to 

 adi'pt so much of athletic regimen as consists in eating to 

 satiety of animal food twice a day, and drinking plentifully 

 of malt-liquor, without augmenting their exercise in the 

 same proportion, undoubtedly they would soon become 

 diseased. Lord Bacon has left us the following excellent 

 precept on this point, — '* Beware,'' says he, ** of sudden 

 change in any great point of diet, and if necessity enforce 

 it, fit the rest to it. For it is a secret both in nature and 

 state, that it is safer to change many things than one.* 

 To he continued. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



The Society of Goerlitz, in Saxojiyj has offered a prize of thir- 

 ty crowns, for the solutiin of the following Questions, 



I Prize Queftlons 



N cloudy weather, it will scarcely freeze until the ther- ^y ^^^ Socicy 



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mometer oi Reaumar has descended to the point of Zero i. Freezmg. 



orveryliitle above it : whence does it happen, that when ^* Ancient 



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the sk> IS L.^ar, it treezes while the same thermometer indi- 

 cates three or four degrees above the point of congelation. 

 2, It is required to collect and arrange from the works 



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