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gauze Jamp is a fatal delusion, as has 
been proved by tragical explosions 
where they have been depended upon. 
Dr. Clanney’s lamp is not liable to the 
same objections; and too many fami- 
lies have. reason to lament the in- 
trigues by which.it was superseded. 
The Preserving of Eggs, fresh and 
good, through many months, may. be 
effected by merely altering their posi- 
tion daily to a fresh side downwards, 
in order to preveut the yolk settling, 
and coming in contact with the shell. 
It is the practice of farmers’ wives, in 
several of the midland and northern. 
counties of England, fo closely pack, 
with interposed straw, theirincreasing 
stock of eggs, daily, into a bee-hive, 
or a similarly-shaped. basket; laying 
straw upon them, and strutting three 
or four pointed sticks across, tight 
upon tke straw, so as to enable-the bee- 
hive to be tilted on its side, or even 
turned upside down, into a new posi- 
tion, each day, in their-dairy or beer- 
cellar; and this daily turning is conti- 
nued until, on the approach of. Lent, 
the eggs are removed from the hives, 
and carefully packed in the flats or 
boxes. which convey them to market. 
Lime-water, suet, and.other external 
applications to the shells, have been 
recommended for preserving of eggs ; 
but all these must assuredly fail, when 
Jeng rest in one position is allowed to 
them ; and with frequent moying, and 
avoiding extremes of temperature, 
none others are necessary. It is often 
pleasing fo a weary aud hungry tra- 
yeller, on entering a small inn or pot- 
house, in Derbyshire and its vicinity, 
(sce the Agricultural Report on 
Derbyshire, vol. iii. p. 180,) to see 
‘strung cabbage nets full of eggs, sus- 
pended by hooks from the ceiling, in a 
fresh and good state; and this the 
JandJady effects, through very consi- 
derable periods, by her precaution of 
every day hooking up the net on a 
fresh mesh, so as fo turn the eggs, 
tightly tied up therein, 
are lelt to accumulate in a hen’s nest, 
or during her sitting, instinet directs 
her (o turn daily each egg. 
. A Shaving-water boiling Apparatus, 
of the most economic kind, capable of 
heing used by any one in his bed-room, 
before the servants rise, or have their 
fires kindled, has been invented by 
Mr. Gitt, of London. The furnace 
consists of a small cubic or oblong 
block of pamice-stone, in the top of 
which a hemispherical cavity is work- 
* Montury Mac, No, 390. 
Spirii of Philosophical Discovery. 
When eggs. 
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ed about two inches and a half diame- 
ter, and one inch and a quarter deep; 
and having a.gap cut in one of its 
sides: this cavity is nearly filled with 
pieces of charcoal, of the sizes of nuts 
and walnuts; on to which a jet of 
flame from the night-candle. is pro- 
jected, by means of a portable blow- 
pipe, until the charcoal is fairly ignited ; 
when this furnace is placed.on_ the 
hob of the grate, with the gap in front, 
and the complete ignition of the char~ 
coal effected, by blowing with the 
mouth. A small deep tin pot, with its 
cover, coiitaining the water, is then 
placed over this miniature fire, and left 
for a minute or two, when, if the char- 
coal seems not to glow sufficiently, it 
is urged by a few blasts of the breath 
threugh the gap; and thus, in a few 
minutes more, the boiling water, so 
essential to a comfortable shaving, 
may be obtained. 
Pressure applied to facilitate Dyeing, 
Tanning, §e.—It was discovered a few 
years ago, by Count de !a BouLaye- 
MarsiLuac, (Philosophical Magazine, 
No, 268,) that thread or woven fabrics, 
put into a dyeing liquor, diluted as 
such mostly are by water, imbibed the 
liquor to saturation ; and the fibres 
haying then quickly attracted and 
taken up the colouring matter of the 
imbibed liquor, the diluting water re- 
mained in great part stagnated in the 
interstice of the fibres, and thereby 
prevented the access of fresh portions 
of the dying liquor to the central parts 
of the threads; and the expedient was 
in consequence adopted, of repeatedly 
passing the thread or fabric, whilst in 
the vat, between very smooth rollers, 
closely pressed together, so as te expel 
the watery and exhausted dye, and 
admit fresh portions, as often as was 
necessary ; and hereby an astonishing 
improvement in tbe brilliancy and 
duyability of many colours, on cloth, 
has been. effected. We. haye not 
heard that these principles, though so 
evidently applicable, haye been ap- 
plied to the tanning of leather, using 
rollers, or otherwise applying pressure, 
to repeatedly: expel the spent tan- 
liquor. f 
Deceptive Muslins and Fustians— 
An anonymous writer from Manches- 
ter, in the “ Mechanics’ Magazine,” 
asserts, that it has become too common 
thereabouts to give an undue appear- 
ance of stoutness and stiffness to poor, 
thin, and rough muslins, (and such as 
will become so after the first wetting,) 
by 
