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not far from the pond. The well had not 
been opened for upwards of two years ; and 
on ‘Saturday. the’ 23d ult. one’ of the men 
went down’ to it; when, horrible ‘to ‘relate, 
he fourid'the remains '6f a man (as was ‘sup- 
posed from’ the boots ‘on the feet), which he 
took out.’ He ‘went down again, and 
brought wp some “other parts of a human 
being; but the head and arms were left in 
‘the well.” ‘Nothing has yet transpired to 
show how, or-by what means, he came into 
the well. BY ‘ 
Fine Arts.—There is at Twickenham a 
Rembrandt, seventy inches wide, and fifty- 
five high, painted in his best style; the 
subject; the meeting of Isaac and Rebecca, 
and certainly the largest in the kingdom, if 
not’ in the world—its estimation is not to be 
decided. 
of Shiphook and his Countess, and came 
into the present possessor’s family, by entail. 
A‘ bearded Comet has lately been observ- 
ed, ‘early in the morning (about-two o'clock) 
at Brighton. : 
Dr: O’ Neil, of (Comber, has discovered 
a process ‘by which lard may be used ‘for 
making candles : he renders this substance 
superior tothe Russia tallow, and not so 
expensive.’ The lard, ‘after having under- 
gone his process, resembles white wax or 
spermaceti. Candles made of this pre- 
pared substance,’ burn with a brilliancy 
supétior to common candles, and, it is said, 
éven to '#as; they are free from any un- 
pleasant smell, and do not feel greasy to the 
touch, nor give off any smoke ; they burn 
much longer than candles of the same 
weight, and by a slight alteration in the 
process they can‘be’ rendered yellow, or of 
any other colour, or of a perfect whiteness, 
which neither light, air or smoke ean alter. 
- A’ severe’ 'storm of: hail ‘and snow was 
experienced at Driffield, Gloucestershire, on 
July 5th’;'so much so, that on the very spot 
where but afew days before the children of 
the ‘town ‘were scen. playing amongst the 
new mown hay, ‘under the vivid rays of the 
summer sun, they were observed surround- 
ed by the hoary signs of winter, throwing 
snow-balls at each other, and shivering 
under the bitterness of the unseasonable 
blast. © 
On Friday, the 8th July, while a young 
man of the name of Liddell, of Cook’s- 
chare, Quayside, was engaged in painting 
the windows'in a third story of Mr. Heath’s 
house, in’ Perey-street, Newcastle, he un- 
fortunately fell. “What appears very ex- 
traordinary is, that the unfortunate youth 
actually alighted on his feet. ‘Though no 
bones were broken, he was dreadfully 
strained: but' hopes are'entertained of his 
recovery.) <)>" e 
HMartlib, the friend of Milton, pensioned 
by Croniwell for his agricultural writings, 
Says; that’ old’ men ih his days remembered 
the first gardeners that came over to 'Sur- 
rey;-and ‘sold turnips, carrots, parsnips, 
early peas and rape, which were then great 
Domestic Varieties. 
It‘formerly belonged to the Earl - 
[ Sept. 1, 
rarities, imported from Holland. © Cherries 
and hops were first planted, he says, in the 
reign of Henry VIII. ; artichokes and cur- 
rants made’ their appearance in°the'time of 
Elizabeth :) but, even*at''thé end” of this 
latter period we had cherries from Flanders ; 
onions, “saffron and Jiquoticé from” Spain ; 
and hops from the Low Countries ; “pota- 
toes, which were first known'in these islands 
about the year 1586, and’were at first eaten 
raw, continued for nearly a*century to’ be 
cultivated in gardens’ as a’ curious’ exotic, 
and furnished a luxury only for tablés of the 
richest persons in'the kingdom: It'appears, 
in a manuscript account of the household 
expenses Of Ann, queen of James T., that 
the price of potatoes was then‘one shilling 
per pound. ~— aalnrticky 
A swimming school is éstablished in 
Waterloo-road, possessitig the ‘very desir- 
able advantage of a plentiful stream’ of 
fresh water constantly flowing through it. 
Quills: —The following ‘method ‘of pre- 
paring thése useful articles is recommended 
—‘‘ Suspend them in a copper, contaiming 
hot water, just to touch their nibs: then, 
closing the copper, so as to be stéam-tight, 
leave the quills, for a considerable time, 
exposed to the heat and moisture’ of’ the 
steam; by which the fat they contain -will 
be melted and drawn out; after this treat- 
menthas been continued about four hours, 
they will attain a considerable degree of 
softness and transparency. ‘Next: day, 
open the nibs, draw the pith, ‘and, having 
rubbed them with a ‘soft and dry cloth, 
place them in a gently-heated oven, or at 
the side of a fire, for a while ;-and it will 
be found, on the following day, that, 'to- 
gether with the hardness and firmness of 
horn or bone, they have acquired the ‘trans- 
parency, though not the brittleness of glass. 
To make one side of common ‘flat iron 
bars steel only half through.—First place a 
layer of carbon, then of bars of iron,’ then 
of clay, or’ clayey mixture,’ such’ that’ the 
necessary heat will not’ vitvify it}\ or any 
other substance not containing a ‘prevailing 
portion of carbon. Upon ‘this lay’ more 
iron bars, then more carbon, ‘and. more 
clay, &c. throughout the batch. Being 
thus laid and heated, to a sufficient degree, 
that part of the bars covered by the’ clay, 
&e. will remain iron: of course, ' therefore, 
the duration’ of the application’ of heat; and 
the quantity of carbon,’ must be propor- 
tionate to the quantity of steel required-on 
each bar; and if one’ edge only of the bar 
is to be steeled, care’ must be taken ‘to place 
and: keep the bars edgewise’ in’ the’ fur- 
nace: this operation may be; though not so 
advantageously, performed without the use 
of clay or other'substanees > oy 
Artificial Tortoise-shell.—A French'che- 
mist, M. d’ Areét, has'discovered that animal 
gelatine may be' obtained’ from” bonesand 
ivory, by treating them with’ weak miuriatic 
acid, which may afterwards be turned into 
fancy articles, either having the acer’ 
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