‘Supplementary Varieties. 553 
-The nut being opened carefully, the mem- 
rane Was taken out in the form of a perfect 
substance of the kernel, there- 
pe avé escaped in a gaseous fis 
membrane and the shell, 
when decomposed or , mrcyhtes by oatee. 
shen de oe nuts,” no arrived at, ma- 
° oe. wae any. small, and sur 
r as ‘in hi fresh nut, with a soft 
‘0 ‘i side ay which had resisted 
of Gold upd Silver. From the 
24 t to the end of June 1825, 
n exported from this country, 
x to the register of the custom- 
n gold and silver coinage—gold, 
HO pauls: silyer, 3,223,379 pounds ; 
ae 5,200,000 pounds ; a total of 
unds—aboutamillion sterling, 
‘al iin: — “TJ wrote, within the 
pass of a half-split pea, a full copy of the 
iat Prayer (doxology tncluded also a 
copy « ‘of the Grace, with the addition of 
2 words, not found in the prayer-book 
An iow. and for,” &¢c.—the original 
re “be ‘with us all eyermore,’’ &c. I 
We rote the “ Glory be to the Father,” 
_ “as it was in the. beginning,” &c. all 
Pi ect : wie still a space unoccupied, I 
pag [my name thus, Written by John Ma- 
>, A. B-,. T.C.D., 1825. . The lines 
are twenty-five, and the number of letters 
¢ontained in the whole amounts to five hun- 
dred and twenty-six, and four figures! The 
punctuation i is perfect. Itmay be a matter 
of. surprise to mention, that it was written 
without, the assistance of a glass. I have 
seen curjosities of this kind in the museum 
the Dublin Society House, but I found 
.Inine exceeded none of them in com- 
and was considerably smaller than one. 
eee the Lord’s Prayer only, with- 
be, doxology.”” So writes—Jonn Ma- 
of 43, Bride-street, Dublin}! =. 
i Panoramic. View of_ the City of 
) exinlati the surrounding country. is 
iting. by the Messrs,. Burford, 
elon ered Exhibition in Leices- 
laree, The view, taken in 1823, in- 
ie whole of the singular and mag- 
he extensive and highly-cul- 
five, great Jakes, and the 
exican Cordilleras, which 
ecently took 
linburgh , throug the culpable. or 
1 wanton 1 Sic 7 ys in 
mploy of. zie, Esq. Itap- 
s the Oil Gas Company of Edin. 
urners,to. their gas lamps 
upreees taken. off. at 
Pemiaenaneghenen’: oy 
‘ ONTHLY Mac.—~ Supp. 
He was also in the habit of filling paper 
bags with the gas, and. exploding them for 
‘the amusement ‘of himself and friends ; 
though utterly. unconscious. of the. ‘danger 
he incurred in his chemical investigations. 
He was, -however, destined to pay. dearly 
for his, folly ; for, having either. forgotten, to 
replace the burner on the end of the pipe, pre- 
vious to leaving it, or else being called away 
‘without having an opportunity of returning 
to the place (a sort of back area or kitchen) 
so as to shut off the gas, a sufficient quan- 
tity escaped to produce an explosive. mix- 
ture; and the unfortunate lad, with. some 
other servants, on bringing. a light to, the. 
door of the room, in order to,find out the 
leakage of gas, occasioned an explosion, 
which was instantly fatal to himself, and 
which scorched and otherwise injured two 
other (a male and female) seryants. _The 
smell of gas had been perceived in the 
house, and also in that adjoining, for two 
hours previous to the occurrence of the 
‘accident ; but no suspicion whatever was 
entertained of the real cause of its escape, 
until subsequent to the accident, when the 
people of the gas-works arrived. on. 
spot. Surely, they ought to put it. out. of 
the power of ignorance or indiscretion. to 
produce accidents, which might, in many 
eases, be attended with much more. serious 
effects than in this instance. 
The following are the, proportions in 
which languages prevail in the .new 
world. The English language is spoken 
by 11,647,000; the Spanish by 10,504,000 ; 
the Indian by 7,593,000; the Portuguese 
by 3,740,000; the French by 1,242,000; 
the Dutch, Danish and Swedish, by 
216,000 persons ; making, altogether, the 
number of 27, 349, 000 speaking the Euro- 
pean languages, and 7,593,000 the Indian. 
The metropolis. of Great Britain alone is 
supposed to contain more inhabitants than 
all the provinces of La Plata, extending 
“over 28 degrees of latitude and I3 of longi- 
tude. 
New Musical Instrument—A keyedtrum- 
pet has. been constructed of wood, which 
is intended as a substitute for those made 
of copper. This instrument has been exa- 
mined and tried at a meeting of musical 
men, by whom it.was approved, and called 
*¢ Tuba-Dupré,”’ the name of its inventor. 
Some. years ago, a similar attempt was 
made by. a manufacturer at Paris, but was 
not finally successful. Wood must be an un- 
favourable material for those brilliant instru- 
ments, whose principal office is: the execu- 
tion of flourishes. It is surprising -that 
composers for .the orchestra do not more 
frequently avail themselves of the keyed 
trumpet, and, thereby throw) some variety 
into the trumpet parts, which have hitherto 
been: exceedingly limited.’ oe era- 
loyed, key-trumpets are enof.pre- 
ae 2 an admirable effect; Snovenly. inthe 
ng on even the solo. ; 
Tea. 
