Poreign Literature and Science. 34h 
. The number of new works and new impressions offered 
for sale at the fair of ‘Leipsie last year, by three hundred 
and thirty-six booksellers, amounted to three thousand one 
hundred and ninety-four. 
_ Senifelden, the original inventor of the Lithographic art, 
(printing on stone,) has contrived a substitute for the carbo- 
nate of lime, used for that purpose, which has hitherto been 
found in perfection only in Bavaria. He forms an artificial 
plate, of stony substances, attached to paper, which he calls 
papgrographic. It is said to possess great advantages. 
e machines are oftgped for sale at Paris, at from twenty 
io Giicty dollars each. 
“A new method of taking the lives of animals destined 
for a market, which greatly diminishes their sufferings, i is 
now employed in London. Itis effected by means of azot- 
ic gas, The meat, it is: said, retains its freshness better, 
has a more agreeable taste, and is more easily preserved. 
The greater number of the butchers are in the use of this 
method, Rev. Ency. de Paris, Jan. 1820. 
n Academy of Natural Sciences has been formed at 
Catt, which holds its sittings in one of the halls of the 
medical and surgical college. 
_At the village of Chatiauneuf, in the department of the 
‘lower Alps, in France, a church was struck by three suc- 
cessive thunder bolts, on the 11th of July, 1819, about 11, 
_ A.M. during the installation of anew Rector, The com- 
pany were nearly all thrown down, many of them were driv- 
en out of the door, eighty-two were wounded, and nine kill- 
ed. The priest who was celebrating mass, was not ag a 
on account, it is believed, of his silken dress. . ogs: 
in whe church were killed. The house was filled with black 
moke. 
Hot water is now carried through the streets of Paris for © 
the e purpose of supplying baths in private houses. It is 
transported in large casks, } in which are stoves, sO ae 
ed, that the heat is spent almost entirely in raising the t 
perature of the water. It is OEE from the casks isuch 
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