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- 41. New Machine.—M. Kuhaiewski, a gentleman of War- 
saw, in Poland, has invented a portable machine for cleaning 
grain, which in separating the grain from the ear, breaks nei- 
ther the grain nor the straw vA single man by this machine 
can do the work of some dozens of common labourers. The 
same able mechanic has contrived a sawing mill, to work by 
hand, and an astronomical watch, which indicates the differ- 
ence of time in various parts of the globe, The Emperor 
Alexander has sent to the inventor a magnificent snuff-box, 
ner has furnished him with funds to carry on his useful la- 
Ae eam to Copernicus.—The collossal statue in 
ne which is to be erected to the great father of modern 
astronomy, will be placed before the mig ot edifice of 
the “* Soctety of the Friends of Science” in Warsaw. This 
illustrious man will be represented Se upon an antique 
seat, covered with an Academic gown of rich drapery. In 
one hand he will hold a celestial globe, divided by its astro- 
nomic circles. The expense of this monument is defrayed 
by voluntary subscription in Poland. 
Twelve periodical journals are published at held ts the 
population of which, including the military, does not exceed 
210,000. 
43. Academy of Sciences at Stockholm.—The king hav- 
ing sanctioned the new regulations and statutes of the Acad- 
omy, was waited upon by a deputation of its ae be ex- 
to him its gratitude. The following was his reply 
* Gentierien, I have approved with the greatest eons of 
the regulations which the Academy has submitted to me, 
because they have issued from the pens of men known by 
their sagacity as well as by their profound knowledge, and 
whose labours will form an era in the history of science. In 
all enlightened, but especially in all free States, the monarch 
is the protector of the sciences ; and when he protects them 
as he ought, the nation as well as himself, may hope to wit- 
ness the gradual confirmation of those rights which nature 
engraven upon every human heart. Continue, gentle- 
men, to labour to render more and more general the devel- 
opment of the intellectual faculties. The light of knowl- 
edge will, by degrees, dim those baleful stars whose fatal 
