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persons who have received these agreeable marks of at- 
tention, without doubting the hand from which they have 
sprung. His antique dress, his simple manners, his Jan- 
guage, modest in the extreme, were not calculated to em- 
blazon his reputation. When he spent a short time in his 
native village, none of his old neighbours would have sus- 
pected that he had become a considerable personage. 
One day, in a walk upon the boulevard, he met two sol- 
diers who were about to settle a dispute by fighting ; he im- 
mediately inquired into the cause of their quarrel, and suc- _ 
2 ceeded in reconciling them ; and that he might insure the 
| _ continuance of their siaieden ters he went with them toa 
t beer house and sealed their reconciliation in the manner 
of a soldier. 
Science and hudianity were deprived of this worthy man 
on the 3rd of June, 1822, at the age of 79. He left bis 
family but one inheritance—his valuable and magnificent 
collection of crystals, which the donations of almost all 
Europe, during 20 years, had placed above all those which 
have hitherto been found. 
Rev. Encyc. 
2. Spinning Machine at Dunfermline, Scotland.—Mr. 
} Hatton of this town, has, for more than a year past, kept 
: two mice constantly employed in spinning sewing thread, 
by means of a machine similar to the tread mill. Each 
} of these little animals spins every day from one hundred 
to one hundred and twenty threads, in performing which 
they have to move about ten and a half miles. 
The expense of maintaining each mouse is a pases 
ny for five weeks, and comparing this, with the q nen ty of 
work done, it appears that each — i out = 
shillings sterling per annuit. Mr. Hatton propesel 46 
hire an old edifice one bundred feet long ‘aa fifty wide, in 
which he may employ ten thousand mice machines. If 
this enterprize should ye it is estimated that the an- 
g nual gain will be abo sterling, clear of all ex- 
| pense _ interest. Edinburgh Starr. 
E. agement lithe Emperor of Russia Ess 
to WM. Metchinr Gioja, author of Nuovo projetto delle 
as “scienze economiche a hill of exchange for 20.000 francs, 
a. 
