92 Cure for Deafness. — <Foml Skelctofi. — Dance of Death. 



afi.er being despaired of and given over by all of the faculty 

 that saw him. 



CUKE FOR DEAFNESS. 



Petcrsburgh, 22tl January. 



Demetri Simeonovitsch Sitnikofi', a merchant in Moscow, 

 was for half a year deprived of the faculty of hearing, and 

 all tlic remedies usually prescribed for that disease were used 

 without effect. At last he had recourse to the following 

 simple operation : After having filled his mouth with the 

 smoke of tobacco, he closed it firmlv, and also his nose, 

 thereby forcing the smoke to find its way through the ears. 

 The following morning he felt a crash, first in one ear, and 

 then in the other, and from that moment his hearing has 

 been completely rcstorcd.-'-Haml'urgh Correspundentcn, Fe- 

 Iruary 8. 



FOSSIL SKELICTOK. 



At Sir Joseph Banks's conversatioui on the 2d of February, 

 — — Hawker, esq. of Dudbridge, Gloucestershire, exhi- 

 tjted complete drawings, and several of the bones of a large 

 fossile animal similar to a crocodile, found in a solid stratum 

 of limestone 20 feet thick. It was imbedded 15 feet below 

 the surface of the stratum. The skeleton measures 10^- feet 

 in length, and all the parts are wonderfully perfect. The 

 jaws which were exhibited contained the teeth in high pre- 

 gervation^ and still covered with the enamel. Onr of them " 

 which was broken had so exactly the fracture of what is 

 called petrified wood, that it would have deceived the most 

 acute mineralogist, and furnishes a strong ground for suspi- 

 cion that many fossils generally held to be of vegetable are 

 of animal origin. In the same stratum of limestone are found 

 jnany cornua ammonice, mussels, and other shells. 



Holbein's dance of death. 

 It is well known that Basil in Switzerland was celebrated 

 for Holbein's celebrated picture of the Dance of Death, 

 which had undergone several repairs from time to time, and 

 had been rcceatly retouched, to the great satisfaction of all 

 the connoisseurs. In the evening of the Cth of August last, 

 however, a mob collected in Basil, aud^ accompanied by a 



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