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aspect, which are most convenient in shape, and best loaded with 

 fruit. Surround them with tliick straw mats (or thatch them) 

 so that they shall be completely sheltered from cold air and other 

 changes. Tiius treated, the fruit may be preserved quite fresh 

 till January or February. 



CURE FOR THE HYDaoPHOBIA. 



Dr. Lyman Spalding, one of the most eminent physicians of 

 New-York, announces, in a small pamphlet, that for above these 

 fifty years the Scutellaria lateriflora L. has proved to be an 

 infallible means for the prevention and cure of the hydrophobia, 

 after the bite of mad animals. It is better applied as a dry 

 powder than fresh. According to the testimonies of several 

 American physicians, this plant, not yet received as a remedy in 

 any European Materia Medica, afforded a perfect relief in above 

 a thousand cases, as well in the human species as the brute crea- 

 tion (dogs, swine, and oxen). The first discoverer of the re- 

 medy is not known : Drs. Derveer (father and son) first brought 

 it into general use. 



GASTRONOMY. 



M. Lemare, director of the Athenaeum of Languages, has in- 

 vented a utensil which he calls autoclave. M. Lemare engages 

 to dress his dinner in less than half an hour ; and lately made 

 the experiment with complete success before a numerous com- 

 pany. He had put into the vessel a piece of meat, vegetables, 

 and as much vvater as is necessary for a dish lor five persons. 

 The vessel was placed over a fire, which was kept up with some 

 pieces of charcoal. In 3G minutes the vessel was taken off, and 

 left a few minutes to cool ; and the reporter affirms, that the 

 broth was excellent, and the meat thoroughly done. It is not 

 necessarv to open the pot to skim it so much as once during the 

 boiling ; for at the end of the operation the sciim is found at the 

 bottom of the vessel, and does not mix vvilh the broth. The 

 advantages of this auloclavian cookery are: 1st, that the soup is 

 excellent, which is very natural, because the apparatus is herme- 

 ticallv closed, and nothing therefore is lost. 2d. That the produce 

 is much increased bv the quantity of jelly yielded by the bones, 

 yd. That the cookery is far more expeditious than in the ordinary 

 kettles, &c. This mode of cookery will be highly advantageous 

 to the poor in particular. We leave the detailed description of 

 the autoclave to those journals which are especially devoted to 

 such subjects. If satisfactory and repeated trials confirm the 

 utility of the invention, it will become highly important in its 

 results, as it will then be evident that cooking may be performed 

 in much lesb than the uaual time, and with onc-teuth part of the 



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