Earthquake, — German Sausages. W] 



Lord Cochrane, and to himself: the former beuig^, for the mode 

 of distilhng and managing the oil, and the latter for the con- 

 struction of a lamp, calculated for burning this pellucid and very 

 volatile and inflammable oil, closely resembling if not identically 

 the same with purified naphtha: — which oil, in its greatest per- 

 fection, is prepared in Scotland, at once from the coals, as is 

 said, by a relative of Mr. Cochrane's: the essential oil prepared 

 from the Gas -work Tar, is found, whenever the wicks of tlie 

 lamps are trimmed the least too high, to deposit carbon on the 

 wicksj which the Scotch oil never does, and in such case to oc- 

 casion lamps supplied therewith, to smoke, and sometimes, 

 owing to the very great volatility of this Gas-work oil, a smoking 

 lamp has been filled with explosive vapour, which has taken 

 fire and destroyed the lamp-glass: accidents which have- never 

 happened with the use of the Scotch oil. From the facility of 

 preparing this oil at any colliery and in any quantity, and from 

 the cheapness of its conveyance to Town by the canals, we anti- 

 cipate, that this mode of lighting our streets and roads will, ere 

 long, become very general. 



EARTHQUAKE. 



On Christmas nighty a smart shock of an earthquake was felt 

 along the west coast of Kintai! and about Loch Hourn and the 

 intermediate places. It was also felt about the heights of Gien- 

 moriston, and in other central places of the county. 



GERMAN SAUSAGES. 



Dr. J. Kerner has discovered that smoked sausages, a favourite 

 food of the inhabitants of Wirtemberg, contain often a deadly 

 poison. The effects of the poison are ordinarily manifested in 

 spring time or the month of April, in a manner more or less 

 alarming. In a periodical paper which appears at Tubingen, 

 Mr. Kerner has published a number of observations on the sub- 

 ject, and he has now in the press, a work in which he treats of 

 it more in detail. He states that, out of 7G persons who fell 

 sick from having eaten sausages, 37 died in a short tiuic; while 

 others remained valetudinarians for years. Liver sausages ap- 

 pear to be the most dangerous. In general (says M. Kerner) 

 the poison is formed in raw, hashed, and (seasoned flesh, 

 after being stuffed in gut and smoked. This animal poison is 

 distinguished from all others by this circumstance — that it docs 

 not attack the brain and spinal marrow, while it jjaialyses the 

 whole lynijjlialic sysleni. Sometimes the pali?nt fur many 

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