374 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 
— a Pipe from the horizontal line, so as to give the great- 
t effect to the discharge of the gun from the bush-house 
which cpieai the sportsman 
e net, concealed by cut grass, is sprung by a rope which 
is pulled at the moment after the pigeons alight upon the pre- 
pared ground. 
13, Ohio oil stone.—In this useful mineral this country ap- 
pears to be well furnished. Professor Olmat ed first directed 
the oil stone is found in Rocking county, Ohio: specimens 
have been presented to the Lancaster Mechanics Beneficial 
Society, and stated to possess a fine and uniform grain. Spe- 
cimens were presented to the society by John P. Melfen- 
stein, Esq. 
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scribed ‘a Mr. Carpenter in this Journal, and the distinguish- 
ed President of the cabinet, has favored this Journal with val- 
uable communications, The s ociety which is formmg a cab- 
inet in Chester county, as appears by its second report, re- 
commends itself to public favor by its zeal and activity, 
which, with the aid of its friends and correspondents, has, al- 
ready enabled it to accumulate a considerable museum, in 
the principal departments of natural history. This institu- 
tion appears well worthy of encouragement, and the friends 
of natural history throughout the United States cannot bet- 
ter dispose of a part of their duplicate specimens, than by 
see them to this institution. 
that part of their report which relates to birds, they 
ginte from Dr. Tinton’s preface to Linné’s System of Nature, 
the following interesting passage, relating to the instinctive 
wisdom of the Loxia Phillippina, a native of the Philippine 
“Tt constructs a curious nest with the long fibres of plants 
a grass, and suspends it by a kind of cord, nearly half 
an ¢ Il long, from the end of a slender branch of a tree, that it 
y be inaccessible to snakes, and safe from the prying intru- 
