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ever, were made to soften so rigorous restrictions, viz : That 

 " one or two of said six dishes may come to table hot after the 

 first three or five have been served up. And by way of farther 

 indulgence, the following are declared not to be mentioned as the 

 dishes, (viz:) brawn, collops, eggs, sallads, pottage, butter, 

 cheese, herrings, sprats, shrimps, nor shell fish of any kind, nor 

 unbaked fruit, but they shall have no Merry Andrew in the 

 house. When a foreign ambassador, or one of the privy council 

 was at dinner, then all restrictions were taken off. In 1553 the 

 consumption of venison at tables, taverns, &c., was so great that 

 the court was offended, and the practice suppressed. 



SEWERAGE. 



The Hon. Dudley S. Gregory's recommendation as to the utili- 

 zation of city fertilizers, meets the just approbation of the com- 

 munity. This important question is up in all modern cities for 

 discussion. We cite London to-day, (viz :) 



[London Mechanics' Magazine, May, 1855.] 



ON THE SEWERAGE OF TOWNS AND CITIES 



After alluding to the ill health resulting from the pernicious 

 vapors from rotting vegetable and animal matter in the confined 

 places of cities, after alluding to the numerous methods recom- 

 mended tor relief, the conclusion seems to be that the best por- 

 tions of city refuse fertilizers may be safely gathered in suitable 

 places of deposit, rendered inodorous and innoxious by suitable 

 supplies of deodorizing matter, such as pulverized charcoal and 

 others. The matter being conveyed in tight covered vans at 

 every short period from the collections to the depot, and imme- 

 diately^ deodorized, and from the depot to the country. It is 

 proposed that in the depots the various matters, animals, dung, 

 street sweepings, &c., &c., shall be disposed in layers with the 

 deodorizers, so as to begin in these depots, the compost fit for the 

 farmer. Dry sweepings are specially recommended for use as 

 between layers. Galvanized tanks for privy purposes are recom- 

 mended. In these tlie liquids and solids can be deodorized. 

 This process of deodorizing not only saves us from bad smell and 

 injury, but is a positive saving of the valuable element ammo- 

 nia for use in the land. Peat charcoal is found to be an excel- 

 lent deodorizer. On a railway, near London, a large free school 

 house was established. The exuviae were used to manure a gar- 

 den in wliich some of the boys were working. The manure was 

 found to be a nuisance. The trustees were threatened with pro- 



