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‘persons who have received these agreeable marks of at- 
tention, without doubting the hand from which they have 
sprung. His antique dress, his simple manners, his lan- 
guage, modest in the extreme, were not calculated to em- 
blazon his reputation. When he spent a short time in his 
native village, none of his old neighbours would have sus- 
pected that he had become a considerable personage. 
One day, in a walk upon the boulevard, he met two sol- - 
diers who were about to settle a dispute by fighting ; he im- 
mediately inquired into the cause of their quarrel, and suc- 
ceeded in reconciling them ; and that he might insure the 
continuance of their tranquillity, he went with them to a 
beer house and sealed their reconciliation in the mannex 
of a soldier. 
Science and humanity were deprived of this worthy man 
on the 3rd of June, 1822, at the age of 79. He left his 
family but one inheritance—his valuable and magnificent 
collection of crystals, which the donations of almost all 
Europe, during 20 years, had placed above all those which 
have hitherto been found. 
Reo. Encyc. 
2. Spinnng Machine at Dunfermline, Scotland.—Mr. 
Hatton of this town, has, for more than a year past, kept 
two mice constantly employed in spinning sewing thread, 
by means of a machine similar to the tread mill. Each 
of these little animals spins every day from one hundred 
to one hundred and twenty threads, in performing which 
they have to move about ten and a half miles. 
The expense of maintaining each mouse is a half-pen- 
ny for five weeks, and comparing this, with the quantity of 
work done, it appears that each mouse earns about six 
shillings sterling per annum. Mr. Hatton proposes to 
hire an old edifice one hundred feet long and fifty wide, in 
which he may employ ten thousand mice machines. If 
this enterprize should succeed, it is estimated that the an- 
nual gain will be about £2,300 sterling, clear of all ex- 
pense and interest. Edinburgh Starr. 
3. Royal Encouragement.—The Emperor of Russia has 
sent to M. Melchior Gioja, author of Nuovo projetto delle 
scienze economiche a bill of exchange for 20,000 francs, 
