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ihe h.ospital to make the discoverer a present of three hun- 

 dred and sixty-six rix dollars de banque and to ensure hira 

 an equal sum in addition, in case that the heahh of those 

 whom he has cured, should in two years undergo no altera- 

 tion that can justly be attributed to their former malady. 

 The memoirs of the Medical Society will doubtless soon 

 furnish a detail of the method of M. Anderson. 



10. The Society of Christian Morals at Paris, having 

 appointed very respectable Committees on the subjects of 

 Gaming and Lotteries, an unknown person, under the mod- 

 est title of a Christian, has deposited with the society one 

 thousand francs, to be adjudged in equal portions to the au- 

 thors of the best essays or memoirs against those enormous 

 evils. 



Each memoir must consist of not less than one hundred 

 n r more than one hundred and twenty pages 12mo. The 

 author is advised to take the excellent work of Lemontey 

 on Savings Banks, or Franklin's Poor Richard, as the mo- 

 dei of his essays. 



11. Flour or meal from leguminous fruits. — A manufac- 

 tory of this kind has been established in France, and the 

 benefits of it have obtained the decided approbation of chem- 

 ists, public economists and of the society of encouragement. 

 The flavour of the different fruits and roots is completely 

 preserved, and it is believed >hat in the state of meal their 

 farina is more digestible and wholesome than when dressed 

 in the usual way. They are first cooked by steam to a suf- 

 ficient extent, then kiln dried so far as to be easily ground 

 ill a mill, and boulted in the usual way. 



At the suggestion of IVI. Darcet, the ingenious manufac- 

 turer, Duvergier, prepares also flour of different kinds com- 

 bined with five per cent of gelatine, to.render it more nutri- 

 tious and more useful to seamen. 



A few mirmtes only are sufficient to convert this flour into 

 soups and pottage, instead of four hours which are necessary 

 in the boiling of the dried roots and legumes. Hence there is 

 an economy of time and fuel in the use of this new product. 

 The prices in Paris of these articles are as follows. Potatoe 

 flour 3| Ibs.fora franc, ( = 18| cent.) Flour of large beans, 3 

 !bs. do. Ditto of Peas 2 lbs. do. Garden beans 1 ^ lb. de. 



