Foreign Literature and Sciense. 341, 
The number of new works and new impressions offered 
for sale at the fair of Leipsic last year, by three hundred 
and thirty-six booksellers, amounted to three thousand one 
hundred and ninety-four. 
Senifelden, the original inventor of the Lithographic art, 
(printing on stone,) has contrived a substitute for the carbo- 
nate of lime, used for that purpose, which has hitherto been 
found in perfection only in Bavaria. He forms an artificial 
plate, of stony substances, attached to paper, which he calls 
Papyrographic. It is said to possess great advantages. 
‘The machines are offered for sale at Pie at from twenty 
to thirty dollars each. 
A new method of taking the lives of animals destined 
for the market, which greatly diminishes their sufferings, is 
now employed in London. Itis effected by means of azot- 
ic gas. The meat, it is said, retains its freshness better, 
has a more agreeable taste, and is more easily preserved. 
The greater number of the butchers are in the use of this 
method. Rev. Ency. de Paris, Jan. 1820. 
An Academy of Natural Sciences has been formed at 
Cadiz, which holds its sittings in one of the halls of the 
medical and surgical college. 
At the village of Chatiauneuf, . the department of the 
lower Alps, in France, a church was struck by three suc- 
cessive thunder bolts, on the Lith of July, 1819, about 11, 
A.M. during the installation of a new Rector. The com- 
pany were nearly all thrown down, many of them were driv- 
en out of the door, eighty-two were wounded, and nine kill- 
ed. The priest who was celebrating mass, was not affected, 
on account, itis believed, of his silken dress. All the dogs 
in the church were killed. The house was filled with black 
smoke. 
Hot water is now carried through the streets of Paris for 
the purpose of supplying baths in private houses. It is 
transported in large casks, in which are stoves, so construct- 
ed, that the heat is spent almost entirely in raising the tem- 
perature of the water. It-is forced from the casks through 
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