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Facts and Observations. 
The Cattle Disease. —The Roman Government have, it 
is said, published a very interesting and instructive report on 
the late terrible cattle disease in the Campagna. The most 
important features in it are, that the disease is certainly of a 
highly contagious nature, and, as a rule, it dies out in the 
fourth generation. 
The Viceroy of Egypt has expressed his conviction that 
although the cattle murrain has been a grievous calamity, it 
will confer alasting benefit on the country, by compelling the 
cultivators of the soil to adopt an improved system, which 
will both civilise his people and enrich them, thus evoking 
good out of seeming evil. 
Diseased Meat in the City Markets. —In spite of 
the continued condemnation of the meat, game, and poultry, 
sent to the city markets in an unfit state for food, and not¬ 
withstanding the vigilance of the officers and the punish¬ 
ment which has been inflicted on offenders, the practice is 
still on the increase. There is no other country in the world, 
we should think where such practice w 7 ould be tolerated, and 
it is high time that some severe legislative measures were 
adopted to prevent it. During the last quarter, 56,326 lbs. 
of meat were condemned; the average for the same quarter 
for the last three years being 36,965 lbs. 
. Extraction of Iron from the Cinders of Puddling 
Furnaces. —It is well known that immense quantities of 
cinders are drawn from puddling and retorting furnaces, 
w 7 hich are considered almost useless. Mr. A. L. Fleury, of 
Philadelphia, states that they contain from 25 to 50 per 
cent, of metallic iron, mixed with sulphur, silica, lime, and 
alumina. To separate the iron has long been his object, and 
he finds he can effect it by the agency of lime while being 
hydrated or slaked. For this purpose he mixes pow T dered 
burnt lime with fine-ground cinder, and, after w T etting the 
whole with water, exposes it to the drying influence of the 
atmosphere. The compound is then heated in a common 
puddling furnace, and treated like pig iron. The iron thus 
obtained, however, retaining some sulphur, renders it red- 
short. To extract the sulphur, a chlorine salt is mixed w 7 ith 
