Literary and Tliiloso-phical Intelligence, [Nor. 3, 
The different bells bubble between each 
division (when part of it is turned to the 
sun) like a pulse glass when a wariri hand 
is applied to one of the balls. These in- 
struments are found in the balm of giiead, 
in geraniums, and other perfumed plants. 
It would be endless, she says, to men¬ 
tion all the different offices to which the 
hairs are applied,. they are peculiarly 
adapted to convey the powder of the 
stamen to the sirup of the pistil, there 
being in each hair a duct for conveying 
the mixed juices to the canal in the 
pistil. All this is plainly seen, since in 
the solar microscope each hair is as large 
as a walking stick. How many various 
offices do lire iiairs perform in the corolla, 
calyx, and stipula! There is one pecu¬ 
liarly appropriated to this latter part, in 
all diadeipliian plants, most curiously 
formed. How wonderful is the hair in 
wet plants! placed to guard the air-ves¬ 
sels from lieing filled with insects; they 
exactl y resemble swords, shoot in a circle 
and meet in the middle of the vessel. 
H ow many an insect and water-fly has 
she seen ruiivthrou^h bv them ! But this 
is not all, they have a soit of spring, 
which makes the hair strike down, and 
thus get nd of the creature it has trans¬ 
fixed. 
Mr Parkinson’s third volume of the 
Organic Remains of a Former VVorld, 
will be pubiisiied in November. 
A new edition of the Rev. Dr. Rets’ 
Practical Sermons is nearly ready for 
publicatiun, a very large impression 
having; been entirely sold off. 
Dr. Buchanan -has published the fol¬ 
lowing acc milt of t’le annual expenses 
of the Idol at Juggernaut, in Orissa, pre¬ 
sented to the English government, and 
extracted from the official accounts ; 
Expenses attending the 
Rupees. 
ciSterl. 
table of the idol . 
Ditto of his dress or 
36,lloor 4,514 
wearittg apparel . 
Ditto of the w'ages of 
2,712 
33^ 
his servants . . 
Ditto of contingent ex¬ 
penses at the dif¬ 
ferent seasons of 
10,057 
1,259 
pilgrimage 
10,989 
1,373 
Ditto of his t lephants 
and h uses 
DiUo of his rutt or an¬ 
3,030 
373 
nual state carriage 
6,713 
839 
Rupees 69 616 £^,7Qi 
The Literary and Philosophical Society 
of Hackney have publisned the First 
Year a Report of its Proceedings, and a 
Catalogue of the Library, This society 
is fortunate in having an active and in¬ 
telligent secretary in the person of Mr, 
John Clennell, formerly of ISevv« 
castle, and editor of the Commercial 
Magazine. 
Mr. Clennel also announces a course 
of six Lectures on Commerce, to be de¬ 
livered at Stratford. 
Knots, or knobs, of the Burrknot 
apple-tree, put into the ground, will 
make a long shoot, the following spring; 
or, knobbed branches with blossom buds 
upon them, will bear the same year. 
The burrknot apple-tree is uncommoniy 
productive. They never miss bearing, 
not being so liable to blight in inclement 
seasons, as other varieties. The fruit is 
large, its tints resembling the ribston 
pippin, and being about ns size. For 
culinary uses, it is not inferior to the 
choicest codlin, and it keeps much bet¬ 
ter, The tree is not liable to canker, 
owing to its not putting out a tap-root, 
but spreading its numerous fibres from the 
knob horizontally, and following the soil. 
Sir William Drummond conceives 
that he has discovered in Malta the 
birth-place of Hannibal. He adduces 
several reasons for thinking, that, al¬ 
though Hannibal fell in Bithynia, by the 
perfidy of the king Prusias, and the 
Roman general Flaminius, yet his asbe^ 
were brouglit from theime, to repose 
among his countrvmen and relatives at 
Malta. It appears that in the year 
1761, in the district of Ben Ghisa, in 
Malta, was discovered a sepulclirai cave. 
In the wall of this cave was a hollow 
square, in winch was cut in Phenician 
characters the epitaph annexed, which 
Sir W. has translated thus: 
The inner Chamber of the sanctuary of the 
Sepulchre of Hannibal, 
Illustrious in the consummation of calamity 
Ke was beloved. 
The people lament, when arrayed 
in order ol battle, 
Hannibal, the son of Bar-Melech. 
Sir W. D, argues, that the name of the 
district of Malta, where stands this se¬ 
pulchre, Ben Ghisa^ is a corruption o? 
what ancient writers intend by the fa¬ 
mily of Amilcar Gisco)^, w hich was nearly 
related to that of Amilcar jBorco, or, by 
transposition, Barca Amilca, would be 
the Punic order; and as on the tomb, 
Bar Mclek. 
The following rules for distinguishing 
British roads from those constructed by 
the Romans, will be interesting to our 
antiquarian readers. 
1. British roads are not raised nor paved, 
nor always straight; but often wind along the 
