

are very numerous. 
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weights, which may be fealed like other 
weights; gives, by infpeétion, both neat 
and grofs hundreds; and may be purchajed 
at a moderate price- 
The Rev. §. Constant has diftovered 
a cement for preferving wood and brick 
from decay, and for ftopping leaks and 
fiffures, for which he has obtained a patent 
in America. It is..compofed of the fol- 
Jowing materials, viz. . Tar, pulverized 
coal (charcoal is eficemed the bef), and 
fine well flaked lime; the coal and lime 
to be well mixed together, proportioned 
at about four fifths coal, and one Afth 
lime ; the tar to be heated, and, while hot, 
thickened with the mixture of coal and 
dime, until it becomes fo hard’ as that it 
may be eafily fpread upon the furface of a 
board, and not run off when hot. Tur- 
pentine or pitch will anfwer nearly as well 
as tar,.and plaffer of Paris will anfwer in- 
ftead of lime; to be wfed in the fame man- 
mer, and about: in the fame proportions. 
“Lhe cement muft be applied when warm, 
and is found to be ufed ecafielt with a 
trowel, 
The varieties of maize, or Indian corn, 
its vegetative powers 
are found: to be admirably adapted to the 
climates of Nova- Scotia and the Carolinas. 
Harmers are not agreed which variety of 
the grain is moft productive. Each foil 
and latitude undoubtedly has its particular 
and preferable fort of maize. We men- 
tion, however, for the information of our 
veaders, a kind of Indian corn which grew 
Jaft feafon on Manhattan Hland, at Haer- 
Tem. The ear contained, fixteen rows -of 
grains. Thefe were well ripened, of a 
middling fize, andofa very firm ftruGure. 
Not a row contained lefs than fifty grains. 
So that the produét ofa fingleear of maize 
‘vas more than eight hundred grains. Nee 
York Monthly Magazine. 
Profettor BkumMEnBACH, ina letter to 2 
friend (Dr. Afb) in this country, fays, 
that a Secret is now making as much noile 
an Pruffia as the Cow-pock in England. 
A Profeffor Reich in Erlangen fays hehas 
difcovered two medicines, one internal, the 
other external; by means of which, all the 
dangers of acute difeafes may be warded 
off, as it were, in a ‘moment, only the ufe 
of them muft not be deferred too long.— 
‘Thefe medicines do not make a fudden ar 
complete cuve ; but by means of them all 
danger is fo fav removed in twelve hours, 
that it may be fecurely prognofticated that 
the life of the patient is fafe. He has of. 
fered to communicate his fecret to every 
practitioner for a moderate douceur; and 
he is now ordered by the king to be ex- 
amined before a committee of phyficians 
at» Berlin. Mr. Blumenbach adds, that 
Profeffor Reich is a plain, fenfible man, 
and not the leaft inclined to quackery,’ 
Profeflor Sprengel fancies he has found 
thefetwo medicines in the works of an old 
Arabian Phyfician. DS 
‘Fhere is a Ruffian theatre at Mofcow, 
under the management of an Englifhman; 
named Maddox. It contains four rows 
ot boxes, and two galleries ; the firft or- 
namented with mirrors and tapefiry. The 
fub{cription for a box is from 300 to 100e 
or more Roubles; .and the price of the pit 
it one Rouble. In defpite ef a price fo 
high, the pit is feldom empty, and few of 
the boxes are to be let. Moft of the pieces 
reprefented are tranflations ; though there 
are mahy dramatic works, comic operas, 
tragedies, and others, that are Ruffian. 
Among the moft fuccefsful of the foreign 
dramas, we may enumerate Emelia Ga- 
lotti, Mifs Sarah Sampfon, Minna de Barn- 
‘helm, all by Leffing ; Ciavijo, by Goethe, 
Marianne, The Gamefters, The Schoof 
for Scandal, and, above all the reft, The 
Stranger, The Natural Son, and other pieces 
by Kotzebue. ‘The dancing is tolerable; 
and fome of the fcenery cannot be too high- 
ly praifed. The pit is remarkably well 
behaved. The auditors content them- 
felves, if diffatisfied, by withholding theix 
applaufe; they more frequently addrefs 
their plaudits to the author than'to the 
actor. It is not here however that the 
‘theatrical amufements of Ruffia are to be 
feen in all their fplendor. Mott of the no- 
bility of Mofcow, pais the fummer at their 
country feats; and the theatre is one of — 
their princisal amufements. e actors 
are chofen among their young vaflals of — 
both fexes. On thefe they beftow a pro- 
per education: they are taught mufic, 
dancing, recitation, and foreign languages 
ZX» g > 
by good: matters; and fometimes become 
The orcheftra igs 
excellent comedians. 
likewife compofed of ferfs ; but generally 
‘under the dire&tion of a foreigner.’ 
A-magnificent edition, in one volume, 
folio, of Virgil, has juft~been publith - 
ed by the elder Dipor. Jt is on vel- 
‘lum paper; and the copies printed are twe 
hundred and fifty; each numbered and 
figned. The plates are from the defigns 
of Gérard and Girodet, two pupils of 
David ; and the price of the work is fix — 
hundred franks ; or five and- twenty pounds 
fterling ; and nine hundred for copies with 
proof plates. Didot is likewife publithing 
-the works of Racine, three volumes, large 
folio, with fifty-feven plates, in the execu- 
tion of which the greateft artifts of Franee 
are employed. -The fame number of co- 
pies, figned, are to be taken off as of the 
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