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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine: 
' SIR, : 
"AVING received much pleafure from 
the anecdote refpecting Mr. How- 
ard’s humanity, related by Mr. Wood 
in your laft Magazine, I fhall requeft 
your infertion of another to the fame 
purpofe, which was told me by the per- 
fon who received the benefit. During 
Mr. Howard’s abfence on one.of his late 
journies to the continent, a journeyman 
wheelwright at Carding-en (Mr. H.’s 
refidence) had fucceeded his matier in 
his fhop, and married. Mr. Howard 
had fearcely been half an hour returned 
before he took a walk through the vil- 
‘lage, to enquire after his old acquaint- 
ance. He entered the-houfe where the 
wheelwright lived, which was one of 
his own, and kindly congratulated him 
en his change of condition. ‘‘If I had 
been at home at your marriage ({aid he) 
T fhould have made you a wedding gift, 
and you fhall not lofe it now. But it 
fhall be a prefent to your wife, not to 
yourfelf. Come to my houfe to-morrow 
morning, and you fhall know what it will 
Be. ' 
On returning home, Mr. H. afked 
his fervant which was the beft cow in 
his yard? The fervant told him. “ Then 
(faid Mr. H.) drive it to-morrow to the 
wheelwright’s.—But no (he added) the 
poor fellow has nothing to keep it on 
this winter. We will keep her for him 
till fhe has calved.”’ This was done, and 
the wheelwright’s wife was then made 
happy by avery fine cow and calf. The 
cow is at this time in their poffeffion, and 
is doubly valued as a memorial of the 
excellent donor. 
: Bam, fr, j 
Your confiant reader, 
Bedford, 
Dec. 46. 1797. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
EE is remarked in Buckmann’s Hiftory 
of Inventions, that the German mi- 
fers ufe tallow in their lamps, to light 
them below ground. Some of your rea- 
ders- may, probably, be able to defcribe 
the form of thefe lamps, and in what man- 
mer the wick is aifpofed and managed. 
Candles are ufed in general in our mines ; 
but lamps with sallow would be more eco- 
nomical, and, in many refpects, more 
convenient, Oil gives out too much fmoke, 
Anecdote of Mr. Howard...Chem: and Philof. Queries. [Dec. 
and it foon contaminates the air. Inform- 
ation on this fubjeé will oblige, 
IETS, 1797.. W.A MINER. 
SEE 
To the Editors of. zbe Monthly Maguzine. 
SIR, 
CCORDING to the principles of the 
Lavoifierian chemiftry, azote, which 
is a comp. nent part of animal fubfiances, 
is confidered as a primary element. Now, 
as animals acguire all their fubftance 
from their food, how comes it that thofe - 
animals which feed entirely on vegetables, 
fhould thence procure a fufficient quantity 
of azote (which enters into the compofi- 
tion of x9 vegetable they eat) to make 
them increafe in quantity of flefh, &c. for 
azote does not enter into, the compofition 
of fat? It may, however, be afferted, that 
the infeéts they eat may furnifh aquantity, 
and they may take in a {mall quantity im 
the impure water that they drink ; but 
this muft be a much fmalier proportion, in 
regard to the quantities they eat and drink, 
than enters into the compofition of their 
bodies. I. think this argues ftrongly in 
favour of the fuppofition that azote is not 
a primary element. 
Det. 9- W.E. 
seems 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Gan any of your numerous corref- 
pondents inform me, why (in that 
common experiment, to prove that the air 
is the condu€ting medium of found) when 
the bell is rang under the receiver of the 
air- pump, before it is exnaufted, we fhould 
hear the found ‘at all > for, all commumni- 
cation being cut off between the external 
air and that contained in the receiver 
(otherwife the receiver cannot be exhauft- 
ed) I donot know how the vibrations of 
the internal air can be communicated te 
the external air, . Lam. gi 
_ London, Your obliged fervant, 
De6...45. 3797+ E. L. 
Oe f 
To ibe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
l according to your correfpondent, p. 
270, the idea of annihilating the Nae, 
ional Debr, be fuch a trait of the abfence. 
of morals as to be expeéted only from 
fraudulent bankrupts, or rogues by occupa- 
tion ; if it be fuch a fcheme of villany, thay 
it is ft only to iffue from the: mouths of 
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