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Notwithstanding’ the cloud which en- 
velopes the proceedings of this society, 
it appears they attend to manners; and 
their secret is, by acts of disinterested=' 
hess, generosity, and kindness, to fasten 
those bonds which ought to unite. man- 
kind. If these be the principles of Free- 
masonry, the place in which they meet 
should be considered 'as the Temple of 
Friendship, at the gate of which is the 
God of Silence. 
SPANISH PRIDE. 
The gravity and sonorousness of the 
Spamsh language give the rbodomon- 
tades, so often made use by the Spa- 
niards, more appearance of reality, than 
when uttered in-another language. 
A Florentine walking with a Spaniard 
in.Florence, during the time of the Me- 
dici, they met the Grand Duke, with his 
brother the Cardinal. The Florentine 
asked his companion, if he was not highly 
delighted with seeing those two princes? 
The Spaniard, after heing repeatedly 
asked, at length repliied—“ En Espugna, 
tenemos guarenta como el Cardinal; dies 
como el Gran-duque ; dos como el Papa; 
y uno como Dios. Los quarenta, son fos 
guarenta Canonigos de Toledo; los dies, 
sen los dies grandes de Espagna; los dos 
como el Papa, son los Arcobispos de Toledo, 
y de Sevilla ; el une como Dios, ies nuestro 
fiey,” ; 
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New Patents lately enrolled. 
' [June 1, 
At Rome, it was common to seé an 
innumerable quantity of poor persons of 
all nations, to whom, at certam hours, 
some of the monasteries gave soup daily. 
A Castilian, who had just armved, and 
did not know at what hour the distribu- 
tion was made, applied to a French ec- 
clesiastic for information. “The vanity 
of the Spaniard weuld not permit him to 
ask plainly at whose house they gave the 
soup—it was a sort of question that ap- 
peared to him too mean. After endea- 
vouring for some time to find a mode of 
expression not quite so low, he thought 
it was better to ask the Frenchman, if 
lie had taken his chocelate? “ My cho- 
colate!” replied the ecclesiastic, “ how 
do you suppose I am to pay forit? I live 
on charity, and am waiting for the distri- 
bution of the soup at the Convent of the 
Franciscans.””—“ Then you have not been 
there yet,” said the Castilian. ‘“ No;” 
replied the Frenchman, “ I am now going 
—-it is just ume.”—“ I beg you will con- 
duct me thither,” said the Don, “and you 
will then see Don Antonio Perez de Vat- 
cabro de Redia de Mentava de Veza, 
Sc. &c. give to posterity an example of | 
his humility.” “And who are these 
people?” asked the Priest. “ Ft is I,” 
replied the Spaniard.“ Ifso,” answered 
the Frenchman, “ you had better haye 
said an example:of a good appetite.” 
NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
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MR. SAMUEL SALTER'S (WATFORD), for 
an Apparatus, for the Purpose of dry- 
ing Kdalt, Hops, or any other Grain. 
oe entrance of the kiln-hole er fire 
place, is inclosed with a cast or 
wrought-iron frame, or with any other 
suitable’ article, that the heat of 
the inclosed fire will not destroy. - In 
-the frame two doors are fixed, one at 
or near the top, the other at or near the 
bottom, of sufficient dimensions to ad- 
mit the supply of fuel for the fire; and 
also for taking out the cinders and ashes 
beneath the fire. in the upper door is 
xn-aperture, of proper size to admit the 
necessary quantity of air to carry off the 
steam that may arise from the malt, 
hops, or any kind of grain intended to be 
dried: the size of the aperture must de- 
pend-on the nature and construction of 
the kiln; and as in the different stages of 
drying any of the articles before specified, 
it is requisite to vary the quantity of air 
admitted, aslide or regulatur is affixed to 
; st , 
the door for that purpose. In the lower 
door is also an aperture, witha slide or 
reculator to admit more or less air, as the 
- state of the firemay require. The bars on 
which the fire is placed are either of cast 
er wrought iron, and placed at the 
distance of about half an inch frem each 
other, in erder not only to make the fire © 
burn freely, but that a considerable. 
-quantity of air may pass through the fire ; 
and being rarefied thereby, will greatly 
assist both in drying the articles before 
specified, and carrying off the steam also ; 
the number and length of the bars must 
be governed by the size of the kiln. The 
sides of the kiln-hole” or fire-place, are 
cast-iron, about half an inch thick, and in 
that part on each side against which the 
fire lies, is a piece of cast or wrought iron, 
about eighteen inches long, six inches 
deep, and two-inches thick, to project 
into the fire-place, which not only pre- 
vents the sides from being destroyed by 
the fue; but being kept red hot, necessa- 
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