- 562 - 
aioe lidake so combined as to admit. 
“of their being slid out, like the tubes of a 
pocket telescope, to the height af from 
forty to fifty feet, if required; carrying up, 
at the same time, a box to receive 
females or children, or small valuables, 
while the Jess timid can descend the lad: 
der.’ This box, by means of a chain and 
pulley, worked by the people below, 
descends to the ground, where being 
instantly unhooked, another box is sent 
yep while the first isemptying. All this 
performed i in about two minutes. This 
. ‘Apparatus is erected on a carriage with 
-.» four wheels, nine feet long and five wide, 
furnished with the usual apparatus,and 
harness for yoking a horse to it, for the 
‘ 9 er. 
en r.KNrent, i in his Report of the Trans- 
i cas the Horticultural Society, men- 
tions an improved method of cultivating 
the alpine strawberry. The \ process 
ta ‘consists of sowing the seed on a mode- 
Se hy “rate. hot-bed, in the beginning of April, 
Oe and removing the plants, as soon as they 
have acquired sufficient strength, to beds 
1 the open ground. They will begin to 
t ossom after Midsummer, and afford an 
odant late autumnal crop. Mr. K. 
links, that this strawberry ought always 
be treated as an annual plant. 
he denominates the Electric 
ae 
oe olumn, and which, by some of our na- 
A tural philosophers, i is ‘considered the most 
ortant discovery in the science of 
lectricity since that of the Voltaic pile’ 
AS greparing an account of it fur 
RUSSIA. 
i tepninrs of a horned animal, the 
race of which seems to be extinct, has 
heen -recently dug up near es 
From the description given of this part 
of the skeleton, the animal must have 
been at least ten or twelve feet long. 
_ The horns, which are attached to the head 
and have partly passet into a fossil state, 
far exceed in size those ef the oxen of 
the present day.. They are a foot and a 
alf in circumference at the root, and 
two feet and ahalflong. It was hoped 
‘that the entize s! celeron would be reco- 
vered; but ou-further.search, two teeth 
only were found. Foreign naeuraliats are 
of opinion, that this head must have 
belonged to the race of Urus or Aurochs, 
mentioned bv Cesar in his Commenta- 
ries, and which some even suppose still 
to exist in the mountains of Siberia and 
in the forests of Poland. 
Literary and Philosophical Iniellis 
2 speedy removal to the scene of ~man to whom she had been engag 
promise of marriage fifty y 
-scended to the 
between these persons, one © of whom pie ge 
ir. de Luc bas invented a machine 
fence. [July 1, 
SWEDEN. 
)Fanauy has lately witnessed an inci 
"Aone which’ ypartakes of the romantic. 
dn opening a communication between 
two tines, the corpse of a miner was 
found in complete preservation, and ina 
soft. state, being impregnated with the 
vittiolic water of the mine. When 
exposed to the open air, it became. stiif. 
The features were not recognized by any 
person present, but tradition had pres 
served the recollection of the accident by 
which he had been eutombed more than 
half'a century ago. All farther enquiry 
was dropped, when suddenly a decrepid 
old woman advanced upon erntches, ard 
discovered that the i we ee 
She threw herself on the. is 
lover, and bedewed:it with tears, at the ¥ 
same time thanking Heaven for sa i 
once more granted hera sight of the — 
object of her affection. before she de- 
grave. The contrast 
been so long buried and. yet retained the 
features of youth, while the other was. 
bowed down by, the i 
may be more easily aah 
described. 
GERMANY. ‘gina: ait ay Wi i, aR 
An officer in the Bavarian, service, 
who had made a variety of experiments _ 
to ascertain the ingredients used in the 
composition of the Greek, fire; wh 
recently engaged at Munich in an anal ; 
sis for that purpose, was, by the-ex] 
sion of the article he was decomposing, 
rata a reps 
ws 
propelled through the window, with his ~ 
arms torn off, and, his face so dreadfully 
burnt, that he expired a few prittuteneiiee: 
being taken up. 
The. following account.of the present 
State of the universities, ‘and other 
seminaries of education in the new king» 
dom of Westphalia, has been published + 
The universities of Halle, Gottingen, 
Helmstadt, Marburg, and Rinteln, cone 
tain 1207 students. There are besides 
in the kingdom 52 gymnasia or classical 
schools, at which are educated 6851 ebil- 
dren. The inferior schools, at which are 
taught reading, writing, and, arithmetic, 
amount to 8600, and are attended by 
253,538 children ‘of both sexes. In each 
of the two cities: of Brunswick and 
Magdeburg, there are thirty-five public 
institutions for every branch of educa~ 
tion, besides private seminaries.. In the 
public schools, the hours of teaching are 
so 
