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called the fecond month of May.” Lu- 
eullus replied in the fame manner to- 
~thofe who endeavoured to diffuade him 
from engaying Tigranes on the Nones of 
October, becaufe the army of Cepio had 
on that day been defeated by the Cimbri. 
“¢ And I for that very reafon, (faid Lucul- 
lus), will render it for the futurea favoura- 
ble day for the Romans.” He attacked 
the king of Armenia, and defeated him, 
Leo the Tenth was inaugurated Pope en 
the anniverfary of his imprifonment the_ 
year before. Oliver Cromwell had al- 
ways confidered the Sd of September as 
fortunate for him. On the $d of Sep- 
tember 1650, he defeated the Scotch. at 
‘Dunbar, and on that day, in the follow- 
ing year, he gained the battle of Worcef- 
Yew Patents lately Enrolled. 
[May 1, 
ter; but on the Sd of September 1658, 
he expired. 2 
Though this diftinétion of gobd and 
evil days be in reality as abfurd as it ap- 
pears to be, I much doubt if it be yet 
entirely eradicated. When‘ it is confider- 
ed how many things concur to keep up 
an error of this kind, and that among the 
great, as well as with the vulgar, opini- 
ons as puerile as this are not only re- 
ceived, but even made a rule of attion, 
it may be inferred, that in every age and 
every country, however civilized, fuper- 
ftition always maintains its influence, 
though it may occafionally vary im its ob- 
jeét and name. The human mind, alter- 
nately wife and weak, indifcriminately 
adopts error and truth. : 
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NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
a 
ME.G.A. ECKHARDT’S and MR. J. LYONS’S 
for a new Mode of boring Pipes. 
yy <OIS invention, if fuch it may be call- 
ed, confifts in forming fhort pipes, and 
uniting them to one another inftead of mak- 
ing them ofthe whole length ofa tree. The 
_ufual mode of boring pipes from elm or 
other trees 1s now very generally known; 
this -is totally rejected by the patentees, 
who form thort lengths from timber, fome- 
_ thing in the fhape of the fiaves made uie 
of by coopers, but with a lefs degree of 
curvature. Pipes formed after this plan 
are made of a conical fhape, in order 
that the feveral parts may be the more 
readily bound together by iron hoops 
and thefe parts may be dove-tailed, and 
the hoops faftened on the pipes by means 
of wedges. The patentees have alfo 
mentioned the mode of uniting the {mal- 
ler pieces of pipe fo as to fourm one long 
one, and the method of painting or pitch- 
ing or varnifhing them, both within and 
without, but as thefe cannot claim any 
title to novelty, we prefume the invention, 
as fuch inuft be in the union of the ftaves 
or other pieces of wood into the form of 
a hollow-pipe, inftead of boring it ouf of 
folid weod. Upon this part of the fpeci- 
fication we mutt be allowed to ocbferve, 
that the principle which thefe gentlemen 
have applied to water pipes, has many 
years been adopted by Mr. George Smart 
in the conftruction of his hollow-matts, 
and therefore it may be doubted how far 
their title to an exclufive sight can be 
maintained. 
for the direétion of the needles. 
MR. JOHN FLETCHER’S (CICIL STREET, 
STRAND,) fur a Compofition, for Agri- 
cultural Purposes, which atts as a Ma- 
nure, and is efficacious in the Defiruc- 
tion of the Flyin Turnips and other In-~ 
Sects. / 
The compofition here defcribed con- 
fifts in mixing 1000 bufhels of pulverized 
gypfum, 100 bufhels of pulverized oyfter- 
fhells, aud five hundred weight of the 
fulphate of barytes. No account is 
given of the mode of applicatién ; of the 
quantity to be ufed in a given portion of 
land; or by what means it-is deftruétive 
to the turnip-fly, and other mfects, whe- 
ther by prevention in mixing the feed 
with the compofition or otherwife. In 
thefe and .other particulars we deem the 
fpecification deficient, at leaft as far it 
is intended, as all fpecifications fhould 
be, for general utility. c 
MR. JAMES WINTER'S, { STOKE-UNDER- 
waMpDON) for a Machine for fewing 
cnd pointing leather Gloves. 
The drawings attached to Mr. Winter’s- 
{pecification are neceffary to the full ex- — 
plication of his invention. The princi- 
pal apparatus confifts of jaws made eis 
ther of wood or metal, and.are intended 
to hold the gloves for fewing, and indices 
Thefe 
indices are made with grooves on their 
faces, and contain from 18 to 30 grooves ~ 
inaninch. They are of different lengths 
and breadths, and. are varied in. fhape, 
either ftraight or circular, correfponding © 
to 
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