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impossible, my good lady,
nose has no bridge to it.'

" replied Mr. Gratt
—Bunn's Staff.

INTERMENT IN CROWDED CITIES.- _
different nations respecting interment show that in every
country danger was apprehended from the proximity of the
dead tchthe living. Experience justified the apprehension ;
and the French Government stands pre-eminent in its
arrangements to secure the health, and, consequently, the
happiness of its members. The dead interred within their
cities have been removed ; public cemeteries have been
established at a distance from towns ; sanatory laws have
been enacted and rigidly enforced. New York, Pensylvania,
and a few other States have followed the example ; but
England yet retains within the bosom of her population the
germs, the nuclei of diseases, the fowl, if not the principles,
of malignant epidemics. To what cause is this supineness on
the part of the British Government to be attributed?--
Walker's Gatherings from Grave Yards.
PRESERVING FRUIT, AND OTHER BOTANICAL SPECI-
MENS, IN A MOIST STATE.--At a meeting of the Botanical
Society of Edinburgh, Professor Christian presented some
observations on the preservation of fruits and other botanical
specimens in the moist state; and remarked that, after
numerous experiments, made for a series of years, with vari-
ous fluids, he had found none which served so well to pre-
serve both the consistence and colour of fruits, leaves, arid
flowers, as a concentrated solution of common salt. Numerous
specimens were exhibited which bad been preserved in this
way for one, two, three, and five years; among which were
sprigs with leaves, and ripe and unripe fruit of Myristica
moschata, Xanthochymus pictorius, Garcinia Cambogia, G.
Mangostana, Habradendron Camogioides, Alpinia Cards-
momum, Mangifera indica, Ricinus communis, Flacortia
inermis, &c. In the greater part of these, the green tint of
the leaves, and the peculiar colour of the fruit, seemed to
have undergone little alteration. When the fruit, however,
is very pulpy, as in Solanum Lycopersicum, or lemons and
oranges, a solution of salt is comparatively inapplicable,
because the fruit shrivels by exosnosis of its fluids, and di-
luted pyroligneous acetic acid is found to be preferable.--,
Gardeners' Journal.

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" TAPPING." COFFINS—It is well known 1,
in buryingpaithe dead, that when leaden coffins are employed,
the
ve force of the gas, and the consequent bulging
out
of the coffin, compels the workmen frequently to " tap"
exsi
it that the gas may escape. The " tapping" is performed
by boring a hole with a gimblet •, a jet of gas instantly
passes through the aperture, and this, when ignited, pro-
duces a flame that lasts from ten minutes to half an hour.
The men who perform this operation are perfectly aware of
the risk they encounter, and they are extremely careful how
they execute it.—G. A. Walker, Esq., in Gatherings from
Grave Yards.

_ -
GEORGE 111.—In a most able but somewhat severe article
upon The Life of Lord Chatham, in the last nnmher of the
Quarterly
Review, the writer pays the following just tribute
to the memory of this best of kings :—" This publication will
raise--even with those who already admired and reverenced
George 111.—the reputation of that excellent man and wise
sovereign. His confidential communications with Lord Chat-
ham will convince the public of what was already known to
all who had seen any portion of his majesty's correspondence
with his official servants—his sound knowledge and zealous
pursuit of the great interests of his country—his love of his
people—his reverence of the constitution—the total absence
of all selfish principles, and the sacrifice, when the public i-
terests required it, of all personal" partialities—his owl'
scientious diligence and accuracy in business, tempe-
gracious indulgence towards others—a court --
which never was shaken, and a temper which, unm„
verest trials, never permitted itself to be disturbed.
THE UNGKA PUTI.—The animal which rejoices in this
strange name, and which may be seen at the Egyptian-hall,
London, was brought to this country in the June of last year
from Macao, where it had been located for nearly four years ;
but of what portion of the globe it is a " native" is not known.
It is endowed with extraordinary agility, aud, though appa-
rently slight and slender, possesses great muscular power.
This animal is able to sustain the whole weight of its body
for some minutes, by clinging with one arm to the branches
of a tree. In the place in which it is exhibited; an artificial
tree has been contrived, the branches of which are several
yards apart : the animal, however, when excited, springs from
the one to the other of these, and, catching by one hand or
claw, swings itself from one to the other with the rapidity of
a bird on the wing. The countenance is mild; there is no
ferocity, and little of the horrible grin by which baboons and
some classes of apes are distinguished. It is said that, when
this animal is strongly excited, her passion is very violent,
and that she will maintain a long contest with her keeper for
the mastery. Her food is entirely vegetable, consisting of
fruit, and a few of the smaller productions of the garden:
This animal possesses very wonderful instincts ; indeed, so
wonderful, that it would almost appear she acts from the im.
pulse of reason, and not from the mechanism of material
oltaniiation.

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