The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-11-02
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VARIETIES
L IIER.NRY q PHILOSOPHICAL.
(raoM THE LONDON MONTHLY MAG AaIxE,
FOR APRIL, 1901 ~


A correspondent of The Philosophical Iour.
nal states, that csmphor is contained in conside.
rabie proportion in the seeds of carraway Ito
of seed yielding about a ounces of oil, and an
ounce of camphor. -,
GERMANY.
, The catalogue books which appeared M the
last Easter fair at Leipsic, includes in the whole
two Thousand articles, among which are fone
hundred and twenty eight novels, fifty Theatrical
pieces, and between three and four hundred
TRANSACTIONS ,,>-' - :.
"A German author, in work lately published.
states the following curious fact "A person
hayng an artlficiai magnet suspended from tie
wall OF his study, with piece OF iron adherinv to
It, remarked, for several years, that the aies in
the room though thev freqnently alifhtcd on q.
ther IRON articles, never settled on the artifcia
magnet and even that, if any of those insects so
Proachsd it, they again in moment removed to
some distance. II is worth the trouble, ~
says professor Voigt, who repeats this crcum-
stance IN his Journal, ''to make further obser
vations on this phenomenon I; anil were it con
hrmed, mhgnetised iron might be emploved Il tn
preserve It from being soiled by fies, & perhaps
also for other purposes
NJ. LANpApIus, of Freiberg, has discovered
method of condensing vapours in d;stil,at;onl
more rapidly than has yet been done. This Is
accomplished by means ola disk, attached to the
tube OF the still, which has the figure Of a lens
fistsened as much rs possible, s is made, Of COZ,
per. II produces much better effect than
the worms hitherto employed for that purpose.
Nj SRtrNRR has, by the aid 'of various sub
stances, extracted from the green shells of horse
chesnuts very beautiful yellow and brown co.
iors, and the latter in the diversity of hucs They
are found TO stand both on wooliens and siIk.
though the stufis have been wetted an, w,,ng
out, and some Of them even washed in caus,ie
liquids.
cHKisrossER HEERra. organ, builder, at
Sottesbuhren, in Westphaiia, has invented a
loom, which performs all the operations of itself.
without the intervention ofthe weaver, it sets
the tread'es in motion, throws the shuttle. and
stops 1t at the opposite side; loosens the web.
when certain portion is finished, aud winds
the cloth upon the axle. Every thing is kept in
proper order. and the piece of stuff. when, fin
Ished, is smoothed. An index, attached to the
machine, shows at any time the number of ellis
that are woven. This machine has az We, oply
been exhibited on small scale to connois
seurs, and has obtained the highest approba.
ton.
| Many ladies Of Munich have learned ,o hi,
without needles. The inventor of this art i. NJ
NELLlsEN, native ofthe county of Limburr
who teaches 1t himself IN the BsvariaA capital
II is, however, yet very imperfect as, by this
method, they can only knit breadthwise. and
not circul1ely,
we have already noticed the experiments of
air AS his weight exceeded the power of the
machinery with which he effected this. by mir.
ty'four pounds, he conceived the idea Of comb;
ning with it an air balloon, imagining that \,
means OF the latter, he could be subported IN
the air, and at the same time have il sufficiently
uhder ms command The experiments which
ne made with it, towards the conclusion of last
year, IN the Prater, before numerous COMPANY
were completely successful He flew at plea-
sure IN all directions raised and lowered him
self; and the balloon followed him spontaneous.
~ whichever way he turned The diameter of
the latter was nineteen feet five inches After
deducting the weight of Degen and his fyinp
machine, the ballooH poss ssed no wer equal fo
thirty two nannds
The successes ofthe French armies. and their
long residence in Germany, have procured them
an advantage which they formerly dispensed
with IN their victories, but Of which they will
not fail to avail themselves in their future mil;,,rv
enterprises They have put them IN possession
OF map OF Germany, SURPRISING all It's prede
cessors in perfection and accuracy Hanover
was surveyed by EpaiIlu, chiefs battalion. i'm
mediaiely after its occupation by the corps of
Mortier. In Brsndenburg & Silesia, the French
had two years time to collect the requisite touo
graphical information and it is not Improbable
that the beautiful maps of several provinces.
drawn up by order ofthe Prussian government.
hyae fallen into their hands, as their entrance
iato Berlin was so sudden, that great quantity
OF important papers aud valuable effects could not
be secreted. Saxony caused portion of its
states TO be surveyed every year at the request
OF the French government, the work has been for
some years accelerated & the court of Dire sdan
has made such communications as were REQUIRED
Ii is believed, that the same has been done ,byDen
mark, in regard to the duchy of Holstein. and
perhaps OF the whole Cimbrian peninsula The
French government has caused not onl, Che nor
tbernmosL provinces of Germany to the North
Sea and Baltic, but likewise the cousties at Stol
berg, sud the duchies of Weimar, Coburq. Me
inungen Hildourghausen, &c. TO be SURVEYED bv
engineers. II probably possesses ever rnaterii
ais of tine former circle Of Frazconia but II il
possible that the grand duke of Virtzbure mar
have furnished information, 20 extend the tooo
graphical knowledge of those countries --Of
Swabla and Upper Austria, the reographical
bureau at Paris has beautiful manuscript man
Bavaria has been surveyed for some time and
he map of the Tyro is already engraved and
sosd al Paris. IL respect to Austria alone the
urteiiais ere perhaps rather scanty, as the French
have emaned there too short time to undertake
extensive measurements. 1t is concluded. thai
tins large aud complete map will he given to he
public, irOn the circumstance that Suabia has
already been engraved at Paris
A remarkably large parabolic lens was recent
iy purchased at Vienna, for the French govern
ment. Ii was made at Crate, in Syria, by Ros
pine, celebrated mecbanist,i for some alchc
mists IL was not cast, but sptte1sl by heaf, an
bent over parsbolic mould Several pieces
were broken before he succeeded: so that Il
cost originally from 800 to 1900 guineas It is
three feet three inches in diameter, and of eight
feet four inches focus; composed Of two pieces