Here may be a communication,— and perhaps a war of world against world!

DOTHEL FIGLIO, a celebrated performer on the German flute, is said to have slit his tongue in order that he might excel all others in what is called double-tonguing.

THORNET ARBEAU, canon of Langres, | bodies. wrote a treatise called Orchesographia, and the art of expressing a dance by characters like music, was practised after his time. Beauchamps so much improved it, that he was pronounced the inventor by a decree of the French parliament. And, in 1775, Mr. Steel published an essay in which he undertook to record in his notation how Garrick played his principal parts. Choregraphy, however, as it was called, prevailed for half a century, and Dr. Burney tells us he learnt to dance by it—at least under a dancing-master by whom it was used.

SIGNORA CORNARO-PISCOPIA. It was proposed to give her a seat among the doctors of theology, at Padua; this the Bishop opposed; but she was made a doctor in philosophy, 1678, in the cathedral of that city.

THE craw-fish discharges itself of its stomach, and, as M. Geoffroy thinks, of its intestines also. These, as they putrify and dissolve, serve for food to the animal; during the time of the reformation, the old stomach seems to be the first food which the new one digests.

SEVENTY-TWO kinds of cross in heraldry. -Cycl. See them named.

"THE panther is so greedy of men's excrements, that if they be hanged up in a vessel higher than his reach, he sooner kills himself with the overstretching of his windless body than he will cease from his intended enterprize." Quære?

A HOT iron for warming old men's feet is called a Damsel, or Nun. I have named Mrs. Coleridge's bottle, therefore, the Friar.

IN beating the drum there is the roll, the swell, the flam, and the ruffle, &c. See Cycl.

THE Romans used to breed up boys for dwarfs by inclosing them in a box, or binding them with bandages.

ENEOREMA, those parts of the urine which float about in the middle resembling a cloud, formed, according to Boerhaave, chiefly of muriatic salt.

'EVTEλEXɛía, term by which Aristotle defines the soul, and which has so puzzled all critics and commentators, that Hermolaus Barbarus is said to have consulted the devil about it. He renders it— perfectihabia; and somebody need consult the devil to explain this also.

CONSIDERING the matter entitatively, that is to say, secundum entitatem.

ERMESIA, a mixture of honey, myrrh, saffron, and palm-wine, beaten together, and taken mixed in milk, to make people beget handsome children. An ancient prescription.

DR. SMITH named a plant Goodenia, in honour of the Bishop of Carlisle, not recollecting that Goodenovia would have been nearer the original and equally unexceptionable. But he constructed the former -so called when the heart after the example of Tournefus, "who not

COLTIE timber,is loose, and slips out.

DOUBLE stars, so near each other as to appear one; and it requires the strongest glasses to ascertain that they are two distinct

without much consideration, contrived to form Gundelia out of Gundelscheimer."

GUN barrels (the twisted sort) made of old horse-shoe nails.

ABOUT the beginning of George the Third's reign, the guitar was so much in vogue as nearly to break all the harpsichord and spinet makers; and indeed the harpsichord masters themselves. All the ladies disposed of their harpsichords at auctions for one third of their price, or exchanged them for guitars; till old Kirkman, the harpsichord maker, after almost ruining himself with buying in his instruments for better times, purchased likewise some cheap guitars, and made a present of several to girls in milliners' shops, and to ballad singers in the streets whom he had taught to accompany themselves, with a few chords and triplets, which soon made the ladies ashamed of their frivolous and vulgar taste, and return to the harpsichord.

THE King of England is a mixed person, say the lawyers, priest as well as prince.

THE milt of one cod fish contains one hundred and fifty thousand million animalcules!

OARISTUS or Oaristys. A Greek term for a poetical dialogue between husband and wife, of which Scaliger says that in the Sixth Iliad is the only proper ancient specimen. Upon the death of Nobbs, what a subject for one!

"THE merits and demerits of husband and wife are equally divided between them, and their fruits extend to both in a future state; as, for instance, if a wife perform many meritorious works, and the husband die first, he will enjoy heaven as the fruit of his wife's good works; and if the wife be guilty of many wicked actions, and the husband die first, he must go to hell for the sins of his wife. In the apprehensions of a Hindoo, therefore, marriage ought to be a very serious business."-WARD, vol. 2, p. 48.

"THE juta is the hair behind, which is suffered to grow by the Sunyasees, till it is sometimes three, four, and even five cubits long. They mix ashes with it till it is as hard as a rope, and then tie it round their

A FINE specimen of adequate style.-Cycl. head like a turban."-Ibid. p. 123. Moscow.

"The French army, under the command of Buonaparte, Emperor of France, took possession of Moscow, after several engagements with the Russians, 14th September, 1812, but the place was previously set on fire by order of the Governor, and so much desolated that it afforded no satisfactory accommodation for the Emperor and his troops. After enhancing the distress of the city and its vicinity, the French were under a necessity of abandoning the city, and making their retreat homeward!"

MORHOFF mentions a certain Dutchman of the name of Petter who broke a glass by the sound of his voice.

THE sense of smell supposed to have been given to man for pleasure. See Cycl. Nose. Apply this to the facts respecting odours in medicine. Sebastian lay on a bed of roses, in a fever, and was cured.

A PUNDIT sent word to Ward, that the mysteries of the Hindoo astronomy lay hid in 300,000 books.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 270.

Ir is an act of merit among the Hindoos to read a book, even if you do not understand it. When a Hindu opens one of the shastrus, or even an account book, he makes a bow to it.-Ibid. vol. 4, p. 220.

WARD saw a Hindu play the flute with his nose.

FORM of concluding a letter in Hindostan: "What more shall I write ?"-or, "This."

THE Hindoos believe that a person can receive only one blessing at a time from his god. They relate a story of a man who put a trick on his guardian god, and obtained three at once he asked that he might see

PHOSPHORUS was discovered by Nicolas Brandt (or Sebastian), in a course of experiments upon urine, made with a view of extracting a fluid proper for converting silver into gold.

CUCUPHA, a cap with cephalic powders quilted therein, worn of old for such disorders as particularly affected the head.

MNEME Cephalicum Balsamum. The power of which was to preserve in the mind the memory of all things past. Charles Duke of Burgundy gave an English physician 10,000 florins for the receipt, for which SENNERTUS, Pract. lib. 1, cap. 5, is referred to. What would some princes give for an amneme, &c.-a counter balsam!

WE read in the History of the Academy of Sciences, of a musician who was cured of a violent fever by a concert at his bedside.

some of these rooms fire is lighted at winter time according to the desire of the sick, and they are fondled with silk cushions, good beds, &c. for the spring, when madness is particularly raging. The madmen sick of mystic love are seen to lie here chained like lions in their dens, looking to the basin, and speaking in the cant of Kalenders. Others dispersing in the garden amongst the flower beds, yell and shout to the song of the nightingale, without measure or art. In the season of the flowers, the sick are often cured only by the sight and smell of them; and ¦ some lose their wits by the sweet scent of them. The greater number of the madmen enchained here are love-sick, and their sight may cure those who are in danger to become mad by the number of pretty faces to be seen here. Some of the mad are cured by music; and therefore Sultaun Bayazed, the founder, established a living for some musicians, who come thrice a week and play in the winter and summer rooms to the sick and mad. The mad begin then to jump like apes at the tunes, Rast, Neva, Sigah, Bhehargah, but above all to the tunes Zeugoole and Boslik, which being accompanied by the great kettledrum gives particular pleasure to the mad. Briefly, there is no hospital (Dareshifa), and no madhouse (Bimarestaun), in the whole world like that of Adrianople. The sick and mad receive three times in four and twenty hours, not only common food, but birds and all kinds of aviary dainties from the kitchen founded for that purpose. Twice in the week the apothecary's room is opened, and medicines are distributed to all those who ask for it; preparations of cardamom, caryophils, and all kind of aromatic spices. On the door of the room a curse is written against those who without being sick should ask such But contemplation will bring on diseases, medicines, that they should fall sick immethough it cannot cure them.

THE red oil of the glass of antimonythe universal medicine of Basil, Valentine, and others, for which Kerkring has given an unintelligible process. He says he saw a confirmed dropsy cured by it, the patient swimming in his own exudations, which ran in drops through the bed upon the floor.

MONTAGNE, (vol. 8, p. 213), says it was an opinion held by some gardeners, "que les roses et violettes naissent plus odoriférantes près des aulx et des oignons, d'autant qu'ils succent et tirent à eux, ce qu'il y a de mauvaise odeur en la terre."

"Non si sanano le malatie de gli huomini con le contemplationi di medicina."— LODOVICO DOLCE, Dialogo de Memoria, ff.

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diately." EVLIA EFFENDI concludes this account with a benediction, which he frequently uses, but seldom with such propriety as in this place,-" Health to you." Vol. 3.