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 harpsi

chord.

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

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

"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.

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The French army, under the command of Buonaparte, Emperor of France, took possession of Moscow, after several engage ments 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 Iindoo 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, Siyah, 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. 104.

HOSPITAL of Sultaun Bayazed at Adrianople, with a medical academy.

There were eight rooms here, which “are ever full of sick people, poor and rich. In

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.

WHY a physician should be chearful.- | duces death by attrition, and that therefore EUPHUES his England, Q. e.