Paste for dressing Webs.-It is well known that weavers are obliged to work in damp shops, to prevent the dressing of the web from drying and hardening. M. Dubue has read lately a Memoir before the Academy of Sciences at Rouen, on the subject of pastes, &c., in which he shews that a very minute addition of lime to them, renders them so retentive or absorbent of moisture, that webs dressed with such pastes, may be wove in the upper and drier chambers of a house, as well as in the lower and ill-aired with the usual dressing. The plan is undoubtedly judicious. Muriate of lime may be had at a very trifling expense from those apothecaries who prepare wa ter of ammonia. The waste whitening steep of the bleacher is merely a solution of muriate of lime.-Ib.

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Preservation of Milk.-The following method is recommended for the preservation of milk, either at sea or in warm climates. Provide pint or quart bottles, which must be perfectly clean, sweet, and dry; draw the milk from the cow into the bottles, and as they are filled, immediately cork them well up, and fasten the corks with packthread or wire. Then spread a little straw on the bottom of a boiler, on which place the bottles, with straw between them, until the boiler contains a sufficient quantity. it up with cold water; heat the water, and as soon as it begins to boil, draw the fire, and let the whole cool gradually. When quite cold, take out the bottles, and pack them with straw or saw-dust in hampers, and stow them in the coolest part of the ship, or in a cool place. Some years since, there was a Swedish or Danish vessel at Liverpool, having milk on board preserved in this manner; it had been carried twice to the West Indies and back to Denmark, and had been above eighteen months in the bottles; nevertheless, it was as sweet as when first taken from the cow.-New Monthly Mag.

Preservation of Cauliflowers.--These vegetables have been preserved for two or three months by digging a trench under a wall, eighteen inches wide and deep, laying in the cauliflowers with the stems inclined upwards, and covering the whole in with earth, heaping up the surface in an inclined form, so that the rain should run off.

Use of Larch Bark in Tanning.—Mr. E. Smith, from repeated trials made by himself and friends, strongly recommends the use of larch bark in tanning, not only for light calf, deer, or sheep's skins, but for stout hides; and states, that sole-leather tanned with it, and worn against other leather tanned with vallonia, resisted the wear better, and did not imbibe so much water. He then asks whether there is any further occasion for the importation of Dutch or German bark.-Journ. of Science.

Preservation of Fresco Painting.-A new process for removing frescoes from one wall to another without injury to the painting, has been devised by Signor Steffano Barezzi, of Milan. The picture is covered with a prepared canvass to which it adheres, and is thus detached from the wall. The canvass is afterwards applied to another wall, to which the painting again attaches itself without the least trait being destroyed. The practicability of this method has been successfully proved, and the inventor is now employed in transferring a large fresco from the church Della Pace, at Rome. Great expectations are entertained that he will be able thus to rescue from destruction the celebrated Cena of Leonardo da Vinci.-Mag. of Fine Arts, 474.

Green Paint.-Gas tar, mixed with yellow ochre, makes an excellent green paint, very useful for preserving coarse wood work or other articles.-Journ. of Science.

Economics.-In pulling down lately the vestry wall of a chapel, near the Lago Maggiore, which had been built more than 300 years ago, as appears by good documents, there was discovered, imbedded in the mortar of the wall, three eggs, which were found to be fresh. M. Cadet, after relating this fact, states that naturalists bring from America and India birds'-eggs, covered with a film of wax, which, after removing the wax with alcohol, may be hatched. He then talks of a man who sold eggs at the public market in Paris, which had been preserved upwards of a year in a peculiar composition. A slight layer of carbonate of lime observed on these eggs induced M. Cadet to suspect that lime-water was the preservative composition. He afterwards made experiments on this point,

the middle of the coronal aspect, at the bregma, or fontanel, between Benevolence and Firmness. Function. The sentiments of respect, reverence, and adoration. Religion, idolatry, toryism.

15. HOPE.-Situation. On each side of Veneration, under part of the frontal, and part of the parietal bones. Function. Tendency to believe in the possibility of attaining our desires. Belief, credulity.

16. IDEALITY.-Situation. Along the lower edge of the temporal ridge of the frontal bone, above Acquisitiveness. Function. The feeling of exquisiteness and perfectibility. Sensations of sublime and beautiful. Fine Arts. Enthusiasm.

WONDER.-Situation. Above Ideality. Function. Sensations of novelty, surprise, astonishment. News, mystery, supernatural agency.

17. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS.-Situation. On the posterior and lateral parts of the coronal surface of the brain, above Cautiousness, behind Hope. Function. Feelings of right and wrong. Justice. Duty.

18. FIRMNESS. Situation. At the posterior part of the coronal surface of the head, close upon the middle line, between Self-Esteem and Veneration. Function. To produce determination, constancy, perseverance, and fortitude. Decision of character, obstinacy, stubbornness, infatuation.

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19. INDIVIDUALITY.-Situation. the middle of the lower part of the forehead, or brow, below Comparison, Nos. Function. 1 and 2. The desire and ability to know facts and things. Philosophy, science, metaphor.

20. FORM.-Situation. Between the eyes; the degrees of this organ correspond to the greater or less developement of brain, situate on the mesial, or inner side of the orbitary plates of the frontal bone, on each side of the crista galli. Function. To judge of form, to distinguish faces. Imitative arts.

21. SIZE. Situation. Above the eyes; below Locality. Function. Facility in estimating size. Perspective. Situa22. WEIGHT OR RESISTANCE. tion. Above the eyes; next Size. Function. To judge of the weight, resistance, or momentum of bodies. chanics.

27. NUMBER.-Situation. of the eye-brow is either much pressed downward, or there is an elevation at the external angle of the orbit, next Order. Function. The conception of number and its relations. Arithmetic, algebra, logarithms. Situation. 28. TUNE. In the lateral part of the forehead, between Constructiveness and Wit. Function. The perception of melody. Taste for music.

29. LANGUAGE.-Situation. In the eyes. Function. Faculty of acquiring the knowledge and the use of language. Style, volubility, verbal memory.

30. COMPARISON.-Situation. In the upper and middle portion of the frontal bone, between Benevolence and Individuality. Function. Power of perceiving resemblances, similitudes, analogies, and coincidences. Reasoning by comparison, proverbs, parables.

31. CAUSALITY.-Situation. In the upper part of the frontal bone, on each side of Comparison. Function. Desire to discover causes and their connection with effects. Deep penetration, genius for metaphysics, political economy, and similar sciences. Speculation, abstraction.

32. WIT.-Situation. In the anterior-superior-lateral parts of the forehead, between Causality and Tune. Function. Disposition to view objects in a ludicrous light. Humour, joke, satire, epigrams.

33. IMITATION.-Situation. In the superior-anterior portion of the head, on the two sides of Benevolence, rising up in the form of a segment of a circle. Function. The power of imitation in Found in artists, players, painters, sculptors, engravers, &c.

23. COLOURING.-Situation. Above the eyes; next Weight. Function. Το perceive colours. Painting, dyeing, &c.

The general developement of each of these 34 organs, now described, is, by a protuberance, or prominence in that part

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of the head where it is situated, and the relative proportion which that protuberance, or prominence, bears to the rest of the skull, and the adjoining organs. When the organs are immoderately large, it leads to their abuse, according to Phrenologists.

The map of the head, containing the. situations of the organs, as denoted by the number of each in this article, will be given in our next, as it could not be got ready this week.

ORACLE OF THE ARTS.* THIS Compilation, though in a small and cheap form, contains a great deal of very curious and useful information.

will be found a great number of the most remarkable experiments, published in larger and far more expensive works, under the title of Philosophical Recreations. Such a work, therefore, cannot fail to be acceptable to the young Mechanic, in leading his mind to the study of the Sciences, from their manifest utility and adaptation to produce rational amusement. Though Science to some appears most attractive in her native purity, yet to others the extrinsic charms of a gay and alluring dress, seems necessary to draw their attention to her wonder working powers. A small work like this, which professes to initiate the young into the mysteries of art, as founded on Science, will form a first desideratum to them; and, by it, they may be led to the study of those higher, and more important works, which confer renown on their

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