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Easy mode of Fineoedging Razor . On learned and acute surgeon on Saturday, in at the rate of six or seven pounds per hour." , rough side of a. strap of leather, 'or the the presence of nearly two hundred persons, An interesting narrative is on record, of a

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ro dressed calf skin binding of a hoe “ply including medical prdfessors of the highest ship’s crew, who were exposed for seven] It iece oftin, or a common pewter spoon, celebs-it ,noblemen and gentlemen of rank, days in an open boat; they had consumed 3'“ r halfa minute, or until the leather be- and We llknown scientific and literary cha- all their water ; they had no fluid of any 3:, mes glossy with the metal. If the razor racters. Before the commencement ofthe kind which they could drink ; they soon

passed over this leather about a dozen operation, Mr- Pettigrew, in brief, detail to began to suffer from thirst; their feelings at mes. it will acquire a finer edge than by the audience all that he had been enabled length became intolerable, and the drinking

Eli y other method. - to collect from ancient authors relating to of sea-water was soon found to increase it 33 I — the embalment by the Romans and the E- to intensity. When nearly exhausted. they w‘ Ibrahim Pacha. Ihad some conversa- gyptiansiu the early ages. Herodotus and were exposed during several hours, to a

nthis morning with a Polish gentleman, Uiodorus Siculus were the writers particu- heavy shower of rain. As soon as their ho was attached to the stafl‘of the French larly quoted by the professor ; but their clothes became thoroughly wet, their thirst ‘ommander-in Chiefin the expedition to information was not c0nfirmed by the open- began to abate ; and before the rain had. reece in the year I897. He says that ing ofthis mummy. One hour and a half ceased their thirst was gone. They did not rahim Pacha is not the son ofthe Viceroy was occupied in bursting the bandages and fail to profit by this experience. From Egypt, but is the son of the wife of the unfolding the cere-cloth before the shape, this time each man, as soon as he began to iceroy, previous to her present marriage. form and substance ofthe mummy became feel thirsty, dipped his shirt into the sea-- hat he is about forty-five years ot‘age, of apparent. The result however, was quite water, and wore it next his skin, which had iddle size, and very much marked with successful. The feet. toes, and toe-nails, the invariable effect of removing his thirst. esmall pox. He speaks French and Ita- were perfect. The flesh was even soft ; the absorbents taking up the particles of 'an fluently, and has a correct knowledge the hands and arms were not crossed on water, but rejecting the saline matter dis- fthe history of every Eurbpean power. the breast, as we were told is sometimes solved in it.—Har§ford Con. Review.

Iy friend related several anecdotes of]- the case, but lay close to each side. The rahim, among others the following :—-At hean was perfect, Ofa Nd 0010’: and the breakfast given by Marshal MaiSOn, a hair ofthe head light. It was amale mum- N 0 T I C E. w days previous to his departure from my; and in every essential uninjured by hereby EiVen- “‘3‘ allpersons indebted reece, Ibrahim was placed opposite to time, although it is supposed to have exist- to the Estate of Henry Loggie, late of New 6 RUSSian Admiral Heydcn. The Rus- ed ConSiderably more than 9,000 years.— London,y'eoman,deceased; are requested forth' 'an in the course of conversation, express- The body had been gilded from head to with to pay the amount of their respective d his conviction that a few years of liberty foot, which was said to denote a person of debts to the undersigned; otherwise pm- ould produce agreat effect in Greece. rank. Mr. Pettigrew promised further il- ceeding; at Law will bcimmediately com- he Egyptian for some time examined the lustrations on this interesting SUbjeCt--— menced for the recovery thereof.

ountenance of the Admiral with a scruti- Falmouth paper.

'ce izino' eye and turnin to his dra'oman he ‘ AdTin'flf-‘to'

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h hserved, ‘ I‘he word liberty came with a Educatzon.-—On this subject, as on most THOMASBILLING of the said

' ery bad grace from a Russian otiicer.’ At others, strange notions have been enter- Henr Log- Oih? I the same table tained in the worldz—that nothing in a mind New London March 14. gle. eceased. ith t e ' _ g- 7...;

tout-1‘; F5111 :ireg “winds-nei- than anythino‘ ' or, that if seme- a Spanish order. lhral z thing must be there, W

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Im not b quainted with the decora- ter supplied by chance than by design, as

on, ask the colonel to what nation it if fortime were wisdomssurest guide. But TO LET-

, ‘ ' ' . a , s, - u ' n i - - r . , elonged. ‘t recened n, says Pandmre, nothing wall not keqp its hold in any T H I S Estabhshment h“ been Q '

rom the .of the Kinv ofSiain.’ I- mind. Beit as it may with s we nature . rahim wit refit vivacity,9 and rlising from endures no vacuum in minds. pThe mind is d bio-"o. buoy?! 3; “1t?! firstcpgbl'c 1:23?» he table addressed the colonel. “I cannot a field in which, so sure as man SOWS not a“ ,. Fit. 1, ap e f or . etha Iclmlgo 11": onceivertSir,” said he, “ how you can re- wheat, so sure will the devil be to sow tares. 0f hale "9 0 any m e s an oncile your want of cansistency in mm Another tsitrange ntotion, ifanother itlmay ilitar career. You mrched into S ain he terme , which ias been'entertaine ——as . . . . . o destzoy'a constitution. ,the necessitypfor if there were a repugnancy between moral- a Publf: litstaiihst'Talia,eiegugtgéreflgx hich was apparent to all Europe. and .ity and letters, as if the Mlth ofthe afl'ec- care morale" lon’einfo: 3 km succession ished for by the peOple themselves ; and tious and moral faculties depended in this P? tonaoe I: gsv'lthan he cang Emil), de_ ow you are prepared to give a constitution rank of life. more than any other. upon the 0 3 8211‘s.?“ "alignment Th: Hon-:6 is o a people who know not the worth of it. norbid state of the inteliectual--letters, it W e O l “d. degd'so wé" known b the . on may sir, be a brave man; but [am has been said. may be an instrument of Pang; at" .m th. "‘ace and was: eh ‘ nclined to think fighting is a mere matter fraud ; so Hwy bread, if discharged from n 3.1 shmt” 133,.pv.siti’no it as to “26‘ fpecuniary calculation to .vou.”—-Fr0m a the mouth ma . union, he an instrument of fins '3" n: animent ' “re I’auildin was I Correspondent of the JlLrning Herald. death.—-Belli/lt" - t‘hofoutrhly deanséd 'and painted, “fer,” ' '" . 7" ' . . r ' el onths acre at the U’Wlling an Egyptian Mnm’mJ-—Ml‘ A {aCt’ Wh'ch ougm t” be made.fam'l'" gigehfiaediofhe'tii’rexntmoccupan? , There Pettigrew, of Saville-strect, purchased in to a” “:h‘) 30 down m ti": 593 N Ships, and Is also, attached to the premises, 3 lug. a recent sale of Egyptian antiquities, at d0 busmess 0“ the greaiucep- Ginger, we“ stocked with avariet’ ofFl-w't {if Sotheby’s, in Wellington-street, a mum- . To allay Thirst—Mairfacts testify the Trees_ ’ Terms and other Partially! " my, singularly bandaged, and said to be action of cutaneous or external absorption. made know on appucafion on the men“, ,2 . ' embalmed in the time of the Romans. This It is proved by direct e: pcriment that the A lane portion of Bedding and Famiuy,.,; ummy, Mr. Pettigrew transferred to the human hand is capable of imbibing, in a is letfifliththe Premises. ew Charing-cross Hospital, near the quarter ofan hour. an ounce anda half of J I 1838 )4“ trend, where it was unrolled by the very warm water, which for the whole body, is Charlotte“ Tow“: “M a ' ’ 3

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