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Monthly Chronicle.
General Paoli has left Corsica , and is coming to England to spend the re--mainder of his days . «• Near 40 , 000 persons in the City of London alone have lately received relief from the subscriptions entered into by the citizens . The present fashionable dress of the ladies is surely the most simple imaginable . It is nothing more than the petticoat pinned to the tucker , with the arms put through the pocket holes .
Female Recruit . —A party of recruits being brought from Oswestry , a surgeon and apothecary in Shrewsbury was applied to by the Serjeant to examine them ,-, agreeable to " custom ; on one of the recruits , apparently a very smart lad , fashionably cropt , and pretty decently dressed , being stripped , all but the shirt and small clothes , the lower part of the neck appearing too prominent through the linen , the medical gentleman closely interrogated Miss respecting her motives for imposing upon the party . She replied , " That having been turned out
ofdoors by her father , she had no other way to get a livelihood . " The gentleman then leaving the room for the girl to put on her dollies , on his return in a few minutes , found the 6 i " n ( Ji . 11111 . She had jumped out through a back window , made off , and lias not been heard of since . It seem , a drummer had slept with her one or two nights without discovering her sex . Remarkable Leap , —A horse belonging to a farmer in Deeping Fen , hunting lately with Dr . Willis ' s hounds , made a spring of seven yards in length , over
a three bar gate . M . Sartery , an Austrian engineer , has lately discovered a mode of depriving , wood of its inflammability ; an experiment of which has been made at Vienna , in presence of the commissaries of government , and the Archduke Joseph . A wooden house ; the roof of which was framed of timbers prepared by M . Sartery , was set on fire . The house was consumed , but the timbers remained uninjured . Composition of a Water vihicb will destroy Caterpillars , Ants , and other L : sects ; invenlci . by C . TATIN , Seedsman and Florist , at Paris * . FROM THE " AN . MALES DE CIUMlE . "
Take of black soap of the best quality , 1 lb . and three quarters , flowers of sulphur , - ditto . , mushrooms of any kind , _> lb . river or rain-water , - 12 gallons . Divide the water into two equal parts ; pour one part , that is to say , seven gallons and a half , into a barrel of any convenient size , which should be used only for this' purpose ; let the black soap be stirred in it till it is dissolved , and then add to it the mushrooms after they have been slightly bruised .
Let the remainderhalf of the water be made to boil in a kettle ; put the whole quantity of sulphur into a coarse open cloth , tie it up with a packthread in form of a parcel , and fasten it to a stone or other weight , of some pounds , in order to make it sink to the bottom . If the kettle is too small for the seven gallons . and a half of water to be boiled in it at once , the stiiphnr must also to divided . During twenty minutes ( being the time the boiling should continue ) stir it well with a slick' and let the packet of sulphur be squeezedso as to
, , make it yield to the water all its power and colour . The effect ofthe water is not rend , red more powerful by increasing the quantity of ingredients . The water , when taken off the fire , is to be poured into the barrel , where it is to be stirred for a short time with a stick ; this stirring must be repeated every day until the mixture becomes fetid in the highest degree . Experience shews , that the older and the more foeiid the composition is , the more quick is
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
General Paoli has left Corsica , and is coming to England to spend the re--mainder of his days . «• Near 40 , 000 persons in the City of London alone have lately received relief from the subscriptions entered into by the citizens . The present fashionable dress of the ladies is surely the most simple imaginable . It is nothing more than the petticoat pinned to the tucker , with the arms put through the pocket holes .
Female Recruit . —A party of recruits being brought from Oswestry , a surgeon and apothecary in Shrewsbury was applied to by the Serjeant to examine them ,-, agreeable to " custom ; on one of the recruits , apparently a very smart lad , fashionably cropt , and pretty decently dressed , being stripped , all but the shirt and small clothes , the lower part of the neck appearing too prominent through the linen , the medical gentleman closely interrogated Miss respecting her motives for imposing upon the party . She replied , " That having been turned out
ofdoors by her father , she had no other way to get a livelihood . " The gentleman then leaving the room for the girl to put on her dollies , on his return in a few minutes , found the 6 i " n ( Ji . 11111 . She had jumped out through a back window , made off , and lias not been heard of since . It seem , a drummer had slept with her one or two nights without discovering her sex . Remarkable Leap , —A horse belonging to a farmer in Deeping Fen , hunting lately with Dr . Willis ' s hounds , made a spring of seven yards in length , over
a three bar gate . M . Sartery , an Austrian engineer , has lately discovered a mode of depriving , wood of its inflammability ; an experiment of which has been made at Vienna , in presence of the commissaries of government , and the Archduke Joseph . A wooden house ; the roof of which was framed of timbers prepared by M . Sartery , was set on fire . The house was consumed , but the timbers remained uninjured . Composition of a Water vihicb will destroy Caterpillars , Ants , and other L : sects ; invenlci . by C . TATIN , Seedsman and Florist , at Paris * . FROM THE " AN . MALES DE CIUMlE . "
Take of black soap of the best quality , 1 lb . and three quarters , flowers of sulphur , - ditto . , mushrooms of any kind , _> lb . river or rain-water , - 12 gallons . Divide the water into two equal parts ; pour one part , that is to say , seven gallons and a half , into a barrel of any convenient size , which should be used only for this' purpose ; let the black soap be stirred in it till it is dissolved , and then add to it the mushrooms after they have been slightly bruised .
Let the remainderhalf of the water be made to boil in a kettle ; put the whole quantity of sulphur into a coarse open cloth , tie it up with a packthread in form of a parcel , and fasten it to a stone or other weight , of some pounds , in order to make it sink to the bottom . If the kettle is too small for the seven gallons . and a half of water to be boiled in it at once , the stiiphnr must also to divided . During twenty minutes ( being the time the boiling should continue ) stir it well with a slick' and let the packet of sulphur be squeezedso as to
, , make it yield to the water all its power and colour . The effect ofthe water is not rend , red more powerful by increasing the quantity of ingredients . The water , when taken off the fire , is to be poured into the barrel , where it is to be stirred for a short time with a stick ; this stirring must be repeated every day until the mixture becomes fetid in the highest degree . Experience shews , that the older and the more foeiid the composition is , the more quick is