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species , and certain birds ' -nests , with great gusto . Montaigne , in his Essay on Custom and Law , * says : — " I believe Plato ' s Care in his Bepublic and the Physicians , who so often submit the reasons of their art to the authorities of habit ; as also the story of that king , who by custom brought his stomach ' to
that pass , as to live by poison ; and the maid that Albertus reports to have lived upon spiders ; and in that new world of the Indies , there were found great nations , and in very different climates , who were of the same diet , made provision of them , and fed them for their tables ; as also they did grasshoppers , mice , bats , and lizards ; and in a time of a scarcity of such rarities , a toad was sold for six crowns , all which they cook , and dish up with several sauces . "
" Honour is like that glasse ' s bubble That finds philosophers such trouble , Whose least part crack'd the whole does fly , And wits are crack'd to find out why . " Clarke mentions these glass-drops in his travels , which are known as " Rupert ' s drops" ( lacrymce Batavicce ) , because they were first
brought over from Grermany by that prince , who devoted the latter years of his life to the prosecution of chemical and other useful inventions . The drops were shown , we are told in Eae ' s " Cyclopedia , " to King Charles II ., and he communicated them to the Royal Society , who appointed a committee to examine them , and endeavour to account philosophically for the phenomenon . The pure green
glass , it appears , when dropped in a state of fusion into water , cools rapidly upon the surface , and the particles , previously in a state of repulsion , are brought within the power of each other ' s attraction . "When air is admitted by breaking off the tail of the " glassy bubble , " the condensed particles expand , and , with a slight explosion , the glass-drop is suddenly converted into a fine
powder . "Whether the Egyptians ever discovered this or not , may be a subject for speculation . Three thousand five hundred years ago , the Egyptians knew how to blow and colour glass , as may be seen in the hieroglyphical representations of glass-blowers , two of which are given in Ellis ' s " Chemistry of Creation , " an interesting work published by the Christian Knowledge Society .
They might distinguish different noise Of horns and pans , and dogs and boys , " & c . This refers to a procession in which the husband who had beaten his wife , or the wife who had belaboured her husband , was publicly exposed . At Alton , Hants , we have heard this " rough music , " as it is termed , played by the boyish populace round the cottage of some offenders . We have heard once the discord in the village of Crawley , Hants ; in which there was a procession of boys , who , with sheep-bells and old kettles filled with stones , walked up and down the street , thus publicly proclaiming the offence committed . We * Montaigne ' Essays , vol . i . p . X 10 ,
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species , and certain birds ' -nests , with great gusto . Montaigne , in his Essay on Custom and Law , * says : — " I believe Plato ' s Care in his Bepublic and the Physicians , who so often submit the reasons of their art to the authorities of habit ; as also the story of that king , who by custom brought his stomach ' to
that pass , as to live by poison ; and the maid that Albertus reports to have lived upon spiders ; and in that new world of the Indies , there were found great nations , and in very different climates , who were of the same diet , made provision of them , and fed them for their tables ; as also they did grasshoppers , mice , bats , and lizards ; and in a time of a scarcity of such rarities , a toad was sold for six crowns , all which they cook , and dish up with several sauces . "
" Honour is like that glasse ' s bubble That finds philosophers such trouble , Whose least part crack'd the whole does fly , And wits are crack'd to find out why . " Clarke mentions these glass-drops in his travels , which are known as " Rupert ' s drops" ( lacrymce Batavicce ) , because they were first
brought over from Grermany by that prince , who devoted the latter years of his life to the prosecution of chemical and other useful inventions . The drops were shown , we are told in Eae ' s " Cyclopedia , " to King Charles II ., and he communicated them to the Royal Society , who appointed a committee to examine them , and endeavour to account philosophically for the phenomenon . The pure green
glass , it appears , when dropped in a state of fusion into water , cools rapidly upon the surface , and the particles , previously in a state of repulsion , are brought within the power of each other ' s attraction . "When air is admitted by breaking off the tail of the " glassy bubble , " the condensed particles expand , and , with a slight explosion , the glass-drop is suddenly converted into a fine
powder . "Whether the Egyptians ever discovered this or not , may be a subject for speculation . Three thousand five hundred years ago , the Egyptians knew how to blow and colour glass , as may be seen in the hieroglyphical representations of glass-blowers , two of which are given in Ellis ' s " Chemistry of Creation , " an interesting work published by the Christian Knowledge Society .
They might distinguish different noise Of horns and pans , and dogs and boys , " & c . This refers to a procession in which the husband who had beaten his wife , or the wife who had belaboured her husband , was publicly exposed . At Alton , Hants , we have heard this " rough music , " as it is termed , played by the boyish populace round the cottage of some offenders . We have heard once the discord in the village of Crawley , Hants ; in which there was a procession of boys , who , with sheep-bells and old kettles filled with stones , walked up and down the street , thus publicly proclaiming the offence committed . We * Montaigne ' Essays , vol . i . p . X 10 ,