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well laſhed together with Jay-cord, covered with canvaſs, and painted in oil, ſo as'to make it water-proof; when it is wanted, it'is to be ſlid from the feet cloſe up under the arms, and' to be faſtened over each hovlder by means of tapes or cords."A perſon thus equipped may[ſafely truſt himſelf to th& waves, for be will float head and ſhoulders aboye water in any ſtorm, and by paddling with his hands may eaſily gain the ſhore,"'"' iui EEE “An economic bedſtead has juſt been invented at Paris, the idea of which is dueto Count Rumford."M. Deleſſert has made ſeveral, and the Philanthro: Pic Society has publiſhed a deſcription of them, and diſtributed copies of it at their meeting on thejgth of April laſt."This bedſtead, when"complete; Colts, at Paris, fixteen francs. It is made in ſuch a manner that there is no occaſion either for bed, mattreſs, or bedclothes. It may be truned vp in the day time againſt a wall, in order to make r0om, and may be uſed as a ſeat ör even 2 cheit. It is always clean and harbours no vermin. It may be employ- ed in(chools, in great manufad&ories, barracks, priſons, houſes of corre&ion, &c. Models of it häve been made in order to fecilitate the conſtrution, ' The Society of Sciences and Arts at Grenoble, lately, held an extraor- dinary public meeting. Among the letters addreſſed to the ſociety, and read by the Jecretary, was one from M. Chaix, ſub prefe& of Briancon, contain« ing a memoir' on a new inftrumentof his invention called Panoramagraph, intended for drawing perſpettive; another from M. Lornet, deſcribing a new kind of fire engine, a atodel of which he exhibited in the hall of the Louvre. In the making of this machine he has availed himſelf of tlie öbervations of M. Daſic, and M Bowin, of Grenoble, both members of the ſociety:
The Society" of'Agrieulture and Commerce of Caen laſt ſpring reſolving to invite the artiſts and manufa&urers of Calvadas to exhibit ſuch vf their Productions as were moſt intereſting to the arts and commerce in a place pre- pared for that purpoſe.“'The prefe& approved of this patriotic plän' ofthe Society, and on the 2;th Germinal the ball of exhibition was opened to the public, which ſaw with fatisfattion the multitune of curious and valuable objeds produced by the induſtry'of'the town of Caen, and the department in general.''
On the 2 zth of Aprilthis fociety met in the ſame place, where the exhibi- tion bad been held: Nine flver medals were diſtributed among the artiſts and manytadturers who appeared to the Judges to deſerve diſtin&tion or par? ticular encourägeinent. One was given to the inventor of an artificial leg to replace the loſs of a leg or thigh. This contrivante is at once ſimple and Solid.“ There motions'of the knee and foot pertfedt1y imitate thoſe of nature 3 in a word the Whole is an excellent imitation of the natural leg.
A gun-maker obtained another for the great number of workmen whom he continually employs,«reime 34.71 A?
A tanner receivedthe ſame encouragement,
Two lace-weavers attraded'the'attention.of the jndges; one for having executed a robe and lünic in a very beautitul Jace; the other M. St. Jauvre, for his admirable'patterns, and the beauty'of his work.
Medals were"likrwiſe decreed to th& porcelain' manufattory, which ſuc-
ceſfsfully rival all the other'in France; ty a manufa&urer of Li ieux and a citizen of Fulcnise;'to the latter for having introduced into rhe department manufacture of a partichlar kind of-handkerchief. Thetalt was adjudged tö 2 ltoeking.manufa&ure for the good quality and beauty of the articles pro- duced-byhim;: H EARDLERE EO 754473 Wt/ "His Majeſty the King of Pruſſia has honoured M. Cadet Devavux with a letter relativeto the application which hid had Propoſtd of bones for different branches of alimentary economy. His Majelty likewite tranlmitred him a medalwith his!portrait, and the Inſcription, Scicutiaram et lizlerarum incyre- I1ENiO, 2 2