Three giraffes have arrivel for the Sorry Zoological Gardens ; one
of them is fifteen feet in height. They were nikett in the plains of Dongola, and NOIlle A hyssiebois attend 011 them.
The Duke of Bedford ha: signilied his intention of presenting to the Russell Institution Ilaydores painting of Xenophon.
Cot:kelt:If:Ts, it appears, are likely to bt'CLII11e a new article of com- merce. A society, formed at Quedlitiburg., has had nearly nineteen millions of these insects canelit for the purpose of extracting oil from them. An essay of this kind has betel made in I Iiii!gary, by which three measures of oil are obtained from eight mcasiircs of cockchafers. The insects arc placea in earthen pots, which are covered with straw or a cloth of metal wire, which are then turned up over it heated vessel destined to receive the oil that comes from them. Their ell is good for greasing, wheels.—French A terrible event took place lately, at St. Petersburg, on occasion of a wedding. After the ei remony, the bridegroom was standing be the side of the bride, at the door of the church, waiting for their carriage, when a man rushed through the crowd and stabbed him with a dagger. It was a colonel, whose sister had been seduced by the bridegroom under a promise of marriage.— Tirees.
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