New MUSICAL Coucn.—An ingenious Swiss mechanic has invented a kind
of couch, which is inflated by air, and converted to a musical purpose. The tones are produced by the pressure of the body upon the couch. To the sleepless invalid, or the lover of an afternoon nap, it is described as being a very desirable acquisition. By setting a piece of clockwork-machinery, soft and soothing airs will be heard,—music of a kind to lull to sleep. By another arrangement of the machinery, it can be made to act as an alarum—producing, at any given hour, mili- tary music, or airs of an enlivening kind.
MUsEum IN THE BRECIA.—The new museum, for antiquities and other works of art which has long been carrying on here under the direction
of Signor art, Jorm, is at length completed. It is very rich in votive figures, and monumental and other inscriptions, which are admirably arranged in three spacious galleries. The building is formed from the ruins of an ancient temple, of which the principal walls have been preserved by the erection of an outer wall calculated to bear the whole stress of the new workmanship.
A Tancut-Uraveasrry.—An eminent tailor, of Augsburg, of the name Of NIEDERGESCES, has lately founded a large and handsome-establishment for the education of young tailors only. For a very moderate sum they are initiated into all the mysteries of the needle and the shears, and in the space of three months are fit to be turned out as -sound and orthodox workmen.
ICERTsCifIN THE SOUTH Or Russia.—A discovery has been recently made here of several interesting objects of Grecian antiquity, consisting of ten small statues, six vases of terra colts, and a number of female ornaments. But the most interesting of these remains is a small group in marble, of exquisite workmanship, representing Venus newly risen from the sea, with two cupids by her side, one mounted on a dolphin, the other on a swan. They have been purchased by the government, and placed in the museum at Odessa.
Cos.rume.—A Chinese merchant was lately seen parading the streets of Brussels in his national costume. At Ghent, two young Arabs are frequently seen amusing themselves in the streets, and joining in the games of the children of the place. They are about thirteen of fourteen years of age, and were sent by the viceroy of Egypt to learn the watch- making business.
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