Sour Wine sweetened by Charcoal. MR. CREVE, of Wisbaden, has discovered a method of recovering wine that has turned sour. For this purpose he employs powdered charcoal. The inhabitants of the banks of the Rhine have bestowed on him a medal, as a reward.

The following is Mr. Hume's new plan for detecting arsenick.

LET one grain of white oxide of arsenick and the same quantity of carbonate of soda be dissolved, by boiling in ten or twelve ounces of distilled water, which ought to be done in a glass vessel; to this let a small quantity of the nitrate of silver be added, and a bright yellow precipitate will instantly appear. This is a more decisive test than sulphate of copper. But though this process answers very well with potash, or even lime water, the common carbonate of soda ought to be preferred.

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR,

IN page 104, of vol. xvi. your correspondent X. opposes what he calls the vulgar custom of applying oil, honey, &c. in cases of burns and scalds. But he must either have had no experience, or reasoned very superficially on the subject, if he supposes that the application of cold water can have any effect in relieving the pain. It is impossible that the heat or fire should remain in the flesh any considerable time after the accident has happened. The heat, therefore, which we generally feel about the part afflicted, proceeds from inflammation, which your correspondent forgets is the consequence and not the cause of heat. The fibres, by means of which we receive the sense of pain, are covered and defended from external matter by the third and innermost skin. This covering being destroyed or otherwise materially in jured by fire, air or any other extraneous matter having access to the nerves causes exquisite pain, which water or wet cloths do but increase. Spirits of turpentine, which one of your correspondents suggests, or any other sort of oil, by supplying the place of a covering, instantly relieves the pain. If a blister be not very large, honey, or white lead, should be laid on to keep the air out. If it is large, it should be punctured, and oil applied, but the skin should not be taken off until it is dressed. The propriety of keeping the air from burns may be proved by any one who has courage to try the following simple

experiment: Let a drop of hot sealing wax fall upon the finger; bear the pain till it is gone off, and let the sealing wax remain upon the finger five or ten minutes; then take it off, and no marks of a burn will be found. On the other hand, a blister is raised, if it is instantly taken off. Glaziers use white lead whenever they receive burns from soldering irons. If you put your hand or foot into a basin of water rather hotter than you can bear, the pain is greater the moment you take it out, than while it remains in. Your's &c. C. T.

Account of Works constructed for the Manufacture of Mineral Tar, Pitch, and Varnish.

THREE considerable works were erected in Staffordshire, on the banks of the canal, for the purpose of procuring tar, pitch, and varnish from coal. One at Bradley, another at Tipton, and the third at the level colliery and iron works at Dudleywood.

These tar works are erected in the vicinity of collieries and iron works. The masters of these works furnish the tar works with coals, for the coak which they produce; and leave the products of the process to the proprietors of the tar works, which are managed as follows:

A range of eighteen or twenty stoves is erected, and supplied with coal kept burning at the bottom. The smoke is conducted by proper horizontal tunnels, into a capacious closed funnel, of more than one hun dred yards in length. This funnel is built with brick, supported by brick arches, and has a shallow pond of water formed on its top, which is filled when required by a steam engine belonging to the iron works. The cold of the water condenses the smoke which falls on the floor of the funnel in the form of tar, and is conveyed by pipes into a receiver, from whence it is pumped into a large boiler, and boiled to a proper consistence, or else it is inspissated into pitch, in which case, the vapour which arises during this inspissation is condensed into an oil, used for varnish.

No smoke is let to go to waste in these works, except a very little from some small funnels, which are kept open to give draught to the fires.

The process requires but little attendance, the principal labour being that of supplying the fuel. In one of the tar works twenty tons of coals are used each day, and three labourers with a foreman, are sufficient for the business; from this work about twenty-eight barrels of tar, of 2 1-2 cwt. are produced in six days, or twenty-one

barrels of pitch of the same weight. Some coal is so bituminous, as to yield one eighth of its weight of tar; but the above is the average produce.

In hilly countries, the stoves may be

erected at the foot of the hill, and the con densing funnel higher up: streams of water may, in such situations, be often found which can be made to supply the pond over the funnel, without pumping.

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A new Treatise on Algebra, for the Use of Schools. By John Mole. 78.

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