porous, so as to draw in water or rain in con-. . An�l�ony. . I the Board made extended experiments with a With the single exception of water, all sub-tact with it, the destruction of the surface is Antimony IS a bnlhant metal, havmg a I large number of different meters, but settled stances in nature cxpand or become larger inevitable; and thus" the palaces of the proud bluish tint. It melts somewhere about 8000 upon Niles' plttent as the best of any presented. when heated, and contract and

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... me smaller pass away." Fah., and does not contract much in cooling. It is said to be very simple in construction, when cooled. A church-steeple is higher in I Philos � pl � ers cOllsider cold, not as an ab-The discoverer of this metal was Basil Val-and very accurate in its results. One of it� su mmer than in winter. Metals show this stract pnnclple, but as an effect produced by entine, in 1394. Brittleness is one of its prominent features consists in the employmcnt a e tion plainer th an other bodie s ; and, as a the mere absence of heat. Few persons have peculiar characteristics, and when broken it of a differe ... tial piston which operates the consequence, Southwark Bridge, (London,) any idea of the effects produced upon the ordi-exhibits a beautifully crystalline appearance, valves. being constructed entirely of iron, is shorter nary substances with which we are surrounded reflecting the light from myriads of facets, We have long been of the opinion that the in cold w e ather t h an in warm. If the sun on their being exposed to an extreme degree like the jewels in some Eastern palace. In a only way to put an end to the present wanton shines but for a few minutes on the great iron of cold; many gases which are only known to closed vessel it is slowly but distinctly vola-waste of' water in Our large cities is to charge tubular bridge, nca r Bangor, its length exist in an aeriform state in our climate, be-tile at a white heat, and can be easily di.-each consumer a certain tariff for each gallon is vi s ibly i n creased. A c annon ball which come first liquids, und then solid substances; tilled in a current of hydrogen gas. If placed used. This cannot be done except by the in would pass through a certain ring while cold, reminding olle of the \'arious states in which on a piece of ignited coal, and exposed to a troduction of some instrument like a gas would not do so after being placed in boiling water is familiar to us, namely, as a vapor, stream of oxygen, it burns brilliantly, and meter, which shall indicate the exact quantity water. The tires of wheels, previously to their as a liquid, and as a solid. Mercury or quick-forms its oxyd, as a dense yellowish-white of water drawn ofl'. being fixed, arc made hot, in order that, by silver is always fluid in Ol1r country; but in smoke, having an odor not unlike garlic. The