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SUGAR MADE FROM RAGS

The compiler of a Catechism of Chemistry up to the latest date, says, "It is a remarkable fact, that a pound of rags may be converted into more than a pound of sugar, merely by the action of sulphuric acid. When shreds of linen are triturated (stirred) in a glass mortar with sulphuric acid, they yield a gummy matter on evaporation; and if this matter be boiled for some time with dilute sulphuric acid, we obtain a crystallizable sugar."—Now is the time to look up all your old rags, &c.

A choral society, consisting of 160 members, has just been established at Breslau, for the cultivation of ancient music.

JOHN OF GAUNT

There is a curious tradition respecting the estate of Sutton Park, (the seat of Sir J. Burgoyne.) near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, which states it formerly belonged to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, who gave it to an ancestor of the present proprietor, named Roger Burgoyne, by the following laconic grant:—

 
I, John of Gaunt,
Do give and do grant
To Roger Burgoyne,
And the heirs of his loin,
Both Sutton and Potton,³
Until the world's rotten.
 

There is also a moated site in the park, called "John of Gaunt's Castle."

J.H.

With the present Number is published a SUPPLEMENT, containing THREE ENGRAVINGS: 1. The Death-Watch. 2. The Glow-Worm. 3. The Talipot Tree, and a series of other curious and attractive Wonders of Nature—The First and Last Crime, a vivid and masterly sketch—Public Improvements now in progress in London—besides an unusual variety of Literary Novelties.