The large snails which are found in gardens and woods, discharge a whitish
substance, with a slimy and gelatinous appearance, which has been known to
cement two pieces of flint so strongly as to bear dashing on a pavement
without the junction being disturbed, although the flint broke into
fragments by fresh fractures.


_Artificial Ice_.

A mixture of four ounces of nitrate of ammonia, four ounces of subcarbonate
of soda, and four ounces of water, in a tin pail, has been found to produce
ten ounces of ice in three hours.--_Brande's Journal_.

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THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.

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AN OLD MAN'S STORY.

BY MARY HOWITT.


There was an old and quiet man,
And by the fire sate he,