MISCELLANEOUS.
Manufacturing Human Beings.—Dr, Caldwell states, in the New York Journal of Medicine, thai, nearly forty years ago, a distinguished and well known professor of chemistry declared in his presence, and in his house, that by a chemical process, fe could make a human being. About the same time a book was published in Philadelphia* by a gentleman with whom he was intimate, in which it was openly asserted, that the time would soon arrive when by the of a given kind of matter in a given way, and the passing through it of a stream j electricity, a man might be crystallm. This out-Leibigs Leibig. A number of cases f|ere landed at the Gustom-house from Cronstadt: they",contained presents from the Emperor Nicholas to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke ot Buckingham, and others; all of great valueThe Queen has received some superb malachite vases, coniecturally estimated -at £10,000. It is related of Peter the Great, that wfoj he visited England, he was much struck witn the crowds of lawyers he saw in Hall "Bless me ! " said he, "what, a number of lawyers! I have only two in my kingdom, and I intend to hang one. of them wheni get homo."
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Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 38, 9 August 1845, Page 2
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208MISCELLANEOUS. Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 38, 9 August 1845, Page 2
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