THE PARIS EXHIBITION. IOO

mercury pneumatic machine, Breguet's aneroid barometer,
Nachet's microscopes, Dubosc's optical instruments, Brunner's
telescopes, and Deleuil's automaton scales.

We may also notice as novelties Thomas's Arithmometer to
enable uneducated persons to calculate, an idea apparently
borrowed from the Chinese, and Kosnig's acoustic apparatus
to decompose sounds by means of manometrical flames.

The most interesting exhibition of the medical section is
that of Dr. Auzoux, who demonstrates in its most minute details
the anatomy of man and animals with plastic models.
The bones, muscles, arteries, viscera are taken to pieces and
replaced like the works of a clock. It is certainly very useful
to know where our organs lay, were it only to avoid the error
of that individual in Moliere's play, who placed the heart to the
right, but after having seen the learned doctor undress a man
in this way, one cannot help finding that our poor humanity
is very ugly inside, and agreeing with the poet that Beauty is
but skin deep.

We scarcely know what to say of the other objects which
meet our view in this department; of these eyes which per-
sue us with their glassy look, of these teeth which grin at
us, of these arms and legs which seem to wait for a body;
all these sights are far from enlivening, and the same may be
said of those beautifully polished aud dreadfully sharp surgical
instruments, which one cannot look at without involuntarily
shuddering at their destination.

Let us wind up with a more cheerful theme. Some time
since,' a paragraph went the rounds of the English papers
announcing that an addition had been made to the already
long list of female artifices. Some ladies in France, displeased