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Natural Curiosity. The skull and jaw bone of monstrous sea animal. recently exhibit ed in this town, which has ever been presen- ted to the age. It is sad to have been taken from a. serpent that was found dead uron the water on the 1lth of May las. near cape Cod. The tail of the animal was broken of, and hanging by the skin. which is supposed to have been the occasion of it's death. The monster, as the advertisement described it, was 75 feet long, and shaped like a serpent, with no fins, but tail like fish the back was black and hard like an aliigator's, and the belly yellow, ,and rlbbtd d like whale. The skull an jaw bone were ak that the finder, Capt Abraham Small, was able to bring a. shore, on account of the putrid aud offensive stat of the creature, which had probably been dead some time when it as discovered. The bone exhibited was IS feet long and wide,& weighed 1900 pounds. When the flesh was on it, it might have borne sume resemblance to horses head. We are strongly inclined to believe that this may have been the great Gloucester Sea Serpent himself, or at least, one of the family - Lancaster Mass. Isl,

 Curious Fdct.-In working the James Riv- er Slate Quarry, in Buckingham County Va. d piece of pine bark 8 inches long, , inches wide, and S-4 ot an inch thick. as perfectly sound as ifjust taken from the tree, (except little scorched, ashed, or smutted on the inc side, as if from coals, or embers, or perhaps from the blast) was brought out of the solid mass of rock. from II feet below its top. and that rock covered with eight or ten feet of solid earth and clay never disturbed before.

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 To kindie Fire ia q StoUe.-PIace your wOud in order in the srove-it should be dry of course-then having closed the door, take hot political ne,cspaper. twist it up so as to bring it's cumbustlblc parts more nearly in contact, and lighting one end by candle or match. apply it to the vent of the stove, and it is almost impossible to conceive in how short a time the whole mass of wood will be in a blaze.--- Berk. Amer.