ITS height is 5 feet, weighs near 100 pounds; it will eat half a peck of apples at a meal, swallow whole eggs, also stones and apples as large as eggs, and jump to a great height.--Goldsmith says, in his history of Animated Nature, it has the head of a Warrior, the eye of a Lion, the defence of a Porcupine, and the swiftness of a Courser. It is fond of all kinds of vegetables and fruits. It will pick a pea out of a Child's hand without injury. Many that have seen it, say it is the greatest curiosity of the kind ever exhibited here. Children of seven years old can ride it.--Admittance for grown persons 9 pence--Children half price. * * * --> _The remarkable bird, called the_ CASSOWARY, _now exhibiting in this town, is described by Goldsmith in his 3d volume of Animated Nature, page 39, American edition.--After describing him, the Doctor observes, that "the southern parts of the most eastern Indies seem to be its natural climate. His domain, if we may so call it, begins where that of the ostrich terminates. The latter has never been found beyond the Ganges; while the Cassowary is never seen nearer than the islands of Banda, Sumatra, Java, the Molucca islands, and the corresponding parts of the continent. Yet even here this animal seems not to have multiplied in any considerable degree, as we find one of the kings of Java making a present of one of these birds to the captain of a Dutch ship, considering it as a very great rarity."_ _Gazette_, August 8, 1800. * * * * * The following notice, taken from the "Salem Gazette," July 13, 1790, has an interest to us from what it says of the likenesses "produced from a Spark of Electricity." It is difficult to conjecture what this means; though additional interest is derived from the fact of these likenesses having been presented by Dr. Franklin's grandson. AMERICAN MUSEUM. MR. PEALE, of Philadelphia, has lately received a number of donations for his Cabinet of Curiosities. Among them were Likenesses of the King and Queen of France, executed on white satin, and each produced by a single spark of electricity.--Presented by WM. TEMPLE FRANKLIN, Esq.----And