459-60; iv. 139; division in the popular party, iii. 460; iv. 175, n. 1; King, presents a remonstrance to the (1770), iii. 460; an Address (1770), iii. 201, n. 3; an Address (1781), iv.

MELANCHTHON, Boswell's letter from his tomb, ii. 3, n. 1; iii. 118, 122, n. 2; punctuality, his, i. 32; 'the old religion,' ii. 105; iii. 122, n. 2. MELCHISEDEC, an authority on the law of entail, ii. 414, n. 2; Warburton's reply to Lowth's version of his story, v. 423.

217; v. 77. MODERNISING an author, iv. 315.

NICHOLSON , an advocate, v. 213.

NISBET, , an advocate, v. 213.

PHYSICIAN, a foppish one, iv. 319; history of an unfortunate one, ii. 455; one recommended by Dr. Taylor, ii. 474; one not sober for twenty years, iii. 389; one who lost his practice by changing his religion, ii. 466.

Upon his return to England he was honorably discharged, and, soon after, forming an attachment for a daughter of Sir Edward Bishop, a friend of his father, he eloped with her, and came to this country, settling at Hagerstown, in Maryland.

His skill with the pencil, too, was something phenomenal, and would, had not more serious duties prevented, have made him as noted an artist as he was an engineer.

Especially were these advantages foreseen in the vast empire of Russia, and an attempt was very early made to induce private capitalists to undertake the construction of the lines contemplated in that country.

This led to his receiving an invitation from the Emperor to go to Russia and become consulting engineer for the great road which was to connect the imperial city upon the Baltic with the ancient capital of the Czars.

But if you open up the top of a stove like this, it becomes, to all intents and purposes, an open fire.

Quite so, and in many respects, therefore, an open fire is an improvement on a close stove.

But in an ordinary gas retort the heat required to distill the gas is furnished by an outside fire; this is only necessary when you require lighting gas, with no admixture of carbonic acid and as little carbonic oxide as possible.

But in an ordinary gas retort the heat required to distill the gas is furnished by an outside fire; this is only necessary when you require lighting gas, with no admixture of carbonic acid and as little carbonic oxide as possible.

One of the same length, and ¾ inch in diameter, lasts but a quarter of an hour.

A fire ball consists of an open work sack internally strengthened with a sheet iron shell, and fitted with the Lamarre white composition.

These rockets are fired from a trough placed at an inclination of fifty or sixty degrees.

* NO ELECTRICITY FROM THE CONDENSATION OF VAPOR.It has been maintained by Palmieri and others that the condensation of vapor results in the production of an electrical charge.

An interesting contribution was made by M. Mercadier in a recent number of the Comptes Rendus de l'Academie Francaise.

Later this work was turned over to Colonel N.S. Gross, of Topeka, an enthusiast in ornithology.

The ace of spades is now an ace of clubs.

TOBY, on a leash, lifts an inquiring nose to the window.

Harvest of my years; an autobiography.

He was a light-weight and an excellent rider; I have sent him off to Belgrade with a telegram at dusk, and he was back again by breakfast time next morning, after a gallop of quite a hundred miles.

There was now such an absolute order among ourselves that the moral force of it repressed the excitement without that might else have rushed in and overborne us.