. 27. Lettuce, radishes and pepper-grass fit for use. 30. Roses and honey-suckles in bloom. None of these, it is said, were injured by frost. The author estimates the funds and claims of Illinois for education at not less than two millions of dollars. We add a short extract from the work :- "In no part of the United States can uncultivated land be made into farms with less labour than Illinois. An emigrant may purchase a quarter section for $200, a proportionate supply of timbered and prairie land, and have a large farm under cultivation in a short time. His cattle, horses, and hogs will run upon the range around him, and find feed nine months in the year, and a small amount of labour will furnish a supply of winter food. Hundreds of families, who have not the means to purchase, settle on the publick lands, make their farms, and live unmolested. Any labouring man, with reasonable industry and economy, with a family, may arrive here without any capital, and in half a dozen years, be the owner of a good farm and stock in abundance. The prairies and woodland would furnish range until his farm was made. Those who have one or two thousand dollars to commence with have peculiar advantages. state of helpless debility, and trembled at every trifling occurrence. Others appeared as if paralyzed for a considerable time; while some declined rapidly in health and strength, from inability to digest their food; and others lost all powers of recollection for a considerable period. Some remarkable and well-attested instances of the long endurance of brute and human life without sustenance, are deserving of record. Two pigs which had been buried thirty-two days under the ruins, were heard to grunt by the labourers removing the rubbish. They were extricated in feeble and emaciated condition, and for some time refused the food offered them, but drank water with insatiable eagerness, and rapidly recovered. At Polisthena, a cat was buried forty days under the rubbish, and taken out in a wretched condition. She exhibited insatiable thirst, but soon recovered. In the same place an aged woman was found under the ruins of her dwelling seven days after the earthquake. When discovered she was insensible and apparently dead, but she grad ually revived, and complained of no evil but thirst. She continued long in a state of weakness and stupor, and was unable to take more than very small portions of food, but eventually regained her wonted health and spirits. She stated, that very soon after the house fell, she experienced a torturing thirst, but that she soon lost all consciousness, and remained insensible until her release. In Oppido, a girl of fifteen, named Aloisa Basili, remained eleven days under the ruins without nourishment, and for the last six days in close contact with a dead body. She had the charge of an the child in her arms. infant boy, and, when the house was falling, caught He suffered greatly from incessant thirst, and expired on the fifth day. Until this period the senses of the poor girl had not failed her, but now she sunk under the combined tortures of hunger and thirst. When restored to animation, she complained of no suffering but thirst. The most remarkable instance of self-possession occurred near Oppido. The prince, together with his family and many guests, were seated at table; when the heaving earth began to rock the house, one of the company started from his chair, and perceiving an aperture in the wall, sprang through it and escaped, with only the loss of a shoe. All the others perished. THE WALL OF ANTONINUS. The following is probably a true account of the first appearance of a white man, among the Canadian Indians, and his reception and treatment. It is from "Hawkins' New Picture of Quebec." Giovanni Verazzano, a Florentine navigator, on a voyage of discovery in 1525, had arrived off some portion of the northern coast and cast anchor. "At the desire of Verazzano, a young sailor had undertaken to swim to land and accost the natives; but when he saw the crowds which thronged the beach, he repented of his purpose, and although within a few yards of the landing place, his courage failed, and he attempted to turn back. At this moment the water only reached his waist; but overcome with terrour and exhaustion, he had scarcely strength to cast his presents and trinkets upon the beach, when a high wave threw him senseless on the shore. The savages ran immediately to him a short distance from the sea. Great was his terrour, when upon recovering his recollection, he found himself entirely in their power. Stretching his hands towards the ship, he uttered piercing cries, to which This was an entrenchment raised by the Romans the natives replied by loud yells, intended, as he after- across the north of Britain under the direction of Lolwards found, to reassure him. They then carried him lius Urbicus, legate of Antoninus Pius, about the year to the foot of a hill, stripped him naked, turned his A. D. 140, and is supposed to have connected a line of face to the sun, and kindled a large fire near him. He forts erected by Agricola, A.D. 80. Of ancient writers, was fully impressed with the horrible idea that they it is noticed by Julius Capitolinus only, and by him is were about to sacrifice him to the sun : his companions termed a turf wall (murus cespititius.) The work was on board, unable to render him any assistance, were composed of a ditch, a rampart with its parapet, made of the same opinion. They thought, "that the natives of materials promiscuously taken from the ditch, and a were going to roast and eat him." Their fears, how-military way formed with much skill, running along ever, were soon turned to gratitude and astonishment: the whole line of the entrenchment at the distance of the savages dried his clothes, warmed him, and showed a few yards on the south side. him every mark of kindness, caressing and patting his Dunglass Castle on the Clyde to the heights above white skin with apparent surprise. They then dressed Caer Ridden Kirk, a little beyond the river Avon on him, conducted him to the beach, tenderly embraced the Frith of Forth, or probably to Blackness Castle, two him, and pointing to the vessel, removed to a little miles further on, though it cannot now be traced so far. distance, to show that he was at liberty to return to In its course are nineteen forts, the eighteen distances his friends. Who first offers violence and indignity between which amount to 63,980 yards, or thirty-six the untutored Indian, or the boasting dispensers of English miles, and the mean distance from station to station is 3554 yards, or rather more than two English miles. In the position of the forts, the Romans chose a high and commanding situation from whence the country could be discovered to a considerable distance, contriving, as far as circumstances would permit, that a river, morass, or some difficuk ground should form an obstruction to any approach from the front. Forts were also placed upon the passages of those rivers which crossed the general chain of communication. civilization? EARTHQUAKE IN CALABRIA. The effects of the great earthquake of 1783 in Calabria, upon the nerves of many individuals, were remarkable. Some remained for a long period in a It extended from From inscriptions discovered in Scotland, it appears that the entrenchment was made by the second legion, by vexillations of the sixth and the twentieth legion, and the first cohort of the Tungri. A very considerable portion of the entrenchment may still be traced. The modern name is Grimes Dyke; Grime, in the Celtick language, signifies great or powerful. TO ITALY. "Two or three columns, and many a stone! Of the things to come, than the things before! But enough of the past for the future to grieve." Clime of the Cesars, though thy glory's dead! In every hallowed wood-in every vale- tears. Where is that pyramid of empires ?-where Wan skeleton of empires!-there she stands, A crosier for her sceptre-on a throne Of temples-statues-monuments o'erthrown Her sons are slaves and tyrants-and the hands But bless the brute-like lord that rivets close their chains. Oh, for the lava-tongue of Cicero ! To pour into their blood a burning stream Of fiery eloquence-to light a flame And rouse within their breasts that maddening glow, Life, hope, HOME, freedom, all, on their own strength, alone. "Mother of arts and arms."-Oh Italy! Where blast and breeze to slumbering fancy brings Art THOU unfit to class among the free? For thee and for thy fall-and vengeance for the FOE. HORRIBLE MODE OF TORTURE AND EXECUTION In the various uses to which they apply the hides of buliocks, that of punishment is not left out. It is related of them that they sew up their prisoners in a wet hide, leaving out the head and neck only, and in this condition lay them on the ground in the sun to dry. In the process of drying, which the hide soon does in the powerful effects of the sun, it becomes contracted and produces the most excruciating torture on the unfortunate prisoner by the increase of pressure; but if night arrives before he dies from its effects, the hide relaxes again with the moisture from the air, only to prolong his sufferings on the next day, which generally is the last. So cruel a death is even worse than that which the boa constrictor can inflict, and the invention of it is said to belong to a barbarian named AMERICAN TROPHIES. The banners of the principal victories of the revolu tion, and the late war, are still in the military bureau of the war department, at Washington. Those taken at the Cowpens, Saratoga, and York, are among the most interesting. On the reduction of the army, the flags of the regiments distinguished in the last war, were collected and deposited in the same place. The ensigns, under which Jessup and Scott, and their brave comrades, fought and conquered, are literally riddled by the shot of the enemy. A flag, with the American eagle, elegantly worked in silk, presented to Pike, by the ladies of Philadelphia, and a British bunting, about twenty-five yards long, torn from its staff by a sergeant, at the capture of Fort George, are also among these trophies. PHILOSOPHICAL MISCELLANIES. CURIOUS SPRING.-In Oahu, one of the Sandwich Islands, are a number of wells, in which the water is perfectly free from salt, though it invariably rises and falls with the tides of the ccean. They are from one hundred yards to three quarters of a mile distant from the sea. This water is uniformly found on penetrating a number of feet into a stratum of porous calcareous rock which underlies the soil. It is difficult to account for its freshness, unless, as is suggested by Ellis, who furnished the statement, it is deprived of its salt by filtering through the rock. HEAT PRODUCED BY FRICTION.-Sir Humphrey Davy proved that two pieces of ice rubbed together in an atmosphere at thirty-two degrees, or at the freezing point, are converted into water. A piece of ordnance is heated much sooner by constant discharges, than if filled with burning coals for ten times as long a period. These facts are adduced, among others, by the advocates of the immateriality of heat and light, to support their thecry, which attributes heat and light to vibratory motions among the particles of bodies, and in a supposed ethereal medium. POWERFUL CURRENT OF AIR IN TENERIFFE.-It is stated in Ure's Geology, that on the top of the Peak of Teneriffe, the wind blows for the most part so strongly from southwest, that a person finds difficulty in standing upright against it. This current which is supposed to be constantly flowing from the tropicks toward the poles in the elevated regionsof the air, is caused by the rarefaction of the atmosphere on the earth's surface by the sun. The rarefied air of course rises, and then flows over on either side. From a south, it becomes a south-westerly current, in consequence of the diminishing velocity of those portions of the earth, over which it passes, the wind retaining the momentum which it had acquired at the equator, in moving with the earth's surface in an easterly course. METEOROLOGICAL STONE.-A Finland journal gives an account of a singular stone in the north of Finland, which answers the purpose of a publick barometer. On the approach of rain, this stone assumes a black or dark gray colour; and when the weather is inclined to be fair, it is covered all over with white specks. This stone is, in all probability, an argillaceous rock, containing a portion of rock salt, ammonia or salt-petre, and absorbing more or less humidity, in proportion as the latter case, the saline particles, becoming crystalthe atmosphere is more or less charged with it. In lized, are visible to the eye as white specks. HYDROGRAPHICK PAPER.--M. Chevallier has examined a paper lately invented, which may be written on with a pen dipped in pure water. He found it was prepared of iron, drying them, and then covering them with by soaking the sheets of paper in a solution of sulphate finely powdered galls. He states that similar papers may be prepared by using other solutions and powders; Physick for the most part, is nothing else but the thus blue is probably prepared by powdering the paper, substitute for exercise or temperance. Ramiriz. scaked in sulphate of iron, with ferrocynate of potash. EULENSTEIN. We are about to record an instance of the victory of genius and perseverence over difficulties, more curious, perhaps, if not more interesting, than any which has yet appeared in our columns. It is the case of a young musician who was tyrannically driven into another line deprived of his instrument. the violin, and prohibited all indulgence of his favourite pursuit, and who yet found an instrument for himself, one all but tuneless, in other hands, and, by stealth, acquired the power of producing on that instrument a musick of such excellence, science, taste, and beauty, that princes and nobles came to be his patrons, and connoisseurs and crowds to listen to him with wonder and applause, wherever he presented himself. We allude to Mr. Eulenstein, the celebrated player on the Jew's harp. Mr. Eulenstein is by birth a German, and was born at Heilbronn, in Wirtemberg, in the year 1802. turn for musick, amounting to a passion, was soon manifested by him. He was early possessed of a violin, which he learned as a child to play, and often went without his breakfast, when a schoolboy, to save his pence to purchase strings. Judges of musical genius would have encouraged such a boy, but such his parents were not. They saw in his pursuit only idleness and poverty-the lot of all, except a few, in a country where almost all are musical. They locked up his violin, forbade him even to whistle, and succeeded in finding out for him a master and mistress, in the hardware line, with as little musick in their souls as in their saucepans. The youth's vicious tendency to musick was narrowly watched, and all pipes, fiddles, sackbuts, and other instruments, were warned off the premises. A Yet, on the premises, and in the stock in trade of these cast-iron personages, there was a musical instrument, which was destined to mar all their care of the anti-musical education of their charge-and that was the Jew's harp. Young Eulenstein could not but indulge in a trial on this rude toy, as he opened the grosses to supply the school boys; but it was not till a gentleman happened to play it in a superiour manner in his hearing, that he saw its pretensions to be deemed a musical instrument. The Jews harp was now zealously practised by Eulenstein, and, to avoid detection, it was practised in bed, even under the clothes which covered him. The patience and perseverence of the young artist were almost unexampled. A singular accident opened up to him an entire new view of the capabilities of the Jews harp. Falling asleep one night, in the course of his practice, with the instrument in his mouth, the tongue of the harp scratched his face, which induced him in the morning to cover the sharp point with a knob of sealing wax. This put his harp out of tune, but, by doing so, showed him that it might be likewise put in tune; in other words, varied in its tones-so that, by playing upon several harps in succession, differently tuned, he could command the chromatick scale. The discovery and the inference were, for a mere boy, alike wonderful; and his skilful and really scientifick use of both was not less so. He could now, by changing his harps, tuned to certain notes, modulate from one key to another; and, in another year, acquired a command of this mode of change, so rapid as not in the least to interrupt the melody of even quick passages. He next attempted the staccato movement, which threatened to defy him; for, to produce it, he was obliged to stop with his tongue each vibration the instant after producing it, and then to draw back the tongue, in order to strike the next note. Even this formidable difficulty he overcame before the end of the does third year, and performed the staccato as rapidly as he now, in his "Rona a la Paganini." Our artist, who was at this time eighteen, re-olved to follow musick as a profession, and to found his claim to publick favour upon his conquest of the Jews harp, a field where he did not expect a single rival. Another year's practice gave him the beautiful shakes, turns. and slides, so much admired in his "Kathleen O'More." In this year he gained some other points, such as double notes, roulades. chords and arpeggios. He had long played two harps at a time, tuned to harmony, which he changed out of fifteen or twenty lying before him. acquirements to some friends; and performing in the Our harper now resolved to let out the secret of his dark, required them to name the instrument. None of them could, but delighted with the extraordinary musick, they compared it to the Eolian harp, called it the musick of fairies, angels, &c. Candles were brought, and a number of penny Jews harps discovered! His master about this time died; and his situation becoming intolerable under the sole residuary power sick, obtained in defiance of all her anti-musical care he deserted her service; and, with his mother's con sent, a few shillings in his pocket, and, like the Last Minstrel, of the widow-who waxed yet more wroth with nu "His harp the sole companion of his way." left his native place, and launched into the wide world. When he visited any town, his instrument was so utterly scorned, that the very innkeepers thought him insane when he talked of giving a publick concert with a penny Jews harp; the magistrates turned him out when he asked permission to exhibit; and a room was repeatedly refused him. At Stuttgard, young Eulen stein met with some success, and there was an epoch in his fortunes-a summons to perform before the Queen of Wirtemberg, late Princess Royal of England, who applauded his musick, advised him to go to Paris and London, and gave him a letter to the Princess Augusta. To reach the French and British capitals seemed to our humble pedestrian an enterprise above his strength and means; but advised by a queen, and urged by his friends, he slung on his knapsack, and traversing the Black Forest, arrived in Switzerland, where he met with much encouragement, and remained five months. At Lusanne he spent five months more, acquired the French language, the theory of musick, and the guitar; and in November, 1826, after a solitary journey on foot, with £5 in his pocket, but full of hope, he entered the gates of Paris. For some time he was unknown and neglected; his money was exhausted, and his prospects sufficiently blank, when Mr. Stockhaussen befriended him, saw his singular merits, and speedily brought him into notice. Sir Sidney Smith also supported him with his patronage, and gave him letters for London. In Paris he performed at private parties, was called to play before the King, Charles the Tenth, the Duchess de Berri, the Duke of Orleans, the present king and other persons of rank; and, after giving a publick concert, came to London, passing rich, with £60 his own!-Edin. Journal. THE ALLIGATOR PIKE. Extract of a letter from a correspondent of the Sporting Magazine, dated Manchester, (Miss.) August 3, 1834-I was endeavouring to basket a few bass from the now clear waters of the Yazoo. The sport was good when I commenced, but I was not allowed to enjoy it long; an enormous gar made his appearance where I was fishing, and in an instant all was quiet. The gar, or as this species is called, the Alligator gar, of our rivers answers to the shark of the ocean, and, indeed, they are very like the shark in their habits, which, to say the least of them, are very bad.-He is tobacco. Tonicks. These are medicines employed to give strength and elasticity to the system; or in other words to strengthen the tone of the system. They are Senatives. These are medicines which induce as formidable as the shark: armed with triple rows of sleep. They are opium, nightshade, lettuces, poppy teeth, he preys indiscriminately on the whole finny head, colchicum, henbane, hemlock, stramonium and tribe. And, indeed, every thing of a fleshly nature that is dropped in the river, finds its way into his jaws. This fellow, after he had spoiled my sport, to give me an idea of his importance, cavorted awhile on the surface of the stream, now floating listlessly along, and now throwing himself half out of water; showing himself terrible even in sport: and in per ect wanton-peruvian and cascarilla bark, chamomile flowers, &c. ness took the cork of my fishing tackle between his jaws, and snapped the line as if it had been a single hair-thus adding insult to injury. I instantly resolved on his destruction; and accordingly returned home, provided myself with three large hooks, the wire of which was about the size of an ordinary goosequill; these I attached to the end of a small bed cord or clothes line, back to back, fixing them firmly first with twine, and then with wire, wrapping the wire for some distance above the hooks. Thus accoutred. I again repaired to the river, taking with me the entrails of a newly killed pig, which I wound about the hooks as a bait for his majesty, and as this was "A dainty dish to set before the king," it was instantly seized and swallowed. I soon found, from the surges he made, that the monster had become firmly fixed to my line, and as he became aware of his situation, his efforts were redoubled, and his floundering and 'splurging' "Made the deep to boil like a pot." I was aware of the power I would have to contend with, and had planted myself in such a position, that it would have been impossible for fish power to have dislodged me. His efforts to escape, though vigorous and powerful, were of short duration: after struggling about two minutes without success he yielded himself a willing sacrifice, and I drew him on shore without further difficulty. He measured just eight feet two inches in length, and weighed one hundred and fourteen pounds. He has no scales, but his body is laid off into regular squares or diamonds, by indented lines twisting round his body, intersected by others running directly from his head to his tail.-He has no dorsal fin-his head is covered with an almost impenetrable prickly shagreen, and his mouth is garnished with six rows of sharp teeth in each jaw, i. e. three on either side of his tongue, which is long and forked. I regret that I did not open this fellow, as I have no doubt that I would have found some curiosities in his interminable maw." USEFUL DEFINITIONS. Aromaticks. The aromaticks are fragrant spices used for perfuming, spicing and stimulating. Those in general use are cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, orange and lemon peel, pepper, peppermint, spearmint, ginger, cardomon, anise, caraway, coriander, and dill and cumin seeds. To the aromatick, as stimulants may be added mustard seed, euphorbium, fox-glove and ergotor spur. Licorice is the extract of the juice of a root cultivated at Pontefract, where it is made into pectoral cakes, and also in Spain and the Levant, and made into cakes, much used by brewers and in pharmacy. Gall nuts are protuberances on trees created by the punctures of insects, and gallick acid is made from those on the oak. Myrrh is a gum resin brought from the Levant and India. Gum is pure mucilage, and the juices which when matured are sweet, oily, and farinaceous, were originally mucilaginous. Mouldiness is a minute vegetation of perfect plants, flowers, &c. of the ferugi genus. Dry rot is a variety of mouldiness. Chocolate is the solid oil of the cocoa nut. The Cinnamon tree is a species of laurel, and is a native of Ceylon. It grows to 20 or 30 feet, and its trunk and branches produce the bark. Cork. Cork is the bark of a kind of oak, (guercus super) which flourishes in Spain and the south of Europe, and in northern Asia. It falls from the tree at 12 or 15 years old; but for commerce they are stript for several years successively and then allowed an interval of 2 or 3 years. The young trees are stripped only every third year. When stripped from the tree it is piled up in a ditch or pond and heavy weights are placed upon it, which flattens it-it is then dried over fires for use. The specifick gravity of cork, is 240, or that of water. It is a bad conductor of heat, and is used to increase the warmth of apartments, and as the lightest and most elastick of the woods no substance is more generally useful. Its elasticity renders it useful for stoppers to bottles and other vessels, and its lightness renders it valuable upon water; it is employed in the construction of life-boats, as the floats of fishermen and as buoys. The Spaniards manufacture lamp-black of it. Indian Rubber. Gum Elastick or Indian Rubber is America. It is procured by making an incision in the the concreted juice of a tree which grows in South America. It is procured by making an incision in the bark of the tree in wet weather, whereupon a milky juice oozes out, which is spread over moulds of clay; when this is dry, a second layer of the liquid is spread over it; this operation is repeated till the layer is of the required thickness. After this it is placed over the smoke of burning vegetables, which hardens and blackens it. The Indians convert it into bottles, boots, and flambeaux. With us it has been brought into a It is manufactured into watergreat variety of uses. proof hats, caps, clothes, boots and shoes, and suspenders; into surgical and chymical instruments and chilVegetable Diureticks are squills, fox-glove, dande-dren's toys; and it is used in varnish and other chymlion, wild carrot seeds, parsely root, buchu leaves, &c. | ical preparations, and upon the bottoms of vessels, &c. Catharticks. Catharticks are those medicines which possess a purging quality. They are rhubarb, jalap, pulp of cassia, bitter apple, aloes, senna, henbane, foxglove, and oil of croton seeds, and castor seeds, &c. Demulcents. Demulcents are soothing, softening or mollifying medicines; as decoctions of marsh-mallow root, sarsaparilla, barley-water, oatmeal and grit gruel. Sudorificks. These are used as medicines to produce or promote sweat or perspiration. Guaiack gum, contrayerva root, and ipecacuanha are used. The town of Sekket, to the north of which the above | mingling their waters, and Abundance advances, foltemple is situated, is an ancient town in Egypt, erect- lowed by the Arts and Sciences. The ascent is ed on the slope of two opposite mountains. A wide adorned with colossal statues of Minerva and Themis; road, which at times becomes the channel to a torrent, on the summit are statues of Sully, Colbert, and D. separates it in the middle. The ancient ruins cover a space of about a quarter of a league in length; as to the style of the modern houses they are well built, though of rough stone, and talc, of the same nature as the mountain.-Very few are found with one story; the windows and doors are very small, numbers of them stand detached, and are banked or embanked against the mountain.-The roofs of the building have been destroyed. The town was doubtless designed for the workmen in the Emerald mines, which lie not far from this town, and which the ancient Egyptians used to work. Aguessean. There are in the palace two large courts, and numerous apartments for the sitting of Committees, Libraries, publick records, and other purposes. In one of these apartments is a statue in marble of Louis Philippe, in the attitude of taking the oath to support the charter adopted by the Legislature. The decorations of all the apartments are splendid, and of modern taste, and indicate a great devotion to the principles of liberal government. The Hall of the Chamber of Deputies is a spacious room, lighted from the dome. On one side is very sumptuously fitted up the Chair of the President, which is sunk within a curved A little to the north of this town, are two temples recess. This part of the Chamber is decorated with cut out of the solid rock of the mountain. The rocks appropriate statues. In front of the President's chair which compose the mountain consist principally of are the clerks' desks, and in advance of these is the tale, which is a kind of soft rock, having a shining Tribune, from which the members address the house. appearance. This engraving is a representation of The seats of the members are chairs, with small the largest of these temples, which has four exteriour desks, permanently attached to the floor, and arranged columns and two others on the frontispiece that deco-in concentrick segments of a circle; the seats in rear rate the entrance. To arrive at the interiour we first ascend a staircase, and farther on are three steps to penetrate into the sanctuary; at the side are two little saloons, one of which contains an isolated altar in the middle. In the sanctuary is another large altar. Outside of the temple to the right and left, are two little sanctuaries in front of the whole building. In the engraving there is only one of them to be seen. At the entrance are two columns, the cornice over it is ornamented with a globe and two serpents. subject is Egyptian, but the sepulchre is evidently Grecian. In the temple is seen a Greek inscription traced in red characters on the wall. THE FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. The being elevated higher than those in front. On the side of the room opposite the President's chair, is a spacious gallery for spectators. The ministers, when in attendance, have a bench immediately in front of the Tribune. The whole aspect of the room, the drapery of which is crimson, is magnificent, rather than imposing. W. H. Seward. FACIAL ANGLE. The facial angle has been used by philosophers of the old school, by which to denote the relative amount of intellect possessed by different individuals, as well as different species of animals. It is, however, rejected by phrenologists. It is the angle made by two lines, one of which is drawn from the bottom of the of the upper jaw to the upper part of the forehead. It nose to the orifice of the ear-the other from the level found by observation that it is The Chamber of Deputies was originally a part of the Palace d'Elysee Bourbon, subsequently it was called the Palais du Corps Legislatif. But it has un-is dergone many and frequent alterations, and is now, as well in exteriour as interiour, a splendid modern edifice. The front towards the bridge Louis xvi, consists of twelve massive Corinthian pillars, surmounted by a pediment; in the pediment is a bas relief representing Law seated on the charter, supported by Strength and Justice, on her left Peace is conducting Commerce. Behind this group the rivers Seine and Marne are In Europeans, American Indians, Oran-Otangs, Monkeys, Dogs, |