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(11) Answer to Grammar, 2, page 149.

(a) Extension of the Predicate, "from my bliss of life."

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(6) My Personal pronoun, fem. gend., 1st pers., sing. num., possessive case, gov. by "God."

these Demonstrative adjective, plur. num., qualifying "things" understood.

did Auxiliary verb, past tense, indicative mood, 3rd pers., plur. num., agreeing with its nom. things" understood. move Regular trans. verb, infinitive mood, gov. by "did" Regular trans. verb, past emphatic tense, indicative mood, 3rd pers., plur. num., agreeing with its nom. "things" understood.

did

move

that Relative pronoun, neut. gend., 3rd pers., sing. num., obj. case, gov. by " gave," agreeing with its antecedent

"bliss."

lowered Perfect participle of the verb "to lower," referring to "" me.

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down Adverb of manner, qualifying "down."

(c) Zeal for God, love to my country, and affection for my father cost me my life. These three loving impulses sent me forth to meet my father, and so caused me to fall a victim to his vow. Thus did the triple bond of attachment by which I was held become the means of depriving me of the existence which nature had given me to enjoy.

Note. The passage is a difficult one, and relates to a portion of the Bible which has been the object of much dispute. Some commentators hold the opinion that Jephthah's daughter was only doomed to "perpetual virginity"; but the poet Tennyson appears to consider that she was actually put to death.

The expression "silent grave" seems to allude to the circumstance that Jephthah had no other children, and that therefore his daughter's death implied the extinction of his family.

(12) Answer to Arithmetic, Females, 3, page

If the larger number be represented by 7, then the smaller number will be represented by 7 – 3 = 4.

Therefore the numbers are in the ratio of 7: 4.

★ of 33 = 12.

(13) Answer to Grammar, I, page 149.
(a) Remember that you are but mortal.
(6) I will remember what you have told me.
I remember how kind you have been to me.

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(9) 'It cannot hold, it needs must break." Parse the words in italics.

J. S. (10) A and B enter into partnership; A puts into the stock at first £2,000, and at the end of 8 months £1,000 more; B puts in at first £750, and at the end of 4 months £3,000, but took out £1,300 at the end of 3 months more. At the year's end they have gained £1,635; what should each receive? T. J.

(11) An oz. of gold is worth £3 17s. 10d. In making sovereigns, 2 parts out of 23 consist of an alloy which is worth 1d. per ounce; how much gold and how much alloy will be respectively required for 2,617 sovereigns? T. J.

(12) In what proportion is the side to the diagonal of a square? T. J. (13) Find a number such that when it is divided into 4 and into 3 equal parts the continued product of the former shall be equal to 81 times the continued product of the latter (by Algebra).

J. T. (14) If the compound interest of £250 for 2 years be £20 8s., what is the rate per cent ?

C. H. W.

(15) What sum must be put out to interest at 4 per cent to become £49 os. 54d. in 5 years?

C. H. W.
F. F.

F. F.

(16) What was Grimm's Law in Grammar? (17) Solve the following: 9√(x2 − 9x + 28) + 9x = x2 + 36. (From "Todhunter's Algebra for Beginners," Ex. 27. 8).

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(2) Page 62. The following has been sent to us by T. H. Parsons, who states that it is taken (in substance) from a "Life of Napoleon Buonaparte," published by John Murray, in 1825.

Napoleon, weary of his ride to St. Helena, landed immediately on his arrival. He found the inhabitants uncongenial to his tastes, so he took up his residence at The Briars, a small cottage about half-a-mile from James Town, during the time in which the Admiral was planning his permanent residence. For this purpose Longwood, a villa six miles from James Town, was decided on, a place that afforded the greatest facilities for a life of retirement. It was furnished with a suite of rooms, consisting of a saloon, an eating-room, a library, a billiard-room, a small study, a bed-room, and a bath-room. It stands about 2,000 ft. above the sea-level; the breezes from the ocean purify the air continually, and a healthier spot can hardly be found in the Tropics. Adjoining his house was a garden, in which he took many solitary walks. It contained a pond where lived a few fishes that attracted his attention: and when they died he was heard to say, "Everything that I love, everything that belongs to me, is stricken. Heaven and mankind unite to afflict me!" It also contained a few weeping willows, to which he often resorted, and under which he selected the place where he wished to be buried. He was accordingly buried beneath them, beside a fountain in Slade's valley, near to Longwood.

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EDISON'S INVENTIONS.

OUR number for April contained an account of the life of this celebrated man. In the present paper we propose to describe some of the most remarkable of his inventions. Owing to the limited space at our disposal, the descriptions we give must necessarily be short and imperfect. Those of our readers who wish to enter more fully into the subject, and study the scientific details connected with it, should read the articles which have appeared in Scribner's Magazine during the present and preceding years.

Most of Edison's inventions are connected with the science of electricity. Like many others of his countrymen, he is not so much a discoverer as an inventor. He possesses a wonderful power of applying the scientific investigations of the age to practical purposes. With this object his experiments are being continually carried on, with unwearied industry and wonderful ingenuity. Sometimes that which has been searched for long and earnestly turns up suddenly and by mere accident, when the inventor has been driven almost to the depths of despair. At other times the required result has been arrived at after a patient series of investigations, in which one step has naturally led to another.

Mr. Edison conducted a series of experiments for some years in connection with the telephone, an instrument for transmitting sounds by means of electricity. To some extent he was anticipated by others in this invention. A musical telephone was brought out by Mr. Gray. An instrument of the same kind was invented by Philip Reiss, of Germany. Another was patented by Mr. Bell, while Edison's experiments were being carried on. The latter carried the invention to a much greater perfection by the employment of what has been called the "carbon button," which was discovered almost by accident. Having one day observed a quantity of soot collected on the chimney of a petroleum lamp which had been smoking for some time, the thought suddenly struck him that this might be the very substance he had long been in search of for the more perfect transmission of sounds. He scraped off the lamp

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