BALAKLAVA

is a fishing village about 8 miles from Sebastopol, and has a perfect land-locked harbour with very safe anchorage. It was the British headquarters during the Crime an War, and was the scene of the famous charge of the Light Brigade Six Hundred on October 25, 1854. supported exactly in the centre, and having scales at each end. As it is important that the lever should move very easily, it rests on polished agate or steel planes, by means of knives of tempered steel which project transversely from its sides. This practically reduces the contact to a single line, and the friction of the lever on the support to a minimum. The lever ought to be horizontal when both scales are empty, and the centre of gravity must be directly below the point on which it rests. ‘ false ’ balance is one the ‘arms’ of which are not equal; of course, a lighter weight at the end of the longer ‘ arm ’ will balance a greater weight at the end of the shorter. Of course, in the old Roman balance, or steel-yard, one arm must be much longer than the other. For physical and chemical research the balances have to be very delicate, and the lever is generally of aluminium to combine strength with lightne ; the ordinary spring balances, which depend on the stretching of a spiral spring, are the most convenient but the least accurate. and was key-note, for instance, of the policy of Corinth in ancient Greece, as of Tudors in modem England. In recent times it has been greatly developed, in connection with the rivalry of Britain and Ru ia in the East, or of Britain and France in Egypt, or of Britain and Germany in South Africa. value of the exports and the imports of a country and this difference is said to be in favour of or against —according the country—by the disciples of the Mercantile System larger amount. The fallacy in this is the confusion of money with wealth. Money is simply a standard of value and a medium of exchange wealth is anything that has an exchange value.; Romans, which is curious, as they are the natural outcome of the Balkan or Italian climate, but they practically imply more than one storey. interesting Edda myth. He was the son of Odin, and was killed by an arrow of mistletoe shot by a blind man. His great enemy was Loki, the malicious. The myth is a mixture of physical and moral allegory. BALDWIN was the name of several kings of Jerusalem BALFE, the famous composer, was born in Dublin in was 9 years old. He had a very good baritone voice, and composed some very popular operas, notably