Gauze wire

( Manuf.) A kind of open cloth, made of fine wires of copper, bra , or iron. Gau'zy, a . Thin as gauze. Gavar'ni, the pseudonymic name of one of the most popular of modern French caricaturists, whose real name Fig . 1133. was SULPICE PAUL CHEVALIER, born in GAUZE-BURNER. Paris, 1801. He began life as a me chanical draughtsman, but in 1835 discovered his genius for burlesque, in hitting off the peculiarities of manners and persons. He at once rose into fame, and taking the pa ing and ever-varying modes of Paris i an life for his subjects, has produced an endle variety of caricatures, unequalled for the originality and tone they display. Besides illustrating the universally known pages of the Charivari, and other periodicals, he has lent the aid of his pencil to the works of popular authors. The most succe ful of these were the designs for the Wandering Jew of Eugène Sue, aud the Diable à Paris of Balzac. A selection from his Sketches of Paris i an Life was made and published in Paris in 1845-1850. They are comprised in 6 vols. 8vo., to which notes were appended by Theophile Gautier and others. D. 1866. Gavarnie, a hamlet of France, dep. Hautes-Pyrénées, 35 m. from Tarbes, at an elevation of 4,300 ft. above sea level, on a small stream which rushes over a height of 1,260 feet and forms the Falls of Gavarnie, so mach admired by tourists.