Bodenstedt, Fried Rich

MARTIN, VON, born at Peine, Hanover, Germany, April 22, 1815; a journalist, poet, and littérateur. Edited the Berlin Tügliche Rundschau, 1880-88; wrote Tausend und ein Tag im Orient; Shakespeare's Zeitgeno en und ihre Werke; Vom At lant is chen Zum Stillen Ozean; Lieder des Mirza - Schaffy; Aus Morgen land und A bend land, and a large number of others. Died at Wiesbaden, April 19, 1892. Boehm, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR, born at Vienna, Austria, 1834; a Hungarian-English sculptor. Author of a number of busts and figures of British nobilities-Carlyle, Gladstone, Huxley, Ruskin, Dean Stanley, Sir Francis Drake, Lord North brook, . Died Dec. 12, 1890. Bogar'dus ( bo - gar'düs ), JAMES, an American mechanician, born at Cat skill, N. Y., 1800. During his early apprenticeship to the watch-making busine , he gave proofs of striking inventive powers in the improving of clocks and chronometers. In 1828 he brought out the "ring-flyer," since come into general use among cotton spinners, as well as the eccentric mill and machines employed in engraving and bank-note transferring. In 1832 he received the gold medal of the American Institute for an improved form of gas meter. Later he brought out several other inventions, a dynamometer for machinery in motion, a pyrometer, an engraving machine, a dry gas meter (the first ever made), etc. Died 1874.