A'chard, Franz

KARL, a German chemist, b. in Berlin, 1754. He devoted himself to the development of the beet-sugar manufacture, and, after six years of laborious endeavor, he discovered the true method of separating the sugar from the plant. He was appointed director of the cla of physics in the Academy of Science, in Ber lin, and d. 1821. Acharn'se. (Anc. Geog.) A large town of Attica, where the Tyrans encamped when they marched against Trasybulus, and where the Lacedæmonians, under their king Arch i dam us, pitched their tents when they made an irruption into Attica, at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war. Aris toph anes, in the comedy which takes its title from this town, represents the inhabitants as charcoal-makers; and other comic writers stigmatize them as rough and boorish. Achates, a friend of Æneas, whose fidelity was so exemplary, that fid us Achates (the faithful Achates) became a proverb. Achates. ( Anc. Geog.) A river in the south of Sicilia, between Camarina and Gela; now the Dirillo.