Caustic

a name given to substances which have the property of burning, corroding, or disintegrating animal matter; or of combining with the principles of organized substances and destroying their texture. _ Cautin, a river in Chile; flows W. through a province named _after it, pnd empties into the Pacific Ocean. Its length is about 200 miles. The province of Cautin has _an area of 3,127 square miles; oR: 78,221; capital, Temuco; pop. 7,078. C. died Sept. 25, 1905. _ Cavaiguac, Louis Eugene, a French general who became famous in connection with the events of 1848; born in Paris, Oct. 15, 1802. Cavaignac was in Africa when the revolution of February, 1848, took Pe. He was offered the portfolio of the minister of war, and accepted it. The measures which he adopted to guard against the crisis which was evidently approaching were prompt and decisive. In a few days an =f of nearly 30,- 000 men was a embled in and around Paris. On June 23 the terrible Communist insurrection burst forth, and for three days Paris presented the most dreadful scene of tumult and bloodshed which had been witne ed there since the ma acre of St. Bartholomew. About 15,000 — perished, and property was destroyed to the value of upward of $1,000,000. By the energy of General.Cavaignac, aided by the loyalty of the army and the national oe the joa eet was suppre ed on June 26. On that day the National A embly delegated the entire executive power to Cavaignac as dictator, who resigned it again into its hands on the 29th, and received it anew on the same day. He was defeated in the elections for the presidenev in the month of December foland Louis Napoleon was preferred to the office. On Dec. 20 he resigned his dictatorship. The last years of his life were spent at his countryseat, where he expired suddenly of heart disease on Oct, 28, 1857.