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Over 30,000 children have been admitted to the various homes, the daily cost of which is nearly,£150. small farm in Connecticut, and died in 1891 worth 5,000,000 dollars. His first ‘show’ was Joice Heth, the reputed nurse of Washington, at a cost of 1000 £2000. dollars; one of his last, the elephant Jumbo, cost him railway cars to carry it. i.e. pre ure of the atmosphere, which was invented by Torr i cell i in 1644, and depends for its working on the truth that the weight of ordinary air is sufficient to keep a column of mercury at a height of 30 inches in vacuum. When the air gets heavier, the mercury will rise higher; and when the air gets lighter, the mercury will fall. Barometers are usuSly either cistern or siphon. The cistern barometer is the simpler, and only needs to be put in a frame and to read. The barometer needs to be corrected for temperature, because mercury expands with heat. It is much used in physical research, in which the properties of gases are dependent on the atmospheric pre ure, for measuring the height of mountains, and for weather prophesying. The average reading in London ranges from 2870 to 3070 inches, but it has been as low as 27*93. Near Crieff, however, even 27*33 has been registered, and on the Ganges Delta 27 12. In his various balloon ascents Mr. Glaisher’s barometer registered 247 at 1 mile, 20*3 at 2 miles, 16*7 at 3 miles, 13*7 at 4 miles, and 11*3 at 5 miles. The highest reading on record was at Irkutsh on January 14, 1893, where it reached 31*8, the temperature at the same time being — 51 0 which was about 40° below the average for the month., The temperature in the north of Sweden on the same day was 38° below the freezing point of mercury. The highest reading recorded in England was 30 990 at Hastings in 1882. The barometer is not a safe weather guide; but damp air is certainly lighter than dry air, and therefore must make the mercury on particular festive occasions at Court and at civic feasts. It was instituted by James I. to provide funds for the colonization of Ulster. The first baronet was Sir Nicholas Bacon, and the fee was fixed at about;£icoo, a stipulation being made that there should never be ‘created’ since 1801 are baronets of Great Britain or the United Kingdom, not of the several kingdoms. There are two instances conferred—by on record of the title of baronete being James II. to the mother of Cornel i us Speelman, General of the States of Holland, and the other by Charles I. to Dame Maria Bolles of Nottingham shire. eon III. widened and macadamized manv of the chief streets in Paris specially to prevent the easy and succe ful erection of B. Ba oon (q.v.). In Scotland he is called an Advocate. The leaders are gowns—hence called Queen’s (or King’s) Counsel, and wear silk ‘taking the silk.* The Bastille youngest Q.C. on record was Lord Bacon, who was appointed Dy Queen Elizabeth when he was only 29 years old. Mr. Erskine was made a K.C. in 1783 before he had been 5 years at the Bar. Sir Richard Webster was made a Q.C. before he was 36, Lord BASTIONS Selbome when he was 37, Sir Charles Ru ell when he was 39, Sir John Gorst and Lord Cole ridge when they were 40, Sir Henry James at 41, and Sir Henry BAT Hawkins at 42. Mr. Montague Williams, Q.C., was a soldier in the Crime an War, an actor in Mi Keel/s company, and a journalist in London, before he went to the Bar at all. Mr. Pope, Q.C., and Mr. Frank Lock wood, Q.C., were also profe ional BATH, actors.