BRONSART VON SCHELLENDORI

person PAUL (1832-91), Pru . general and he military author, stock town, Sicily; Nelson er, Duke of B., 1799, Pop. 19,000. Sy EMILY (1818-48), and ANNE (1820-49), Eng. novelists; were three dau’s of Rev. Patrick Bronté, incumbent of Haworth, a wild moorland parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The children were left motherle at an early age, and the +» &@ man of hard nature and eccentric abits, lavished what affection he had for his offspring upon his only s., Bran well, who turned out a sot and a wastrel, and came to an early grave. It became Oharlotte’s busine to ‘mother’ the family, and in their lonely life the three girls found solace in literary composition. Their first venture was a volume of Poems, under the pseudonyms, Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846; which cost them £50, and only one or two copies were sold. Notwithstanding this failure the sisters next applied themselves to novel writing. Charlotte wrote The Profe or, which, however, proved too short for the publishers to whom it was offered, and it did not appear in print until after her death. In the meantime she wrote Jane Hyre, which was pub. in 1847, and at once achieved a popular succe . It was followed by Shirley, 1849; and Villette, 1852. In 1854 she married her /.’s curate. Rev. A. Nicholls, but died in the following year. Emily was the author of Wuthering Heights, 1848; and Anne pub. The Tenant of Wild fell Hall and Agnes Grey, 1848, The novels of the Bronté sisters have held a secure place in Eng. fiction for the past sixty years and more, and there is little evidence that their popularity is likely to diminish. - BRONTOSAURUS. A huge herbtyerous dinosaur, belonging to the suborder Sauropod i a. Fo il remains of this prehistoric animal have been found in the Jura ic strata of the state of Wyoming. The animal was of enormous size and of clumsy structure., Its total length reached sixty feet, and it is estimated that the full grown animal weighed at least twenty tons. Its body was short and thick, and it po e ed a long, slender neck, with a very small head, somewhat resembling a lizard’s in shape. Its tail was large, thick and heavy, and that it walked on all fours is indicated by the fact that its forelegs and hindlegs were of the same length. Yt was flat-footed, and an idea of its almost incredible size may be gathered from the fact that its footprint covered and area of a square yard. An examination of the skeleton points to the contlusion that it was a clumsy, slow moving creature, while the small head clearly indicates that it was of low intelligence. It is a umed that its food consisted largely of aquatic (plants, on the upper portions of which. its long neck enabled it to feed with ease. Its bones differ from those of other dinosaurs in that they are solid like those of the diplodocus. whereas the bones of the dinosaurs are usually hollow. Other characteristics of the Sauropod a, to which order the Brontosaurus belongs are spatulate teeth, a small skull, a long tail and five toes on each foot. THERIUM. A type of huge prehistoric animal, whose fo il remains have been found in Oligocene formations in various parts of North America. They somewhat resembled the modern rhinoceros, and belonged to the order of Peri odactyls. They were characterized by curious horny growths proceeding from the maxillary bones and curving upward so that they overhung the snout. A number of specimens have been unearthed from different strata, and it has been po ible to follow the evolution of these horns through many generations. In the earliest specimens they are mere knobs growing on each side of the snout, but in succeeding generations they developed rapidly until, in the Titanotherjum ramosum and the Titanotherium platyceras, the last survivors of their race, they are wide-spreading flat horns of considerable size. The best known of these fo ils is the Titanotherium robustum, which is 14 feet long and 8 feet high.