Germ i culture

The artificial cultivation of bacteria, or disease-germs, in the interest of science or for remedial purposes. Gerome ( zharom ' ), JEAN LEON, a distinguished painter of the modern French school, born at Vesont, 1824; studied under Paul Delaroche and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, in which institution he was appointed profe or of Painting, in Dec., 1863. His more prominent productions embrace: The Virgin, the Infant Jesus, and St. John; Bacchus and Cupid; A Greek Interior; The Age of August us , and the Birth of Jesus Christ; Rembrandt ; The Plague of Marseilles ; The Death of St. Jerome; and A Lione Meeting a Jaguar. Several of his leading works are in American galleries, and many of them have attained a world-wide fame.