Blodget, Lorin

b. at James town, N. Y., May 25, 1823; a physicist and statistician. Connected at first with the Smithsonian Institution, then with the corps of engineers on the Pacific railroad surveys, and subsequently entrusted with responsible posts in various government departments. Author of The Climatology of the United States; Commercial and Financial Resources of the United States, and some 500 other books and pamphlets. Editor of the North American (Philadelphia), 1859-64. Blond'in, CHARLES EMILE, nicknamed GRAVE LET, b. at St. Omer, France, Feb. 28, 1824. A tight-rope walker. noted chiefly for his cro ing the Niagara river at a height of 150 feet above the water on a rope 1,300 feet long and 34 inches in diameter in 1855, and on other subsequent occasions. Died in London, March, 1897.