CLEOPATRA

b. 69 B.C., d. 30 B.C.; ‘hrew | daughter of Ptolemy, king of Egypt, waa fal to | contending with her brother for her share ward | of the government when Julius Ceasar Lord | strived at Alexandria. Oesar at once n he | became her helper, and soon her lover. But | She followed Cesar to Rome, and after his - end | death made Antony her slave. After the orred battle of Actium, 31 B.c., Antony took se of | refuge with her in Egypt, but finding » was | that = a to oe snr Octavius, he himself, and Cleopa put an cn ad d to her life by the pols on of inne, | 49_ asp. rards CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE, « monolith ter, | of we rene on the See, Baplend, ' *} ment, Lon Prather light in 1819, by Mehemet Ali, Pasha ot Beye cent, | 1 was brought to this country by Mr. avifie John Dixon, the engineer, at the expense aux | of Mr. Erasmus Wilson, in 1878. it UX- | weighs 180 tons. cate. | nC Se 2 in| ing time y ng the eccape of wa j from or into a ve el. The common 846: form was that of a float in a tall ve el, {63 | which rose by the indux of water from S to! an orifice above, thas pointing in succe ion ave: to lines at regular intervals on the sides of © ve el, He | "CLEVELAND. (1) The nocth-eastern d at! portion of Yorkshire, « of district idge. containing a rich iron-ore, bSS2Y | which is smelted at a oted| town which owes its prosperity, and " life | almost its existence, to its iron-works, olent | (2) A city in Ohio, U.S.A.. on the south shore of Lake Frie, where the Ohio Cana! 3 Ofj}connects the lake with the Ohio river. their | Cleveland is both an important manufacwho | turing town and a busy port. Its clef alled | industries are the iron manufactare and as. | petroleum refining, while its emplo alled | railway facilities make it second te — coge as a lake port; mea man; [s. 101]