name of its inventor, is unknown. Prior to the
end of the thirteenth century, glass lenses were in use for the purpose
of assisting the eye in obtaining distinctness of vision. Galileo is
generally credited with being the first who constructed a telescope by
which he was enabled to make many of the great discoveries upon which
the science of astronomy stands for its foundation. 3. By good business
methods you can doubtless build up a trade such as that stated.
4. Inquire at a book store.

KICKAPOO.--1. At the beginning of the eleventh century it is said that
the Northmen attempted to plant a settlement in the locality known as
Rhode Island. In 1614, Block, the Dutch navigator, explored it, and the
Dutch traders afterward, seeing the marshy estuaries red with
cranberries, called it Roode Eylandt, "red island," afterward corrupted
into the name it now bears. Roger Williams, a Welsh-Puritan minister,
pastor of a church at Salem, was banished from the colony of
Massachusetts, fled to the head of Narraganset Bay, and there, with a
few followers, planted the seed of the commonwealth of Rhode Island in
1636. The place selected by him for settlement he called Providence.
2. The first wife of Julius Caesar was named Cornelia; the second was
Pompeia, a relative of the noted Pompey; and the third was Calpurnia.
3. Napoleon Bonaparte was born at Ajaccio, Corsica, August 15, 1769,
and died May 5, 1821, at St. Helena, to which island he had been exiled
after the battle of Waterloo.

NEMO.--The recipe for making a copying-pad and the ink used thereon was
given in No. 2, vol. V. --E. D. AND AUTHOR. We are fully supplied with
literary material by experienced writers. --SOLOMON C. Acrobats do not
use any artificial preparation to increase their suppleness. Constant
practice is the secret of the agility displayed by them. --W. B. The
construction of a photographic camera was detailed in No. 13, Vol. IV;
while the making of blue prints formed the subject of an article in No.
51, Vol. II. --NINTH AVENUE. Interesting articles on the subject of
electricity have been presented in Nos. 3 and 4, Vol. VI, and 16, Vol.
VII. --SUBSCRIBER. An ingenious, painstaking boy can construct a very
neat aeolian harp by following out the directions given in No. 16 of the
fifth volume. --COPPERHEAD. 1. The drawing of the binder shows
considerable ingenuity, and is doubtless novel and useful enough to
warrant patenting. 2. One of the simplest and best forms o