[104] In Darwin's Zoönomy, page 529, the case is adduced of a man who did this before spectators. In Paris another did the same by swallowing air.
[105] In Vienna there was an Institute which made new sealing-wax out of old, and endowed poor persons with the proceeds.
[106] Such was the tasteless name by which Basedow was going to baptize a daughter, in memory of the appearing of an elementary work by subscription. See Schlichtegroll's Necrology.
[107] Wehestande, a parody of Ehestande, wedded state.
[108] An issue.
[109] A name given in some places to the consumption.
[110] A micrometer consists of fine threads stretched across in the telescope, which serve to measure the smallest distance.
[111] The transit-instrument, or culminatory, observes when a star has reached the highest point in its course.
[112] Autarchs; for monarchs or sole-rulers are etymologically distinguished from self-rulers.
[113] Ghosts of the dead.—Tr.