12 FEBRUARY 1870, page 12

Xanthippe.

I N the Bankruptcy Court of History there has of late years been a disposition to' whitewash' rather freely individuals, of greater or less notoriety, long accused of default in......

Measuring Star-heat.

L AST year the scientific world hailed with interest the dis- covery that heat comes to us from beyond the infinite depths which separate our earth from the fixed stars,......