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Baron George Von Bunsen, member of the Imperial and Prussian Parliament, will give a lecture here tonight, on "Election Methods in Germany" (the nomination, canvass, election, and subsequent relation to constituents) at No. 11 Sever Hall...
...invention, has just been made by Professor Wolcott Gibbs, of our University, and is known as the Ammonic Nitrate Battery. This is the second improved species of battery that Professor Gibbs has invented, the first being the Bichromate Potash Battery, which has already taken the place of the old Bunsen Battery on the Western Union Telegraph lines. These batteries are in form like the Bunsen Battery; the Bichromate Battery, though improving little on the Bunsen in cleanness, yet gets rid of the fumes which make the latter battery so disagreeable for use. The Ammonic Nitrate Battery gives forth no fumes...
...constant struggle to keep his poetical nature in restraint. His comparison of a sleeping man to an oyster or cockle, his simile in regard to the brains, - that some retain impressions like marble, others like sandstone, others like sand, - and his chemical metaphor about the flames of a Bunsen burner calcining the images impressed on the memory to dust, are fine examples of his wildly poetical temperament. But we must not forget his celebrated figure which made such an impression on us that we remember it in full, and will quote: "The ideas of our youth, like the good children...
Sound sweet like the water in Bunsen's pump...