Des Sœara — 01 the teaching Sisters, who taught In tha

public schools.

ti— 4- Curve de canton —A large parish containing two or

more churches, served by vicara under the parish

19. Baisser.— To train wall fruit trees: pear and peach trees being frequently îo treated.

10.--21. £itomA(re.— 1093.6 yards [shorter than the mile, which contains 1T60 yards.

18.— 1*. SaintrCyr.—L military school, tiro sod a half miles beyond Versailles, where young men are trained as officers loi' the Infantry, cavalry, and marine tnf antry . , a 16Sa Saint-Cyr was given by Louis XIV to lime de Main tenon, who founded here a college for two hundred and fifty young ladles of noble birth In reduced circumstances. Eacine wrote his tragedy of Estker for the young ladiee of St. Oyr, and. subsequently he wrote Athdtie also for them. The Revolution, suppressed the establishment, and In 1808 Napoleon transferred to St-Cyr the military school formerly established at Fontainebleau. Among the young ladiee turned out of St Oyr by the Assembly In 1792, when the college was dosed, was Marie- Anne de Bonaparte, sister of the then young captain of artillery.

H. Chasseurs d' Afrique— A corps of light cavalry raised lu 1831 for service In Algeria, which France was then occupied In conquering. It consisted at first of two regiments with headquarters at Algiers and Oran respectively. The men were recruited from the cavalry of the regular army and from volunteers, both colonists and natives. At the present time the corps consiste of four regiments and Is officered by Frenchmen exclusively.

26. Jtortotal des logis.— This rank in the French cavah? {•équivalent to that of sergeant in the Infantry, ai brigadier is to corporal. A cavalry ■ergeant-majol-- *• «ailed mariokal des logis chef.

Fat*. Un.

Il*— 16. Si mettre au wrf.— Tiirnod himself ont to grasa ; rusticated.

10. Qriêette.— The work-glrls wore, "* longtime ago" dresses made of a light gray stuff, s> mixture of silk, wool, or cotton, to which the name of grinettn woe given. The term was soon used to designate the