Named Entity Results, Styria (Steiermark, Austria)

He conquered, however, partly in person, and partly by his lieutenants, Cantabria,Cantabria, in the north of Spain, now the Basque province. Aquitania and Pannonia,The ancient Pannonia includes Hungary and part of Austria, Styria and Carniola. Dalmatia, with all Illyricum and Rhaetia,The Rhaetian Alps are that part of the chain bordering on the Tyrol. besides the two Alpine nations, the Vindelici and the Salassii.The Vindelici principally occupied the country which is now the kingdom of Bavaria; and the Salassii, that part of Piedmont which includes the valley of Aost. He also checked the incursions of the Dacians, by cutting off three of their generals with vast armies, and drove the Germans beyond the river Elbe; removing two other tribes who submitted, the Ubii and Sicambri, into Gaul, and settling them in the country bordering on the Rhine. Other nations also, which broke into revolt, he reduced to submission. But he never made war upon any nation without just and necessary cause;

subject of this chapter. A mountainous country presents itself under four entirely different points of view in the combinations of a war; it may be the complete theatre of this war, or form but a zone of it; it is possible also that its whole surface may be mountainous, or that it will form but a belt of mountains, issuing from which, an army would debouch into vast and rich plains. If we except Switzerland, the Tyrol, the Noric provinces, (I comprehend in this denomination Carinthia, Styria, Carniola and Illyria,) a few provinces of Turkey and Hungary, Catalonia and Portugal, all the other countries of Europe seldom present but those mountainous belts. I do not make mention here of the Caucasus, because this country, the constant theatre of petty warfare, has not been thoroughly explored, it has always been regarded as a secondary affair in the great conflicts for empire, and it will never be the theatre of a great strategical operation. Then it is but a defile painful to pa

igies he rallied it, and triumphed in the five glorious days of Abensberg, of Siegenburg, of Landshut, of Eckmuhl, and of Ratisbon, which repaired the faults of the miserable logistics of his chief of the staff. We shall terminate these citations by the events which preceded and accompanied the passage of the Danube, before Wragram; the measures for causing to arrive at a given point on the island of Lobau, the corps of the Viceroy of Italy coming from Hungary, that of Marmont coming from Styria, and that of Bernadotte coming from Linz, are less astonishing still than the famous resolution or imperial decree of thirty-one articles which regulated the details of the passage and of the formation in the plains of Enzersdorf, in the presence of a hundred and forty thousand Austrians, and of five hundred pieces of artillery, as though it had been a military fete. All those masses were found united on the island the evening of the 4th of July, three bridges were thrown in the twinkling o

separate holes through the clay tuyere which is introduced at an angle near the bottom of the upright furnace. These Indian furnaces are miniatures of those in Styria, described in the work of Jars, a French metallurgist, 1750. The ores there worked have a notable percentage of manganese, which affects the result, being seemingly favorable to the retention of a certain amount of carbon, but resisting the combination of the larger amount necessary to make castiron. Styria was not the only European country in which the simple furnace just described was used for smelting iron ore, for those of Sweden and Norway, 300 years ago, were of substantially the fusible mass of iron, such as was produced by the processes above referred to as carried on in ancient times in Elba, both anciently and more lately in India and Styria, and elsewhere. This clears up much of the difficulty in the reading of the ancient records, where iron always appears in a malleable form, the tools used by t

an underlying law. VWhat law? Are shades of colour, grades of power? In every part of Europe people in the upper ranks are fairer than people in the lower ranks. In Spain and Sicily, countries mostly occupied by a swarthy race, the leading families are fair. One rule holds good on the Danube and on the Dneiper. Nearly all the Muscovite princes and princesses are blonde. Venice is the home of raven hair, yet this artistic city has an upper class with blue eyes and golden locks. In Styria, in Bavaria, in Switzerland, the better blood is almost always wedded to the lighter skin. All through the South of Europe, where the masses are dark, the kings and emperors are pale. The kings of Spain, Italy, and Greece are fair. The emperors of Austria and Russia are fair. The royal families of England, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Sweden are exceptionally fair. The conquerors of Sadowa and Sedan are very fair. The Pope is fair. The. Sultan is fairer than the ordinary Turk. The

uarrel This quarrel arose from the conduct of Captain Hall, during a visit to the Baroness Purgstall, an aged relative of Von Hammer,—by marriage,—who lived in Styria; and his account of her domestic life in a book entitled Schloss Hainfeld, or a Winter in Styria. The Baroness Purgstall was a native of Scotland, and appears inStyria. The Baroness Purgstall was a native of Scotland, and appears in Lockhart's Life of Scott, under her maiden name, as Miss Cranstoun. Von Hammer, who inherited a portion of her estate, and added the name of Purgstall to his own, published an answer to Captain Hall's work. . . . . I visited, too, Kaltenbaeck, the editor of the Austrian periodical for History and Statistics. He was immersed Captain Hall is a man of talent,—un home d'esprit,—he writes well, but he seems really to have been a little unreasonable in his visit at the old lady's castle in Styria. And again he laughed very heartily. There is nothing more important for a man—he then went on, mero motu suo— than to be reasonable and moderate in

nglish miles. For Austria it is of vast consequence, and, with the progress of the arts and improvements of peace, will become every day of more consequence; for, by itself and its large tributaries, such as the Inn, the Traun, and the Enns, it embraces and binds together two thirds of the monarchy. . . . We stopped for the night at St. Polten, A corruption of St. Hippolytus. . . . . a city of 4,000 inhabitants, well situated in the plain, and commanding fine views of the mountains of Styria, which we enjoyed from the public walk just outside the gate. While we were there, a procession of two hundred men, women, and children passed into the city, chanting hymns as they followed the banner of St. Hippolytus, the patron saint of their city. They were returning from the great monastery of Molk, fourteen English miles off, to which they had yesterday gone on a pilgrimage, to fulfil the vows of the city, made two hundred years ago, to avert a plague then raging among them, and whic

The arsenic eaters of Styria. --According to an article in the Pharmaceutical Journal, arsenic is commonly taken by the peasants in Styria, the Tyrol, and the Satzkammergut, principally by huntsmen and woodcutters, to improve their mind and prevent fatigue. The arsenic is taken pure in some warm liquid, as coffee, fasting, beginning with a bit the size of a pin's head, and increasing to that of a pea. The complexion and general appearance are much improved, and the parties using it seldomStyria, the Tyrol, and the Satzkammergut, principally by huntsmen and woodcutters, to improve their mind and prevent fatigue. The arsenic is taken pure in some warm liquid, as coffee, fasting, beginning with a bit the size of a pin's head, and increasing to that of a pea. The complexion and general appearance are much improved, and the parties using it seldom look so old as they really are. The first dose is always followed by slight symptoms of poisoning, such as burning pain in the stomach and sickness, but not very severe. Once begun, it can only be left off by very gradually diminishing the daily dose, as a sudden cessation causes sickness, burning pains in the stomach, and other symptoms of poisoning, very speedily followed by death. As a rule, arsenic eaters are very long lived, and are peculiarly exempt from infectious diseases, fevers, &c.

Death from arsenic eating. --A death recently occurred in Halifax from arsenic eating. The victim was a vigorous man, who, four years ago, saw some remarks in a magazine about the arsenic eaters of Styria, and the supposed beneficial effects of the poison upon the skin and lungs. He commenced the practice, and from that day, though previously in good health, he became, in the language of his friends, a "complaining man." Abdominal and gastric pains tormented him, but he persisted in the foolhardy experiment until a small overdose brought on all the symptoms of arsenic poisoning; and, in spite of all that could be done by the best physicians, resulted in death. Before he died, he declared that although he had pursued the fatal practice so long and so faithfully, he was conscious of having received no benefit whatever from it. No arsenic was discovered in any of the organs, although carefully analyzed, thus showing that the doses which destroyed life must have been very minute.