_Rotation of the Earth._--Has the experiment which about two years ago
was much talked of, for demonstrating the rotation of the earth by means
of a pendulum, been satisfactorily carried out and proved? And if so,
where is the best place for finding an account of it? The diagram by Mr.
Little in the _Illustrated London News_ does not seem to explain the
matter very fully.
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_Nelson and Wellington._--The following statement has been going the
round of the American newspapers since the death of the Duke of
Wellington. Is it true?--"Lord Nelson was the eighteenth in descent from
King Edward I., and {331} the Duke of Wellington was descended from the
same monarch."