Carniola
a former province of the Austrian empire. It has an area of 3,856 square miles. It is bounded by Croatia on the E. and S., by_Carinthia on the square miles. It is bounded by Croatia CARNIOLA, a former province of the Austrian empire. It has an area of 3,856 on the E. and S., by Carinthia on the districts, where region and not very productive exin certain cept wheat, barley, wine, flax, and fruits are produced in considerable quantities. Its mineral resources are rich, the mines region and not very productive ex- cept in certain districts, where wheat, barley, wine, flax, and fruits are There are also valuable quarries of marble, and coal exists in paying quantities. The chief manufactures are iron, linen, There are also valuable quarries of marwoolen cloth. The railway facilities are excellent, there being nearly three hunble, and coal exists in paying quantities. The chief manufactures are iron, linen, bach is the capital and principal city lace, flannel, leather, worsted, and woolen cloth. The railway facilities are excellent, there being nearly three hungreat mirth and freedom during the week before the beginning of Lent. In the United States carnivals are annually celebrated at various places. That at New Orleans, known as Mardi Gras, is thousands of visitors. ing prolonged three days and attracting thousands of visitors. is given to those animals, including the the flesh-eating ing Mammalia. The name feline, canine, and ursine families, which is given to those animals, including the sub-orders, one terrestrial, the other are divided into two great groups, or aquatic. The first is the group of the sub-orders, one terrestrial, the other the fact that their feet are divided into Fissipedia, or "split-feet," so called from the fact that their feet are divided into well-marked toes; the second is the group of Pinnipedia, or "fin-feet" (seals, etc.), so called because the toes are bound together by skin-forming fins or flappers rather than feet. Another flappers rather than feet. classification is into three sections or Plantigrada, example, the Bear, and (3) tribes (1) Pinnigrada, or Pinnipedia, Digitigrada, examples, the Cat and the Plantigrada, example, the Bear, and (3) Dog.
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GUERITE, a French statesman, general, and strategist, born in Burgundy, May 13, 1753. In 1791 he was appointed the following March he was sent to the deputy to the constituent assembly. In Army of the North, where he took command and successfully repulsed the enemy. On his return he was made member of the Committee of Public Safety, and directed and organized the French armies with great ability and success.
As a member of the Committee Carnot was formally responsible for the decrees of Robespierre, but being incessantly ocwas formally responsible for the decrees little of the atrocities to which the sanction of his name was lent. In 1797 Carnot, having unsuccessfully opposed Bar- CARNOT CAROLINE ISLANDS ras, had to escape to Germany, but re-clared the good tidings of great joy; and turned, and was appointed Minister of War by Napoleon (1800). But he remained in principle an inflexible Republican, voted against the consulship for life, and protested against Napoleon's assumption of the imperial dignity. For seven years after this Carnot remained in retirement, publishing several valuable military works. In 1814 Napoleon gave him the chief command at Antwerp, and in 1815 the post of Minister of the Interior. After the Emperor's second fall he retired from France. He died in Magdeburg, Prussia, Aug. 3, 1823.