. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. an attachment that led them toregard her with homage far more exalted than mere loyalty, and she ac-quired such control over them as no man could have done in any of her excellencies and peculiarities were transmitted to her grand-son (the son of her daughter Joanna) Emperor Charles V., who on hisarrival at the age of manhood was the mightiest, the wealthiest, and inmany respects the most powerful prince in the world. Of the five childrenof Ferdinand and Isabella, the eldest daughter, Isabella, married Emanuelof Portugal ; Jua
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. an attachment that led them toregard her with homage far more exalted than mere loyalty, and she ac-quired such control over them as no man could have done in any of her excellencies and peculiarities were transmitted to her grand-son (the son of her daughter Joanna) Emperor Charles V., who on hisarrival at the age of manhood was the mightiest, the wealthiest, and inmany respects the most powerful prince in the world. Of the five childrenof Ferdinand and Isabella, the eldest daughter, Isabella, married Emanuelof Portugal ; Juan died at the age of twenty; Joanna married Philip,Archduke of Austria, and was the mother of Emperor Charles V. ; Maria,after the death of her sister, married Emanuel; and Catherine became theunhappy wife of Henry VIII. of England. The Spaniards who revertto the glorious reign of Queen Isabella are so smitten with her moralperfections that, even in depicting her personal, they borrow somewhat ofthe exaggerated coloring of romance. &*£&%?_——. SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ELECTRICITY Among the ancients a romantic tradition was handed along throughthe decades and generations, supposed to explain the origin of a certainmysterious substance, hard and brittle, but of a resinous lustre and exceed-ingly beautiful. The tradition was to the effect that when Phaethon washurled by the lightning of Jove into the Eridanus, the tear-drops of hisbroken-hearted sisters were petrified as they fell into the sea, and thecomely young women themselves were transformed by the pitying godsinto poplar trees. These poetical tear-drops were significantly namedfrom the Greek word for amber—which was one of the titles of the sungod—and the new material was believed by many of the philosophersof antiquity to be possessed of a soul. Perhaps, if those wise men couldhave foreseen the part it was to play in the conduct of human affairsduring the last quarter of the nineteenth century, they might have
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