Crossword-Solution: JANEIRO 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

After 1815 Portugal continued to be a sort of British province until the house of Braganza returned to the throne, leaving one of its members behind in Rio de Janeiro as Emperor of Brazil, the only American Empire which lasted for more than a few years, and which came to an end in 1889 when the country became a republic.

The first issue, of January 12, 1882, was only four pages, but it dealt with the question of insurance; plants at Santiago, Chili, and Rio de Janeiro; the European Company with 3,500,000 francs subscribed; the work in Paris, London, Strasburg, and Moscow; the laying of over six miles of street mains in New York; a patent decision in favor of Edison; and the size of safety catch wire.

CHAPTER II RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiro--Excursion north of Cape Frio--Great Evaporation--Slavery--Botofogo Bay--Terrestrial Planariae--Clouds on the Corcovado--Heavy Rain--Musical Frogs--Phosphorescent Insects--Elater, springing powers of--Blue Haze--Noise made by a Butterfly--Entomology--Ants--Wasp killing a Spider--Parasitical Spider--Artifices of an Epeira--Gregarious Spider--Spider with an unsymmetrical Web.

Titus made some guarded inquiries of the steward who had attended the sick man, and from him learned that he was down on the passenger list as Senor Pinto, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Don't you remember M.'s letter about the one he saw at Rio Janeiro? This is all very funny: but what is the use of knowing so much about things' teeth and hair? What is the use of learning Latin and Greek, and a dozen things more which you have to learn? You don't know yet: but wiser people than you tell you that they will be of use some day.