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Foote (SAMUEL an English actor born)

SAMUEL, an English actor; born in Truro, England, Jan. 27, 1720.

From Oxford he went to London to study law, but had to go on the stage From Oxford he went to London to failed; then began to give entertainstudy law, but had to go on the stage for a living; tried tragic parts and nary people and acting little farces by himself. He wrote farces, 22 in number; the most notable being "The Minor" (1760), a skit at the Methodists; "The himself. He wrote farces, 22 in numdied in Dover, England, Oct. 21, 1777. a city of Victoria, FOOTSCRAY, Australia. It is a suburb of Melbourne and has manufactures of sugar, soap, woolen goods, chemicals, machinery, etc.

In the neighborhood are important bluestone quarries. Pop. about 25,000. and has manufactures of sugar, soap, American statesman; born near Rainsboro, O., Jan. 5, 1846; enlisted as a pristone quarries. Pop. about 25,000. served till the end of the Civil War. He was graduated at Cornell University in 1869, and began law practice in Cincinnati, in the same year. He was judge FORBES of the Superior Court of Cincinnati in 1879-1882, governor of Ohio in 1885- 1887 and 1887-1889, and was United States Senator in 1897-1903. He ran for senator in 1914 against Warren G.

Harding and was defeated. He died in 1917.

The body is contained within a calcaremals belonging to the sub-kingdom Protozoa, and the class RHIZOPODA (q. v.). ous test or shell, which is polythalamous The body is contained within a calcareform. The outer surface presents a punc- tate or dotted appearance, produced by or spiral, or it may tend to the pyramidal tate or dotted appearance, produced by form. The outer surface presents a puncor small apertures. Foraminifers are the presence of very numerous foramina, always of small size, and often indeed salt water, they are exclusively marine. Sometimes their shells constitute sea sand. In the Atlantic, at a depth of 3,000 fresh and salt water, they are exclusively marine, Sometimes their shells lls constitute sea sand. In the Atlantic, at a depth of 3,000 fathoms, there is an ooze composed alformed is a direct continuation of the white chalk deposit, having gone on apformed is a direct continuation of the white chalk deposit, having gone on apparently through the whole Tertiary period. Drs. Carpenter and Parker, and Prof. T. Rupert Jones have divided the Foraminifera thus:

Sub-order I.-Imperforata. Families: (1) (1) Gromida, (2) Miliolida, (3) Lituolida.

Sub-order II. - Perforata. Families: (1) Lagenida, (2) Globigerinida, and (3) Nummulinida.

The exceedingly antique Eozoön of the generally believed to be, was apparently a foraminifer. Forms more unequiv- Laurentian rocks, if organic, as it is a foraminifer. Forms more unequivocal, some of them very like recent species, occur in the Silurian, the Carboniferous, and other strata. They are chalk being almost entirely composed of found through all the Secondary period, their cases. They increase in number and importance in the Tertiary. The numniferous animals. mulites of the Midde Eocene are forami-

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