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Helena (City and county-seat)

a city and county-seat of Phillips co., Ark.; on the Mississippi river, and on the Missouri and North Arkansas, the Iron Mountain and Southern, and the Yazoo and Mississippi railroads, 90 miles S. W. of Memphis, Tenn. It has steamship communications with all important river ports, and is a shipping point for lumber, cotton, and cotton-seed oil. Its manufactures include !

HELENA HELL the most ancient and extensive cities of Egypt under the Pharaohs. It had a magnificent temple dedicated to Ra, and communicated with the Nile by lakes and canals. During the flourishing ages of the Egyptian monarchy the priests taught within the precincts of its temples, and both Eudoxus and Plato visited its famous schools. Here Joseph and Mary are said to have rested with the infant Christ. Near the village stands the Pillar of On, supposed to be the oldest Egyptian obelisk, 67½ feet high, and 6 feet broad at the base. The Turks were defeated here by the French in 1800. cotton oil, boxes, cotton goods, machinery, canned goods, and finished lumber. It has electric lights, public schools, public library, the Jefferson High School, Sacred Heart Academy, daily and weekly newspapers, and a National bank. Pop. (1910) 8,722; (1920) 9,112.