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Hiroshima – Hog-Rat

Hiroshima

a city of Japan, the capital of the Province of Aki. It is in the southwestern part of the island of Hondo. It is an important commercial city, and is the center of the trade in lacquered ware, bronze, and other objects of art. Pop. about 145,000.

Hirschberg

a city of Silesia, Germany. Prior to the World War it had important manufactures of linen, lace, cotton goods, cement, etc. Pop. about

Hitchcock

ETHAN ALLEN, an American diplomatist; born in Mobile, Ala., Sept. 19, 1835; received an academic education and entered mercantile life; subsequently president of railway and mining companies. In 1897 he became United States minister to Russia; in 1898, ambassador; and in 1899, Secretary of the Interior in McKinley's Cabinet. He died in 1909.

Hoar

GEORGE FRISBIE, an American statesman; born in Concord, Mass., HOBART the crested touraco. The plumage is brown streaked with white, and the head has a movable crest. It is of the size of a pheasant, and has an enormous crop with a very small gizzard.

Hoarseness

an affection of the throat causing harshness and roughness of voice, due to irregular and imperfect bringing together of the vocal cords, most frequently from swelling of the mucous membrane of the cords, and excessive secretion of mucus in their neighborhood.

Hobbema

MEINDERT or MIN- DERHOUT (hob'ēmä), a Dutch landscape painter; born in Amsterdam in 1638. His paintings consist chiefly of forest scenes, ruins, villages, etc., and are highly valued for their excellence in perspective and coloring. The figures in them were generally painted by others. He died in 1709.

Hochheim

a town of Prussia in Hesse-Nassau, on the right bank of the Main, 3 miles E. of Mainz. Here is produced the excellent white wine known as "Hochheimer," whence was derived, before 1625, the English name "Hock," now applied loosely to almost any white Rhenish wine.

HÖCHSTADT. See BLENHEIM.

Hoffman

CHARLES FENNO, an man novelist; born in Greifswald, Oct.

Hoetzendorf

BARON FRANZ 19, York City in 1829. He was educated at an American clergyman; born in New

Hoffman

or HOFFMANN, MANN, the name of several Germans distinguished for their medical knowledge. MORITZ

Hog-Plum

the popular name of the plants belonging to the genus Spondias, order Anacardiaceæ. Some of the species yield pleasant fruits, as S. purpurea and S. lutea of the West Indies, the species generally called hog-plum, because their fruit is a common food for hogs.

Hog-Rat

a genus (Capromys) of rodent animals, family Muridæ (mice), different species of which, including the musk-cavy, are found in the West Indies.