Jevons
WILLIAM STANLEY, an English logician; born in Liverpool, in 1835; was educated at University College, London; held an appointment in the royal mint in Australia from 1854 to 1859; graduated at London University in 1862; was appointed Professor of Logic, Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Owens College, Manchester, afterward Professor of Political Economy in University College, London, a post which he resigned in 1881. Among his works are versity College, London, a post which he resigned in 1881. Among his works are "Principles of Science" (1874); and "Theory of Political Economy" (1871) questions. He was drowned in 1882. cal personage who forms the subject of many popular traditions. According to on his way to execution, the soldiers begged that He might be allowed to enter for a few moments and rest; but he not only refused, but ordered Him off. Jesus replied, "Thou shalt wander on the earth till I return." Driven by fear and remorse, he has since wandered, according to the command of our Lord, from place to place, and has in vain sought death.
The legend first appears in the Chronicle to the command of our Lord, from place where the Wandering Jew is called Cartaphilus, and is said to have been a servant of Pilate. His name in the later legends is Ahasuerus. This legend has formed the subject of long poems by Schubert and Mosen; of a tragedy by Klingmann; of a mystico-philosophical Alexandre Dumas the elder, M. Œlckers, and David Hoffman ("Chronicles Se- Alexandre Dumas the elder, M. Elckers, and David Hoffman ("Chronicles Se- Eugene Sue; "The Prince of India," by philus"); "The Wandering Jew," by Eugene Sue; "The Prince of India," by Lew Wallace; and of numerous small lyrical pieces.
Pedilanthus tithy- JEW BUSH, biacex. It grows in the West Indies, and is used in decoction as an antisyphiliand is used in decoction as an antisyphilitic, and in cases of suppression of the menses. a for It is also called milk plant. name collective JEWELRY, articles intended for personal decora- tion, made of precious metals, which may enamels. be enriched with stones or tween the terms gem and jewel; the Popularly, there is much confusion beformer belongs especially to engraved stones.
Gold is the Before the use of metals was known, jewelry, if it can be so termed, consisted of carved beads and fragments of such bright substances as were at the com- mand of prehistoric man. Gold is the mand of prehistoric man. first metal of which there is any mention in literature, and there is no doubt that, being always found native, it was the first to be used by mankind. Among the numerous finds of gold jewelry of prehistoric times there are many specimens which show that the early artificers possessed considerable command over their material in the way of hammering out plates to uniform thickness, drawing or beating the metal into wire, and plaiting and twisting it into torques, armillæ, rings, and other forms of ornament. In these earliest gold ornaments ment other than that what could be produced by the hammer; and it is only by duced by the hammer; and it is only by engraving, and embossing make their appearance.
The distinction between jewelry of the present day and that of earlier times is found in the fundamental fact that the old work is the creation of the craftsman, while the modern jewel is the prodman, while the modern jewel is the prodlabor-saving machines and appliances labor saving machines and appliances wares.