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Jordan (ELIZABETH an American editor)

ELIZABETH, an American editor and writer, born in Milwaukee, in 1867. She graduated from the Convent of Notre Dame, Milwaukee, and was for ten years following on the editorial staff of the New York "World." She was editor of "Harper's Bazar" from 1900 to 1913, and from the latter year, was literary adviser to Harper and Brothers. She was a member of many women's organizations and was a prominent worker for woman suffrage. Her published writings include "Tales of the City Room" (1898); "Many Kingdoms" (1908); "Wings of Youth" (1917). She also wrote many plays. She contributed many short stories to American and English magazines.

JORULLO (Hō-rölyō), XURULLO, or XORULLO, a volcano of Mexico, about 75 miles S. S. W. of Morelia, and 80 miles from the Pacific Ocean; lat. 19° 10' N., lon. 101° 1' 45" W. The site of this remarkable mountain was formerly a fertile plain, about 2,890 feet above sealevel, but a violent eruption, on Sept. 28 and 29 , 1759, raised it to an elevation of 4,265 feet, and sent forth immense quantities of lava, with stones of great size. The elevation is about 4 square .

The elevation is about 4 square miles in area, and is covered with thousands of small mounds or hornitos (little ovens) from 6 to 9 feet high, from which, till recently, issued steam and sulphurous vapors. The San Pedro and Cuitimba, two rivers which formerly watered this tract, sink into the earth on the E. side, and appear again as hot springs on the W. side of the elevation.