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PAUL SANFORD, 3d BARON, an English military officer; born Sept. 1, 1845, was educated at Eton and in 1864 became lieutenant of the Scots Guards. He served in Ireland, Egypt, Bechuanaland, was military attaché at Berlin, and saw active service in the Ashanti, Egyptian, and Boer wars.

Church and the Methodist Episcopal In the latter he was made commander of Church, South, which formerly composed the 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, in but one connection, but in 1844 divided on the question of slavery.

The following shows the strength of the principal Methodist bodies in the United States in 1919: 1899, and rendered signal service under Lords Kitchener and Roberts. On March 7, 1902. while leading a force of 1,200 men to Lichtenburg, he was attacked by the Boers under General De la Rey. The British were completely routed, ed, losing four guns, several hundred men in killed and captured, among the latter being Lord Methuen, who was, however, re- 19,122 2,108,061 leased on March 13. He was general 186,873 officer commanding-in-chief in South Branches. Ministers. Churches. Members.

Methodist Episcopal Methodist Epis- 18,642 29,377 3,718,396 copal, South 7,498 Methodist Protestant 1,340 2,464 METHYL Africa 1907-1909 and in 1911 was made field-marshal. but as it cannot exist in the free state, two such groups of atoms unite together whole group of substances known as the case of ethyl, methyl is the center of a whole group of substances known as the methyl group. retted hydrogen, marsh gas, or fire damp, is well known as the cause of explosions in coal mines. It is a light, inodorous gas, half as heavy as air; noning an explosive mixture with seven ing an explosive mixture with seven is obtained as a by-product in the manuis obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of beet-root sugar, and by the dry distillation of wood and from other Thus, the hydride of sources.

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