Oracle
in anthropology, oracles are of high antiquity. They existed among the Egyptians (Herod. v: 89, viii: 82), and the poetry of the Greeks and the Romans is full of allusion to them. The Hebrews might lawfully, by the high sought responses from teraphim (Judges xvii: 5), and from the gods of surrounding nations (II Kings i: 2, 3, 6, 16). The responses were supposed to be given xvii: 5), and from the gods of surrounda person, as at Delphi and Cumæ, or through some object, as in the rustling of the sacred grove at Dodona. But in possesevery case there is present the idea of a power more than human taking pos sion of a person or thing, and making that person or thing the vehicle of the response. every case there is present the idea of a on the Gulf of Oran, 261 miles W. by S. power more than human taking posses- sion of. a person or thing, and making that person or thing the vehicle of the old Spanish town was destroyed by an earthquake, and possesses a Roman Catholic cathedral (1839), a grand mosque, a large military hospital, a college, a The harbor is protected on the N. and E. seminary, and two citadels or castles. of $1,400,000; alfa, iron ore, and cereals by moles constructed in 1887 at a cost are the chief of the exports. Oran was built by the Moors. During the second settlement. It was captured by the prosperous commercial town, and was celebrated for its cloth and arms and fine public buildings. But it was taken by the Spaniards in 1509 and made a penal settlement. It was captured by the by an earthquake, and shortly after was abandoned by the Spaniards, Turks in 1708, but retaken by the Spanaltogether aban iards in 1732. In 1790 it was destroyed the Turks occupying it again in 1792.
The French took possession of the town in 1831. Pop. about 125,000. known as the "wild man of the woods."
It is a dull, slothful animal, but possessed known as the "wild man of the woods."
It is a dull, slothful animal, but possessed ORANG OUTANG of great strength. These animals are now confined to the swampy forests of Sumatra and Borneo. Their height has the least reliable evidence of the existence of orangs in Borneo more than four been variously stated, but we have not feet two inches high. The legs are very short, the arms are disproportionately long, reaching to the ankle when the ani- ORANGE mal is placed in an erect position. The hair is long, ruddy-brown, with a decidedly red tinge, face dark, eyes and nose small, jaws prognathous, the hair falling over the forehead and backward over the neck; it is long on the limbs, with a downward direction on the upper, and an upward on the lower arm. There are neither cheek pouches nor natesal callosities, nor a tail, and the hips are covered with hair. The males have a longish beard, and they sometimes develop warty protuberances on each side of the face.
The resemblance to man in appearance is greatest in the females and in young animals. The head of a baby orang is not very different from that of an average child; but in the adult the muzzle is as well-marked a feature as in the Carnivora. The orang is arboreal, and forms a sort of nest or shelter among the trees. It never walks erect, unless when using its hands to support itself by branches overhead, or when attacked.