Oxford – Ochre
Oxford
ENGLAND Opposite page 84, Vol. VII LANDING AT JAFFA, PALESTINE
Oxford
ENGLAND STREET SCENE, JERUSALEM STREET SCENE, HEBRON Opposite page 84, Vol. VII LANDING AT JAFFA, PALESTINE CEDARS, MT. LEBANON THE RIVER JORDAN STREET SCENE, JERUSALEM STREET SCENE, HEBRON Opposite page 148, Vol. VII ROYAL PALMS, CUBA
Oak Park
a village of Illinois, in Cook co., 9 miles W. of Chicago. It is situated on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. It is a residential suburb of Chicago and contains the Scoville Institute and several other important public buildings. Pop. (1910) 19,444; (1920) 39,858.
Oban
a fashionable watering-place of Argyllshire, Scotland, 84 miles W. N.
W. of Stirling, and 136 of Edinburgh.
It is the great tourist headquarters of the West Highlands. Objects of interest are the picturesque ruins of Dunolly OBELISK and Dunstaffnage Castles, and a prehistoric cave-dwelling, discovered in 1890. Pop. (1916) 5,600.
Oberhausen
a city of Prussia in the Rhine province, on the right bank of the Rhine. Prior to the World War it had important industries, including iron foundries, rolling mills, chemical works, etc. In the neighborhood are important mines of coal, iron, and zinc. Pop. about 90,000.
Oberlin College
a coeducational non-sectarian institution in Oberlin, O., founded in 1833; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 175; students, 1,535; volumes in the library, 196,000; productive funds, $7,761,303; *income, $540,000; number of graduates, 6,709; president, H. C. King, D. D.
Oboe
a wind instrument of the reed kind, which at a very early date took its place as one of the essential instruments of the orchestra. It consists of a tube, made of box, ebony, or cocoawood, about
Obolus
in Greek antiquities, a small coin of ancient Greece, originally of copper, afterward of silver, the sixth part of an Attic drachma, and equal to two and one-half cents. Also a small weight, A GENERAL OBREGON the sixth part of an Attic drachma. In palæontology, a genus of Lingulidæ confined to the Silurian period; characteristic of the Lower Silurian.
Obongo
or ABONGO, a tribe of pigmies who live in different parts of French Kongo in west Africa. They are between four and five feet in height, are of a brown color, and have bushy hair which grows over their bodies as well as their heads. They are nomadic, follow fishing and hunting, and build conical grass huts. a
O'Brien
FITZ-JAMES, an Irish- American author; born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1828. His writings comprise "The Diamond Lens and Other Stories," and many poems. His collected works appeared in 1881. He died of wounds in the Civil War at Cumberland, Md., April 6, 1862.
Ocelot
Felis pardalis. The fur has a tawny reddish ground, marked with black spots, aggregated in spots and blotches. It ranges through the wooded OCELOT parts of tropical America, from Arkansas to Paraguay. Length, about four feet, legs short. It destroys a vast number of animals for the sake of sucking the blood. In captivity it is playful and gentle.
Ochre
a combination of peroxide of iron with water; but the name is generally applied to clays colored with the oxides of iron obtained from the ferruginous mud separated from tin and copper ores; and it is also found in natural beds some feet thick. Ochres vary in color from a pale sandy yellow to a brownish red.