Shamrock
a ternate-leaved plant, adopted by the Irish as their national emblem. Many and warm have been the disputes to determine the veritable shamrock. Some writers contend for the Oxalis acetosella, or wood sorrel, the leaves of which unfold about St. Patrick's day; which while others maintain that the Trifolium repens, or white clover, is the favored plant. Legends make out that St. Patrick, when preaching the Gospel to the benighted inhabitants of Ireland, illustrated the great doctrine of the Trinity by the triple leaf of the shamrock.
Whether he plucked the bright, green leaf of the wood sorrel, or the more familiar herbage of the white clover, canhowever, now generally worn by Irish- not now be determined. The latter is, men on St. Patrick's day.
SHANGHAI (shang-hi'), a city and seaport of China, in the province of Kiangsu; near the junction of the Hwangpu and the Wu-sung rivers. The Chinese city proper is inclosed within walls 24 feet high, the streets being narrow and dirty, and the buildings low, crowded, and for the most part unimportant. In 1843 Shanghai was opened as one of the five treaty ports, and an important foreign settlement is now established (with SHANNON a separate government) outside the city walls. The Wu-sung here is about 3/4 here is about 34 mile wide, and increases to over 1 mile at its outlet into the Yang-tsze, at the port of Wu-sung. Along the bank of the river extends a wide "bund" or quay, with a bulwark of stone and numerous stone jetties, for landing and loading cargo. A municipal council is elected by the English and Americans, and another by the French, whose quarter is separately administered. The subjects and citizens of each nationality are under the protection of their respective consuls, and a complete judicial staff has been established, forming at Shanghai a supreme court, with jurisdiction over all British jur jurisdiction over all British subjects in China and Japan. The Chinese authorities retain complete control over all shipping dues, duties on imports and exports, etc. The chief imports are chier imports are cottons, yarns, woolens, kerosene, dyes, sugar, cotton machinery and metals; and the exports, hides, cotton yarn, wool, silk, tea, rice, and raw cotton. Most of the foreign trade is in the hands of British merchants. Pop. (1918 )
1,000,000.