Sheldon
CHARLES MONROE, an American clergyman; born in Wellsville, N. Y., Feb. 26, b. 26, 1857; was graduated at Brown University in 1883 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1886; was ordained in the Congregational Church the same year, and became pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Topeka, Kan., in 1899. In 1912 he resigned to become a "minister-at-large." He was recalled to the Central Church in 1915.
He edited the Topeka "Capital" for one week in 1900, as a distinctly Christian SHELLAC SHELLEY of Dutch independence; and they appear himself in opposition to the constituted to have been generally adopted by about authorities by refusing to submit to fag- 1634. Formerly every shell was a hollow ging. At Oxford he published anonysphere of cast iron, having a fusehole an inch across, through which the charge was inserted, consisting of pieces of metal and powder to burst the shell. The hole was plugged by a fuse, timed to communicate fire to the charge after the lapse of a certain number of seconds. Since the introduction of rifled ordnance, the shell has become the commonest form of projectile. It has ceased to be spherical, and is usually of cylindrical form and pointed at the end. In the World War vast quantities of large explosive shells were used to blast the way for attacks.
See PROJECTILE; ARTILLERY; AMMUNI- TION; EXPLOSIVES.