Suchau
SUCHOW, previous to the Taiping rebellion, one of the largest cities in China; on the Imperial canal, 80 miles W. N. W. of Shanghai, in the province of Kiangsu. It stands on numerous islands separated by canals, and since 1896 has been accessible as a treaty port. The city walls have a circuit of SUCHET (sü-shā'), LOUIS GABRIEL, DUKE OF ALBUFERA, a French military officer; born in Lyons, France, March 2, 1770; entered the military 1770; 17 entered the military service at an early age (1790), and served with distinction under Napoleon, Masséna, Joubert, and Moreau in the Italian and Swiss campaigns. He attained the rank of lieutenant-general before he was 30, and in 1808 received the command of a division in Spain, and was almost constantly victorious till after the battle of Vittoria. His brilliant services in that country obtained him the marshal's staff, and the title of duke. of duke .
After the restoration Suchet was created peer of France. He lost his peerage after the battle of Waterloo, but recovered it in 1819. He died in Marseilles, France, Jan. 3, 1826. SUCKER or SUCKING FISH, a name applied popularly to the Remora, to the lump-sucker, and also to the fishes belonging to the teleostean genus Lipáris which is nearly allied to the lumpsuckers. The best-known forms are Montague's sucker, L. Montagui, and the common sucker or sea-snail, L. vulgaris, which adheres to stones and other fixed objects by means of their united ventral fins. They are small fishes, three or four inches long .