Thoburn
JAMES ville, O., March 7, 1836; was graduated American clergyman; born in St. Clairs. THOBURN, JAMES MILLS, an MILLS, Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist at Allegheny College in 1857; joined the Episcopal Church in 1858; and engaged in missionary work in India in 1859. He and in the latter year was elected misence in the United States in 1886-1888, devoted himself to mission work until and in the latter year was elected mis- 1908. He was author of "My Missionary ary Sermons"; "India and Malaysia"; "Light in the East"; "The Deaconess and "The Church of the Pentecost" (1901), "The Christian Conquest of India," etc. lands, in the province of Zeeland, N. of It has a rich soil, and is protected by madder, beans, ucts. The chief town has the same name. ans, and potatoes are its prodrianus), welted thistle (C. acanthoides), was presiding elder at the India Conferslender-flowered thistle (C. tenuiflorous), the spear thistle (Cnicus lanceolatus), and field thistle (Cnicus arvensis), a well-known plant very troublesome to the farmer. The blessed thistle, Carduus benedictus of the pharmacopeias, Cnicus benedictus or Cirsium benedictum of modern botanists, is a native of the Levant, and is a laxative and tonic medicine. The cotton thistle belongs to the genus Onopordon. The common cotton thistle (O. Acanthium) attains a height of from four to six feet. It is often regarded as the Scotch thistle, but it is doubtful whether the thistle which constitutes the Scotch national badge has any existing type, though the stemless thistle (Cnicus acaulis or Cirsium acaule) is in many districts of Scotland looked on as the true Scotch thistle.
Some dozen species of thistle are common in the United States, spreading from New England to Florida; Canada thistle is one of the severest pests of the New England to Florida; Canada thisfarmer, W. and S. THISTLE, ORDER OF THE, a Scotch order of knighthood, sometimes called the Order of St. Andrew. It was instituted by James VII. (James II. of England) nated. It fell into abeyance during the reign of William and Mary, and was present constituted, the order consists of the British sovereign and knights to the number of 16. The insignia consists of the British sovereign and knights to The collar is composed of golden thistles and leaves connected by crossed sprigs