Yakima – Ygdrasil
Yakima
a city of Washington, the county-seat of Yakima co., formerly known as North Yakima, on the South- Pacific, the Oregon-Washington ern Railroad and Navigation Company, and other railroads. It is the center of an important live stock and lumbering region and has a hospital, a public library, Federal buildings, and excellent school buildings. Pop. (1910) 14,082; (1920) 18,539.
Yakima
a river of Washington, rising in the Cascade Mountains, and flowing S. E. into the Columbia, which it joins about 10 miles above the mouth of the Snake river. Its valley is irrigated, and is one of the most fertile region with important coal mines. in the State. The Yakima traverses a Length, about 175 miles.
Yam
the name given to the fleshy tubers of several species of Dioscorea extensively used for food in many tropical and subtropical countries, where they are also largely cultivated.
Yankton College
a coeducational institution in Yankton, S. D.; founded in 1881 under the auspices of the Congregational Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 25; students, 433; president, Rev. Henry K. Warren, LL. D.
Yantic
a river in eastern Connecticut. It unites with the Shetucket and Quinnebaug rivers about 3 miles S. of Norwich to form the Thames river. It has a swift current and affords excellent water power, which is extensively used by the mills and factories along its banks.
Yarmouth
a town and port of entry of Yarmouth co., Nova Scotia; on the Bay of Fundy, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Dominion Atlantic railroad; 90 miles S. of St. John, N. B. The town has extensive fishing, shipping, and manufacturing interests, Yarmouth Seminary, schools, daily and weekly newspapers, electric lights, and street railways. Pop. about 7,000.
Yarra-Yarra
the Australian river on which Melbourne, Victoria, is situated; length about 100 miles. On account of falls it is not navigable above Melbourne. See MELBOURNE.
Yeast
the yellow substance, having an acid reaction, produced during the vinous fermentation of saccharine fluids, rising to the surface, when the temperature of the fluid is high, in the form of a frothy, flocculent, viscid matter (surface yeast), and falling to the bottom (sediment yeast) when the temperature is low.
Yeats
WILLIAM BUTLER, an Irish poet; born in Dublin, Ireland, June 13, 1865. He wrote: "The Wanderings of Oisin" (1889); "John Sherman" (1893); "The Countess Kathleen" (1892); "A Book of Irish Verse" (1895); "The Secret Rose" (1897); "The Wind Among the Reeds" (1899); "Reveries from Childhood and Youth" (1916).
Yell
the second largest of the Shetland Islands; separated from the mainland by Yell Sound; 25 miles N. of Lerwick. It is about 17½ miles in length, and from half a mile to 6 miles in breadth. The surface is chiefly moorland, and fishing is the leading employment.
Yerkes Observatory
the observatory of Chicago University, at William's Bay, Wis., near the shore of Lake Geneva, 75 miles N. of Chicago, founded in 1892 by Charles T. Yerkes, of Chicago, and completed in 1895. The site, chosen with a view to escaping the smoke, dust, electric lights, and noise of a city, consists of 50 acres of wooded land.
Ygdrasil
or YGGDRASILL (ig' dra-sil), in Scandinavian mythology, the Cyc YOKOHAMA giant ash tree spread over the whole world reaching above the heavens, symbolizing the universe, the branches of which reach down to the under world, or Scandinavian hell.