Yoakum – Yule
Yoakum
a city of Texas, in De Witt and Lavaca cos. It is on the San Antonio and Arkansas Pass railroad. Its industries include railroad shops, a canning factory, an ice factory, flour mills, bottling works, etc. Pop. (1910) 4,657; (1920) 6,184.
York
a river of Virginia; formed by the union of the Pamunkey and Mattapony, flowing S. E. to Chesapeake bay, nearly opposite Cape Charles; 40 miles long by from 1 to 3 miles wide.
York Peninsula
in Queensland, Australia, the region lying on the E.
F ' side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and terminating at its N. end in Cape York.
Young
ANDREW WHITE, American political economist; born in Carlisle, N. Y., March 2, 1802. He wrote "Introduction to Science of Government" (1843); "Citizen's Manual of Government and Law" (1851); "The American Statesman: A Political History of the United States" (1855); "National Economy: A History of the American Protective System" (1860). He died in Warsaw, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1877.
Ysaye
EUGÈNE, a Belgian violinist; born in Liège, Belgium, July 16, 1858; studied at the Liège Conservatory; traveled extensively till his appointment as first violinist in the Brussels Conservatory; came to the United States in 1894; and appeared in Boston and New York with great success.
Ysselmonde
or IJSSELMONDE (i'sl-mon-duh), an island of the Netherlands, opposite the mouth of the Yssel.
Yule
the old English name for Christmas, still used provincially, as well as in Yule log, Yule cake, Yule tide.
For the nature of the old heathen festival, and the way in which the observances were overlaid or transformed by the Christian institution, see CHRISTMAS.