Albay
a province in the S. E. part of Luzon, Philippine Islands, and the richest hemp-growing district on the island. In January, 1900, Brig. Gen. William A. Kobbe, United States Volunteers, was appointed military governor of the province and Catanduanes Island, with temporary authority over Samar and Leyte Islands , for the purpose of occupying and opening to trade the various hemp ports . He had several sharp fights to gain possession of his new command. Pop. about 250,000.
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Albert Lea
a city of Minnesota, the county-seat of Freeborn co., about 100 miles S. of Minneapolis. It is on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Minneapolis and St. Louis, and Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Iowa Central, and the Illinois Central railroads. Its fine natural surroundings make it a popular summer resort. It has two lakes, parks, and boulevards. In the city are a handsome court house, Albert Lea College for Women, and Luther Academy. It is the center of an extensive agricultural and dairying region. Its industries include gas-engine works and a paper-box factory, tank factories, creameries, packing houses. Pop. (1910) 6,112; (1920) 8,056.
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Albert Nyanza
ni-an za, one of the great lakes of Central Africa. It lies in the great rift between Uganda and the Congo State. Its surface is 2,720 feet above the level of the sea. The lake discharges its waters northward through the White Nile. It is ninety-seven miles in length, and is about one-fourth as wide. It is about one-fifteenth as large as the Victoria Nyanza . The shores are picturesque, mountains and cliffs rising from 1,500 to 7,000 feet above the surface of the lake. Nyanza is a Bantu word meaning great water. The lake was first visited by Sir Samuel Baker in 1864. It was named for Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. See Nyanza; Uganda
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Albertson
CHARLES CARROLL, an American clergyman; born in Plainfield, Ind., in 1865. He studied law and afterward theology at the Garrett Biblical Institute and the Northwestern University, and then served as pastor in several cities in New York and Pennsylvania. From 1899 to 1904 he was pastor in Philadelphia and from 1904 to 1913 he was pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of Rochester, N. Y. In 1913 he became pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn . He was the founder and president of the Book Lovers' Guild and lecturer for the American Philosophical Society. He edited several works and was the author of many books, sermons, and essays including "Death and Afterwards " (1907); "College Sermons" (1912); "Distinctive Ideas of Jesus" (1915) .
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Albi
or ALBY, the capital of the department of Tarn, France; the ancient Albiga; a stronghold of the Albigenses, to whom it gave their name. The Cathedral of St. Cecilia is chiefly of the 14th century, with Italian frescoes dating from about 1505. Pop. about 25,000.
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Albigerius
A Carthaginian soothsayer mentioned by St. issued against the heretics . Augustine. He would fall into strange ecstacies in which his soul, separated from his body, would travel abroad and find out what was taking place in distant parts. He could read people's inmost thoughts, and discover anything he wished to learn. These wonders were ascribed to the agency of the Devil . St. Augustine also speaks of another case, in which the possessed man was ill of a fever. Though not in a trance, but wide awake, he saw the priest who was coming to visit him while he was yet six leagues away, and told the company assembled round his couch the exact moment when the good man would arrive.
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Albino
a human being or animal abnormally white, with pinkish eyes. The phenomenon must have struck most people in the case of white mice and white rabbits. A human albino has the skin preternaturally fair. The hairs on the head and body are white , the eyes a pinkish appearance; moreover they are painful when exp exposed to light of even the ordinary intensity.
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Albinos
al-bi nos, persons or animals whose skin and hair are lacking in coloring matter. The hair of an albino is much whiter than so-called light or flaxen hair. Differences in complexion, at least differences in hue, are due to the different colors of a pigment which nature stores between the transparent cuticle and the true skin. Albinos lack this coloring pigment. In other respects they are like other people. Albinos are found among all races. A negro albino is, of course, more noticeable, as a colorless, white haired negro must be. Owing to this want of pigment the blood vessels of an albino's eye are visible all the time, and give it a fiery, bloodshot appearance. An albino is sensitive to strong light, but can see better at night than other people. Lack of coloring matter, or albinism, has been observed in domestic animals and in birds. Dogs, cats, horses, sheep, hares, rabbits, rats, and mice afford examples of albinos. The famous white elephants of Siam are albinos. The white zebu of India, the sacred bull led in religious festivals, is simply an albino. An albino trout is one of the curiosities of the fish kingdom.
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Albion College
a coeducational institution in Albion, Mich., organized under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported in 1919: Professors and instructors, 24; students, 560; president, Samuel Dickie, LL. D.
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Alboin
a king of Lombardy, who, after having slain Cunimund, King of the Gepidæ, married his daughter Rosamond. He was slain in 574, by an assassin instigated by his wife.
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Albolene
a hydrocarbon oil used in medicine to carry remedies to be sprayed into the nose and deeper air passages. It is also used for dressing wounds. It is a petroleum product.
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Albright College
a coeducational institution for higher learning under the control of the Knight Evangelic Church at Myerstown, Pa. There were in 1919-1920, 232 students and 20 instructors. The library contains about 10,000 volumes. The property is valued at about $150,000, and the income about $30,000 annually. President, Rev. L. C. Hunt, A. D.
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Albumazar
An astrologer of the ninth century, born in Korassan, known principally by his astrological treatise, entitled, Thousands of Years, in which he declares that the world could only have been created when the seven planets were in conjunction in the first degree of the ram, and that the end of the world would take place when these seven planets (the number has now risen to twelve) will be together in the last degree of the fish. Several of Albumazar's treatises on astrology have been printed in Germany , of which one was his Tractus Florum Astrologiæ, Augsburg, 1488. (See Astrology .) ،،
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