Each of these 16 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
a coeducational institution in Lewisburg, Pa.; organized in 1849, under the auspices of the Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 39; students, 885; 885; volumes in the library, 40,000; grounds and buil buildings valued at $853,960; productive funds, $561,075; president, Emory W. Hunt, LL. D.
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SIMON BOLIVAR, an American soldier and politician, born in Kentucky in 1823. He was graduated at West Point in 1840, and served in the Mexican War. He rose to distinction in the Confederate army during the Civil War, attaining the rank of Lieutenant- General. In 1896 he was nominated for Vice-President by the Gold Democrats, having previously served a term as Governor of Kentucky. He died in 1914.
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a kind of leaden shot larger than swan-shot. About 160 or 170 of them weigh a pound. They are especially designed to be used in hunting large game.
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the English name of rhamnus, a genus of plants, the typical one of the order rhamnaceæ (rhamnads). The berries of the common species are black, nauseous, and, as the specific name rhamnus catharticus imports, highly cathartic; they afford a yellow dye when unripe, as the bark of the shrub does a green one. They are sold as French berries. The alder buckthorn, again, has dark purple purgative state, dye berries, which, in an unripe and when ripe wool green and yellow, The bark bluish gray, blue, and green. iron, black. Of dyes yellow, and, with berries of the the foreign species, the , are used rock buckthorn, or R. saxatilis or Morocco to dye the Maroquin, leather, yellow, while the leaves of the are used by tea buckthorn, R. thezans, substitute for poor people in China as a known to the tea. The species best is the R. pharmacopeia of this country called cascara purshiana, otherwise sagrada.
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the English of plants name of mylocarpum, a genus ericaceæ (heathbelonging g to the order privet-like buckwheat tree, worts). The , is a native of mylocarpum ligustrinum Georgia.
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a term derived from the ," nearly Greek, "belonging to herdsmen It is espeequal to pastoral, from Latin. kind of pastoral poetry. cially used of a were Theocritus The great bucolic poets , Vergil's "Eclogues" Bion, Moschus; and Bucolica. are sometimes called
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a city of Ohio, the countyis on the Sanseat of Crawford co. It , Sandusky river, and on the Columbus , the Toledo and dusky, and Hocking Ohio Central, the New York Central, and the Pennsylvania railroads. It is which important agricultural lies the center of an fortified Upper Town on a hill; important industries, including the of the foot and stock-raising region. It has also manufacture of clay-working machinery, locomotive cranes, steam shovels, automobile and gas engines, plows, carriages wagons, etc. The city has a handand buildings, a public some park, fine county hospital. Pop. (1910) library, and a 8,122; (1920) 10,425.
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a town of India in a district of the same name, United provinces, consisting of an old and a new town, the former partly surrounded by ancient ramparts. There is a handsome mosque, American mission, etc. Pop. 39,000.
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or BUDDLEIA, a genus of plants belonging to the order scrophulariaceæ (figworts). The species are evergreen or deciduous shrubs from this country, Africa or Asia. B. neemda is one of the most beautiful plants in India. B. globosa, from Chile, is also highly ornamental. Fully 60 species of buddlea are known.
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a seaport town of Asiatic Turkey, on the N. shore of the Gulf of Kos, about 96 miles S. of Smyrna. It is the site of the ancient Halicarnassus, the birthplace of Herodotus and Dionysius. Pop. about 6,000. BUDWEIS (böd-vis', Czech BUDE JOVICE), a town of Bohemia, Czecho- Slovakia, on the navigable Moldau, 77 miles S. of Prague. It has a cathedral detached belfry dating from a about 1550, manufactures of stoneware, machines, lead pencils, beer, saltpeter; and trade in grain, wood, coals, and salt. Pop. about 45,000. In the neighborhood is Schloss Frauenberg (1840-1847), the seat of Prince Schwarzenberg.
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CLARENCE CLOUGH, an American editor and author, born at Laona, Chautauqua co., N. Y., July 29, He was connected with the New York " Tribune " from 1875 to 1881; 1881-1914 successively assistant, associate, and advisory editor of Century Magazine "; edited in conjunction with Robert Underwood Johnson, "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" (4 vols., 1887).
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DON CARLOS, an American military officer, born near Lowell, 0., March 23, 1818. He was graduated at West Point, in 1841, and served in the Mexican War. When the Civil War broke out he was adjutant-general of the regular army, and was made a Brigadier- General of Volunteers and attached to the Army of the Potomac. In November, 1861, he succeeded Gen. W. T. Sherman in command of the Department of the Ohio. He resigned from the volunteer service on May 23, 1864, and on June 1, following, also resigned his commission in the regular army. He was President of the Green River (Ky.) Iron Works from 1865 to 1870, when he engaged in coal mining. From 1885 to 1890 he served as United States Pension Agent at Louisville. He died near Rockport, Ky., Nov. 19, 1898.
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French BONAIRE (bwāni-rā), a West Indian island, 60 miles from the coast of Venezuela, and 30 E. of Curaçao, like which it belongs to the Dutch. It produces timber, cattle, cochineal, and salt. Area, 95 square miles; pop. about 7,000.
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a village of Mexico, 7 miles S. of Saltillo, where, on Feb. 22- 23, 1847, some 5,000 United States troops, under Taylor, defeated 20,000 Mexicans under Santa Anna.
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According to Wierius, a demon of the second class. He has naturally the form of a star, and is gifted with a knowledge of philosophy and of the virtues of medicinal herbs. He gives domestic feliticy and health to the sick. He has charge over fifteen legions.
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A device for polishing or reducing metals. Emery buffs are round or square sticks on which emery paper or cloth is glued. They are used to reduce the surfaces of metal. Fig. 43 illustrates a ring buff used for polishing the inside of rings, preferably used on a polishing lathe.
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