These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Butler College, Butt, Butte.
a coeducational institution, in Indianapolis, Ind.; organized in 1855; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 24; students, 756; volumes in the library, 15,000; president, T. C. Howe, Ph. D.
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ISAAC, an Irish patriot; the first to make political use of the phrase "Home Rule"; was the son of a Protestant rector, and was born in County Donegal, Sept. 16, 1813. Educated at Raphoe and at Trinity College, Dublin, he gained a brilliant reputation for his accomplished scholarship. In 1852 he was elected to Parliament as a Liberal Conservative for Youghal, for which constituency he sat until 1865. He defended Smith O'Brien and others in the State trials of 1848, and, with equal fearlessness and self-devotion, all the Fenian prisoners between the years 1865 and 1869. In 1871 he was elected for the city of Limerick to lead the Home Rule party, but soon found that he could not control them. He died May 5, 1879.
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but, the seat of Silverbow County, Montana. It is noted as the largest mining town in the world. There are ores of silver and gold, but the energy of the town is devoted almost exclusively to the mining of copper. The Anaconda Mine and others yield over half the copper produced in the United States . The mines are apparently inexhaustible. Lack of abundant water for washing ores is a great drawback. Otherwise the city would increase still more rapidly in population. There are many fine public buildings and handsome residences. There are few cities in the Union where money is more plentiful, especially when the mines are worked to their full capacity. The sulphur fumes kill off vegetation so that nothing green can grow for some distance around. The present population is about 30,000, depending entirely on the mines and miners. There are no nearby agricultural or grazing interests, but Butte is a commercial center, and does considerable business with the surrounding territory. See Copper ; Montana 2026 Editor's Note: The copper the entry celebrates wired the electrical age — and left a wound. When the mines closed, groundwater flooded the vast open pit, and the Berkeley Pit is now a mile-long lake of acidic, metal-laden water so toxic that flocks of migrating snow geese landing on it have died in the thousands. It is one of the largest Superfund sites in America — and, improbably, a paying tourist attraction. (Ed: BR 2026-07-07)
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a French word used in the United States for an abrupt, and usually isolated, eminence, sometimes appearing in the form of a lofty turret. They T occur in picturesque grandeur along the banks of the Columbia river, in Oregon, and in the neighborhood of Butte, Mont.
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a city and county-seat of Silverbow co., Mont.; on the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, and other railroad railroads. It is one of the largest largest mining towns in the world, the mining industry being principally confined to copper mining, although there are valuable gold and silver mines. The Anaconda copper mines are located here. The city is the trade and jobbing center for southern and western Montana; has an extensive trolley system; gas and electric lights; National banks; public State School of Mines, etc. Pop. (1910) 39,165; (1920) 41,611.
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The devil gives to the witches of Sweden cats which are called carriers, because they are sent by their mistresses to steal in the neighbourhood. The greedy animals on such occasions cannot forbear to satisfy their own appetites. Sometimes they eat to repletion and are obliged to disgorge their stolen meal. Their vomit is always found in kitchen gardens, is of a yellow colour, and is called witches' butter. Magic. Burmese magic consists in the making of charms the manufacture of occult medicine which will cause hallucination, second sight , the prophetic state, invisibility, or invulnerability. It is frequently sympathetic." (See Magic) and overlaps into necromancy and astrology. It does not appear to be at all ceremonial, and is to a great extent unsophisticated, save where it has been influenced Byron, Sir John: (See Haunted Houses .) Byron, Lord (See Haunted Houses .)
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KENYON LEECH, an American educator, born in Lapeer, Mich., in 1868. He graduated from the University of Michigan and took a special course at the Michigan Agricultural College. He became editor of the "Michigan Grange Visitor" in 1892. He was superintendent of the Michigan Farmers' Institute and field agent of the Michigan Agricultural College from 1895 to 1899. In 1903 he was chosen president of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. Three years later he became president of the Agricultural College of Massachusetts. In 1916-1917 he was president of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, and in 1917-1918 chairman of the Massachusetts Committee of Food Production and Conservation. He also served on many other committees of a similar nature. Apart from articles in periodicals, his chief work is "The Country Church and the Rural Problem" (1911).
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DANIEL, an American soldier, born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1831. At the outbreak of the Civil 12th New War he was Colonel of the York Militia. He served in the Peninsular campaign, and under Pope and Fredericksburg McClellan in 1862. At he commanded the 5th Corps, and at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg was chief of staff. He served as chief of staff to Hooker at Lookout Mountain, and Ringgold, and Pea Vine Creek; and division at Buzzard's commanded a Roost, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Mountain, and Roost, Church, ch, Kenesaw, Lost other battles. He was brevetted Major- General in the regular army. He resigned in 1869, and became chief of the United States sub-treasury in New York . He is author of "Camp and Out- City post Duty" (1862). He died in 1901.
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the residue of cream after the butter has been removed by churning. It forms a wholesome and agreeable as well as a nourishing drink in hot weather. It possesses the slightly acid taste from the acidity developed in ripening the cream. In composition it retains the ash ingredients, casein, and sugar of ordinary milk, while, on account of small particles of butter being left in it, it is not devoid of fatty matter. When the whole milk is churned, the resulting buttermilk is inferior both in taste and quality. In the country districts of both Ireland and Scotland it is commonly taken with porridge or potatoes. Buttermilk is light and digestible, and is used as a beverage in the treatment of certain diseases.
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