Each of these 12 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 hut or small lodge. Formerly a temporary building of this character, one of many erected to shelter horsemen. Then it was extended to embrace any temporary erection for a soldier, to whatever arm of the service belonging. The plural, barracks, is now generally applied to a large structure, for the housing of troops.
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a native tal of a subdistrict in Bengal, on the E. town, capibank of the Hooghly, and 15 miles up the stream from Calcutta. Two Sepoy mutinies have occurred here, the first in 1824, when a regiment of Bengal infantry refused to go for service in the Burmese War, and again in the famous mutiny of 1857. Pop. about 18,000.
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a fish-the barracuda-found in the vicinity of the sphyræna Bahamas and other West Indian islands.
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the principal port of the Republic of Colombia and capital of the department of Atlantico, lies near the left bank of the main channel of the Magdalena, 15 miles distant from the sea. A railway runs to the coast; and the bar at the mouth of the river has been improved so as to enable sea-going vessels to pass up to Barranquilla, which possesses excellent wharfage accommodation. The inland traffic by river steamers is important. Pop. about 65,000.
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a city in Washington co., Vt., on the Central Vermont and the and Wells River railroads, Montpeller Montpelier 6 miles S. E. of Montpelier. Barre received a city charter in 1894; and has a wide reputation as one of the most important seats of the granite industry in the United States. The city contains, besides granite quarries, several industrial plants connected therewith; several banks; a library; opera house; Goddard daily and Spaulding High School, and weekly newspapers. tiers-état, (1910) 10,734; (1920) 10,008.
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The barrel axis, around which the mainspring coils. M. Rose calls attention to the importance of the proper diameter of barrel arbors, and points out that if the arbor is too large part of the elastic reaction of the spring will be wasted, and if too small there will be a rupture or straining of the spring and therefore a loss of elastic reaction. It is, then, he says, the thickness of spring that determines the diameter of the arbor or conversely, and from this it follows that the diameter is not an arbitrary quantity, since it depends on the duration of flexible and thickness of spring. See Mainsprings.
Only in American Watchmaker and Jeweler
An instrument for contracting distorted mainspring barrels. It consists of a die with a series of tapered holes and punches to correspond. The barrel being forced into a hole slightly smaller than its circumference necessarily contracts.
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A hook in the barrel to which the mainspring is attached. The mainspring is sometimes attached by means of a hook on the spring which fit in a hole in the barrel.
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A wheel which is placed on the barrel arbor and kept from turning backward, when the mainspring is wound, by a click or dog. BARTLETT, P. S. The first ladies watch made in America was turned out by the American Waltham Watch co., in 1861 and named the P. S. Bartlett. Previous to this however, in 1859 the company placed an 18 size movement on the market which was named the P. S. Bartlett, but its manufacture was discontinued in 1859. Mr. P. S. Bartlett, after whom these movements were named, was born in Amesbury, Mass, September 3, 1834. His first connection with watchmaking was in 1854, when he went to work for the Boston Watch Co., just after its removal to Waltham Mass., where he occupied the position of foreman of the plate and screw department. In 1864 he visited Chicago, and together with Messrs. Moseley, Adams and Blake, organized the National Watch Co., of Chicago, afterwards known as the Elgin National Watch Co. He subsequently signed a contract with the company for five years, as foreman of the plate and screw departments. He was for seven years assistant superintendent and general traveling agent for the company, during which time he introduced Elgin watches into Europe, selling them in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other large cities. He is now in the wholesale and retail watch and jewelry busines in Elgin.
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a volcano in the Andaman Sea, about 12° 15′ N. lat.; 93° 54 E. long. Its diameter is about 2 miles. There is an ancient crater over a mile in diameter, from the center of which a newer cone rises to a height of 1,015 feet. The volcano was active in 1789 and 1803, but is now semi-dormant. BARRÈS, MAURICE, a French novelist, born at Charmes-sur-Moselle in 1862. His first work was not especially notable, but he later developed remarkable powers of expression. These were devoted chiefly to attempts to induce the young men of the nation to remain in the provinces and build up national traditions. He was in 1906 elected to the Academy. He was for many years a member of the Chamber of Deputies. His best known works are "Les déracinés" (1897); "L'Appel au soldat" (1900); "Leurs figures" (1902); "Le voyage de Sparte" (1906); "En Italie" (1912).
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Lawrence (1838-1891), a noted American actor. He was a native of Paterson, New Jersey . In his professional career, Barrett was associated with Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, and other eminent actors. He was an admirer of Edwin Forrest. He acted in Philadelphia, Washington, New York , New Orleans , and the leading cities of the West. He was manager of an opera house in San Francisco . Among the characters personated with great ability were Othello, Richelieu, Hamlet, Shylock, Cassius, and King Lear . Through a number of tours he became known to a wide circle of playgoers. See Booth ; Jefferson
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James Matthew (1860-), a Scottish novelist, critic, and humorist. He was born at Kirriemuir, Forfarshire. He was graduated from Edinburgh University in 1882, and engaged in journalism almost immediately. A Window in Thrums, published in 1889, was his first widely read book, although Better Dead, When a Man's Single, and Auld Licht Idylls had all preceded it. Other writings are My Lady Nicotine, a Study in Smoke, The Little Minister, usually regarded as his best work, Sentimental Tommy, Margaret Ogilvie, The Little White Bird, and others. Most of his serious critical work has appeared in London newspapers and periodicals. The Little Minister has been successfully dramatized. Mr. Barrie was offered knighthood by King Edward, but declined the honor. For pathos fresh and unstrained; sympathy wide and human; pity tender and true, are the qualities which have made Barrie's Window in Thrums and The Little Minister shake the hearts of the human family. . . . Never a drop of gall mingles in the genial cup of his mirth; his humor penetrates to the heart of things, but never to wound.--Elliot Henderson.
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