Ca Ira
a popular Revolution, so named from its refrain: Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira! Les aristocrates à la lanterne! ("Ah! it will go, it will go, it will go! To the lamp-post with the aristocrats!") Like the "Marseillaise," the "Carmagnole," and the "Chant du Départ," it became a French national song, and was styled the "Carillon National." The worthless rubbish words, which are enough, were due to a street singer named Ladré; the melody to Becourt, a stage drummer. The song was prohibited by the Directory in 1797.
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Caaba
or KAABA, the Mohammedan temple at Mecca, especially a small oratory within, adored by Mohammedans as containing the black stone said to have been given by an angel to Abraham on the occasion of building the original Caaba.
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Cab
a two or four-wheeled vehicle drawn usually by one horse, and plying for hire. The cab is a closed carriage. The driver sits on an outer seat. A bus plies over a regular route and is open to all who care to enter and pay a regular fare. A cab belongs exclusively to the person who hires it, being for the time a private carriage. In all important cities cabs stand near passenger stations and near large hotels waiting for fares. There are between 15,000 and 20,000 cabs in Paris. These cabs seat two persons. The fare is thirty cents for an ordinary drive, or forty cents an hour. Tables of legal fares are posted in the cab. In case of dispute the driver may be required to drive to a police station. In London there are about 10,000 cabs. Two persons are carried a mile for a shilling, equivalent to a quarter of a dollar. The price in Berlin is a mark, about the same. American prices are much higher, but are controlled likewise by ordinance.
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Cabala
ka-bal', a, the oral law of the Jewish rabbis, supposed to have been received by direct revelation and handed down from father to son by word of mouth. It is in reality a sort of occult science founded on the belief that every word, letter, and accent of the Hebrew scriptures contained some hidden meaning. The Cabalists--those versed in the cabala--claimed by interpreting these secret meanings they could perform miracles and foretell future events.
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Cabanel
ALEXANDRE, a French historical painter, born in Montpellier, Sept. 28, 1823. His subjects are drawn from the Bible or from poetry and legend, and are almost without exception of a morbid and sensuous character. Thus from the Bible he takes the repulsive story of "Tamar," and also paints the "Sulamite Listening to the Voice of Her Lover." This latter picture is in the Wolfe collection, Metropolitan Museum of New York York . Cabanel also painted many portraits. He died in Paris, Jan. 23, 1889.
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Cabbage Butterfly
Important: Safety Warning This page recommends pest-control substances such as arsenic compounds, strychnine, or cyanide — in some cases applied to food crops. These substances are lethal to humans and animals, and their use is now banned or strictly controlled. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. a name given to several species of butterfly, especially Pontia, or Pieris brassicæ, a large white butterfly, the larvæ of which destroy cruciferous plants, particularly of the cabbage tribe. CABBAGE MOTH (Mamestra brassica), a species of moth, the caterpillar of which feeds on cabbage and turnip leaves, and is sometimes very destructive. The caterpillar is greenish-black, \ and changes to a chestnut chrysalis in The perfect insect is preautumn. dominantly of a rich mottled-brown color, beautiful markings. The winter with chrysalids should be destroyed when turned up in digging; the voracious grubs should be picked away from the cabbages, and the stems may be very profitably protected by making a ring in the ground with spirit of tar, quicklime, or, best of all, gas-lime.
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Cabbage Rose
a species of rose (Rosa centifolia) of many varieties, supposed to have been cultivated from ancient times, and eminently fitted for the manufacture of rose water and attar from its fragrance. It has a large, rounded, and compact flower. Called also Provence rose.
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Cabbala
or KABBALAH, a of Jewish theosophy, bearing a certain similarity to Neo-Platonism. Its founders are considered by Dr. Ginsburg to have been Isaac the Blind and his disciples Ezra and Azariel of Zerona, who flourished between A. D. 1200 and 1230. It was designed to oppose the philosophical system of Maimonides. The cabbala represented God, called Ain Soph, meaning without end or boundless, as being ing utterly inconceivable. He has become known, however, by means of ten intelligences, named Crown, Wisdom, Intelligence, Love, Justice, etc., whom he has brought into being, and by whom he created and now governs the world.
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Cabell
JAMES BRANCH, an American writer, born in Richmond, Va., in 1879. He graduated from William and Mary College in 1898 and for a time worked on the staffs of several newspapers. He was a frequent contributor of short stories to magazines and also wrote verses, essays, and papers on historical and biographical subjects. His novels include "The Eagle's Shadow" (1904); "The Soul of Melicent" (1913); and "Jurgen" (1919). From 1916 he was historian of the Virginia Society of Colonial Wars, and from 1919 was editor of the Virginia War History Commission.
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Cabell (II)
JAMES LAWRENCE, an American sanitarian, born in Nelson county, Va., Aug. 26, 1813. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, later becoming Professor of Anatomy in Virginia. During the Civil War he had charge of military hospitals for the Confederate Government. He devised measures to check the yellow fever epidemic at Memphis and was president of of the National Board of Health from 1879 till his death, in Overton, Va., Aug. 13, 1889.`
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Cabet
ÉTIENNE (kä-bā'), a French communist, born in Dijon, Jan. 2, 1788, and educated for the bar, but turned his attention to literature and politics. Under the Restoration he was one of the leaders of the Carbonari, and in 1831 was elected deputy for the department of Côte d'Or. Soon afterward he published a "History of the July Revolution" (1832), started a Radical Sunday paper, "Le Populaire" (1833), and on account of an article in this paper was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, but escaped to London. After the amnesty, in 1839, he returned to Paris, and published a "History of the French Revution" (1840), bestowing great praise on the old Jacobins. He attracted far more notice by his "Journey in Icaria" (1840), a "philosophical and social roce," describing a communistic Utomance, pia. The work obtained great popularity among the working ng classes of Paris. Cabet next proceeded to send an "Icarian colony" to the Red river in Texas, but the colonists who went out in 1848 found Texas anything but a Utopia. Their ill fortune did not deter Cabet from embarking at the head of a second band of colonists. On his arrival he learned that the Mormons had just been expelled from Nauvoo, Ill., and that their city was left deserted. The Icarians established themselves there in 1850. Cabet's efforts, however, were not successful. He was finally obliged to leave Nauvoo and retire to St. Louis, where he died Nov. 9, 1856.
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