Colorado Springs
a city and county-seat of El Paso co., Colo.; on the Denver and Rio Grande, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and other railroads; 70 miles S. of Denver. It is situated on a plain 6,000 feet above sea-level, and is a health resort for victims of lung troubles. The city is the center of the gold mining district of Colorado, and the the seat of Colorado College, sanitariums, St. Francis Hospital, the State School for Deaf Mutes, and the Union Printers' Home, several parks, and many handsome public buildings. It has electric railway connection with adjacent towns, electric lights, public schools, several daily and weekly newspapers, churches, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 29,078; (1920) 30,105. COLORADO STATE AGRICULTU- RAL COLLEGE, a State institution for agricultural and scientific education, founded at Fort Collins, Colo., in 1876. It is coeducational. It gives degrees in engineering, agriculture, and home economics. The library contains. about 50,000 volumes. COLORADO, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational (non-sect.) institution in Boulder, Col.; founded in 1877; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 200; students, 1868; volumes in the library, 118,500; income, $600,000; president, George Norlin, Ph. D.
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Coloring Gold Articles
See Cleansing, Pickling and Polishing.
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Colosse
an ancient town of Asia Minor, in the S. part of the province of Phrygia, on the Lycus river 12 miles E. of Laodicea. It is mentioned by Xenophon as "a populous city, prosperous and great," but in the time of Strabo had become "a small town." It was ruined by an earthquake in 61 A. D.; but it was again reb rebuilt, and in the Middle Ages was named Chone.
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Colossians
EPISTLE TO THE, & letter written to the Colossians by the Apostle Paul either from Rome or Cæsarea, at the same time that he wrote the epistles to the Ephesians and to Phil- The epistle contains a summary emon. A of Christian doctrine, especially dwelling on the divine power er and majesty of Christ, and a series of practical exhortations to specific duties of Christian morality.
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Colporteur
a French term now naturalized in the United States, and appropriated to a class of men most commonly employed by societies or associations to distribute religious publications.
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Colquhoun
ARCHIBALD ROSS, an English traveler and writer, born in 1848. He was engaged in government service in Siam and other eastern countries, and in 1883-1884 made extensive tours of exploration for the purpose of finding a route for a railway between India and China. In 1890 he was appointed Administrator of Mashonaland. He visited Central America in 1895 in an investigation of Panama and Nicaragua canal projects. His numerous books on travel and politics include "The Opening of China" (1884); "English Policy in the Far East" (1885); "Overland to China" (1901); "The Whirlpool of Europe" (1907); "Germany and Sea Power" (1909); and "China in Reformation" (1912). He died in 1914.
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Colt
LE BARON BRADFORD, United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Dedham, Mass, in 1846, he graduated from Yale in 1868, and
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Colt, Samuel
Samuel (1814-1862), an American inventor. He was educated in his father's cotton mill at Hartford, but went to sea at an early day and became interested in firearms. Starting with an idea of the sixteenth century, he perfected a pattern for the first really practical pistol having a revolving barrel with a number of bores. Colonel Colt patented his revolver in 1835 and commenced its manufacture at Hartford. He built up one of the largest firearm factories in the world. In the earlier patterns the entire barrel revolved. Later he devised a plan of a breech having a short revolving cylinder, usually of six chambers, with but a single barrel. At first the cylinder was turned by hand. Later it was connected by a revolving mechanism with the hammer, so that in cocking the pistol a new chamber came into line with the barrel. See Pistol; Revolver
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Coluber
a linnæan genus, comprehending all the snakes now included under the family Colubridæ. The same genus, as limited by Cuvier and his successors, is the typical one of the family Colubridæ, and the sub-order colubrina. The species are very numerous, some of them beautifully colored, and all are harmless. For a long time the common snake of England was called C. natrix; now it is termed Natrix torquata, or Tropidonotus Natrix. C. dumfriesensis of Sowerby is probably an immature variety of the common species. C. austriacus is common in Germany and France. C. or Boscanion Constrictor, the black snake of Catesby, is common in all the Southern and South Atlantic States. It is very useful in destroying rats and kindred vermin. It sometimes attains a length of eight or nine feet.
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Columba
or COLUMBA NOACHI (Lat. "Noah's dove"), a small constellation S. of Lepus and Canis Major, It is situated between Puppis, Pictor, Cælum, Lepus, and Canis Major.
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Columba
ST., a native of Ireland (Gartan in Donegal); born in 521. In 545 he founded the monastery of Derry,
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Columba
ST. from the Columbia Law School in 1870. Later he practiced law in Chicago and Providence, R. I. In 1881 President Garfield appointed him United States District Judge for Rhode Island, and later President Arthur made him a Circuit Judge of the United States. He was elected to the Senate in 1913 for the term 1913-1919, and re-elected in the latter year for the term 1919-1925. A Republican in politics. COLT, SAMUEL, an American inventor; born in Hartford, Conn., July 19, 1814. He had a common school education and was employed in his father's textile mill; but went to sea as a sailor boy when aged 15. His attention being drawn to fire-arms while at sea, he began to perfect a revolver and patented it in 1835. Its great success led to the erection by him at Hartford of one of the most extensive weapon factories in the world. He died in Hartford, Jan. 10, 1862.
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