These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Cachao, Cache, Cache.
or HANOI, the largest city in the French Protectorate of Tonquin, on the Tonquin river, about 150 miles from its mouth. The river is to this point for small vessels. principal trade is silk and rice. lion, silk, and lacquered work are exports. It is an open port since 1873, when it passed into the hands of the French. In 1902 it became the capital of French Indo-China. It is the seat of the University of Indo-China, courts, etc. Pop. about 150,000.
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a hole in the ground for hiding and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.
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the name of (1) a peak of the Rocky Mountains in Idaho, height 10,451 feet; (2) a fertile valley valley in the Wahsatch Mountains in Utah and Idaho. It is 60 miles long and 10 to 20 miles wide, and has an altitude of 5,000 feet. It is watered by the Bear river and has several villages, of which Logan is the largest; (3) a river in Arkansas, flowing N. W. about 150 miles into the White river near Clarendon, in Monroe county.
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LETTRE DE (kä-shā'), a name given especially to letters proceeding from and signed by the kings of France, and countersigned by a secretary of state. They were at first made use of occasionally as a means of delaying the course of justice, but they appear to have been rarely employed before the 17th century as warrant for the detention of private citizens, and for depriving them of their personal liberty. During the reign of Louis XIV. their use became frightfully common, and by means of them persons were imprisoned for life or for a long period on the most frivolous pretexts. They were abolished at the Revolution.
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Deities of inferior rank, one of whom it was believed by many was attached to each mortal from his birth as a constant companion, and were capable of giving impulses, and acting as a sort of messenger between the gods and men. The cacodaemons were of a hostile nature, as opposed to the agathodaemons who were friendly. It is said that one of the cacodaemons who appeared to Cassius was a man of huge stature, and of a black hue. The belief in these daemons is probably traditional, and it is said that they are the rebellious angels who were expelled from heaven for their crimes. They tried, but in vain, to obtain a settlement in various parts of the universe ; and their final abode is believed to be all the space between the earth and the stars. There they abide, hated by all the elements, and finding their pleasure in revenge and injury. Their king was called Hades by the Greeks, Typhon by the Egyptians, and Ahrimanes by the Persians and Chaldæans.
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The name given by the ancients to an evil spirit. He changed his shape so frequently that no one could tell in what guise he most generally appeared to man. Each person was also supposed to have a good and bad genius, the evil being the cacodemon. The astrologers also called the twelfth house of the sun, which is regarded as evil, that of cacodemon.
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A marvellous stone, said to possess occult properties, which was known to the ancients, and which was probably the cornelian. Any one wearing it was supposed to be assured of victory in battle.
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an old and extensive genus of Linnæus, in four sections: (1) The echinomelocacts; (2 and 3) cerei of two kinds; and (4) opuntiæ. It is now broken up into a number of genera. It is still popularly used as the designation of nearly whole of the Cactaceæ, to which order, moreover, it has given its name. Cacti are sometimes called melon thistles. Hedgehog cactus; a designation of the genus Echinocactus. Leaf cactus; the Epiphyllum. Melon thistle cactus; the Melocactus. Nipple cactus; the Mammillaria. The Hindus compare Europeans in the East to the species of cactus (opuntia dillenii), which they know best. The plant, though now seen all over India, undoubtedly came at first from a foreign and a distant country. It grows very extensively in the western and navigable southwestern part of the United States The and all over tropical America, usually Bul- on arid lands. Once rooted in a place, the it spreads so widely abroad that it is CACTI difficult to get it out again, and it is believed to impoverish the land of which it takes possession. It is of so abnormal a type that none but itself can be its parallel. An unpleasant feature about pa it is that, from whatever side you approach it, you are met in all directions by fixed bayonets.
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an insect resembling a moth. The caddice fly lays its eggs in water. The larva has the ability of spinning gummy silk. It glues together a case of pebbles, bits of wood, straw, grains of sand, fragments of shell, or anything of the sort inside of which it constructs a silk-lined nest in which to live. Some species leave this home in search of food. Others drag it about as the snail does its shell. One might see hundreds of these cases on the bottom of a brook without suspecting their nature. Some caddice worms, as the larvae are called, decorate their houses by gluing on shells, even of living snails. An astonishing proof of their ingenuity is the construction of funnel-shaped webs, fastened to stones in running water, apparently for the purpose of catching insects. When full grown the caddice worm retires into its silky nest, closes the door for a while, and emerges in due time a caddice fly. It then leaves the water at once, spreads its wings, and sports in the sunshine, a soft-bodied, hairy, moth-like creature. Caddice "worms" devour spawn and the young fry. See Insect
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a health resort, beautifully situated among orange and citron groves, on the W. shore of Lake Como, Italy. Its famous Villa Carlotta contains works by the sculptors Canova and Thorwaldsen. CADENCE. See HARMONY.
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