These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Chaffinch, Chafin, Chagres.
a European bird, so called because it delights in chaff, and is by some much admired for its song. This well-known and beautiful bird is locally called spink, beech-finch, pink, twink, skelly, shell-apple, horse-finch, scobby, y, and shilfa. It is the Fringilla s. It makes a cœlebs of ornithologists. beautiful nest, with four or five eggs, bluish-white, tinged with pink and with spots and streaks of purplish red.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
EUGENE WILDER, American temperance advocate; born in East 852. He practiced iced Troy, Wis., Nov. 1, 1852. law at Waukesha, Wis., from 1876 to wat 1900. From 1901 to 1904 he was superintendent of the Washingtonian Home, Chicago. He was active in the early stages of the Prohibition movement, both as a speaker and an organizer. His prominence in the movement led to his selection as candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1898. His party chose him as its presidential nominee in 1908 and 1912. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court in 1909. He became a resident of Arizona in 1909. Among his writ- "Lives of the Presidents" ings are (1896); "Lincoln, the Man of Sorrows" (1908), and "Washington as a Statesman" (1909).. (chāgōs), CHAGOS ISLANDS a group of islands in the Indian Ocean belonging to Great Britain; a S. extension of the Maldive Islands. The largest, called Diego Garcia Great or Chagos, 100 miles S. of the main group, is about 15 miles long by 3 broad. They are scantily peopled, and the chief product is cocoa-nut oil. Administratively they are attached to Mauritius. Area, about 76 square miles.
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a town of the Republic of Panama, on the N. coast of the Isthmus of Panama, at the mouth of the Chagres river. It is a poor place, with a harbor for vessels drawing from 10 to 12 feet of water. The river of the same name rises about 10 miles N. E. of Panama, makes an immense bend round to the N. E., and enters the Caribbean Sea. Though toward its mouth it varies in depth from 16 to 30 feet, it is yet, by reason at once of its rapidity and its falls, but little available for navigation. The route of the Panama Canal is by the valley of the Chagres_for part of its The water of the Chagres is course. used to operate the locks of the PANAMA CANAL (q. v.)
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An evil spirit believed in by the Continental Gypsies . It has the form of a hedgehog, is yellow in colour, and is a foot and a half in length and a span in breadth. " I am certain," says Wlislocki, " that this creature is none other than the equally demoniac being called Harginn, still believed in by the inhabitants of Northwestern India . Horses are the special prey of the Chagrin , who rides them into a state of exhaustion, as does the Guecubu (q.v.) of Chili. The next day they appear sick and weary, with tangled manes and bathed in sweat. When this is observed they are tethered to a stake which has been rubbed with garlic juice, then a red thread is laid on the ground in the form of a cross, or else some of the hair of the animal is mixed with salt, meal and the blood of a bat and cooked to bread, with which the hoof of the horse is smeared. The empty vessel which contained the mixture is put in the trunk of a high tree while these words are uttered : 66 Tarry, pipkin, in this tree, Till such time as full ye be."
Only in An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
CHARLES (shaya'lon), an American explorer, born of French parentage, in Baltimore, Md., 1843. After serving in the Confederate army he went to Egypt, where he was appointed lieutenant-colonel by the Khedive (1870). Gordon made him chief-ofstaff and sent him on a mission to King Mtesa of Uganda. From 1887 to 1889 he was secretary of legation and consul- States in Korea. general of the United ited In 1897 he was a member of the Postal Congress and in 1900 of the special commission to the Paris Exposition. He died in 1917. He wrote: "The Three Prophets" (1886); "Central Africa" (1887); "My Life in Four Continents" (1912).
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A small book which is attached to each end of a fuzee chain, to fasten the chain to the barrel and fuzee.
Only in American Watchmaker and Jeweler
In spiritualism, a term denoting the joining of the hands of the sitters round a table, whereby the magnetic current is strengthened and reinforced. The Baron de Guldenstubbé gives the following directions for forming a chain. " In order to form a chain, the twelve , the twelve persons each place their right hand on the table, and their left hand on that of their neighbour, thus making a circle round the table. Observe that the medium or mediums if there be more than one, are entirely isolated from those who form the chain." Dr. Lapponi, in his Hypnotism and Spiritism (trans. London, 1906), gives an account of the usual procedure for the formation of a chain. "He (the medium) makes those present choose a table, which they may examine as much as they like, and may place in whatever part of the room they choose. He then invites some of the assistants to place their hands on the table in the following manner: The two thumbs of each person are to be touching each other, and each little finger is to be in communication with the little finger of the persons on either side. He himself completes the chain with his two hands. The hands of all altogether rest on the edge of the table. (See Planetary Chains.)
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See SLINGS. Chalk is nearly a pure carbonate of lime; it effervesces with acids and burns to quicklime. In England it forms in beds sometimes more than 100 feet high. The solid stone is used for building with. It is an excellent lime for cement and a good polishing substance. See LIMESTONE.
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a piece of furniture. The essential part is a seat. It also has legs, a back, and frequently arms. Without a back a chair becomes a stool. Chairs were known among the Romans. Richly carved wooden chairs are heirlooms in the great German houses. Nothing seems more common than a chair. It is safe to assert, however, that three-fourths of the world's population do not use chairs, but sit on mats or on the ground, at table and when resting. The sense of dignity formerly attached to the occupancy of a chair may be traced in the use of the term in connection with a professorship, as the chair of modern history, the chair of Latin, etc. The one called upon to preside over a meeting is said to take the chair. A speaker addresses the chair. The head of a committee is called its chairman. See Furniture
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