Chevalier
ALBERT, a London comedian; born March 21, 1861. He apstage in public when only peared on the eight years old, and subsequently took part in plays with Mr. and Mrs. Kendal, John Hare, and other eminent players. His greatest success however, was achieved appearing singly in vaudeville houses and music halls, in the charcharacteracter of a London coster. His ization of this product of the British metropolis was so amusing and true to life as to create a furore. He was the author of more than a hundred monologues, sketches, and plays.
an honor- 18th ary title given, especially in the century, to younger sons of French noble families. Both the Old and Young Pretender were called the Chevalier by their partisans. In a general way it is used with the same significance as KNIGHT (q. v.).
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Cheviot
shev'i-ot, originally a strong twilled woolen fabric woven from the coarse wool of the Cheviot sheep. This cloth was finished with a rough, shaggy nap. It was firm and durable and much in demand for men's fine clothing. In recent years a great variety of cheviots are manufactured, the name indicating the finish rather than the wool used. Cheviot is in demand for women's as well as men's suits, and is made in many weights and qualities. Two styles of finish are in use, "rough" and "close," the difference consisting, not in the process, but in the degree to which the process is carried. The cloth is washed in soap and water; fulled, to shrink it in both length and breadth; then "gigged" to raise the nap, more or less dense, as desired, over the entire surface; then sheared to cut the nap to a uniform level. After pressing, examining for defects, brushing, pressing again, and steaming, the fabric is ready to be put up for market. Cheviot shirting is a name given to a large and varied class of cotton shirting. Its distinguishing features are a single, but heavy thread in both warp and weft, a pattern, usually check or stripe, produced in the loom, and a soft finish. It is woven either plain or twilled. See Gigging ; Fulling ; Shearing
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Cheviot Hills
a mountain range on the border line between Scotland and England. A central peak, to which Scott refers in his Marmion as "Cheviot's mountain lone," is 2,676 feet high. It stands 500 feet in the clear above Carter Fell, the next in height. The head waters of the Liddel, the Tyne, and some of the branches of the Tweed have their sources here. It is a fine grouse country, and, until recently, a haunt of the golden eagle. The upland pastures have given rise to a fine breed of sheep called cheviots, whence the name for a loosely woven woolen cloth used for suitings. The region is celebrated in story and song as the scene of border forays. Scott has occasion to describe its fastnesses a number of times in his tales. The celebrated border ballad of Chevy Chase , found in Percy's Reliques, relates to the hunting or chase in the mountains of the Cheviot: God prosper long our noble king, Our liffes and safetyes all; A woefull hunting once there did In Chevy-Chace befall.
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Cheyennes
a tribe of American Plains Indians, originally of Algonquin stock, at one time settled in Wyoming. From 1861 to 1867 the United States government had "wars" with them. There are about 3,000 who are settled on reservations in Oklahoma and Montana.
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Chhatisgarh
the S. E. division of the Central Provinces of India, with an area, including feudatory states, of . 21,240 square miles; pop. about 3,500,000 plateau, and It is mainly a vast fertile of the has of late become a great center Indian grain trade. Dongargaon is the capital.
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Chiana
a river of central Italy, originally a tributary of the Tiber, watering the perfectly level Val di Chiana, which its overflow rendered once the most pestilential district of Italy. The bed was deepened in 1789-1816, and in 1823 extensive hydraulic works were undertaken for further improving the river course, and for the river Arno, a few miles below Arezzo, leading a N. branch, through canals, to the S. stream reaching the Tiber through ouble double The the Paglia at Orvieto. stream is 60 miles long, and 1½ to 1 mile broad; and the district has since in all become one of the most fruitful Italy.
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Chiapas
a State of the Republic of Mexico, on the Pacific slope, having an area of 27,527 square miles and a pop. of about 500,000. The capital, Tuxtla Gutiérrez (pop. about 10,000) is also principal town. The State is in the many parts mountainous, and is also in many parts traversed by noble streams, Palenque including the Rio Chiapas. At Aztec city are the ruins of an ancient of great beauty and magnitude. The valleys have a rich soil and produce maize, sugar, cotton, etc. Trade is, however, in a backward state for lack of roads. The State forms part of the Central American tableland, and has a fine climate, although the whole region is largely clothed in primeval forests.
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Chiari
a town of Lombardy, 13 miles W. of Brescia by rail, one time with manufactures of silk. At memorable for the strongly fortified, it is Austrians, under victory here of the and Prince Eugene, over the French 2, 1701. Spaniards, under Villeroi, Sept. about 15,000. Pop.
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Chibouque
a Turkish pipe with a long stem.
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Chicago Heights
a city of Illinois in Cook co. It is on the Ch Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Elgin, Joliet, and Eastern, and the Michigan Central railroads. The principal industries are the manufacture of iron and steel goods , chemicals, glass, carriages , automobiles, and passenger and freight cars. a library and a hospital . Pop . (1910) 14,525; (1920) 19,653. It has
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Chichen
one of over 50 ruined towns in the Mexican province of Yucatan, a few miles W. S. W. of Valladolid, with the remains of an ancient Indian city, comprising a vast temple with bas-reliefs, a pyramid, houses containing sculptured chambers, etc.
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