Chillicothe (City and county-seat)
a city and county-seat of Livingston co., Mo.; on the Wabash, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and the Hannibal and St. Joseph railways, 70 miles E. of St. Joseph. It is a farming trade center and has several manufacturing industries. It is the seat of the Chillicothe Normal School, State Hospital, State Industrial Sch School for Girls, and St. Mary's Hospital, and is near the noted health resort, Laurel Mineral Springs. It has several daily and weekly newspapers, electric lights and street railroads, two National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 6,265; (1920) 6,772.
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Chiltern Hills
a range of flint and chalk hills in England, extending through Oxford, Hertford, and Buckingham shires; loftiest summit 905 feet. These hills were anciently covered with forests, and were infested by numerous bands of robbers. The steward of the Chiltern Hundreds originally was an officer of the crown, appointed to protect the people of Bucks from the robbers of the Chiltern hills. This office is now a sinecure, but as a member of Parliament can only resign his seat by accepting office, he accepts this sinecure, Condamine ascended to 16,730 feet; no complete ascent had been made, till Whymper in 1880 twice reached the summit. The peak gives name to the province of Chimborazo, to the S. with an area of 5,523 square miles, and a pop. of about 125,000.
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Chiltern Hundreds
an English stewardship. The hundred is a division of many English counties dating from the time of Alfred. Very possibly it may have been a portion of a county supposed to have 100 fighting men. The term was introduced into our middle colonies and still lingers in Delaware. The Chiltern Hundreds are a hilly game district of Buckinghamshire which has long belonged to the crown. The stewardship of this district is now a nominal position, but being by tradition a position of honor and profit, its holder may not sit in Parliament. As a member of Parliament may not resign, a member wishing to vacate his seat requests an appointment as steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. This appointment releases him from Parliament. The steward may, of course, resign, which leaves the way clear for another appointment. The royal assent is in this way obtained before a member may resign his seat in Parliament. See Parliament
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Chimaera
A celebrated monster which continually vomited flames. It was destroyed by Bellerophon . Chios and Chius (Scio). One of the largest and most famous islands of the Aegean Sea , lay opposite to the peninsula of Clazomenae on the coast of Ionia .
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Chime
a set of bells, usually five to twelve, tuned in a musical scale. They may be stationary and be struck by hammers played by a performer, or, as is, strictly speaking, the proper way for a chime, they may swing and be struck by a tongue. A bell tower and a chime of bells is a regular feature of the commercial towns and cities of the Netherlands. There are many fine chimes in France and in England. There is no sweeter sound than the music of a chime of bells floating across the country side. See Bells
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Chimera
ki-me'ra, in classical mythology, a fire-breathing monster. It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the hinder parts of a dragon. It laid waste the fields of Lycia until slain by Bellerophon with the aid of his steed Pegasus. The myth seems to have originated in the mountainous regions of Asia Minor , and may have grown out of the storms and snows of winter that prevail till overpowered by the solar hero on the return of spring. The shape of the animal may have been suggested to a poetical people by a volcanic mountain in the region. The crater would account for the fire-breathing mouth. The other parts of the chimera are credited: the head, to the lions inhabiting the wooded heights; the body, to the goats on the pasture slopes; and the dragon, to the serpents at its foot. The term is now used for any scare conjured up by a heated and imaginative mind. See Bellerophon ; Pegasus
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Chimere
the upper robe to which the lawn sleeves of a bishop are attached.
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Chimes
A set of bells musically tuned to one another and sometimes attached to tower clocks, especially in Europe, such clocks being known as quarter clocks, or chiming clocks.
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Chiming Barrel
The cylinder in a chiming clock which raises the hammer in the chiming train, by means of projections upon its surface.
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Chiming Clock
A clock which plays tunes on bells, rods or by connection with a musical box. Church clocks are often arranged to chime on bells, while mantel clocks are generally connected with a music box. Fig. 94 illustrates a chiming clock made by Eardley Norton, a celebrated marker of musical clocks, who carried on business in London from 1765 10 1800.
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Chimney
an upright passage designed to carry away smoke and create a draft. It may be built of any non-combustible material, as brick, stone, or concrete. The design of the fireplace chimneys of the early settlers was brought from England. In wooded countries, they were built of short wooden logs, well plastered within with clay. Chimneys of stone masonry were a great improvement. The higher a chimney, the better the draft, as this depends on a difference in weight between the warm air of the chimney and the cold air on the outside. The enormous chimneys in connection with factories are built to a great height to secure draft. A concrete smokestack erected recently at Great Falls , Montana, is 506 feet high. Its diameter at the base is 78 feet; at the top, 55 feet. The dust, or soot, is caught on vertical wires from which it is shaken into hoppers at the bottom and dumped into cars in a pit beneath. This is probably the loftiest chimney in the world. If a chimney be too large to be heated it will not draw well. Masons formerly surrounded large chimneys with trestle work, but now build from the inside. Chimneys of a primitive sort were not unknown to the ancients, but the modern chimney may be regarded as an invention of western Europe.
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