Coleridge-Taylor
SAMUEL, an Anglo-African composer; born in London, Aug. 15, 1875. His father was a native of Sierra Leone and his mother He composed many an English woman. successful songs and waltzes and an operetta entitled "The Dream Lovers." He conducted orchestral concerts in several English cities, and made tours in the United States in 1904, 1906, and 1910. He died in 1912. COLESEED a name for a variety of cabbage (Brassica Napus), and its seed, which is made into oil-cake for feeding cattle.
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Colfax
SCHUYLER, an American statesman; born in New York, March 23, 23, 1823; removed in 1836 to Indiana. He was a delegate to the Whig 1852; was conventions of 1848 and elected to Congress in 1854 by the newly formed Republican party, and re-elected until 1869, being thrice chosen Speaker; and of the in 1868 United he was States elected, in vice Grant's - president first term. Implicated, unjustly, as he and his friends claimed, in the Credit Mobi- , he spent the relier charges of 1873 mainder of his life in political retirement. Died in Mankato, Minn., Jan. 13, 1885.
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Colgate University
an educational institution in Hamilton, N. Y.; organized in 1819, under the auspices of the Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instructors, 44; students, stu 599; volumes in the library, 85,000; income, $193,353; president, Elmer Burritt Bryan.
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Colibri
a name for various species of humming-bird.
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Colic
a name employed by the later Greek and the Roman physicians to denote diseases attended with severe pain and flatulent distention of the abdomen, without diarrhea or looseness of the bowels. The disease is now generally believed to be spasmodic in character, and to be dependent upon irregular contractions of the muscular coat of the intes- (incomplete), tines. Colic almost always ends in re- Khan," covery, preceded by free evacuation Khan," of the bowels. Purgatives, therefore, should be given combined with sedatives. A suppository or hypodermic injection of morphia may secure immediate relief from pain before aperients have time Mustard plasters, turpentine to act. stupes, and hot-water fomentations are also useful.
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Coligni, Gaspard de
ko-len-ye, Gaspard de (1517-1572), a French admiral. His life fell in the troublous times of the civil war between the Protestant Huguenots and the Catholics. A brilliant career in the wars with Spain raised him to the rank of admiral. He became the leader of the Huguenot party. In an age of the foulest treachery and assassination, and the concealment of ambitious designs behind the veil of religion, Coligni appears to have been the one eminent man of character. Catharine de Medici favored the admiral until she found that he had more influence with her son, King Charles IX, than she relished. She then incited the weak king to authorize a wholesale massacre of all Huguenots on the night of St. Bartholomew. At the appointed hour, when the Paris mob fell upon the unsuspecting Huguenots, the Duke of Guise, leader of the Catholic party, hurried with armed men to the house of the aged admiral. His followers burst into Coligni's bedchamber, thrust him through with their swords, and threw his body out of an upper window into the street below. In 1562 a Huguenot colony under encouragement from Coligni founded the first white colony on the mainland of North America at Port Royal, South Carolina . The settlers named the country Carolina in honor of the same miserable Charles IX, but they lost the fort and supplies by fire and returned to France. See Huguenots ; Catharine De Medici
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Colima
a Mexican State on the Pacific coast, with an area of 2,272 square miles, and a pop. of about 80,500. The soil is very fertile, the climate warm; large quantities of coffee, sugar, rice, tobacco, maize, and cotton The capital, Colima, 1,450 are grown. feet above the sea, about 40 miles E. N. E. of the port of Manzanillo, has several cotton factories. Pop. about 26,000.
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Collar-Bone
the clavicle; a bone situated on either side of the neck. The one is called the right, the other the left clavicle.
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Collatinus
the husband of Lucretia, who, in conjunction with Brutus, 1
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Collect
a name given to certain brief and comprehensive prayers, found in all liturgies and public devotional offices. The origin of the term is not certain; according to some, it is from these prayers being said in the congregation or collection of the people. They are of great antiquity, and occur in the sacramentary of Gelasius, patriarch of Rome, A. D. 494. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. See LABOR ORGANIZATION.
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Collet
A collar or band of metal. 2. A small collar fitted friction tight to the balance staff, and which is slotted to receive the lower end of the hairspring. 3. The part of a ring in which a stone is set. 4. The under side of a brilliant cut stone.
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Collet Wrench
A tool for twisting a hairspring collet to position, which consists of a metal handle, hollow at the extremity for the reception of the pivot, and having a minute wedge-shaped projection from its face, which enters the slit in the collet, allowing it to be turned readily.
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Collier, Jeremy
Jeremy (1650-1726), an English bishop. Collier was known in his own time as a bold political writer, but the work whose influence was greatest and has been most lasting was entitled A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. This pamphlet was an attack upon the writings of Wycherley, Congreve, Dryden, and others. It was the first step in the purification, not only of the drama, but of all lighter literature. Written with both wit and force, it was widely read, and received the support of the moral and thoughtful, although it met, naturally enough, with opposition. Dryden himself gracefully acknowledged its justice. I shall say less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.-Dryden, Preface to Fables.
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