Each of these 12 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
There are preserved at Prague three stones of a pillar which the devil brought from Rome to crush a priest, with whom he had made a compact, and to kill him while he said mass. But St. Peter, says the legend, threw the devil and his pillar into the sea three times in succession, which diversion gave the priest time for repentance. The devil was so chagrined that he broke the pillar and saved himself.
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a small lake of Ireland, near the lakes of Killarney, between 2,000 and 3,000 feet above the sea, supposed to be the crater of an ancient volcano.
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(See Visions .)
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in the S. of Germany, a structure which was originally a Roman rampart, intended to protect the Roman settlements on the left bank of the Danube and on the right bank of the Rhine, against the inroads of the Teutonic and other tribes. Remains of it are found from the Danube, in Bavaria, to Bonn on the Rhine.
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EDWARD THOMAS, an American author and lecturer; born in Union, Ia., in 1867. He graduated from Cornell College, Iowa, in 1887, and took post-graduate courses in the United States and in Germany. He was principal of schools in Iowa for several years, and from 1891 to 1896 was staff lecturer on economics for the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching. He was secretary of the same organization from 1894 to 1896, and from 1896 to 1912 was general secretary of the Charity Organization Society of New York. He was editor of the "Survey" from 1897 to 1912. From 1905 to 1919 he was professor of social economy at Columbia University and was director of the New York School of Philanthropy from 1904 to 1907. In 1917 and 1918 he was chief of the Bureau of Refugees and Home Relief under the American Red Cross Commission in France. He represented and directed several Red Cross relief expeditions, including San Francisco in 1906 and Dayton, O., in 1913. He was a member of many economic and educational societies. He wrote "Economics" (1899); "The Practice of Charity" (1901). "Social Forces" (1909); "The Normal Life" (1915); "Disabled Soldiers and Sailors" (1919).
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a county of England in the W. part. It has an area of 2,604.9 square miles, of which threefourths are pasture land, or cultivated area. The north coast is steep and rocky. The south coast is lined with cliffs and indented with several bays. The general surface of the county is hilly. There are important agricultural industries and also considerable mining, manufacturing, and fishing. The chief cities are Exeter, the county town, Plymouth and Barnstaple. Population, about 460,000.
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SIR JAMES, a British scientist. He was born in Scotland in 1842, and was educated at Dollar Academy and Edinburgh University. He became assistant to Lord ord Playfair when Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University and became president of the Chemical Society in 1897. He has made many discoveries in chemistry and has been a member of the Government Explosive Committee. He was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society, 1894, and has received medals from scientific societies in many countries. He is F.R.S.; M.A.; LL.D., and p president ent of the British Association. His literary works include: "Collected Papers on Spectroscopy," numerous papers contributed to the proceedings of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, the Royal Institution, the British Association, the Chemical Society, etc.
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a native state of central India under British protection, held conjointly by two Rajput chiefs. Area under both chiefs, 290 square miles; pop. 152,100. The capital, Dewas, 20 miles N. E. of Indore, is a straggling town, with a population of about 12,000.
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THOMAS WILMER, an American artist, born in Boston in 1851. He studied art in Paris and in 1879 began the practice of his profession in New York City, painting chiefly portraits and figure compositions. He was awarded the Clarke prize in 1887, and the first medal at the Carnegie Institute in 1908. He was a member of the National Academy of Design.
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HENRY an American news agent; born in West Cambridge, Mass., March 14, 1813. He was educated in the common schools, and, after obtaining employment in various publishing houses, started for himself in 1842 as a news agent. In 1864 he organized the died July American News Co. He 11, 1910.
in heraldry the right; situated on the right; as the dexter side of a shield is that opposite the left hand of the spectator.
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or DEXTRINE, in chemistry, (C6H10O5)n, starch gum, British gum; obtained by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid on starch, and afterward neutralizing with chalk; if boiled for a longer time the dextrin is converted into dextrose. Dextrin can also be formed by heating starch to between 170° to 200° C. It is a gummy amorphous as mass, soluble in water, and precipitated by alcohol. It is called dextrin on account of its dextro-rotary action on polarized light. Dextrin is formed in germinating seeds by the action of an azotized substance called diastase. Dextrin is used as a substitute for gum.
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grape sugar, dextroglucose, C6H12O or C.HO (OH). Dextrose occurs along with levulose in grapes and other sweet fruits, also in honey and in the urine of diabetic patients. It can be produced by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on cane sugar, starch, cellulose, etc. It can be best obtained by boiling for several hours 50 parts of starch with dilute sulphuric acid (100 parts of water to five parts of H2SO4). The solution is then neutralized with chalk, filtered, boiled with animal charcoal to remove traces of color, and then evaporated carefully to dryness, forming an amorphous mass which contains about 60 per cent. of dextrose, the remainder being chiefly dextrin. Pure dextrose can be obtained by crystallization from alcohol. It turns polarized light to the right, and dissolves lime, baryta, oxide of lead, etc. Dextrose reduces an alkaline solution of cupric sulphate, giving a red precipitate of Cu2O on heating. It reduces ferric salts to ferrous salts. Dextrose tastes much less sweet than ordinary cane sugar. By the action of sodium amalgam on dextrose it is converted into mannite, C6H14O6.
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