Earwig
a long, narrow insect resembling the beetle in some respects. The mouth is formed for biting. The wing covers are short; the hind wings are very peculiar. The base of the wing is furnished with ribs like those of a Japanese fan. These are folded together fan fashion. The broad end of the wing is then folded twice crosswise, so as to shorten or crinkle it up. The tail end of the body has a pair of appendages resembling forceps. Earwigs are found on the Pacific coast and in the Gulf States, but are rare in the northeastern part of the United States . In Europe they are very troublesome in the flower and the vegetable garden. They eat the corollas of flowers and devour the tender parts of vegetation generally. There are specimens of 200 different species in the collection of the British Museum . The common name is derived from a popular belief that this insect is prone to crawl into the ear of a sleeping person.
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Ease
a disease that at some particular time and place attacks great numbers of the lower animals, just as an epidemic attacks man. Pleuro-pneumonia is often an epizoötic, as was also the rinderpest. See EPIDEMIC.
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Easley
RALPH MONTGOMERY, an American economist; born in Schuyler
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East
in geography, the direction of the rising sun. The east has been invested with a certain sacred character from the earliest times. The ancient pagans placed their altars in the eastern part of their temples, that they might sacrifice to the rising sun. From time immemorial it has been customary among many peoples to bury with the feet toward the east, in order that the dead may face the rising sun. Although the Mohammedan prays with his face toward Mecca, in whatever part of the globe he may be, it has long been the custom among Christians to build their cathedrals with the choir toward the east. The traditional source of civilization is in the east. The wise men of the Scriptures came from the east. "Westward," not eastward, "the star of empire takes its way." Mathematically considered, a line drawn east and west is everywhere parallel to the earth's equator. That being the case, each parallel on the earth's surface has its east in a direction of its own. The two poles, however, have neither east nor west.
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East Cape
the name of the S. E. extremity of New Guinea, in Goschen Strait, and of the most easterly headlands of Madagascar, the North Island of New Zealand, and Siberia. The last, on Bering Strait, and in lon. 169° 38′ W., is the E. extremity of Asia, and is a bold, rocky promontory of syenite, almost cut off from the mainland by swamps and shallow lakes. On the N. side is a village, Uédle, of less than 100 huts, with a population of about 260.
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East Chicago
a city of Indiana, in Lake co. It is on the Pennsylvania, the Wabash, the Pere Marquette, the Baltimore and C Ohio, Chicago Terminal, and other railroads. It is on Lake Michigan and has excellent shipping facilities, which have been improved by the construction of a canal connecting the harbor with Calumet river. The chief industries are the manufacturing of iron and steel, cement, boilers, chemicals, and foundry products. Pop. op. (1910) 19,098; (1920) 35,967.
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East Cleveland
a city of Ohio, Cuyahoga in co. It is a residential suburb of Cleveland. The city contains the laboratories of the National Electric Lamp Association. Pop. (1910) 9,179; (1920) 27,292.
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East Conemaugh
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Cambria co. It is on the Pennsylvania railroad, and on the Conemaugh river. Its principal industry is the manufacture of steel. It also has railway shops. In 1889 the borough was partially destroyed by the Johnstown flood. Pop. (1910) 5,046; (1920) 5,256.
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East Hartford
a town of Connecticut, in Hartford co. It is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, and on the Connecticut river. The industries include paper making, tobacco growing, and market gardening. There are also railroad and machine shops. The town has a public libra ibrary and the Raymond Library. Pop. (1910) 8,138; (1920) 11,648.
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East Indies
the name given to India, the Eastern Peninsula and the islands of the adjacent archipelago stopping in the one direction short of the Philippine Islands, and in the other before reaching New Guinea.
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East Liverpool
a city in Columbiana co., O.; on the Ohio river, and on the Pennsylvania and the Youngstown and Ohio railroads, 45 miles W. of Pittsburgh. It has freight packet connections with all important Ohio river ports, extensive china, porcelain, earthenware, terra cotta and glass works, foundries, and machine shops. There are electric street railways and lights, public library, water works, business college, 3 National banks, and several newspapers. rs. Pop. (1910) 20,387; (1920) 21,411.
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East Moline
a city of Illinois, in Rock Island co. It is on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Davenport, Rock Island and Northwestern, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads. It is an important industrial city and has manufactures of agricultural implements, gas engines, scales, iron goods, cement blocks, etc. Pop. (1910) 2,665; (1920) 8,675.
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East Orange
a city in Essex co., N. J., on the Lackawanna and Erie rail' roads, 12 miles W. of New York. It is a place of residence for people doing business in New York and Newark. The streets are well paved and lighted by gas and electricity and afford more than 60 miles of macadam road. The city contains many handsome churches, and private residences, public library, and high and graded schools. It was chartered in 1899. Pop. (1910) 34,371; (1920) 50,710.
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East Palestine
village of a Ohio, in Columbiana co. It is on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad. The industries include the manufacture of pottery, terra cotta, and tile. It has also machine shops, and a rubber factory. There are important coal mines in the vicinity. Pop. (1910) 3,537; (1920) 5,750.
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East Pittsburgh
a borough in Pennsylvania, in Allegheny co. It is on the Pennsylvania, the Bessemer and Lake Erie, and the Union railroads. The city contains factories of the Westinghouse electric and machine companies, and there are also manufactures of meters, machines, steel rails, and furnaces. Pop. (1910) 5,615; (1920) 6,527.
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