These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Foxglove, Foxglove, Frackville.
Two American girls who in 1847 practically commenced the practice of spirit-rapping in Arcadia, New York . An account of their doings is given in the article (Spiritualism). They latterly became professional mediums; but were to a great extent discredited.
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Important: Safety Warning This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. or digitalis, a handsome flowering plant, closely related to the monkey flower, pensteron, and gerardia. The want of similarity to a fox's foot has led to the thought that the word may be a corruption of folk's (fairy folks) glove, but "unfortunately etymologists discredit this pretty suggestion." Other popular names are fairy cap and witches' thimble. A suitable plant for borders, easily grown. The leaves of the purple foxglove, steeped in water or alcohol, afford a decoction used in medicine to stimulate heart action.
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in botany, the genus Digitalis, and specially the species D. purpurea, the purple foxglove. It grows to the height of three or four feet, with very long spi spikes of numerous drooping flowers, which are generally purple, though occasionally white. D. purpurea yields a valuable cardiac tonic and diuretic. The Canary foxglove is D. canariensis; the downy false foxglove is an American name for Gerardia flava; and the ladies' foxglove is Verbascum thapsus. They succeed well in light, rich soil.
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a borough of Pennsylvania, in Schuylkill co. It is on the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads. There are important coal mines in the neighborhood and coal mining is the chief industry. Pop. (1910) 3,118; (1920) 5,590.
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In Irish legend a sword that it could pierce any mail. It was one of the magical gifts brought by Lugh from the Land of the Living.
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JEAN HONORÉ, a Grasse in Octo- French painter; born in Chardin and ber, 1732. He studied under academy Boucher; and, entering the 1752. schools, gained the prix de Rome in , he revisited_he In Italy-which, later by the works of was influenced mainly great Venetians; Tiepolo, the last of the illustrations for and he executed many Saint - Non's " Journey to Naples France, he 1765 received 2,400 francs from Louis commissioned XV. for his "Callirrhoé," tapestry; for reproduction in Gobelin to be academic, and began then he ceased true bent to be personal, to follow his himself by the art helped to be most of Venice and by the art of Rubens. He is well represented in the Louvre, most such typically in its La Caze collection by Bacchante Endormie" and works as " "La Chemise Enlevée." He died in Paris, Aug. 22, 1806.
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in engineering, the strong framework, outside the wheel, which supmachinery on the ports the boiler and axes of a locomotive engine.
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a town in Middlesex river, and on co., Mass.; on the Sudbury the New York, New Haven, and Hartand Albany railford, and the Boston . roads; about 20 miles W. of Boston It Framingham, comprises the villages of Saxonville. South Framingham, and Normal Here are a high school, a State History School, Historical and Natural Reforma- Societies, the State Woman's savings tory, several National and , and banks, daily and weekly newspapers light plants. street railroad and electric woolen goods It has a large industry in . Pop. (1910) 12,948; (1920) 17,033.
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SIR GEORGE JAMES. studied under a British sculptor. He Royal Acad- W. S. Frith and entered the in 1881. In 1887 he won emy schools Gold Medal and Travelling Studentship has won many medals and and since then . Has other honors in several countries and statues executed many memorials , Victoria for Calincluding that of Queen , Newcastlecutta, Southport, St. Helens and Leeds. Among on-Tyne, Winnipeg, terra-cotta decohis other works are the Club, Lonration on the Constitutional Glasgow Art don; the sculpture on the , London; Galleries and Lloyd's Register House, Moorgate the entrance to Electra at the en- Street, London; spandrels and Albert Mutrance of the Victoria , seum; figures on the spires of St. Mary's William Oxford; saints on the shrine of Cathedral; of Wykeham, Winchester lions at the British Museum; statues of ; Queen Mary at Calcutta and Delhi . Has Edith Cavell Memorial, London also designed many medals, including the British Coronation medal.
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ISLE OF. See MAURITIUS.
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French ANATOLE THIBAULT), a novelist and poet of great perfection and distinction of style; born in Paris, April 16, 1844. His first volume of "Poems" was published in 1873, and his dramatic The poem "Corinthian Revels" in 1876. humorous story "Jocaste and the Lean Cat" (1879) was received with indifference, but he had brilliant success with "The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard" (1881); "The Yule Log" (1881); and "The Wishes of Jean Servien" (1881). His other works include "Our Children: Scenes in Town and in the Fields" (1886); "Queen Pédauque's Cook-Shop"; "Opinions of the Abbé Jérôme Coignard" of Epicurus" (1893); "The Garden ; ; Abeille"; "My Friend's Book"; "Our Children"; "Balthazar"; "Thaïs"; "Literary Life"; "Alfred de Vigny"; etc. He was elected to the French Academy in 1884.
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JOSEPH IRWIN, a United States senator from Maryland, born in 1873. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1895. He studied in Germany and at the Clark University. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, in 1903, and engaged in the practice of his profession in Baltimore from 1905 to 1909. He was a member of the Maryland Senate and in 1916 was elected United States Senator for the term 1917-1923. He was a frequent contributor to magazines on scientific, economic, and political subjects.
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1922 FORDNEY-McCUMBER TARIFF (See UNITED STATES, 1922-23.) FOREIGN DEBTS. (British Debt Settlement). An agreement for the payment of Great Britain's debt to the United States was reached in January, 1923, between the American Foreign Debt Commission and a British Commission headed by Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The total of the debt, to be covered by British bonds issued to the United States at par, was fixed at $4,600,000,000, the principal of the bonds to be paid in in increasing instalments over a period of 62 years. The rate of interest on unpaid balances was fixed at 3 per cent for 1923 and 3½ per cent thereafter. Congressional approval of the agreement was given in February, 1923.
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