Each of these 11 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.
a city of North Carolina, the county-seat of Gaston co. It is on the Southern, the Piedmont and Northern and the Carolina and Northwestern railroads. Its industries are of great importance and include cotton mills, oil works, manufactures of cottonmill machinery, brooms, cement, wood fiber, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,759; (1920) 12,871.
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inflammation of the stomach, either acute or chronic, usually most severe at the pyloric orifice, generally caused by corrosive or irritant poisons, but chiefly from the use of raw spirits, accompanied by nausea , sick ness, etc., and in severe cases followed by congestion. It seldom occurs in persons of temperate habit.
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SIR JOHN, an English soldier , born at Shropshire, in 1841. He was educated in private schools and entered the military service as an ensign in 1857. He served for many years in India and was commandant of the 23d Regiment until 1891. He was made Brigadier-General in the same year , and Major-General in 1897. He took part in the Indian Mutiny and in the China War of 1860. He also served in other expeditions and was decorated for gallantry in the service.
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An upright runner (round, square, or flat) which is rammed up vertically in the cope, and forms the connection betwixt the orifice for pouring into, and the system of gates below. The gate-pin is not unfrequently termed a runner-stick. See DOWN-GATE; GATE.
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A strong, four-pronged steel fork for lifting the gates and medium heavy scrap out of the sand in the scrap-pile. The prongs are wide apart to allow all sand to fall through, and for this reason are preferable to an ordinary shovel for such use.
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Horatio (1728-1805), an American general. He was born in England. He came to America in 1755 and served as a captain in Braddock's expedition. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War he was made adjutant-general. He was appointed to the command of a part of the American forces. He was sent north to oppose Burgoyne, and was in command at the time of Burgoyne's surrender. This success, coming as it did at a time when Washington met with reverses, gave Gates an exaggerated opinion of his own ability. Many patriotic men, including Samuel and John Adams, with their New England prejudices, thought Gates an abler man for the chief command than the Virginian Washington. Dr. Rush of Philadelphia sided with them. Through their influence, Congress created a board of war with Gates at its head, thus placing him in virtual command over Washington. Gates then entered into a conspiracy with other officers to displace Washington. This disgraceful coalition is known in history as the Conway Cabal, named from the officer who was most active as Gates' tool in the matter. The plans of the cabal became known, however. It was broken up. Gates was assigned to a subordinate position with orders to report direct to Washington. He was later placed in command of the southern army, but met with a severe defeat at Camden and was court-martialed. His entire career rests under a shadow.
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one of the five royal cities of the Philistines, which, from its situation on the borders of Judah , was of much importance in the wars of the Jews and Philistines. It was the native town of Goliath, and was successively captured by David , Hazael, and Uzziah, who dismantled it.
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a gun invented by Louis Gathmann, a Chicago mechanician and inventor, which is capable of throwing great masses of high explosives by means of gunpowder. It is a rifled cannon, unjacketed, and with no re-enforcements at the breech. Its bore is 13 inches, 1 inch larger than in any cannon heretofore made by the government. The shell is 7 feet long and contains 400 pounds of wet guncotton . There is a plunger at the end which , when it strikes an object, explodes the percussion cap which sets fire to some dry powder, that in turn sets off some dry guncotton , which on bursting lets loose the terrible force imprisoned in the 400 pounds of winter residence-practically, owing to wet guncotton. See ORDNANCE.
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a river of Canada, Quebec Province, the largest affluent of the Ottawa, rising in some lakes, and flowing almost due S. to enter the Ottawa nearly opposite Ottawa City. It is not navigable more than 5 miles above the Ottawa except by canoes, but its rapid waters are well stocked with fish and available as water powers.
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RICHARD JORDAN, an American inventor; born in Hertford co., N. C., Sept. 12, 1818. While a boy he assisted his father in perfecting a machine for sowing cotton seed, and another for thinning out cotton plants. Subsequently he invented a machine for sowing rice. Removing to St. Louis, in 1844, he adapted this invention to sowing wheat in drills. For several winters he attended medical lectures in Cincinnati, and in 1849 removed to Indianapolis, where he engaged in railroad enterprises and real estate speculations. In 1850 he invented a double-acting hemp brake, and in 1857 a steam plow, which, however, he did not bring to any practical result. In 1861 he conceived the idea of the revolving battery gun which bears his name. Of these ne constructed six at Cincinnati, which were destroyed by the burning of his factory. Afterward he had 12 manufactured elsewhere, which were used by General Butler on the James river. In 1865 he improved his invention, and in the year following, after satisfactory trial, it was adopted into the United States service. It has also been adopted by several European governments. Died Feb. 23, 1903.
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a machine gun, invented by Richard J. Gatling. The gun consists of a series of barrels in combination with a grooved carrier and lock cylinder. The main features of the gun are: (1) Each barrel in the gun is provided with its own independent lock or firing mechanism. (2) All the locks revolve simultaneously with the barrels, carrier and inner breech, when the gun is in operation. The locks also have a reciprocating motion when the A gun is rotated. The gun cannot be fired when either the barrels or locks are at rest.
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