These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Gleemen, Glen Cove, Glenalmond.
itinerant minstrels, so called by the Anglo-Saxons; by the Latin writers of the Middle Ages they are termed joculatores . The name appears to have been supplanted by the Norman minstrels shortly after the Conquest.
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a city in Nassau county, Railroad, and on Long Island Sound. It New York. It is on the Long Island is chiefly a residential city, but has some manufactures . It has excellent public seat of a Friends' schools and a public library. It is the corporated in 1918. Pop. (1920) 8,664. ads' Academy. It was in- Los Angeles co. It is on the Pacific Elec-
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a valley of Perthshire , Scotland, much visited for its ject of Wordsworth's verses on the scenery, and for Ossian's grave-the sub- "Narrow Glen." It is the seat of Trinity College, Glenalmond (1847), whose building's duced ings have been to some extent reproford, Conn. duced in those of Trinity College, Hart-
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a city of California, in tric and the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake railroads. Its public institulibrary, and a high school. It is the tions include a sanitarium , a public center of an important fruit-growing 13,536. district. Pop. (1910) 2,746; (1920)
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in Leister, Wicklow co., Ireland, about 24 miles S. of Dublin; the vicinity is celebrated for its scenery and ruins.
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a Highland glen in Inverness-shire, Scotland; 18 miles W. of Fort William. Here, on Aug. 19, 1745, the clans gathered under Prince Charles Edward's banner, and here in 1815 was erected to his memory a tower bearing an inscription in Gaelic, Latin, and English.
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JAMES HENRY, an American naval officer, born in French Gulch, Cal., in 1857. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1878. He was appointed ensign in 1882. He rose through the various grades, becoming captain in 1909, and rear-admiral in 1916. During the Spanish- American War he served on the "Massachusetts," and was acting captain of the port of Havana in 1899. He commanded at various times the Navy Yard of New York, and other navy yards, and was a member of the Panama Fortifications Board. He was also president of the Board of Naval Ordnance and the Joint Army and Navy Board on gun forgings, in 1915. He was commander of the Navy Yard and superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory at Washington in 1915-1917. In the latter year he was a representative of the Navy Department with the American special mission to Russia. He was commander of Squadron One, of the Battleship Force of the Atlantic Fleet, in September, 1917, and was commander of the 5th Division of the Atlantic Fleet in 1918. In 1918-1919 he was commandant of the 13th Naval District.
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JOHN JOSEPH, an Amer ican Roman Catholic archbishop, born in Kinnegad, County Meath, Ireland, in 1862. He graduated from All Hallows College, Dublin, in 1883, and in the following year was ordained priest. He removed to the United States and became assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Kansas City. He was successively pastor of the cathedral in Kansas City, vicar-general of the diocese, administrator of the diocese, and coadjutor-bishop of Kansas City. He was consecrated bishop of Pinara in 1896, and became coadjutor archbishop of St. Louis in 1903. In the same year he was created archbishop of St. Louis.
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a valley in the Highlands of Scotland, paralled to Glenmore in Lochaber, Inverness-shire. It is nearly 14 miles in length, and little more than 1½ mile in breadth, and is celebrated for its so-called Parallel Roads which are three parallel terraces running along either side of the glen. Not only do the lines on the same side run parallel to each other, but on both sides they respectively occupy the same horizontal level. These terraces project, at some parts only a few feet from the hillside, and at others widen out so as to be a number of yards in breadth. The lowest terrace is 850 to 862 feet above the sea-level; the middle, 1,062 to 1,077 feet; and the high- 1,155 feet. Their origin was est 1,144 to 1,18 much disputed, but according to Macculloch, Agassiz, Buckland, and Geikie, the roads are shore-lines of glacier lakes.
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a village in Warren co., N. Y., on the Hudson river, and on the Delaware and Hudson railroad; 54 miles N. of Albany. The river, here flowing through a ravine, descends 50 feet over a precipice 900 feet long, from which the place derives its name, and The supplies enormous water power. city has extensive marble and limestone quarries, lime works, sawmills, shirt, paper, and collar factories, and lath and planing mills. There are a Union High School, Crandell Public Library, a summer school for teachers, Glens Falls Academy, electric lights and street railroads, waterworks, daily and weekly newspapers, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 15,243; (1920) 16,638.
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a valley in Perthshire, Scotland; the deep narrow glen of the Tilt, which issues from Loch Tilt and runs 16 miles S. W. receiving the larger Tarf Water and Fender Burn, until at Blair- Glentilt is Athole it falls into the Garry. ry. classic ground to the geologist, as having furnished evidence for the Huttonian or denudation theory.
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OR SAIL-PLANES and economic program. This demand was refused and as a consequence Chancellor Wirth resigned November 14th. He was succeeded by Wilhelm Cuno, former Director-General of the Hamburg-American Steamship Line. By a constitutional amendment adopted in October, Provisional President Ebert was declared to be the first constitutional president of the Republic, his term of office being extended to June 30, 1925. Germany took part in the international economic conference held at Genoa, Italy, April, 1922, but her signing of a separate treaty with Russia at Rapallo, Italy, April 17th, led to misunderstandings and renewed ill-feelings_on the part of the other nations of Europe. Diplomatic relations with the United States were fully restored in 1922 by the exchange of ambassadors beween the two countries. The settlement of American claims against Germany was entrusted to the so-called Mixed Claims Commission.
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GREGORY ANDRÉEVICH, a Russian author; born near Smolensk in 1774. He was in boyhood a page at the imperial court. He entered upon a distinguished career as an educator, and accompanied Alexander I.'s brothers their Continental tour in 1811. His works include: "The Ancient Religion of the in Prose and Slavs"; "Miscellanies in Verse" and a play, "The Daughters of Love." He died in Moscow in 1818.
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