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 creeping plant related to the catnip. It has petioled, kidney-shaped leaves. The bright blue flowers grow in threes in the axils of the leaves. In America it grows in damp and shady places, having been introduced from Europe. It is also known as gill-over-the-ground. In England it is called also the haymaiden. Its leaves were used for flavoring ale, in which service it preceded hops.
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or Clubmoss, a mossy, trailing evergreen plant of deep woods. It is allied to the ferns. There are 100 different kinds. The dusty spores are sold as lycopodium powder by druggists. It kills cockroaches and many other insects. It is almost as inflammable as gunpowder. Ground pine is in demand for Christmas decorations. It keeps well, and is usually gathered during the long Indian summer of the North from Minnesota to Maine, and shipped to market in barrels or boxes. Wisconsin, it is said, ships thirty-five carloads a year.
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. See Woodchuck
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in ornithology, various game-birds, specially the Tetrao tetrix, called the black grouse, and Lagopus coticus, the red grouse. The male of the former is called the black cock, and the female the gray hen. The red, called also the common grouse, inhabits moors. Besides Tetrao, the grouse family contains the genus Lagopus (Ptarmigan), etc., the ruffled grouse is the genus Bonasia; sand grouse are the family Pteroclidæ; and the wood grouse is the Capercailzie. They are well known to be large plump birds, with beautifully varie- SAGE GROUSE gated plumage, which must often be protective. They are especially abundant in the N. parts of both Old and New World. The male is famous for his habit of with his wings. The largest American drumming, or beating stiffly downward grouse is the cock of the plains or sage cock.
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The process of pouring a thin mixture of kaolin or fire-clay betwixt the cupola shell and the fire-bricks, as well as at the joints of the bricks, during the operation of lining. By building the bricks in as close contact with the shell as possible and filling the remaining spaces with the grout, the brick is permanently fixed, and all possibility of air escaping through the joints of the shell obviated. See CUPOLA; REPAIRING THE CUPOLA.
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SIR GEORGE, an English author; born in Clapham, England, in 1820; was trained as a civil engineer, and erected in the West Indies the first two cast-iron lighthouses built. As a member of the staff of Robert Stephenson he was employed at the Chester general station and the Britannia tubular bridge. He was secretary to the Society of Arts from 1849 to 1852, and secretary to the Crystal Palace Comsubpany from 1852 to 1873, where he sequently became a director. He was editor of "Macmillan's Magazine," a large contributor to Smith's "Dictionary of the Bible," and editor and part author of the "Great Dictionary of Music and Musicians." D. C. L. from Durham University in 1872, and LL. D. of Glasgow in 1886. He was knighted in 1883 on the opening of the Royal College of Music, Kensington Kensington Gore, of which he was made Director by the Prince of Wales. He also assisted Dean Stanley in some of his works on the Bible and the East, and was founder of the Palestine Exploration Fund. He died in London, England, May 28, 1900.
in comparative religion, a group of trees under which religious worship is held.
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a nonsectarian coeducational institution in Grove City, Pa.; founded in 1876; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 54; students, 859; president, W. C. Ketler.
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GALUSHA AARON, an Amer. ican legislator; born in Eastford, Conn., Aug. 31, 1822; was graduated at Amherst College in 1844; was admitted to the bar in 1847; settled in Towanda, Pa., and there practiced; was a member of Congress in 1851-1863 and speaker during the last two years. In 1871-1876 he was president of the International and In Great Northern railroad of Texas. 1894 he was elected Representative-at- Large by a plurality of 297,446 over De- Witt, the Democratic nominee, and a majority of 269,778 over all other candidates, these being the largest numbers of votes ever given in any State of the Union to any candidate for any office up to that time. He was re-elected in 1896, 1898, and 1900. He died March 31, 1907.
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That is "long-haired one," from the Gaelic gruag, a wig: a fairy being with protective duties, to be met with in Scottish legends, and which apparently may be of either sex. The Gruagach appears to have been particularly associated with cattle, and milk was laid aside for him every evening - otherwise no milk would be got at next milking. Usually this being was of a beneficent nature, although occasionally it showed mischievous traits by loosing the cattle in the byres so that the herds had to get up, sometimes several times during a night, to tie them up: this apparently caused the Gruagach much delight. There are many tales in different parts of Scotland about the Gruagach, from which one gathers that this fairy commonly had long hair and was well dressed, of whichever sex it might happen to be. (See Scotland). a
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Mrs., an invisible character in Thomas Morton's comedy, Speed the Plough, published in 1798. Dame Ashfield, one of the dramatis personae, is constantly asking, "What will Mrs. Grundy say?"--but Mrs. Grundy never appears. The question has become proverbial, and "Mrs. Grundy" a synonymous term for the opinion of conventional society.
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city and capital of the State of Jalisco, Mexico, and the second city of the republic; in a valley by the Rio Grande de Santiago, here crossed by a fine bridge of 26 arches, 280 miles W. N. W. of Mexico City, with which the place is connected by rail. Though most of the houses are of only one story, the town presents a pleasing appearance. Guadalajara is the seat of an archbishop, and possesses a handsome cathedral, besides the government palace, a mint, university, hospitals, and school of art. Its industries are important; it is the chief seat of the cotton and woolen manufactures of the country, and the Guadalajara pottery and metal wares, like the confectionery, have a reputation all over Mexico. Pop. about 120,000. gwä - THäl -kever'), a river known to the ancients by the name "Baetis," rises in the Sierra de Cazorla, Spain, on the borders of Jaen and Murcia, 15 miles E. S. E. of Ubeda, and passes Andejar, Cordova, Seville, and San Lucar-de-Barameda. The Guadthe right the alquivir receives on Guadalimar, Campana, Guadamelleto, Guadabarbon, Guadiato, and Biar; on the left, the lesser Guadiana, Guadalentin, Jaen, Guadajoz, Xenil, and Corbones. It falls into the Atlantic at San Lucar, winding course of about 250 after a miles.
a town of Guadalajara province, Spain; on the Henares, 35 miles N. E. of Madrid. It has manufactures of flannel and college of engineering. serge, and a royal Here is the quaint, neglected palace of the Mendozas.
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