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or JERONYMITES (je-ron'-), hermits of St. Jerome (Hieronymus), an order of religious persons established in 1374, who wear a white habit, with a black scapulary. They possessed the convent of St. Lawrence in the Escurial, and still have convents in Sicily, the West Indies, and South America.
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A Christian writer, commonly called St. Jerome. He was distinguished for his zeal against heretics. He wrote commentaries on the prophets, St. Matthew's Gospel, etc. He died A. D. 420 in his eightieth year.
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FRANK WAYLAND, an American public official, born in Rushford, N. Y., in 1865. He graduated from Riverview Military Academy; entered business in which he was very successful; and was elected to the State Senate in 1894, serving till 1902. In the following year he was appointed lieutenant-governor and was elected governor on the Republican ticket for the term 1905 to 1907. He died in the latter year.
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one of the three great parties in the English Church. They regard the Episcopal form of government as so essential to a true church that, as a rule, they do not feel free to recognize, as sister churches, those Christian denominations which are under other forms of government. During the 19th century High-churchism developed first into Tractarianism and then into Ritualism. Believing the Church to have received the right of autonomy from its Divine Head, the High-church party disapprove the Royal Supremacy, and dispute the right of the civil courts to try ecclesiastical cases. SIVES.
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originally the Teutonic dialect spoken in the S. and elevated parts of Germany, as distinguished from Platt Deutsch or Low German, spoken more lowland portions of in the N. and Germany.
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a city in North Carolina, in Guilford co., on the Southern and the Carolina and Yadkin River railroads. It has important industries, including furniture mills, car shops, wagon factories, silk mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,525; (1920) 14,302.
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the chief priest in any faith, he who occupies the highest place in the hierarchy, as the Pontifex Maximus among the Romans. In Judaism, the divinely-appointed head of the Jewish hierarchy. The first to hold office was Aaron. The high priests were to be without blemish, were to avoid eating things which died of themselves, or marrying a widow or a divorced person. They were not to make mourning for private or domestic sorrows. The Romans were afraid of the influence likely to be acquired by so exalted a spiritual functionary and apparently appointed a new one every year (John xviii: 18). term which
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the open sea or ocean. The claims of various nations to exclusive rights and superiority over extensive tracts of the ocean highway have been settled after much controversy by a general international law. The principle now accepted is that the jurisdiction of maritime states extends only for 3 miles, or within former cannon range of their own coasts; the remainder of the seas being high seas, accessible on equal terms to all nations. Inland seas and estuaries, of course, are excepted.
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operated by a large measure of force of some sort. A high-pressure alarm in a steam en- HIGH EXPLOSIVES. See EXPLO- gine is an alarm intended to give notice of a dangerous head of steam, and to prevent an explosion of a steam generator. A high-pressure engine is a steam engine, condensing or non-condensing, in which the the safety-valve is loaded (United States) with a weight equivalent to a boiler-pressure of 35 pounds to the square inch. The term "highpressure" has a very indefinite signification; condensing engines are often called "low-pressure," and non-condensing engines "high-pressure," but the question of condensing is not necessarily one of pressure.
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the name given by secret organization Americans to a known to exist among the Chinamen in North America, and which has caused considerable disturbance in the Chinese population of San Francisco, Calan The Chinese call these societies pro ocy or "hatchet" societies, and the members "hatchet boys." The members claim to be Chinese Freemasons, but seem in reality to be lawless spirits unable to brook the discipline of the regular charitable societies, and who have consequently organized for mutual protection crime.
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a city of Michigan in Wayne co. Its chief industry is the manufacture of automobiles and motors. The development of this industry has greatly increased its industrial importance in recent years. Pop. (1910) 4,120; (1920) 46,499.
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in physical geography, any district having a considerable elevation above the sea. In literature, the term applies to the northern part of Scotland, called the Highlands, by way of distinction from the southern portion, designated as the Lowlands. The line between the two sections has never been very distinct. At an early day the Highlands were occupied by a Celtic people who spoke the Gaelic language, living in tribes or clans. The warriors wore kilts and plaids. They danced to the sound of the bagpipe, and were skilled with the claymore or broadsword. The Lowlands were peopled by a class closely akin to the English, that is to say, of Teutonic or Scandinavian origin. By constant intercourse and intermarriage the distinction between Highlanders and Lowlanders has been more or less effaced. A family name beginning with Mac is indicative of Highland origin. The gallant conduct of the Highland regiments and the writings of William Black, have done much to surround the Highlands with an atmosphere of romance. See Scotland
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THE, a somewhat vague and indefinite geographical division of Scotland, N. and W. of a line running N. E. from Dumbarton on the Clyde through the counties of Dumbarton, Stirling, Perth, Forfar, Kincardine; then N. W. through Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, and Nairn to the shores of the Moray Firth. The Highlands are generally subdivided into two parts, the West Highlands and the North Highlands; the former of which contains the shires of Argyll and Bute, the Southern Hebrides, and part of Perth and Dumbarton; the latter comprehends the counties of Inverness, Ross, Sutherland, the districts of Athol, Ranothers belonging to Inverness and Ross. and the Isles of Skye, Lewis, Lewis, and The mountainous parts of Banff, Moray; Aberdeen, and Kincardine are also recognized as forming part of the Highlands; while Caithness (partly) and the Orkney Isles are excluded, because and Shetland their inhabitants are of Scandinavian origin. The whole of the district, which embraces the Celtic-speaking part of Scotland, is wild, rugged, and mountain- The W. coast is indented by many arms of the sea, and is flanked ous. narrow by numerous islands. Forming, by their natural characteristics, a region distinct from the Lowlands of Scotland, the Highlands were long in a state of political semi-independence. What especially separated this region from the rest of Scotland was not only the Celtic language and blood, but also the clan system and all connected with it.
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