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Humming-Bird Bush

in botany, Æschynomene montevidensis.

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Humming-Bird Hawk-Moth

Macroglossa stellatarum. The fore wings are smoky black, with a central black dot, a waved black line on each side of it, and indistinct black clouds toward the base; the hind wings are tawny with the base blackish-brown, and the hind margin reddish-brown. The body is brownish, varied posteriorly with black and white.

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Humor

in anatomy, etc., a liquid, a fluid. See AQUEOUS HUMOR. In mental philosophy, a mental faculty which tends to discover incongruous resemblances between things which essentially differ, or essential differences between things put forth as the same; the result being internal mirth or an outburst of laughter. Wit does so likewise, but the two are different. Humor has deep human sympathy, and loves men while raising a laugh against their weaknesses. Wit is deficient in sympathy, and there is often a sting in its ridicule. Somewhat contemptuous of mankind, it has not the patience to study them thoroughly, but must content itself with noting superficial resemblances or differences. Humor is patient and keenly observant, and penetrates beneath the surface; while, therefore, the sallies of wit are often one-sided and unfair, those of humor are, as a rule, just and wise.

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Humpbacks

the cetaceous genus Megaptera. The flippers are one-fifth to mppers one-third the length of the body. They are akin to the finners, but are shorter and more robust. A specimen of M. longimana, taken near Newcastle, and described by Dr. Johnston, of Berwick, was named Johnston's humpbacked whale. It is called also Balænoptera boops.

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Humperdinck

ENGELBERT (höm'perdink), a German composer; born in Siegburg, near Bonn, Sept. 1, 1854. After studying music at Cologne, Frankfort, Munich, etc., and travels in France, Spain, and Italy, he taught in the conservatoriums of Barcelona and Cologne, and was musical adviser to a publishing firm in Mainz. Wagner summoned him to assist in the production of that master's only symphony; and it was he who prepared and coached the first cast of "Parsifal" at Baireuth (1882). He subsequently settled in Frankfort (1890), and became famous as the author of the phenomenally successful children's opera or musical fairy play, "Hänsel and Gretel" (1894), which was followed by "The Snow Maiden"; "The Royal Children"; "Die Marketenderin" (1914); etc. He also wrote incidental music to Shakespeare's "Tempest," Maeterlinck's "Blue Bird," etc., and many choruses.

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Humphreys

ALEXANDER CROMBIE, an American engineer and educator; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1851. He came to the United States after several years spent in in 1859 and business he graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1881. He served as chief engineer for several gas companies, and from 1892 to 1908 was head of the gas company in London, with branch offices in New York. He made various important inventions in the manufacture of water gas. In 1902 he was elected president of the Stevens Institute of Technology. He published several lectures on engineering practice.

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Hunan

a province of China, with an area of 83,380 square miles. It is traversed by important rivers, chief of which is the Kiangsi. The soil for the most part is fertile, and the agricultural products are tea, rice, hemp, and tobacco. Hunan is one of the largest tea-growing regions of China. There are valuable mines of coal and other metals. The population of the province is about 24,000,000. The capital is Changsha.

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Hundred Days

the period between March 20, 1815, the day on which Napoleon I. entered Paris after his escape from Elba, and June 29 of the same year, when he left it finally.

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Hundred-Weight

in avoirdupois weights , a weight containing by the legal standard in England 112 pounds. In the United States it is 100 pound avoirdupois. It is subdivided into four quarters. It is usually written cwt. Twenty hundred weights make one ton. An English long hundred-weight is 180 pounds. HUNDSRÜCK, an extensive and mountainous district of Rhenish Prussia, thickly wooded, and rising, at intervals, to a height of 3,000 feet. It lies between the Moselle and the Nahe, and joins the mountain chain of the Vosges.

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Huneker

JAMES GIBBONS, an American critic and writer; born in Philadelphia in 1860. He was educated in the public schools and studied law in Philadelphia. He afterward studied music in Paris and for ten years was a teacher of piano at the National Conservatory of New York. He served as dramatic critic for several New York papers, including the "Sun" and the "Times." He wrote "The Man and His Music" (1900); " Egoists-A Book of Supermen" (1909 ); "The Pathos of Distance" (1913); "Unicorns " (1917). He died Feb. 9, 1921. HUNGARY. See AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

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Hungary Balsam

a kind of turpentine procured from Pinus Pumilio, the mountain pine of Hungary. HUNGARY a WATER, water consisting of dilute alcohol aromadistilled tized with the tops of flowers of rosemary or other aromatic substances, used as a perfume; so called because first made for the use of a queen of Hungary. HUNGER. See FASTING.

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Hungerford

MRS. MARGARET (HAMILTON ARGLES) ("The Duchess"), an Irish novelist; born about 1855. The daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she was left a widow with a young family to support, whereupon she took to literature. She wrote: "Phyllis" (1877); " Molly Bawn" (18 (1878);" Fairy Lillian" ( 1879); "Beauty's Daugh- ; " Airy ters" (1880); "Mrs. Geoffrey" (1881); "Faith and Unfaith" (1881); "Portia" (1882); " Rosmoyne" (1883); "O Tender Dolores" (1885); "In Durance Vile" (1885); "Lady Branksmere" (1886); "A Modern Circe" (1887); "The Duch- "Lady Valworth's Diamonds" (1886); ess" (1887); " Undercurrents" (1888); "Hon. Mrs. Vereker" (1888). She died in Bandon, Cork co., Jan. 24, 1897. land, in Cork, 16 miles W. N. W. of

a town of Berkshire, England; partly also in Wiltshire; on the Kennet river, 26 miles W. S. W. of Reading. It is a hunting center, and a favorite resort of anglers. In the town hall (1870) is preserved a horn given to the town by John of Gaunt in 1362.

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Hungry Hill

a mountain of Ire- Bantry. On the top of the mountain is series of cascades, one falling nearly 700 feet. a lake, whence the waters descend in a nomadic Scythian tribes which devas-

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