Ischia
the ancient Ænaria and Pithecusa, an island on the N. side of the entrance to the Bay of Naples, 6 miles from the mainland. Area, 26 square miles; pop. about 30,000. Ischia is a favorite place of summer resort, being noted for the excellence of its warm mineral waters. Its highest point is the volcanic Monte Epomeo, 2,608 feet, the last outbreak of which occurred in 1302. In 1881 Casamicciola was nearly destroyed by two earthquake shocks. On Sept. 28, 1883, the town was utterly overwhelmed, only four or five buildings being left standing, and 4,000 or 5,000 persons lost their lives. The inhabitants grows fruits, wine, and olive oil, and carry on fishing. Chief towns: Ischia, a bishop's seat; Casamicciola, and Forio.
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Ischium
one of the bones in the pelvic arch in vertebrated animals. It forms the posterior and inferior part of the os innominatum, and bounds the obturator foramen in the lower half of its extent.
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Ischl
a town of Upper Austria, on the river Traun, amid magnificent Alpine scenery. It is the chief town of the district called the Salzkammergut. The situation of Ischl, and the saline baths established in 1822, attract 4,000 or 5,000 visitors annually. Pop. about 30,000.
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Ischyromys
the typical genus of the family Ischyromyidæ. It is known only by a North American fossil rodent, I. typus, described by Leidy from remains found by Hayden in Miocene deposits in the "Bad Lands" of Wyoming. It resembles the musk rat, but has closer affinity to the squirrels, and certain resemblances to the beavers. ISÈRE (ē-zār), a department in the S. E. of France, round which on the N. and W. flows the river Rhone. It was formed out of the ancient province of Dauphiné; area, 3,200 square miles. Mont du Midi, on the S. E. border, rises to 13,088 feet. The chief river, besides the Rhone, is its left-hand tributary, the Isère, which, rising in the Alps at an altitude of 7,540 feet, flows S. W. to join the Rhone above Valence, after a total course of 180 miles (102 navigable). The products include wheat, wine, stone fruits, medicinal plants, and hemp. Cheese is made; and silkworms are reared. The department is rich in mineral products; iron, coal, and turf are worked, and to a less extent marble, slates, and gypsum. The industrial acity is considerable, particularly in the tivity manufacture of iron and steel goods, gloves, silk stuffs, cloth, linen, paper, straw hats, liqueur, etc. Pop. about 560,000.
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Iserlohn
a manufacturing town of Prussian Westphalia. The calamine mines are celebrated. In the neighborhood is the Dechen stalactite cave, discovered in 1868. Pop. about 30,- 000.
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Ishbosheth
a son and successor of Saul. Abner, Saul's kinsman and general, so managed that Ishbosheth was acknowledged king at Mahanaim by the greatest part of Israel, while David reigned at Hebron over Judah. Involved in a long and unsuccessful war against David, and abandoned by Abner, he was assassinated.
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Ishim
a town in Siberia, important as a trade center. It is the oldest of Siberian towns. A river and a territory adjacent likewise bear the name. son of
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Ishmael
a Abraham, by Hagar, who on the birth of Isaac, son of Sarah, was sent forth from his father's house with his mother. After dwelling in the desert for a long time, he became a great hunter and mighty warrior. The Arabs regarded Ishmael as the father of their nation, and the author of their language. He lived 137 years. or
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Ishmaelites
ISMAELITES, Mohammedan sect
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Ishpeming
a city in Marquette co., Mich., on the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic and the Lake Superior and Ishpeming railroads; 15 miles W. of Marquette. It is the mining trade center for the great Marquette iron range, one of the most noted in the Lake Superior region, and the mining district of Ishpeming contains many of the most productive mines in the State. In the district also are valuable veins of gold, silver, and marble. The general offices of the Lake Superior and Ishpeming railroad are located here, and besides the mines and iron works there are manufactories of boilers, wagons and sleighs, machinery, and worked lumber. The city has trolley connection with Negaunee, a National bank, public library, water supply from Lake Superior, several weekly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 12,448; (1920) 10,500.
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Isis
i'sis, the chief goddess of the Egyptians. She was the sister and wife of Osiris, their chief deity. He represented the sun. She represented the moon. The cow and the lotus were sacred to her. The figure of Isis, oftentimes adorned with the horns of a cow, appears frequently in Egyptian art, especially in the adornment of cave temples and elsewhere. See Osiris
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Isis
A celebrated deity of the Egyptians, daughter of Saturn and Rhea , according to Diodorus of Sicily. Some suppose her to be the same as Io, who was changed into a cow, and restored to her human form in Egypt, where she taught agriculture, and governed the people with mildness and equity, for which she received divine honors after her death. 2026 Editor's Note: Isis was a major Egyptian goddess worshipped from the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BCE) through the Greco-Roman period, with her cult spreading across the Mediterranean. Her worship ended with the rise of Christianity in the fourth through sixth centuries CE, though some scholars see possible influences on the veneration of Mary. (Ed: BR 2026-07-10)
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Isis
a genus of corals, the typical of the sub-family Isidinæ. The one sclerobasis consists of alternate calcareous and horny segments, the former giving rise to branches. I. hippuris is from Amboyna, I. polyantha from the American seas, and I. coralloides from those of India.
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Isis
in , the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus. Egyptian mythology She is, however, variously described, and invested with many different characters. By the Greeks she was generally identified with Demeter (Ceres). Among the higher and more philosophical theologians she was made the symbol of Pantheistic divinity; see especially the remarkable passage at the end of the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius. By the people she was worshiped as the goddess of fecundity, and in her honor an annual festival was instituted which lasted seven days. The cow was sacred to her. She was represented variously, though most usually as a woman with the horns of a cow, sometimes suckling Horus, and sometimes with the lotus on her head and the sistrum in her hand. Her priests were bound to observe perpetual chastity; but when her worship passed into foreign countries, her rites became merely a cloak for sacerdotal licentiousness, which at last reached such a pitch that they were prohibited at Rome. Vol. V-Cyc-N The worship of Isis, however, was repeatedly revived, and furnished a theme for the indignant pen of Juvenal.
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