Jefferson City
a city, capital of the State of Missouri, and county-seat of Cole co.; on the Missouri river, the Chicago and Alton, the Missouri , Kansas and Pacific and the Missouri Pacific railroads; 125 miles W. of St. Louis. It is the farming and manufacturing trade center for Cole and adjacent counties; has manufactories of flour , shoes, farming implements, and wagons , and iron foundries. It has the State Capitol, St. Mary's Hospital, Lincoln Institute, and other public buildings. It has gas and electric light plants, a National bank, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 11,850, (1920) 14,490. JEFFERSONIA (-sō'-) (named in honor of President Jefferson), a genus of plants, order Berberidaceæ. The species J. diphylla, the twin-leaf, or rheumatismroot, is found in woods from Western New York to Wisconsin and S. The leaves, which are only two and bipartite, rise immediately from a horizontal root-stock borne on long petals, and enfolding a handsome white flower, not unlike that of the blood-root, and appearing in April and May. This plant has in the West the reputation of being a stimulant, diaphoretic , and antispasmodic. a city and
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Jeffersonville
county-seat of Clark co., Ind.; on the Ohio river, and the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Pittsburgh , Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis , and several other railroads; 50 miles E. of Evansville; and opposite Louisville , Ky., with which it is connected by railroad bridges. It contains the Southern State Penitentiary , High School, Public Library; is the seat of an extensive government depot of supplies; and has waterworks , gas and electric lights, street railways , large car works, National banks , daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Pop . (1910) 10, - 412, (1920) 10,098. a British
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Jeffrey
FRANCIS, critic and essayist; born in Edinburgh in 1773. After graduating at the universities of Glasgow, and Oxford , Jeffrey, in 1794, was admitted to the Scottish bar. In 1802 he became editor of the Edinburgh "Review." In 1813 he married a grand-niece of John Wilkes, crossing to the United States to bring her home . From 1816 till he ceased to practice Jeffrey was the acknowledged leader of the Scottish bar. He died in 1850. JEFFERIES,
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Jeffrey, Francis
jef'ri, Francis (1773-1850), a Scottish lawyer and man of letters. He was well educated at the high school and University of Glasgow. He attended Oxford also. He studied law at Edinburgh and was admitted to the bar. He had little practice as a lawyer. With Sydney Smith he entered into a project to establish a political magazine. October 10, 1802, the first number of the Edinburgh Review appeared. The editorial management belonged to no one in particular at first, but later it devolved on Jeffrey. Constable was the publisher. Jeffrey was a writer of ability. His own contributions to the Review exceed 200. He had a faculty of discovering young writers and of giving talent free scope. Sir Walter Scott, Carlyle, and Macaulay were among his contributors. His judgment was not always correct. He attacked Byron bitterly, and failed to recognize the merits of Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth. Despite his faults and his bitter partisanship as a Whig, Jeffrey will rank always as one of the greatest review editors the world has known. His editorial work came to a close in 1829. He represented Edinburgh in Parliament for several years, and sat on the supreme bench of Scotland for sixteen years, leaving a reputation as a popular, upright judge. See Macaulay
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Jeffreys
or GEORGE, LORD, an English jurist; born in Acton, England, in 1648. By attaching himself to the Duke of York he obtained the appointment of Welsh judge, the honor of knighthood, and the chiefjusticeship of Chester. In 1683 he was appointed Chief-Justice of the King's Bench, and, in 1685 , Lord Chancellor. His cruelties on the Western circuit toward the deluded followers of the Duke the tit Rowever London of the ucceeded nty, 867 to his atry bei a. Aft years KKin younge usion o to ac tal as a ol'ä-kim to the butary o to whe Le gave phet Je amilie rone r him sor f Jerus among C. CHIN ongolia of the ing of the an er, Asd of his ing ent suffe and he son Joh LLEY of God. lace wh His pecol as been rrow gl nd S. f Olives -dron. of Monmouth were excessive; earning for him
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Jehol
(ya'hol), or CHING-TE-FU ), a city 8). (-fö of inner Mongolia, containing a summer
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Jehoshaphat
VALLEY OF, the of the 1841-1842 by the British forces under British forces under valley judgment of God, a metaphorical name of some Sir Robert Sale. Also the place where God would judge the Also the capital of Seistan, Southwest Afghanistan. Pop., capital of est., 10,000. There foes of His people (Joel iii: 2, 12). st Afghanistan. Pop., are several towns of re are several towns of The name has been appropriated to the deep this name in British India. ish India. and narrow glen E. of Jerusalem, running N. and S. between the city and the
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Jehoshaphat (King of Judah the throne)
King of Judah, the throne 70 of Ahab's children, ascended at the age of 35, in succession to his and the priests of Baal in the temple their idol. Baal in the temple ple of aple of Afterward relapsing into idolatry, he was father, Asa, 914 b. c. During the ward relapsing into punished by the delivery of his early part of his reign his people prospered punished by the de.. kingdom to Hazael, King of Syria. He , but having entered into an alliance with dom to Hazael, King died in 857 b. c. Ahab he suffered many in 857 b. c. disasters, which were at length averted by prayer and
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Jehovah
the most sacred of the most sacred of the among the people the title of "Bloody names given in the Old Testament to the Old Testament to the Jeffries." His acts, however, pleased his Supreme Being, regarded also as the God arded also as the Goo royal master James II. He died a prisoner in specially of the Jewish people. So holy was the name wish people. So holy the Tower of London in 1689. deemed that the Jews were ed that the Jews were afraid to allow it to escape
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