Each of these 12 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 king and priest of the Midianites, surnamed Raguel, who received Moses into his family when he fled from Egypt, and gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage. When Moses had delivered the Israelites from their bondage, Jethro met him, and delivered him his wife and children. JETSAM. See FLOTSAM.
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goods thrown overboard at sea to save the ship. When a portion of a cargo is cast overboard to save a ship from foundering, or to enable it to escape from the enemy, the loss is distributed among the various owners of the cargo in proportion to the value of their shipments. Those whose property is saved are required to make up a part of the loss of him whose property is sacrificed for the general good. This is an old law of the sea.
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The Italian name for the power of the "evil eye." In order to guard against it magicians say that horns must be worn on the body.
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the fiber of Marsdenia tenacissima, a small climbing plant of the natural order Asclepiadaceæ, of which the Rajmahal mountaineers make bowstrings.
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WILLIAM STANLEY, an English logician; born in Liverpool, in 1835; was educated at University College, London; held an appointment in the royal mint in Australia from 1854 to 1859; graduated at London University in 1862; was appointed Professor of Logic, Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Cobden lecturer on political economy in Owens College, Manchester, afterward Professor of Political Economy in University College, London, a post which he resigned in 1881. Among his works are "Elementary Treatise on Logic" (1870); "Theory of Political Economy" (1871); "Principles of Science" (1874); and many essays and addresses on economic questions. He was drowned in 1882.
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THE WANDERING, a mythical personage who forms the subject of many popular traditions. According to one account he was a carpenter and as our Saviour passed his workshop on his way to execution, the soldiers begged that He might be allowed to enter for a few moments and rest; but he not only refused, but ordered Him off. Jesus replied, "Thou shalt wander on the earth till I return." Driven by fear and remorse, he has since wandered, according to the command of our Lord, from place to place, and has in vain sought death. The legend first appears in the Chronicle of Matthew Paris, in the 13th century, where the Wandering Jew is called Cartaphilus, and is said to have been a servant of Pilate. His name in the later legends is Ahasuerus. This legend has formed the subject of long poems by Schubert and Mosen; of a tragedy by Klingmann; of a mystico-philosophical drama by Edgar Quinet; of prose romances by George Croly ("Salathiel"), Alexandre Dumas the elder, M. Elckers, and David Hoffman ("Chronicles Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus"); "The Wandering Jew," by Eugene Sue; "The Prince of India," by Lew Wallace; and of numerous small lyrical pieces. tithy- Pedilanthus
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maloides, a plant of the order Euphorbiaceæ. It grows in the West Indies, and is used in decoction as an antisyphilitic, and in cases of suppression of the It is also called milk plant. menses. for name collective
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a fungus, one of the ing parts of living fungus, one of t preserved their religion, as already which grows on deca trees, particularly elders. It is a native of Great said, but a certain national type of feature trees, particular. Britain. In size and , of which the most salient points ive of Great Britai form it bears some resemblance to a are a thick lips, bears some resen human ear. dark skin, and an aquiline nose. Jews belong to formerly in repute as a tropical discutient and ear. Jew's ear we Jew's ear was the Semitic race, as is The as a tropical dis proved by their language, which is allied with the Arabic, the astringent It is still solc Syriac, and the but Polyporus versicolor is often sub- . It is still sold, stituted for it. The lor is often sub genuine Jew's ear, after being dried, swells when immersed in Chaldean. Their primitive life was patriarchal, pastoral uine Jew's ear water; the , nomadic, perhapscertainly so in the desert vells when immerse Polyporus does not. between their departure from Egypt does not. and entrance into the Land of Promise.
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a small musical instrument, a favorite with boys. It consists of a thin tongue of tempered steel with a U-shaped frame, except that the ends of the frame are brought nearer together and prolonged. It is played by placing the ends of the frame against the teeth, while the tongue is set in play by striking the free end with the finger. Shades of intensity are produced by varying the current of the breath. Changes of pitch are produced by changing the cavity of the mouth, which serves at once as a sounding board and as on organ pipe. The origin of the instrument, as well as the origin of its name, is in dispute.
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In watch work, a stone having a hole pierced in it for the reception of a pivot. To Nicholas Facio, a native of Genoa, is attributed the invention of piercing stones for this purpose, early in the eighteenth century. See Facio.
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This tool, which is shown in Fig. 179, is intended for holding jewels when cleaning and manipulating, and is far superior to the ordinary tweezers as it holds the jewel firmly and there in no danger of it snapping out as with tweezers. The jaws being made of boxwood it will not injure the finest setting. The metal parts are of German silver.
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Fig 188 illustrates the Logan patent. It is an excellent tool and will save the workman considerable time and much annoyance by its use. Every watchmaker is aware what a difficult and tedious matter it is to set a jewel pin correctly. With this tool the job is accomplished quickly and accurately. JODIN, JEAN. A clever French watchmaker of the eighteenth century. Author of a work on horology. He was the first to point out that success in the timing of horizontal watches depends on the correct proportioning of all their parts.
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