Jujuy
the extreme N. the ex province of the Argentine Republic; a mountainous tract, bounded on the W. and N. by Bolivia; area 18,977 square miles; pop. about 77,000. Its minerals are rich. The chief industries are agriculture and cattle-raising; sugar and wheat are the principal crops. The exports consist of cattle, mules, fruit, chicha brandy, skins, gold-dust, and salt. -dust, and Capital Jujuy, on the San Francisco Satt Fra river, has a custom-house, national colase, nation lege, etc., pop. about 6,000.
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Julep
in medicine, a demulcent, a demulcent, acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture. Almixture. Also a fancy beverage composed of whisky, beed of whisky, brandy, or other spirituous liquor, mixed e liquor, mixed with sugar, crushed ice, and sprigs of and sprigs of young mint; called also mint-julep. be nicet anciant
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Julia
Daughter of Augustus, remarkable for her beauty, genius, and vices. Her father gave her in marriage to Marcellus , after whose death she united herself to Agrippa , and again becoming a widow she married Tiberius. Her conduct now became so unseemly that she was banished to a small island on the coast of Campania , where she was starved to death.
A celebrated woman born in Phoenicia. She applied herself to the study of philosophy, and was conspicuous for her mental as well as her personal charms. She came to Rome, where she married Septimius Severus, who was afterward invested with the purple. She was also called Domna.
A daughter of Julius Caesar and Cornelia, famous for her virtues and personal charms. She was obliged by her father to divorce herself from her first husband to marry Pompey the Great, with the object of cementing the friendship between him and her father.
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Julia Gens
one of the most ancient patrician houses at Rome, of Alban origin, and removed to Rome by Tullus me by Tullus Hostilius on the destruction of Alba tion Alba ent from the Longa. It claimed descent from the Venus and An mythical Iulus, the son of Venus and Anruished family chises. The most distinguished family of the Gens was that of Cæsar.
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Julian
CARDINAL; born in 1398; was deputed by Pope Eugene IV. to counsel Ladislaus, King of Hungary, to break the peace concluded with Amurath II. A long and disastrous war was the result, during which the Christian army was defeated at Varna, in 1444. He presided at the council of Basle.
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Julian Epoch
the epoch or commencement of the Julian calendar. The first Julian year began with Jan. 1, 46 B. ., c and the 768th from the year assigned to the foundation of Rome.
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Julian Period
a period of 7,980 years, produced by multiplying 19 (the lunar cycle) by 28 (the solar cycle), and 15 (the Roman indiction). It began 4,713 years before the Christian era.
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Julianus
A son of Julius Constantius, the brother of Constantine the Great, born in Constantinople. The massacre which attended the elevation of the sons of Constantine to the throne nearly proved fatal to Julian and his brother Gallus. The two brothers were privately educated and taught the doctrine of the Christian religion-which afterward Julian disavowed, and in consequence of this the term Apostate is generally affixed to his name. He died, A. D. 363, in his thirty-second year. His last moments were spent in a conversation with a philosopher about the immortality of the soul. Julian's character has been admired by some writers, but generally he is censured for his apostasy.
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Juliet
. See Romeo And Juliet
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Jullunder
a city of the Punjab, city of the Punjab, India; in the Doab or rich alluvial r rich alluvial plain of the same name between the Sutlej and plain the tween the Sutlej and Beas. Jullunder is a very ancient is a very ancient ! city, founded before Alexander's invasion Alexander's invasion of India, and is referred to in the referred to in the "Mahábhárata." Pop. about 75,000. p. about 75,000.
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Jumbo
a large African elephant on exhibition for twenty-five years in the Royal Zoological Garden at London. Jumbo was sold to P. T. Barnum, 1882, for $10,000 and traveled with his circus for three years, but was killed finally in a railroad accident in Canada. He weighed about 12,000 pounds. His skeleton, preserved in the Smithsonian Museum at Washington, is eleven feet six inches in height. See Barnum ; Elephant
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Jumet
a town of Bel- (), a town of Belgium, province of Hainault, three miles N. Kainault, three miles of Charleroi; has glass-works, distilglass-works, distilleries, and extensive coal mines; pop. ecoal mines; pop. about 30,000.
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Jumna
a river of Hindua river of Hindustan, which rises in the Himalayas, in the Himalayas, in the native state of Garhwal, near Jamnotri, at the height of 10,849 feet. It flows in its upper course in a generally ure to generally S. W. direction, then bends to the S. E., bends to the S. E., and passing the cities of Delhi and Agra falls into of Deild and Agra the Ganges at Allahabad, after lalabad, after a course of 860 miles. Some trade is trade is carried on by means of clumsy barks. Two important irrigation works-the barks. orks-the Jumna Eastern and the Jumna Western Canals, the Jun Western derive their supply of water from supply water from this river.
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Jumpers
a class ss of religious fanatics, so named from their practice of of religious fajumping their practice of during the time allotted for divine time allotted for service. They arose in Wales in 1760. aross in Wales in
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Jumping Deer
Cervus lewisii, a Cerous Troisii, a kind of deer found W. of the Mississippi; of the Mississippi: called also the black-tailed deer.
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Jumping Hare
a species of jerboa found in Southern Africa, and so named from its general resemblance to a hare, while its jumping mode of progression, necessitated by the elongated nature of the hind legs, has procured for it its specific and popular distinction.
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Junagarh
capital of a native state (area 3,283 square miles; pop., about 500,000) of India, in the Bombay presidency; on the peninsula of Kathiawar, N. W. of Bombay. One of the most picturesque towns in India. Pop., about 36,000. JUNCEÆ, or JUNCACEE, the rush order, a small natural order of endogenous plants, so named from the typical genus Juncus. It is principally composed of obscure herbaceous plants with brown or green glumaceous hexandrous flowers, the perianth being in two series, as in Liliaceæ, but calycine instead of petaloid. Some of them, as the common rush, are employed for making mats, chair bottoms, and brooms.
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