Joint Pusher
A small piece of tempered steel wire mounted in a wooden handle and used for inserting and removing joint pins. JURGENSEN, URBAN. He was born at Copenhagen, Denmark, August 5, 1776. His father was a watchmaker to the court, and under him Urban learned the art. At the age of twenty-one he visited Neufchatel, Switzerland, where he remained for eighteen months and afterwards resided for six months in Geneva, being constantly occupied with mathematical and practical work. He afterwards went to Paris and was admitted to the houses of M. Breguet and Ferdinand Berthoud, and for some time worked under the immediate instruction of the former. He spent some time in London and then returned to Paris, and from there went to
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Joint Stock
stock held jointly, or in company. A joint stock company is a kind of partnership entered into by a number of individuals for the purpose of mrpose of carrying on with a Europe and many of the sted by statutes, in of the United States, with some of the priviprivileges of a corporation. In ordinary ordinary partnerships, the members contribute contribute personal labor more or less of their own personal labor or management to the affairs of the com- , on of the company. In joint stock partnerships ships, on the other hand, the members only cone only contribute to the funds or "stock" of the ck" of the company, without having any direct any direct share in the management; and hence and hence al of the company their name. The capital of the company is generally divided into equal parts, certain number into equal parts, called "shares," a of certain number of which are held by each member of the each member of the company; and in proportion to the numroportion to the number of these he is entitled to participate ed to participate g. These in the profits of the undertaking. These shares are freely transferable without le without the consent of the company.
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Joinville
a small '), a small town of 4,000 inhabitants in the French bitants in the French department of Haute-Marne, which was which was M formed into a principality by Henry II., Henry II.. and later supplied the title to the 3d son the 3d son of Louis Philippe.
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Joinville (JEAN zhwang-v l' a noted)
JEAN, (zhwang-vēl'), a noted French chronicler; born in Champagne, France, in 1224. He took part in Louis IX.'s crusade, and on his return spent his leisure composing his invaluable "Memoirs," which embody the important "History of Saint Louis," sometimes treated as a separate work. He died July 16, 1317. JÓKAI, MAURUS (yō'ko-i), a Hungarian novelist; born in Komora, Feb. 19, 1825. He studied law, but never practiced. From 1846 he edited several important periodicals. During the Hun- MAURUS JÓKAI garian struggle of 1848 he was an acthe restoration of tive patriot but after Austrian rule was forced to abandon political writing and turned to fiction. He wrote nearly 300 volumes, including novels, dramas, poems, etc. In January, 1894, all Hungary united in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his first book, "Working Days," and an edition de luxe of his complete works was published, groups of poor people and whole villages was combining to purchase copies. He married in 1848 to Rosa Laborfalvi, the greatest of Hungarian actresses. His best-known works are: "Poor Rich Men," "The World Turned Upside Down," "The Romance of the Next Century," "Black Diamonds," "Eyes Like the Sea," "The Accursed Family," "Timar's Two Worlds," "The Green Book," "Pretty Michal." "Midst the Wild Carpathians," "In Love with the Czarina," "Dr. Dumany's Wife" (1898). Died 1904.
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Jokjakarta
a residency of Java, in the central part pa of the island; area, 1,191 square miles; pop. about 500,000, nearly all Javanese (see JAVA). Capital, Jokjakarta, with the sultan's palace and ruins of ancient temples; pop. 8,000.
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Joliet (City and county-seat of Will)
a city and county-seat of Will co., Ill., on both sides of the Des Plaines river, on the Illinois and Michigan canal, and on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Rock Island and Pacific and other railroads; 40 miles S. W. of Chicago. The city contains the Silver Cross and St. Joseph's Hospitals, State penitentiary, and St. Francis and St. Mary Academies, public library, high school, and Swedish Orphan Home; is largely concerned in the steel industry; and has manufactories of steel and barbed wire, stove and boiler works, machine shops, tin plate and horse-shoe works, boot and shoe factories and flour mills. There are electric lights and street railways, National banks, daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 34,670; (1920) 38,372.
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Joliet (LOUIS a French-Canadian)
LOUIS, a French-Canadian explorer; born in Quebec, Canada, Sept. 21, 1645. Educated for the priesthood, he became a merchant. In 1672 he was commissioned by Frontenac, the governor of New France, to make explorations in that country, and in 1673, in company with Father Marquette, a Jesuit priest, and five other Frenchmen, he explored the Fox, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Mississippi rivers. He died in May, 1700.
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Joliet, Fr. zho-le-a'
jo'li-et, Fr. zho-le-a' (1645-1700), an American explorer. He was born at Quebec of French parentage. He was educated at the Jesuit College of that city, and engaged in the American fur trade. In 1673 he was sent by Governor Frontenac to obtain more definite information relative to the lower course of the Mississippi. He set out with a party of seven, including the adventurous Father Marquette. The party traveled in canoes by way of Green Bay, the Fox, and the Wisconsin. They descended the Father of Waters as far as a point below the mouth of the Arkansas. They returned to Lake Michigan by way of the Illinois and Chicago. Joliet returned to Quebec alone. He lost his journal in the rapids of the St. Lawrence. The world is indebted to Marquette's narration for the details of the journey, which, be it remembered, was 2,500 miles by canoe. The French government granted Joliet the Island of Anticosti in the St. Lawrence. Here he built a stockade, intending to embark in trade with the natives, but in 1691 the British captured his island and destroyed his property. A few years later a grant of land in Canada was made him. Joliet, Illinois, was named in his honor. See Marquette ; La Salle
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