Jordan
the chief river of Palestine. It rises on the slopes of Mount Hermon and flows southward into the Dead Sea . Its length is about half that of the Thames. The lower part of its course is below the level of the sea. Its total descent is 2,300 feet. The Lake of Galilee is simply a widening in the upper course. The river is subject to floods in the winter season, but in the dry season it is not above three feet deep at its mouth. It is crossed by several fords and ferries. The Jordan is celebrated in sacred history. See Galilee ; Dead Sea
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Jordan
DAVID STARR, an American educator; born in Gainesville, N. Y., Gainesville, N. Y., died at Cornell and Jan. 19, 1851. He studied at Cornell and Harvard. After holding important proof important professorships, he served as president 1885 to resident of the University of Indiana from made comm 1885 to 1891. In the latter year he was Uniwas made president of Leland Stanford Jr. Jr. University. He served in this capacity until 1913-1916, oscity until 1913, and as chancellor from 1918-1916, when he became chancellor emeritus. ( Care and emeritus. ( He wrote "Science Sketches," " "Cara and Culture of Men," "Footnotes to Evoluotes to Evolution," etc., and served on a number of on a number of important government commissions, since Foundamissions, since 1909 Director of World Peace Peace Foundation, author of 400 scientific monographs, , zonographs, "The Way of Lasting Peace" (1916), etc. of Science ce" (1916), etc., president California Academy , U. S. Fish- Academy of Science, 1896 and 1909, chairman rman U. S. Fish- 01-1904) and Alaseries Commission (1901-1904) and Alas- .) ka Salmon Investigation (1903-1904 tion (1903-1904)
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Jordan (ELIZABETH an American editor)
ELIZABETH, an American editor and writer, born in Milwaukee, in 1867. She graduated from the Convent of Notre Dame, Milwaukee, and was for ten years following on the editorial staff of the New York "World." She was editor of "Harper's Bazar" from 1900 to 1913, and from the latter year, was literary adviser to Harper and Brothers. She was a member of many women's organizations and was a prominent worker for woman suffrage. Her published writings include "Tales of the City Room" (1898); "Many Kingdoms" (1908); "Wings of Youth" (1917). She also wrote many plays. She contributed many short stories to American and English magazines.
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Jorullo
XURULLO, or XORULLO, a volcano of Mexico, about 75 miles S. S. W. of Morelia, and 80 miles from the Pacific Ocean; lat. 19° 10' N., lon. 101° 1' 45" W. The site of this remarkable mountain was formerly a fertile plain, about 2,890 feet above sealevel, but a violent eruption, on Sept. 28 and 29 , 1759, raised it to an elevation of 4,265 feet, and sent forth immense quantities of lava, with stones of great . size The elevation is about 4 square miles in area, and is covered with thousands of small mounds or hornitos (little ovens) from 6 to 9 feet high, from which, till recently, issued steam and sulphurous vapors. The San Pedro and Cuitimba, two rivers which formerly watered this tract, sink into the earth on the E. side, and appear again as hot springs on the W. side of the elevation.
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Joseffy
RAFAEL, a Hungarian composer and pianist. Born in Hungary in 1852, he was educated at the conservatories in Leipzig and Berlin. About 1880 he came to America where he was first recognized as a great teacher of music. Later he toured Europe and finally made his home in Vienna. He has written an excellent text on musical instruction entitled "School of Advanced Piano Playing," (1892).
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Joseph
the husband of Mary, Christ's mother. His genealogy is traced in Matt. i: 1-15, to David, Judah, and Abraham. His residence was at Nazareth in Galilee, where he followed the occupation of a carpenter, to which Christ was also trained (Mark vi: 3).
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Joseph
or JOSEE. See BARNABAS, ST.
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Joseph
called BARSABAS and named JUSTUS, one of the two persons surchosen as worthy to fill the vacant place of Judas among the Twelve Apostles (Acts 1:23).
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Joseph (Son of Jacob and Rachel born)
the son of Jacob and Rachel; born in Mesopotamia (Gen. xxx: 22-24). The history of Joseph is one of the most pleasing and instructive in the Bible; and is too beautiful for abridgment, and too familiar to need rehearsal. Joseph died, aged 110, 1637 b. c.; A Mohammedan wely or tomb covers the spot regarded generally, and it may be correctly, as the place of his burial. It is a low stone enclosure, and stands in quiet seclusion among high trees, at the W. entrance of the valley of Shechem, at the right of the traveler's path, and nearer Mount Ebal than Mount Gerizim. JOSEPH II.
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Joseph Emmanuel
King Portugal; born in 1715. He was son and successor of Charles V., and ascended the throne in 1750. The great earthquake at Lisbon, in 1755, and the expulsion of the Jesuits from the kingdom in 1759, were the principal events of his reign. He died in 1777.
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Joseph of Arimathea
a rich Israelite of high character, who seems to have been a member of the Great Council or Sanhedrim. He opposed the determination of his colleagues to bring about the death of Jesus, but did not openly profess himself a disciple from motives of fear. But the courage of his convictions came to him at the moment of the crucifixion, and on the evening of that day he went boldly to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus, burying it reverently in his own rock-hewn tomb. An ancient tradition makes him carry the GRAIL (q. v.) to Britain about the year 63 and settle at Glastonbury.
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Josephstadt
one of the most important fortresses of the former Austrian em empire; situated at the confluence of the Mettau and the Elbe in Bohemia, 10½ miles N. by E. of Königgrätz.
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Josh Billings
See Shaw ; Henry W
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Josiah
King of Judah. He succeeded his father, Amon, 641 B. c., at the age of eight years. He destroyed the idols and restored the worship of the true God, established virtuous magistrates for the administration of justice, and repaired the temple. He also caused the law of Moses to be sought for and preserved. He was wounded in a battle fought at Megiddo, against Necho, King of Egypt, and died in 610 b. c.
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