Napa
a city of California, the countyseat of the county of the same name. situated on the Napa river and on It is and the issued miles N. E. of San Francisco. It is the the site of the State Hospital for Inthe vicinity are the Napa sane and in Redwoods, several hot springs, and a a pubpetrified forest. The city has excellent high school buildlic library, an are fruit growing. Its chief industries of leather ing, and the manufacture , 1910) shoes, shirts, olive oil, etc. Pop. ( 5,791; (1920) 6,757.
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Napellus
Important: Safety Warning This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. A plant with narcotic properties, with which Van Helmont experimented. He says that, having on one occasion roughly prepared the root, he tasted it with his tongue, and in a very short time found that the centre of thought and intellect was situated in the pit of his stomach. An unusual clarity and distinctness of thought rendered the experience a pleasant one, and he sought on future occasions to repeat it by the same means, but without success. After about two hours he felt a slight dizziness and thereupon thought in the normal fashion with his brain. But throughout the strange experience he was conscious that his soul still remained in the brain as a governing power. Napper, Dr., of Sandford in Buckinghamshire, who, according to Lilly "outwent Forman in physic and holiness of life, cured the falling-sickness perfectly by constellated rings, and some diseases by amulets." He was probably of the stock of the Scottish Napiers though his family had been settled in England since Henry the Eighth's time.
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Naphtali
head of the 6th son of Jacob and the its one of the 12 tribes. The tribe had full share in repelling the incursions of the Canaanites during the first centuries from of the conquest, but disappears history when Tiglath-pileser overran the whole N. of Israel and bore away the of the population to Assyria. Under the title of Galilee the district occupied by the tribe became in New Testament times famous than it had ever been bemore fore.
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Naphthalene
in chemistry, C10HS= C10H,H, naphthalin, or naphthaline. A frequent product of the dry distillation of organic substances, occurring to a that portion of considerable extent in coal-tar distilling between 180° and 220°, from which it crystallizes on cooling. It forms colorless shining, leafy crystals of peculiar odor and burning taste; melts at 79° to a liquid as clear as water; boils at 216°-220°, and burns, when inflamed, with a highly luminous but smoky flame.
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Napier
SIR CHARLES JAMES, a British military officer; born in London, England, Aug. 10, 1782. He entered the army in 1794, and served in Ireland and Portugal, being present at Corunna, where he was wounded and taken prisoner in 1809. In 1811, when again at liberty, he returned to the Peninsula, and served through the war, being severely wounded in several battles. In 1812 he was made lieutenant-colonel, and in the following year served in the expedition to the Chesapeake. In 1837 he was made Major-General; in 1838 K. C. B. In 1841 he was appointed to the chief command in the presidency of Bombay, with the rank of Major-General, and was shortly afterward called to Scinde. Here he gained the splendid victories of Meanee and Haidarabad, and was afterward made governor of Scinde, which he administered till 1847. In 1849 his services were again required, and he sailed once more for the East, as Commander-in-Chief of all the forces in India. Before he arrived Lord Gough had brought the Sikh war to a triumphant termination, and no special work remained for Sir Charles Napier to perform. Having returned to England, he died in Portsmouth, Aug. 29, 1853.
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Napier (II)
ROBERT, LORD, an English military officer; born r; born in Ceylon, Dec. 6, 1810. He entered the Indian army in 1826, and served with distinction in the campaigns of the Sutlej and the Punjab. In 1854, he was appointed Chief Engineer of Bengal, and planned the operations at the Siege of Lucknow in 1857. He also served with high credit as second in command in the war with China, receiving general rank, the Grand Cross of the Bath, and a military membership of the Indian Council therefor. In 1865, Sir Robert was made Commander-in-Chief of the British army sent out to Abyssinia for the rescue of semi-barbarous ruler, er, King Theodore. After successfully accomplishing his mission, Sir Robert was raised to the peerage as Lord Napier, of Magdala, and also made a Knight Grand Cross of the Star of India. In 1869 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Indian army; and governor of Gibraltar in 1876. He died in London, England, Jan. 14, 1890.
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Napier (SIR CHARLES an English naval)
SIR CHARLES, an English naval officer; born near Falkirk, Scotland, March 6, 1786. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1799, was promoted lieutenant in 1805, and sent to the West Indies, where he served in the operations against the French. He was promoted commander by Admiral Cochrane in August, 1809, and in 1811 was employed in Portugal and along the coast of S. Italy. In 1833 he accepted the command of the Portuguese constitutional fleet, and effected the establish- SIR CHARLES NAPIER ment of Donna Maria on the throne. Returning to England, he was appointed in 1839 to the command of the "Powerful." and performed some of his most gallant exploits, including the storming the English captives, held there by its of Sidon and the capture of Acre. Having blockaded Alexandria, he concluded on his own responsibility a convention with Mehemet Ali. On his return to England he was created K. C. B. In 1841 he was elected member for Marylebone. In 1847 he received the command of the Channel fleet as rearadmiral: and in 1854, on the commencement of the Russian war, he was nominated to the command of the Baltic fleet, being now a rear-admiral. In this capacity he accomplished little beyond the capture of Bomarsund. He sat in Parliament as member for Southwark from 1855 till his death. He died Nov. 6, 1860.
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