Nuneaton
a market town of Warwickshire, England, on the Anker river and the Coventry canal; 22 miles E. of verbially faithless and unscrupulous. Of Birmingham. It has a good Gothic parish church, some remains of a 12th-century nunnery, with a modern church built thereon, and a grammar school (1553). The ribbon manufacture has given place to worsted, cotton, and woolen spinning. "George Eliot," born at Griff, 2 miles to the S., went to school at Nuneaton, and here witnessed the riot described in "Felix Holt."
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Nuns
. See Monasticism ; Sisters Of Charity
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Nuns' Veiling
a light weight, plain-woven, woolen fabric. It is dyed black or in plain colors. It is also called albatross. It is made in several qualities. The more transparent variety is used for mourning veils, the heavier for women's dresses.
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Nurnberg Gold
A mock gold, exactly like Manheim. See MANHEIM GOLD. Nuts in Loam-plates.--When it is desired to connect one or more plates (with the intervening bricks), in loam-moulding, where staples for hook-bolts would be objectionable, a reliable substitute for the latter will be found by casting threaded nuts at parts of the plate convenient for inserting iron bolts with threads on both ends. The nuts can be made immovable in the plate by filing a slight V at the corners for the molten iron to fill when the plates are cast. See BINDING-PLATES.
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Nursery
in horticulture, an establishment for the rearing of plants, especially fruit trees. The following statistics are taken from the census report: Number of nurseries. . . . . 4,510 Acres of land. . . . . 172,806 Capital invested. . . . . $52,500,000 Men employed. . . . . 45,657 Women employed. . . . . 2,279 Animals, horses, etc. . . . . 14,200 Young trees and plants. . . . . 3,386,858,778 The center of the nursery business for the United States is Rochester, New York , but is likely to move westward, possibly into Illinois. Various local associations of nurserymen are made effective by a national organization known as the American Association of Nurserymen, with a movable annual meeting. In 1908 we imported nursery stock to the value of $2,000,000. See Grafting ; Spraying ; Grape ; Apple , etc.
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Nut Hatch
in ornithology, Sitta Europæa, a well-known bird; the upper parts delicate bluish-gray, sh-gray, throat white, under parts reddish brown, rich chestnut on flanks. It is extremely shy. The bill is wedge-shaped; in habits it resembles the creeper, but has the power of descending the trunk of a tree head downward, which the latter bird never does. The nut hatch is insectivorous, using its bill to pry off the bark to get at the insects underneath.
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Nutcracker
in ornithology, the genus Nucifraga, and especially N. caryocatactes, common in southern Europe, a visitor to the N. portions of the Continent; flocks have been seen in Switzerland. They feed on the seeds of pine and beech, and on nuts, which they fix in some convenient crevice and hammer with the beak till the kernel is exposed. The plumage is of different shades of brown, wn, studded with long white spots. Clark's nutcracker is N. columbiana.
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Nutley
a town of New Jersey, in Essex co. It is on the Morris Canal and the Erie railroad. It is almost entirely a residential suburb of New York and has many fine private residences. Its chief industries are the manufacture of paper and wool. It has the Nutley School, a public library, and a high school. Pop. (1910) 6,009; (1920) 9,421.
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Nutmeg State
. See Connecticut
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Nyack
a village of New York in Rockland co., on the west bank of the Hudson river, opposite Tarrytown. It is on the Erie, rie, the New York, Ontario and Western, and the West Shore railroads. It is connected with Tarrytown by ferry. It is an attractive residential community and is also an important industrial section, including yacht and boat building, shoes, sewing machines, carriages, etc.
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Nyangwe, Nymphs, Nansen, New, Newberry & Nicholson
Nyangwe an Arab_trading station on the upper Kongo or Lualaba, at the edge of the Manyema country; in lat. 4° 20' S. From that point Stanley began the descent of the Lualaba in 1876. Nymphs in Greek mythology, female divinities of inferior rank, inhabiting the sea, streams, groves, meadows and pastures, grottoes, fountains, hills, glens, and trees. Nansen FRIDTJOF, in 1922 received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his services under the League of Nations in repatriating Russian and German war prisoners, relieving famine sufferers in Russia and Asia Minor, and seeking to promote international brotherhood. New HARRY STEWART, defeated for renomination to the Senate, 1922. Became Postmaster-General in President Harding's cabinet March 4, 1923. Newberry TRUMAN H., resigned his seat in the U. S. Senate, Nov. 18, 1922, following the defeat of his colleague and supporter, Senator Townsend, d, in the Michigan elections. (See NEWBERRY CASE.) Nicholson SAMUEL D.
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Nyanza
an African word meaning lake, and especially applied to three bodies of water lying in the equatorial region of Africa. Of these the first was discovered in 1858 by Captain Speke, and by him named Victoria Nyanza. It is almost circular in form; 180 miles in diameter; has an area of 27,000 square miles; and is, with the exception of Lake Superior, the largest fresh water lake in the world. The second lake was discovered by Sir Samuel Baker in 1864, named Albert Nyanza, and forms a part of the course of the Nile. It is 14 miles long and 40 wide. The Albert Edward Nyanza was discovered by Stanley in 1876 and lies S. W. of Albert Nyanza.
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Nyassa
or NYANJA, one of the equatorial great lakes of east Africa; about 260 miles S. E. of Tanganyika and 400 inland from the E. coast. It lies at an altitude of 1,570 feet, is very deep in the middle, shelving rapidly from the shores, which are rocky and high. Long and narrow, it measures 350 miles from N. to S. and an average of 40 miles from E. to W. The Shire river emerges at its S. extremity, and goes S. to the Zambezi. The waters of the lake are sweet and abound in edible fish. The lake was known to the Portuguese as Maravi in the 17th century, but Livingston in 1859 first fixed its situation and navigated it. PROTECTORATE, since 1907 the name given to a part of British Central Africa, immediately W. and N. W. of Lake Nyassa. It is practically the region in which the African Lakes Company of Glasgow carried on operations since its foundation in 1878; it works with the missionaries of the Established and Free Church of Scotland. The original purpose was to counteract the slave dealing of Arab marauders. The area of the Protectorate is 42,217 square miles. Pop. (1916) (19 731 Europeans, 391 Asiatics, 1,140,000 natives. The principal towns are: Capital, Zomba; Blantyre, and Fort Johnston, the last a port and naval station on Lake Nyassa. Trade in 1917-1918: Imports, £354,373; exports, £156,712. Chief products: coffee, sugar, chinchona, and tobacco. Ivory, tea, and rubber are also exported.
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