Oneida
a town in Madison co., N. Y.; on Oneida creek, and on the New York, Ontario, and Western, the New York Central and Hudson River railroads; 26 miles E. of Syracuse. Here are a high school, waterworks, street railroad system, electric light plant, National and State banks, and several weekly newspapers. The town has a number of flouring mills, planing mill, steam knitting mill, foundry and manufactories of steam engines, and carriages. Pop. (1910) 8,317; (1920) 10,541.
a lake occupying portions of Oneida, Madison, Onondaga, and Oswego cos., N. Y. It covers an area of about 100 miles, abounds in fish of an excellent quality, receives many small streams, and empties its surplus waters into the Osage river by Oneida river.
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Oneidas
dian tribe inhabiting Central New York. A remnant in Wisconsin are well advanced in civilization.
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Oneonta
a village in Otsego co., N. Y.; on the Susquehanna river, and on the Delaware and Hudson and other railroads: 60 miles N. E. of Binghamton. It contains a State Normal School, a State Armory, public library, National banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. It has shirt factories, piano, sash and door factories, cigar, grain' grain elevators, knitting mill, foundries, and the machine shops of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, and an assessed valuation of over $2,000,000. Pop (1910) 9,491; (1920) 11,582.
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Onion
in botany, horticulture, etc., allium cepa, and the genus Allium. The onion has been cultivated from a very early age (Num. xi: 51). A variety of it is called the potato, or underground onion. It multiplies in bulbs below the ground.
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Onions
OLIVER, an English novelist; born in 1876. Trained in the Royal School of Art and began his literary work in Paris, writing for a students' periodical. In addition to his writing, he has carried on his art work, doing mostly war pictures, posters and drawknown ings for advertisements. His best- " Doubt Devil "Little are: novels (1909); "In Accordance With the Evidence" (1912); "The Debit Account" (1913); "The Story of Louie" (1913); "Mushroom "Mush Town" (1915).
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Onomatopeia
or ONOMATOPEIA, name-making; the formation of words in imitation of the sounds made by the things signified; as, buzz, hiss, peewit, etc.
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Onondaga
LAKE, a small lake in Central New York, near Syracuse; out let, Seneca river.
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Onondagas
a tribe of North American Indians living chiefly in New York. At one time they laid claim to all the country from Onondaga Lake to Lake Ontario on the N., and to the Susquehanna river on the S. At the close of the Revolutionary War some settled on Grand river, Ontario, and the remainder in New York. The total number in Canada and New York State is at present about 900.
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Ontario, Lake
Lake, the smallest and the lowest of the Great Lakes of North America . It lies below the Falls of Niagara. It forms a part of the boundary between New York and the province of Ontario. It is oval in shape. The extreme length is about 185 miles; the greatest width, sixty miles. The area is about 7,400 square miles. The surface is 334 feet below that of Lake Erie and 231 feet above sea level. Its greatest depth is 600 feet, which locates the bottom 369 feet below the surface of the Atlantic. The lake is subject to swells and storms that prevent its freezing over in winter. By breaking ice in the harbors in midwinter, navigation is kept open throughout the entire year. There are several good harbors. Toronto, Kingston, Newcastle, and Niagara are the principal Canadian ports. Oswego, Genesee, and Sackett Harbor are the chief ports on the New York side. The lake receives the waters of the upper lakes, through the Niagara, and discharges at its northeast corner by a channel called the Lake of a Thousand Isles through the St. Lawrence. See Niagara ; Welland Canal ; St. Lawrence
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Onychomancy
Divination by the finger-nails. It is practised by watching the reflection of the sun in the nails of a boy, and judging the future by the shape of the figures which show themselves on their surface.
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Onyx Marble
a very beautiful translucent limestone of stalagmitic formation discovered by the French in the province of Oran, Algeria, and first brought into general notice at the London exhibition of 1862. It is used for the manufacture of mantel pieces, urns, and interior decorations, also for small ornaments, such as ink-stands, paper-weights. r-weights. Much Mexican onyx or Tecalli marble is used for these purposes.
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Oori
LIMPOPO, or CROCODILE RIVER, a river of S. E. Africa, has its sources in the heart of the Transvaal, between Pretoria and Potchefstrom, describes a huge curve to the N. and joins Indian Ocean a little N. of Delagoa . Its course exceeds 800 miles, and has numerous tributaries, the most important being the Olifant from the right. The Limpopo has been ascended 50 miles by steamboat; but its upper reaches are obstructed by rapids and falls. OOSTERHOUT the province of North Brabant. It con- , a city of Holland, in tains a town hall, a large Roman Catholic church, and a convent. It has manufactories of beet sugar, pottery, shoes, and iron. It has considerable trade in agricultural products and linen. Pop. about 15,000.
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Ooscopy and Comantia
Two methods of divination by eggs. An example under the former name is related by Suetonius, who says, that Livia, when she was anxious to know whether she should be the mother of a boy or girl, kept an egg in her bosom at the proper temperature, until a chick with a beautiful cockscomb came forth. The latter name denotes a method of divining the signs or characters appearing in eggs. The custom of pasche or paste eggs, which are stained with various colours, and given away at Easter, is well known, and is described at considerable length by Brand. The custom is most religiously observed in Russia , where it is derived from the Greek Church . Gilded or coloured eggs are mutually exchanged both by men and women, who kiss one another, and if any coolness existed previously become good friends again on these occasions. The egg is one of the most ancient and beautiful symbols of the new birth, and has been applied to natural philosophy as well as the spiritual creation of man.
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