Pitt, William
William (1759-1806), a British statesman. He is known in history as "The Younger Pitt." He was the son of the Earl of Chatham, the subject of the preceding sketch. He was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and was noted for his knowledge of mathematics and classics. He entered Parliament within two years after his father's voice ceased to be heard there. In politics he was a Whig. He opposed Burke. At the age of twenty-four he was made prime minister. Like his father he was the leading statesman of England for many years. Among his public measures was the passage of the so-called India Bill, which placed the affairs of the East India Company under the management of a government board. The union of the Irish and the English Parliaments was brought about, no doubt by bribery, during his administration. He formed a coalition of the European powers to oppose the rising influence of Napoleon. He was a man of patriotism and eloquence, but a poor manager of finance. The measures by which he undertook to raise public revenues were not altogether successful. He left his own affairs in a tangled condition. At his death Parliament made a special appropriation of $200,000 to pay off his personal debts.
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Pittman
KEY, United States Senator from Nevada. Born at Vicksburg, Miss., 1872 and began the practice of law in Seattle, Wash., at twenty years of age. When the search for gold occurred in the in the Klondike region he joined movement and worked for two years as a miner. During this period he fought the corrupt governments established in many Alaskan towns and fought for the miners in the courts against attempts to defraud them of their rights. ts. In 1901 he removed to Tonopah, Nev. In January, 1913, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and re-elected 1917.
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Pittsburgh (UNIVERSITY OF a non-sectarian)
UNIVERSITY OF, a non-sectarian educational institution, founded in 1819 as the Western University of Pennsylvania, under which name it was known until 1908. The enrollment of students in 1919 was 4,191, and the faculty numbered 461. The productive funds in 1919 were $570,000 and the income amounted to $700,000. The library contained about 35,000 volumes. The chancellor was Samuel Black Mc- Cormick, D.D., LL.D.
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Pittsfield
a city and county-seat of Berkshire co., Mass.; on the Housatonic river, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Albany railroads; 52 miles W. of Springfield. The city comprises about a dozen villages . Here are a high school, private schools, the Berkshire Berks Athenæum with art gallery and public library, House of Mercy Hospital, Berkshire County Home for Aged Women, Bishop Memorial Training School for Nurses, Berkshire Agricultural Society, churches, public schools, street railroads, electric lights, National and savings gs banks, and several daily and weekly The city has manufacnewspapers. tories of cotton and woolen goods, silk, knit goods, shirts, shoes, pianos, paper paper, machinery, brick, electric machinery, , of the most learned Pop shuttles. ( 1910 and) bobbins 32,121;, ( and 1920 brass) castings. 41,534.
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Pittston
a city in Luzerne co., Pa., on the Susquehanna river, and on the Lehigh Valley y,, the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley, the Lackawanna and other railroads; 9 miles S. W. of Scran- , ton. Here are waterworks, gas and electric lights, several banks, ks, and a num ber of daily and weekly newspapers. It is chiefly a mining town, though there are several manufacturing industries, including a knitting mill, a silk mill, foundries and stove, car-wheel, engine, and iron roofing works. The city was settled about 1770, was incorporated as a borough in 1853, and became a city of the third class in 1894. Pittston has an assessed property valuation of nearly $1,500,000. Pop. (1910) 16,267; (1920) 18,497.
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Pituitary Body
a small reddishgray mass divided into an anterior and a posterior lobe, and occupying the sella turcica of the sphenoid bone. Formerly called the pituitary gland, from the erroneous belief that it discharged mucus into the nostrils.
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Piura
a department of Peru with an area of 14,834 square miles. While the eastern part is mountainous with valleys of considerable fertility, the western portion is chiefly desert land. Cotton is grown to some extent and minerals are found. The capital is the city of the same name. Pop., department, about 200,000; city, about 15,000.
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PIUS X
was elected Pope by the college of cardinals August 4, 1903. At the time of his selection he was a cardinal, the Patriarch of Venice. His relatives are people in humble circumstances. As a boy, student, priest, and ecclesiastic, he has been noted for studious habits, kindly disposition, piety of character, and zeal in the interests of mankind. He is not a narrow man. One of his first steps was to establish friendly relations with the government of the Italian people.
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Pivot
The end of an arbor or shaft that rests in a support or bearing.
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Pivot Gauge
A steel plate with tapered slit for measuring the diameter of pivots.
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Pivoted Detent
A detent which is mounted upon a pivoted arbor around which is a small spiral spring which causes it to return to the locking position.
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Pizarro (GONZALO half brother)
GONZALO, half brother of the preceding; born in 1502. His brother appointed him governor of Quito in 1540, and after the assassination of Francisco, he raised an army against the new viceroy, Blasco Nuñez, and the latter was defeated and slain near Quito in 1546. But Pizarro did not long enjoy his success, being beaten, taken prisoner, and beheaded in 1548.
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Placenta
in anatomy, the organ by which the fœtus is connected with the mother, and vascular connection between the two maintained. It ultimately comes away as the afterbirth. Called also uterine cake. In botany, the part of the ovary from which the ovules arise. It generally occupies the whole or a portion of an angle of each cell. to constitute a lit- When elongated so as tle cord it is called the umbilical cord.
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Placoid
a term used to designate a variety of scales covering the bodies of the elasmobranchiate fishes (sharks, skates, rays, etc.), the Placoidei of Agassiz. These structures consist of detached bony grains, tubercles, or plates, of which the latter are not uncommonly un armed with spines. peculiarly malignant
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