Raymond (II)
HENRY JARVIS, an American journalist; born in Lima, N. Y., Jan. 24, 1820; was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1840; soon afterward removed to New York; and, while studying law, taught the classics wrote for the "New Yorker." In 1841 and he became managing editor of the New York "Tribune," and afterward leading editor of the New York " Enquirer." In 1849 he was elected to Courier and the State Assembly; was re-elected and made speaker . In 1851, he established the New York " Times." In 1852 he became a delegate to the vention, and in 1856 a leader of the Baltimore Con- Republican party, and was chosen lieutenant-governor of New York. He was a delegate to the Chicago of 1860; was again elected to the State Convention Legislature, and , in 1864, was chosen as representative from New York to the 39th Congress . He subsequently, in 1866, was the leading spirit of the Wigwam Convention in Philadelphia, the resolutions of which body were from his pen. He died in New York, June 18, 1869.
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Raymond (III)
JOHN T., right name JOHN O'BRIEN, an American actor; born in Buffalo, N. Y., April 5, 1836. He was educated for a mercantile life. He first appeared on the stage as Lopez in Rochester. The following year he played the "Honeymoon," June 27, 1853, in Timothy Quaint in the "Soldier's Daughter." His greatest characters those of Asa Trenchard in "Our Ameriwere can Cousin" and Colonel Sellers in the "Gilded Age." He died in Evansville, Ind., April 10, 1887.
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Raymond (JEROME American educator born)
JEROME American educator; born in Clinton, Ia., HALL, an March 10, 1869 Northwestern University in 1892; was ; was graduated at the private secretary to George M. Pullman in 1889-1890; traveled in Europe and Asia; made the circuit of the world in 1890-1892 ; was professor of history and political science at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., in 1893-1894; accepted the chair of sociology and was made secretary of the University Extension Department at the University of Wisconsin in 1895 ; served as president and professor of economics and sociology at the West Virginia University in 1897- 1901 ; and in the latter year became associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
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Raymond (Name of seven Counts)
the name of seven Counts of Toulouse. RAYMOND I. reigned 852- 865. RAYMOND VI., son of RAYMOND V., born in 1156, succeeded 1194, and, being a friend of the Albigenses, was twice excommunicated , 1208 and 1211, and despoiled of his estates by Simon de Montfort, 1218; died 1222. RAYMOND VII., son of RAYMOND VI., and last Count of Toulouse , was born 1197, and after struggling with his father for the recovery of his possessions, vanquished Simon de Montfort in 1224. He was so enfeebled by these continual wars, however, that he submitted to a humiliating peace with the Pope and the King of France in 1229. He died 1242, leaving his estates to his only daughter, Jeanne, who had married Alphonse , Count of Poitiers, brother of Louis IX.
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Raynal
GUILLAUME FRANÇOIS, known as the ABBE RAYNAL, THOMAS a French historian and political writer; born in St. Geniez, France, April 12, 1713. He acquired a European reputation by his "Philosophical History of the 'Two Indies." He died in Paris, March 6, 1796.
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Raynouard
FRANÇOIS JUSTE MARIE, a French poet and philologist; born in Brignolles, Provence, France, Sept. 18, 1761. He studied at Aix, and became a prosperous advocate, and in 1791 was sent to the Legislative Assembly, where he joined the Girondins. Flung into prison, he was fortunately forgotten till the fall of Robespierre brought release. His poems and tragedies were successful, and in 1807 he was elected to the Academy, of which he became perpetual secretary in 1817. A member of the imperial legislative body from 1806, he continued to produce dramas, but toward the fall of the empire turned his attention to linguistic and particularly Provençal studies. Raynouard died in Passy, near Paris, Oct. 27, 1836.
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Razor Fish
a species of fish with a compressed body, much prized for the table. It is the Coryphæna novacula.
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Razor Shell
a genus of lamellibranchiate mollusca, forming the type of the family Solenidæ. They are common on both sides of the Atlantic; the shells are sub-cylindrical in shape; the hingeteeth number two on each valve; and the ligament for opening the shells is long and external in position. The mantle is open in front, to give exit to the powerful muscular "foot," used by these mollusks for burrowing swiftly into the sandy coasts which they inhabit. These curious mollusks always live buried in the sand in an upright position, leaving only an opening shaped like a keyhole, which corresponds with the two siphon tubes. They are generally found at a depth of one or two feet, and when they make their burrows, as they are often in the habit of doing, among the rocks, not even the hooked iron can draw them from their retreat. The familiar species are the Solen siliqua, S. ensis, S. vagina, S. marginatus, and S. pellucidus. RÉ, ÎLE DE, a small, low-lying island off the coast of the French department of Charente-Inférieure, opposite the city of La Rochelle, from which it is separated by the Pertuis Breton. It is about 18 miles long and 3 broad, measures 28 square miles, and its inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the preparation of salt. Oyster farming has of late become an important branch of industry. Wine is made and exported. Pop. about 15,000.
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Razorback
one of the largest species of the whale tribe, the Balænoptera or Rorqualus borealis, the great rorqual (see RORQUAL). Also a name given to a kind of hog, especially in the S. part of the United States.
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Razorbill
in ornithology, the Alca torda, the sole species of the genus Alca impennis, the great auk, being extinct. It is about a foot and a half long, plumage of head, neck, and upper surface brilliant black, under surface pure white. They make no nest, but lay a single white or yellowish egg blotched and streaked with dark-brown, on the bare rock. Called also the black-billed auk and murre.
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