Ride and Tie
a method whereby two riders travel with one horse. The first rider rides ahead a mile or so, then dismounts, ties the horse, and continues afoot. The second traveler on reaching the horse mounts and rides rapidly until he overtakes and passes the first by a mile or two. He then ties the horse and goes on afoot. In this way both horse and riders have rest and make excellent progress. This method was practiced not infrequently in colonial times when roads were bridle paths and horses few.
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Rideau
a waterway, partly natural and partly artificial, formed by lake, river and canal in the province of Ontario, Canada. The lake lies roughly 50 miles S. W. of Ottawa and the river Rideau flows out of it to become a tributary of the Ottawa river at the city of Ottawa. The canal, dating from 1834, connects Ottawa with Kingston on Lake Ontario, forming with the river and lake a waterway 126 miles long with 47 locks American author, born at Calais, Me., in
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WILLIAM HENRY, an American author; born in Liverpool, England, Feb. 17, 1853. His books include: "Pacific Railways Illustrated" (1878); "A-Saddle in the Wild West" (1879); "Stray Moments with Thackeray" ( 1880); "Boys in the Mountains" (1882); "A Little Upstart" (1885); "The Boyhood of Living Authors " (1887); "In the Land of Lorna Doone"; "The Captured Cunarder"; "At Hawarden with Mr. Gladstone"; "How Tyson Came Home" (1905); "Boyhood of Famous Authors" (1908); "Many Celebrities and a Few Others" (1911). He died in 1919. In 1881 he became associate editor of the "Youths' Companion. " lish writer, born in Chatham, about 1860.
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Rideout
HENRY MILNER, an 1877. He was educated at Harvard Ur versity where he served as an instructor of English from 1899 to 1904. Besides Unimany short stories contributed to many magazines, he published "Letters of Thomas Gray" (1899) ; Tennyson's "The Princess" (edited with C. T. Copeland), (1899); "Freshman English and Theme- Correcting at Harvard College" (with C. T. Copeland) (1901 ); "Beached Keels" (1906); "The Siamese Cat" (1907); "Admiral's Light" (1907); " Dragon's Blood" (1909); "Selections from Wordsworth, Byron, etc." (with C. T. Copeland), (1909); "The "William Jones, a "White Tiger" (1915); "The Far Cry" Twisted Foot" (1910); (1916); "The Key of the Fields" (1917); Memoir" (1912) and "Tin Cowrie Dass" (1918). bill under the consideration of a legisla-
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Riders
additional provisions of a tive assembly, having little connection with the subject-matter of the bill. They in themselves to insure their adoption in are usually without enough specific merit any other way. attached to important bills, in order to Sometimes riders are gain the chance of passage , tive veto, but as a part or proviso of an selves they are likely to incur an execиage, since by themimportant bill they are absorbed in the main subject, and so dodge the "veto" and the "table." Appropriation bills are The consequence of this custom is, pracmore than others "saddled with riders." tically, a limitation of the veto power of the executive. It has been proposed frequently that the Constitution of the United States be so amended that the President could veto single objectionable items, without affecting the main purpose and a navigable depth of 42 feet. The navigable portion with connections to the of Cataraqui river and Mud Lake bore much of bills. commerce in the years following its linking up, but in later years the development of the railroad system took away from its navigation.
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Ridge
WILLIAM PETT, an Eng- He was educated in the private schools and began writing at an early age. His humorous stories of low -class life attained of the Laws" (1900); "Lost Property" wide popularity . They include "A Breaker (1913); "The Happy Recruit" (1914); "The Kennedy People" ( 1915); "Amaz- (1902); "The Remington Sentence" ing Years" (1917); (1918). "Top Speed" ; and "To ish archæologist. He was born at Bally- RIDGEWAY , SIR WILLIAM, a Britdermot, Ireland, in 1853, and was educated at Portarlington School and Trinity College, Dublin. He took up classical scholarship and archæology as his special line and has been professor of archæology at Cambridge since 1892. He is a member of Greek, French, Italian, German and other societies and took a leading part in founding the Cambridge Departments of Anthropology and Architecture and in reforming classical tripos. His works include: "The Early Age of Greece"; "Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse"; "Homeric Lord System"; "Who Were the Romans?"; "The Oldest Irish Epic"; "First Shaping of the Cuchulain Saga"; "Origin of Tragedy."
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Ridgewood
a village of New Jersey, in Bergen co. It is on the Erie railroad, and is almost entirely a residential place. It has excellent schools and many any handsome har public and private te buildings. Pop. (1910) 5,416; (1920) 7,580.
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Ridgway (Borough of Pennsylvania)
a borough of Pennsylvania, the county-seat of Elk co. It is on the Clarion river and on the Pennsylvania and the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh railroads. Its notable buildings include a courthouse, a high school, a hospital and a Y. M. C. A. building. It is the center of an important lumbering region and has manufactures of leather, iron, clay, lumber products, silk goods, dynamos, machine tools, etc. In the neighborhood are valuable deposits of coal and natural gas. Pop. (1910) 5,408; (1920) 6,037.
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Ridgway (ROBERT an American)
ROBERT, an American ornithologist, born in Mt. Carmel, Ill., in 1850. He was educated in the public schools and at Indiana University. From 1867 to 1869 he served as zoölogist of the United States Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel. In 1880 he became curator of the division of birds in the United States National Museum. He was a founder and twice the president of the American Ornithologists' Union, and was also a member of many American and foreign ornithological societies and conferences. He published, besides over 500 papers, the following books: "A History of North American Birds" (5 volumes, with Prof. Spencer F. Baird and Dr. Thomas M. Brewer); "A Manual of North American Birds"; "A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists and Compendium of Useful Information for Ornithologists"; "Color Standards and Color Nomenclature"; "The Ornithology of Illinois" (2 volumes); and "The Birds of North and Middle America" (8 volumes published).
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