Rose Chafer
an injurious beetle, whose grubs destroy the roots of strawberries and other plants, while the adults spoil the flowers of roses, strawberries, and seed turnips. The eggs are laid in the ground; the full-grown grubs are whitish and about an inch and a half in length, after two or three years they pupate inside earthen cocoons. The adults, which are well able to fly from place to place, measure about an inch in length, are golden green above, coppery with a tint of rose beneath. The "rosebug" of the Eastern United States is another beetle (Macrodactylus subspinosus), a voracious pest which destroys the flowers of rosaceous plants.
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Rose Cutter
A hollow cutter, as shown in Fig. 276, used for reducing the size of wire, as in forming heads when making screws.
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Rose Polytechnic Institute
an engineering school founded at Terre Haute, Ind., in 1874, and opened for students in 1883. It has courses in mechanical, electrical, civil, architectural, and chemical engineering. There were in 1920 about 240 students. The productive funds amounted to nearly $1,000,000. Acting president, John White, Ph.D.
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Rose Window
a circular window, divided into compartments by mullions and tracery radiating from a center, also called Catharine wheel and marigold window according to modifications of the design. It forms a fine feature in the church architecture of the 13th and 14th centuries, and is mostly employed in the triangular spaces of gables. Some examples, as that of Rheims Cathedral, are over 40 feet in diameter.
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Rosebay
in botany, the popular name of the genus Rhododendron.
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Rosedale
a city of Kansas, in Wyandotte co. It adjoins Kansas City, Kansas, on the N., and Kansas City, Missouri, on the E., and forms practically a part of Greater Kansas City. Pop. (1910) 5,960; (1920) 7,674.
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Roselle
a borough of New Jersey, in Union co., on the Lehigh Valley, the Central of New Jersey, and the Rahway Valley railroads. Its principal industry is the manufacture of hydraulic machinery. Its notable buildings include a high school and a borough hall. Pop. (1910) 2,725; (1920) 5,737.
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Roselle Park
a borough of New Jersey in Union co., adjoining on the west the borough of Roselle. It is a separate borough and is entirely a residential place. Pop. (1910) 3,138; (1920) 5,438.
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Rosen
ROMAN ROMANOVITCH, ARON, a Russian diplomat, BARON, 1849. He was educated at Reval, Dorpat, and Petrograd. He early entered the Department of Justice in the Russian Government, from which he was promoted to the Department of Foreign Affairs. From 1886 to 1894 he was Consul at New York and was chargé d'affaires at Washington, during the first administration of President Cleveland. He served as Secretary of Legation in Japan for one term and as Minister for two terms. In 1905 he was appointed Ambassador to the United States and was one of the Russian delegates during the peace negotiations at Portsmouth, N. H. He was appointed to the Council of the Empire following his services in the United States, and remained in this position at the outbreak of the Revolution, in 1917, when he escaped to the United States. He wrote in 1920 "Forty Years of a Diplomat's Life."
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Rosen, Paul
A sovereign Grand Inspector-General of the 33rd degree of the French rite of Masonry, who in 1888 decided that Masonry was diabolic in conception, and to prove his strictures published a work called Satan et Cie. The Satanism credited to Masonry by Rosen is social anarchy and the destruction of the Catholic religion.
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Rosenfeld
MAURICE (BER- NARD), an American pianist and music critic, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1867. He came to the United States in 1873. He was educated at the College of the City of New York and the Chicago Musical College. From 1888 to 1911 he was a member of the faculty of this institution, from 1911 to 1912 of the Sherwood Musical School, and from 1912 a member of the board of musical directors of the Chicago Musical College. In April, 1916, he established, at Chicago, a piano school bearing his name. He was music editor of the Chicago "Examiner" (1907 to 1915) and of the Chicago "Daily News," beginning with 1917. He was also a contributor to the "Musical Courier," "Musical America," and several newspapers and was a member of several musical and journalistic societies. His appearances as a pianist were frequent and accompanied with success.
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Rosenthal
MORITZ, a pianist; born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, Dec. 18, 1862. In 1876 he gave his first concert, which led to fame; in 1878 was pianist to the Rumanian Court; in 1878- 1895 played in the principal cities of Europe; and in 1895 made his first appearance in London, where he was enthusiastically received. This was followed by many tours in Europe and the United States.
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Rosetta
a town of the Nile delta river, 9 miles from its entrance into the Mediterranean and 44 miles N. E. of Alexandria. In the time of the Crusades it was a place of great strength; and St. Louis made it the basis of his crusading operations. Sultan Beybers, after that inland. The Arabs call it Raschid, be- (in 1251) founded the present city farther lieving that Haroun al-Raschid founded the town was discovered the ROSETTA the old city. A few miles to the N. of rage works for holding up the Nile water STONE (q. v.). At Rosetta, too, are barchannels. These works, originally contill it can be directed into the irrigation almost entirely rebuilt by Sir C. Scott structed by Mougel Bey ( 1843-1861), were Moncrieff in 1886-1890 . The barrage is 508 yards long and has 61 arches. Pop. about 16,000. inscrip-
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Rosetta Wood
a good-sized East inches in diameter; it is handsomely veined, and its general color is a lively red-orange. The wood is close, hard, and very beautiful when first cut, but soon becomes darker by exposure to the air. TIN, a Rumanian poet and politician;
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Rosetti
or ROSETI, CONSTAN- 1816. He published a volume of poems born in Bucharest, Rumania, June 14, under the title of "Hours of Contentment" (1843); and wrote many political treatises, poems, and translations, a new edition of which appeared in Bucharest in 1885. He died April 19, 1885.
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