Slattery
CHARLES LEWIS, an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman, born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1867. He was educated at Harvard and the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. He was made a deacon in 1894, and a priest in 1895. From 1894 to 1896 he was rector of St. Andrew's, Ayer, Mass., and a master at Groton School from 1896 to 1907 dean of the Cathedral at Faribault, Minn.; from 1907 to 1910 rector of Christ Church, Springfield, Mass., and since May, 1910, rector of Grace Church, New York City. He was at various times a lecturer at Seabury Divinity School, Faribault, Minn., and at Berkeley Divinity School, as well as paddock lecturer at the General Theological Seminary (1911-1912); and West lecturer at Stanford University (1915). He wrote: "Felix Reville Brunot" (1901); "Edward Lincoln Atkinson" (1904); "The Master of the World-a Study of Christ" (1906); "Life Beyond Life-a Study of Immortality" (1907); "The Historic Ministry and the Present Christ" (1908); "Present-Day Preaching" (1909); "Alexander Viets Griswold Allen" (1911); Experience" "The Authority of Religious (1912); "The Light Within" (1915); "Why Men Pray" (1916); "The Gift of Immortality" (1916); "A Churchman's Reading" (1917); "Certain American Faces-Sketches from Life" (1918); "The Lord's Prayer" (1919).
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Slave Coast
a maritime strip on the W. of Africa, on the Guinea coast, extending between the Volta and Akinga, a stretch of about 240 miles. It consists mainly of long narrow islands. The principal towns on the coast are Badagry and Whydah. A large traffic in slaves was formerly carried on at the ports of this region, hence its name.
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Slavonia
or SCLAVONIA, formerly a province of Austro-Hungary, forming, with Croatia, a kingdom united with that of Hungary, now a province of JUGOSLAVIA (q. v.), bounded N. and E. by Hungary, W. by Croatia, and S. by Turkey; area, of Croatia and Slavonia, 16,423 square miles; pop. about 2,650,000. Principal towns, Eszék (the capital), Pe- Mitrovitz, terwardin, Carlovitz, Semlin, and Brod.
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Slawensik Poltergeist
In the winter of 1806-7 Councillor Societies of Harmony Hahn and an officer named Charles Kern, living for the time in the Castle of Salwensik, Silesia, were disturbed by curious happenings which suggested that the Castle was haunted. Strange noises were heard, small objects were seen to rise from the table and fly through the room. The only account is by Councillor Hahn, and, as is generally the case in such circumstances, the most surprising occurrences were not witnessed by the recorder, but were told him by his friends. Thus Kern is said to have seen in the glass the apparition of a woman in white; while Hahn was not present when a jug of beer was raised from the table by invisible hands, tilted, and its contents poured down an invisible throat.
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Sleeping Preacher
Rachel Baker, known as the Sleeping Preacher, was born at Pelham, Massachusetts, in 1794. When she was nine years old her parents removed to Marcellus, N.Y. As a child she had a religious training, her parents being devout people, and she early manifested a strong conviction of her sinfulness. In 1811 she showed symptoms of somnambulism, in which she seemed stricken with horror and despondency. But gradually her mind became calmer, and delivered discourses of singular clearness, marked by a devout and solemn tone. These fits of somnambulism, or trance-speaking, seized her regularly every day, and soon became habitual. She began and concluded her devotional exercises with prayer, between which came the discourse. Then a state of apparent physical distress supervened, and sobs and groans shook her frame. At length the paroxysm passed, and she subsided into a natural sleep. Change of scene did not affect these exercises, but the administration of opium would interrupt them. Her trance discourses were afterwards published. Smagorad, a magic book: (See France .)
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Slezak
LEO, an Austrian singer, born at Mährisch-Schönberg, in 1876. He early developed musical talent and when only 17 years of age made his first apin pearance as "Lohengrin." He sang Berlin in 1898 with great success, a and for seven years succeeding was member In 1908 he began of the Vienna Opera. studying with Jean de Reszke, and in the following year made a remarkable success at Covent Garden, London. This was followed by his engagement, lasting a number of years, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. He was especially excellent in the Wagner operas and in many of the Italian operas.
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Slide Rest
The slide rest is a tool holder to be used on a lathe; it is so universally used by all watchmakers that a full description is superfluous. Fig. 288 is a Waltham, and is a fair example of a modern slide rest for watchmakers' use. The tool holder varies with the different makers, but the rests proper are all made on the same general principle: that of two sliding beds working at right angles to one another and carrying a tool holder, which is capable of being raised or lowered, or set at any desired angle.
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Slidell
JOHN, an American statesman; born in New York City, about 1793; was graduated at Columbia University in 1810; studied law, and in 1819 went to New Orleans, where he soon acquired a large practice. He was appointed United States district attorney for Louisiana in 1829; elected to Congress in 1843; made selected in the United States Senate in 1853-1861. In September, 1861, he was appointed a Confederate commissioner to France, and in November set out with his associate, James M. Mason, for Southampton. Both commissioners were seized on the English mail steamer "Trent" by Capt. Charles Wilkes of the United States steamer "San Jacinto," and brought to the United States. After imprisonment in Fort Warren he was released on the demand of Great Britain, and sailed for England in January, 1862. From England he at once went to Paris, where in February, 1862, he paid his first visit to the French minister of Foreign Affairs. His mission, which had for its object the recognition of the Confederate States by France, was a failure, but he succeeded in negotiating securing the ship a large loan and in "Stonewall" for the Confederate government. After the war he settled in London, England, where he died July 29, 1871.
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