Steuben, Baron
stu'ben, Baron (1730-1794), a Prussian soldier. He was born at Magdeburg. He was an officer of Frederick the Great in the Seven Years' War. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, he came to America and joined Washington. Congress appointed him inspector general. His services in drilling our raw militia were invaluable. Somewhat tardily, Congress gave him an independent command. He commanded the left wing at Monmouth and led forward the trenches to the last at the siege of Yorktown. His name is associated with that of Lafayette as a supporter of the American cause. At the close of the war he retired to a grant of land near Utica, New York , and ended his days there. See Lafayette
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Steubenville
a city and countyseat of Jefferson co., O.; on the Wheeling and Lake Erie, the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, and the Pennsylvania railroads; 43 miles W. of Pittsburgh, Pa. It is near a rich bituminous coal region, and is in the heart of an agricultural section. Here are publi libraries, parks, waterworks, electr lights, high school, National and priva banks, and daily and weekly newspape The city has a large coal industry, manufactories of glass, steel, machinery, pottery, paper, flour, boilers, fire and paving brick, sewer pipe, etc. Pop. (1910) 22,391; (1920) 28,508.
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Stevens Point
a city and countyseat of Portage co., Wis.; on the Wisconsin river, and on the Wisconsin Central, the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, and the Green Bay and Western railroads; 63 miles W. of Appleton. It contains gas and electric lights, National and State banks, State Normal School, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has a large lumbering trade, especially in pine. Here are shops of the Wisconsin Central railroad, and numerous foundries, flour, planing, saw, and shingle mills.
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Steward
in the original sense, one who looked after the domestic animals and gave them their food; hence, one who provides for his master's table, and, generally, one who superintends household affairs for another. A person employed on a large estate or establishment, or in a family of consequence and wealth, to manage the domestic affairs, superintend the other servants, collect rents, keep the accounts, etc. An officer in a college who provides food for the students and and superintend superintends the affairs of the kitchen. An official on a vessel, whose duty it is to distribute provisions to the officers and men. In passenger ships, a man who superintends the distribution of provisions and liquors, waits at table, etc. A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, the recording steward of a congregation of Methodists.
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Stewart Island
an island of New Zealand, S. of South Island; area, 655 square miles. STEWART, CHARLES D., an American writer, born at Zanesville, Ohio, in 1868. He was educated in the public schools of Milwaukee and at Wayland Academy (Wis.). From 1915 to 1916 he was executive secretary to the governor of Wisconsin. Besides contributing many short stories, poems, etc., to magazines, he also wrote "The Fugitive Black-gle against Great Britain. When the smith" (1905); "Partners of Providence" (1907); "Essays on the Spot" (1910); "The Wrong Woman" (1912); "Finerty of the Sand-house" (1913);
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Stibnite
trisulphide of antimony, an ore consisting of 72.88 antimony and 27.12 sulphur. The color is lead-gray or blackish, and is very brittle. ore is the source of most of the antimony Called also antimony of commerce. glance.
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Stickseed
a plant of the borage family. A more common name is beggar's lice. The name is due to from one to three rows of prickles or hooks which arm the seeds, causing them to adhere to clothing, the hair of animals, etc. The hooks are one of Nature's devices for scattering the seeds. The seeds catch in the wool of sheep and make clots which give no end of trouble to the wool spinner. The most common American stickseed is known to botanists as Echino-spermum Virginicum, meaning the Virginian hedgehog seed. This weed has minute blue flowers which remind one some-what of the forget-me-not. The stem and leaves are hairy. The plant is a pest along roads and in sheep pastures.
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Stigmaria
in palæobotany, a pseudo-genus of coal plants, now proved by roots chiefly of actual union to be the Sigillaria, but in some cases of Lepidodendron. Cylindrical, trunk-like bodies, often more or less compressed, the external surface of which is covered with shallow pits, sometimes with a rootlet projecting. Very abundant in the fireclay of the carboniferous rocks, the old soil in which the Sigillariæ grew. The common species is S. ficoides.
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Stigmatization
the appearance or impression of counterparts of all or some of the wounds received by Jesus in His Passion, in their appropriate positions on the human body. The first case on record, and the most important, is that of St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscans. It is said that while the saint was engaged in a fast of 40 days on Mount A Alvernus, in the year 1224, a crucified seraph with six wings appeared and discoursed to him of heavenly things. Francis fainted, and on recovering consciousness found himself marked with the wounds of crucifixion in his hands, his feet, and right side. Thomas à Celana and St. Buonaventura attested the case, and Pope Alexander IV. (1254-1261) claimed to have seen the stigmata during the life time of St. Francis and after his death. A feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis is celebrated in the Roman Church on September 17. The Dominicans claimed a similar distinction for a saint of their order (St. Catherine of Siena, 1347- 1380), and the fact of her stigmatization is recorded in the fifth lection of the office of her feast (April 30) in the Roman Breviary. She is honored with a special feast in her own order, though she is never represented in painting or sculpture with the stigmata. Since then many persons have claimed to have received these marks of divine favor.
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Stikine River
the largest and most important stream of southeastern Alaska. Its course is primarily in British Columbia and forms the principal route between the interior of British Columbia and the Pacific Ocean. In the summer steamer service is provided as far as Telegraph Creek, about 175 miles from the mouth of the river.
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