Springs
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These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Springs, Springs, Sproul.
Springs
J. W. Frodsham, 4to, London, 1839. A Treatise on the Management of Public Clocks, etc., Francis Abbot, London. No date. About 1840. Three editions. Eiffe's Improvements in Chronometers and Molyneux's Specification of Patent for Improvement in Chronometers. 4to, London, 1842.
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Sprinkling-pot
This is simply a gardener's watering-pot, with a rose for sprinkling the water when it is desired to moisten the sand precisely. A special class of goods for the foundry are made of galvanized iron and copper, very strong, and with double bottoms. The regular dealers in foundry-supplies have all sizes in stock.
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Sproul
WILLIAM CAMERON, an American manufacturer and public official, born in Octoraro, Lancaster co., Pa., in 1870. He was educated at Swarthmore College. He received honorary degrees from Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania College, Lafayette fayette College, Pennsylvania Military College, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh. He was the organizer and president of various manufacturing concerns in Chester Pa., also organized and developed numerous railroads, mining, traction, and power enterprises in West Virginia, held an active interest in many banks, and owned the Chester, Pa., "Daily Times" and "Morning Republican." Beginning with 1896, he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for a period of 22 years, serving as president pro tem. from 1903 to 1905. In 1919 he was elected to a four-year term as governor of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and of numerous patriotic and social societies and clubs.
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Spruce
a genus of cone-bearing trees. The spruce belongs to the pine, rather than to the cypress group of evergreens. The cones are at the tips of the branches. The needles are keeled above and below, making them four-sided. They are scattered over the branchlets and point in every way. Spruce timber makes excellent lumber. Most newspapers are printed on paper made wholly or in part from spruce pulp. Bamboo pulp is the chief rival of spruce in paper making. The black spruce is from forty to fifty feet high. The white spruce, a handsomer tree, grows from fifty to one hundred fifty feet high. They are found from New England to Minnesota and northward. Resinous drops exuding from the bark of the spruce are collected for chewing gum. Engelmann's spruce is one of the finest timber trees of the Pacific Northwest. Under favorable circumstances it attains a trunk diameter of four to five feet, and yet in Alpine situations it becomes a prostrate shrub. Spruce is an old name for Prussia. It appears in spruce-leather and spruce-fir, meaning Prussian-leather and Prussian-fir. From spruce-leather the word spruce was extended to fashionable attire generally. As the name of a tree, spruce-fir was cut down to spruce. The phrase "to look spruce" has reference to foot-wear and dress, not to the trim, correct appearance of the spruce tree. See Paper
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Sprung Over
A watch in which the hairspring is attached to the staff above the balance.
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Spry
WILLIAM, an American public official, born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, in 1864. He came to America in 1875 and was educated in the public schools of Utah. After a short business career in Salt Lake City, he devoted himself to farming and stock raising, and also became president of a bank in Salt Lake City, as well as director of various other institutions. Beginning with 1894, he has held public office continuously, serving successively as county collector, city councilman, president of the State Board of Land Commissioners, Comm Commissioners, United States marshal for Utah, and from 1909 to 1917 was governor of Utah.
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Spunkie, The
A goblin of the same nature as the Scottish "Kelpie." He is popularly believed to be an agent of Satan, and travellers who have lost their way are his especial prey. He attracts his unfortunate victim by means of a light, which looks as if it were a reflection on a window, and is apparently not far away; but as the man proceeds towards it, like the rainbow it recedes. However, he still follows its gleam, until the Spunkie has successfully lured him over a precipice or into a morass.
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Spur
a metal instrument composed of a shank, neck, and prick or rowel, fastened to the heel of a horseman to goad his horse to greater speed. Its use cannot with certainty be traced further back than Roman times. Early spurs had no neck, a prick being riveted to the shank. Prick spurs had straight necks in the 11th century and bent ones in the 12th. Rowels first appeared early in the 14th. The spurs of mediæval knights were gilt and those of esquires silvered. "To win his spurs" meant to gain knighthood.
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Spurge Laurel
the Daphne Laureola, a shrub possessing acrid properties, flowering in March and April.
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Spurgeon
CHARLES HADDON, an English preacher; born in Kelvedon, England, June 19, 1834. In 1850 his sympathies drew him toward the Baptists, and, removing to Cambridge in 1851, he began to deliver cottage sermons in the neighborhood. At the age of 18 he had cha charge of a small Baptist congregation in the village of Waterbeach. In 1854 he entered on the pastorate of the New Park Street Chapel, London, where his preaching proved so attractive that in two years' time the building had to be greatly enlarged. His hearers continuing to increase, the Surrey Music Hall was for some time engaged for his use; and finally his followers built for him his well-known "Tabernacle" in Newington Butts, opened in 1861. The evangelistic and philanthropic agencies in connection with this immense chapel comprise the Stockwell Orphanage, a pastor's college, where hundreds of young men are trained for the ministry; the Golden Lane Mission, etc. Spurgeon preached in the Tabernacle every Sunday to thousands of hearers. His sermons were published weekly from 1854, and yearly volumes were issued from 1856. They had an enormous cir-
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Spurgeon (II)
CHARLES HADDON 41 culation, many of them being translated into various languages. He wrote: " John Plowman's Talk, " " Morning by Morning," "Evening by Evening," "The Treasury of David," "Lectures to My Students," "The Saint and his Saviour," etc.; and from 1865 edited a monthly magazine, "The Sword and the Trowel." He died in Mentone, France, Jan. 31, 1892.
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