These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Stolp, Stomach Pump, Stomapoda.
a town in the Prussian province of Pomerania; on the river Stolpe, 85 miles W. by N. of Danzig; has a castle, some old churches (the castle chapel dating from the 13th century), iron foundries, machinery, and amber manufactures, and an active trade in agricultural products, timber, fish, etc. Pop. about 35,000.
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in surgery, a suction and force pump for withdrawing the contents of the stomach in cases of poisoning, etc., and also used as an injector. It resembles the ordinary syringe, except that it has two apertures near the end, in which the valve opens different ways, so as to constitute a sucking and forcing passage.
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an order of crustaceans, having six to eight pairs of legs, mostly near the mouth (hence the name). They are found chiefly in intertropical climates, and are almost without exception marine. The order includes the locust shrimps (Squilla), the glass shrimps (Erichthys), and the opossum shrimps (Mysis).
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ELLEN M. Feb. 6, $72,500 of the ransom demanded was paid, and on Feb. 23 Miss Stone was released. She published a book describing her experiences in 1903.
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JOHN STONE, an American electrical engineer, born at Dover, Va., in 1869. He was educated at the School of Mines, Columbia University, and at Johns Hopkins University. From 1890 to 1899 he was an experimentalist with the American Bell Telephone Company, and from 1902 to 1910 successively director, vice - president, chief engineer, and president of the Stone Telegraph and Telephone Company. He was granted over 120 patents on inventions in connection with imp improvements in telephoning and telegraphy. Since 1899 he has been a consulting electrical engineer. He contributed many papers on electrical subjects to scientific and technical journals, was a member and at times an officer of many engineering societies; a member of the Committee of National Defense, and a delegate to the International Electrical Congress (1904) and to the Second Pan-American Congress (1917).
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The substances which enter into the composition of simple stones are silica, alumina, zirconia, glucina, lime, magnesia, etc., and the oxides of iron, manganese, nickel, chromium, and copper; and it is seldom that more than four or five of these substances are found combined in one stone. (See SILICA; SANDSTONE; ROCK; etc.) Artificial stone is produced by the cementing properties of soluble alkaline silicates on sand. Sand 10, glass 1, clay 1, silicate of soda 1, is brought to the consistency of putty in a pug-mill; this is moulded, dried, kilned at a red heat, and allowed to cool, thus forming a vitrified mass similar to sandstone. A later method produces the stone without baking by effecting a double composition with the silicate of soda and the chloride of calcium. See SOLUBLE GLASS.
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ARTIFICIAL. Most varieties of artificial stone (using the term in a restricted sense, excluding brick and terra-cotta) have a base of hydraulic mortar, with which sand and pulverized stone of different kinds are mixed. Mr. Ransome of Ipswich, England, introduced a kind of artificial stone in which siliceous instead of calcareous matter was employed as the cementing material. The process at present followed in the manufacture of this artificial stone consists in carefully mixing well-dried sand and dust of chalk with silicate of soda, obtained by digesting flints under pressure in a boiling solution of caustic soda. After molding, the blocks are exposed to the action in vacuo of chloride of calcium in a solution, where, by chemical reaction, the block is transformed into a silicate of lime, a body of un- The usual strength and durability. other compound formed is chloride of sodium, or common salt, and is removed with water. The artificial stone of Sorel, a French chemist, is made by mixing a cement formed of the basic oxychloride of magnesium with sand, chalk, or powdered marble. The coment, which may be molded of itself into a hard stone, is procured by acting on protoxide of magnesium (calcined and ground carbonate of magnesia or magnesite) with a concentrated solution of chloride of magnesium.
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ELLEN M., an American missionary; born in Roxbury, Mass., July 24, 1846; received a public school education; settled in Chelsea, Mass., in 1860; became a teacher; and for 11 years was on the staff of the "Congregationalist." She went to Bulgaria as a missionary in 1878. About Sept. 1, 1901, with a companion, Mme. Tsilka, xa, a native Bulgarian teacher, she was kidnaped by brigands who a few days later demanded an indemnity of $110,000, the money to be paid within 30 days. On Sept. 5, the news of Miss Stone's detention reached the United States, and her friends immediately notified the State Department at Washington and began a popular subscription to raise the required amount. The United States Government communicated with the Bulgarian and Turkish authorities, who ordered troops to search for the retreat of the brigands for the purpose of releasing the captives. On
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FRED ANDREW, an American actor, born in Longmont, Colo., in 1873. He first appeared eared on the stage at the age of 11 at Topeka, Kan., began traveling with the Sells-Renfew circus in 1886, played "Topsy" in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and in 1894 formed a partnership with the late David Montgomery, with whom he appeared for many years with great success both in this country and in England. During recent years the plays in which he was most successful were: "Wizard of Oz," "The Red Mill," "The Old Town," "Jack o' Lantern," and "Tip Top."
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LUCY (BLACKWELL), an American reformer; born in West Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1818. She was graduated at Oberlin College in 1847. In 1855 she married Dr. Henry B. Blackwell, retaining her own name. She published a protest, "Taxation Without Representation." In 1869 she helped organize the American Woman's Suffrage Association; became connected with the "Woman's Journal" in 1872, and was editor after 1888. Her lectures on woman suffrage made her known throughout the country. She died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 18, 18, 1893.
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MELVILLE ELIJAH, an American journalist; born in Hudson, III., Aug. 22, 1848; settled in Chicago, Ill., and was there educated; began his newspaper career in 1864 when he reported for the Chicago "Tribune"; later with a partner he founded the Chicago 99 STONE AGE, or AGE OF STONE "Daily News," of which he afterward became sole owner. In 1881 with Victor F. Lawson he founded the Chicago "Morning News" which subsequently became the Chicago "Record." Owing to ill health he retired from newspaper work in 1888 and spent several years abroad. Returning to the United States he settled in New York City, and was made general manager of the Associated a series of reminiscent articles in 1920. Press in 1898. He published
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