These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sage, Sage, Sage Cock.
MARGARET OLIVIA SLO- CUM (Mrs. Russell Sage), an American philanthropist, born in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1828. She was a graduate of the Emma Willard Seminary, and for years taught school, in Troy, N. Y., and elsewhere. When past forty she met RUSSELL
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HENRY WILLIAMS, an American philanthropist; born in Middle- Jan. 31, 1814; engaged in town, Conn., nn., business with his uncle in 1832-1854, when he became interested in the lumber regions of Canada and the West, where he bought large tracts of timber and became one of the most extensive land owners in Michigan. He was elected to the Legislature in 1847 and subsequently associated himself with many philanthropic schemes. His early benefactions included the endowment of the Lyman Beecher lectureship at Yale College, the building and endowment of several churches and schools, and the building of the public library at West Bay City, Mich. He was elected a trustee of Cornell University in 1870, and gave to that institution $266,- 000 for the Sage College for Women; $50,000 for the Susan Lynn Sage chair of philosophy; $200,000 for the Sage School of Philosophy; $260,000 and an endowment of $300,000 for the University Library Building; and over $70,000 to other departments. He died in Ithaca, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1897.
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the genus Salva, specifically S. officinalis and S. grandiflora. The first of these is the common garden sage, a native of the S. of Europe. It has blue flowers, and has run into many varieties. Formerly it had a high reputation as a sudorific, an aromatic, an astringent, and an antiseptic, but it has not now a place in the pharmacopeia. The Chinese use It is employed in cooking and nerves. for sauces and stuffing for luscious meats. Also the genus Artemisia.
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RUSSELL, an American capitalist and philanthropist, born in Verona, Oneida co., New York, in 1816. He had only a country school education and at a very early age entered his brother's grocery store as clerk. In 1837 he went into a small business for himself, but gradually prospered, until he was able to go into the wholesale business. From 1841 to 1847 he was an alderman in Troy, N. Y., and in 1853 was elected to Congress by the Whigs. In 1863 he removed to New York and entered the brokerage business, gradually building up a large by speculation in securities fortu fortune pecially of railroads. At the death he had acquired $70,000,000, after having devoted large sums to various philanthropic institutions. His biggest do- RUSSELL SAGE nation was toward the Russell Sage Foundation, whose purpose was to inquire into the sources of poverty and seek their elimination. He died in 1906. SAGEBRUSH (Artemisia Ludoviciana), a low irregular shrub of the order Compositæ, growing in dry alkaline soils of the North American plains. The name is also given to other American species of Artemisia.
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who was then a prospering grocer in Troy. Mrs. Sage was throughout all her life keenly sympathetic toward equal suffrage for women. She was also a keen business woman, and during the last five years of her husband's life transacted all his business affairs. At his death she had at her disposal $70,000,000, of which $30,000,000 were devoted to a long series of philanthropies. She died in 1918.
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the Centrocercus urophasianus, called also cock of the plains. It is the largest of the American grouse, and the male has a distinctive character in the bare spaces of orange-colored skin on each side of the neck, which he inflates during the mating season. Range from the Black Hills to California and Oregon, and from British Columbia nearly to Arizona. It feeds on the wormwood of the plains, and in consequence its flesh becomes so bitter as to be unfit for food.
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low, bitter, shrubby plants of the composite family. Botanically, they are known as artemesia. They are closely allied to wormwood, southernwood, and the common mugworts of old fields. Extensive tracts in the great plains of the West are covered with this monotonous, homely shrub, through which the traveler sees an occasional coyote slinking away. The common sagebrush is a gray, shabby bush, reaching an extreme height of twelve feet. Occasionally a gnarly old stem attains a diameter of several inches.
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Cast-iron boxes in which articles of cast iron are packed, along with red-hematite ore, or smithy scales, to be converted into malleable cast iron by a process of decarbonization in the annealing-furnace. See MALLEABLE CAST IRON.
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If, on account of unequal distribution of the means employed for lifting flasks, etc., in the foundry, some portion of the suspended object should bend out of parallel, this term would, by moulders, be used to indicate that feature. Or, when some mould surface, as a cope-face, etc., betrays a disposition to separate from the main sand structure on account of faulty workmanship, or otherwise, it is then said to sag.
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or Saghalien, sa-ga-len, an Asiatic island lying off the coast of Russian Manchuria. It is about 670 miles long, and from 20 to 150 broad. The area is about 24,500 square miles, equal to that of West Virginia . Geologically, this island is the most northerly in the arc of continental islands that inclose the Sea of Japan. Mountain ridges rise to a height of 5,000 feet. The intervening plains reach an altitude of 600 feet above the sea. One river is navigable by rafts and light boats for 250 miles. The soil consists of sands, marls, and clays. The island is clothed with forests, mostly coniferous. The range of altitude and latitude is such that the fir, the larch, the bamboo, elder, poplar, elm, wild cherry, willow, maple, ash, and oak are found in varying proportions. Fur-bearing animals, particularly the bear, the fox, and the sable are numerous. The reindeer ranges in the north. Tigers are met occasionally in the southern end of the island. The coast fisheries are valuable. The island is divided by an east and west boundary between Russia and Japan. This island has been inhabited evidently from the earliest times. Flint implements and primitive pottery are found, as well as remains of the bronze age . The Ainos are the aborigines of the island. They are enslaved practically by the Japanese, who require them to fish and collect seaweed for exportation. Petroleum and naphtha exist. Coal is mined in the north by Russian convicts.
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