Show Bread
or SHEW BREAD, in Judaism, a word modeled on the German schaubrode, Luther's rendering rend of the Hebrew lehem hapanim bread of the faces or face, perhaps meaning designed for the presence of Jehovah. It is called also the "continual shew bread" (II Chron. ii. 4), or, more briefly, the "continual bread" (Num. iv. 7), or "hallowed bread" (I Sam. xxi. 4-6). It was to be set on a table of shittim wood, overlaid with gold (Exod. xxv. 23-29; I Kings vii. 48), and having a blue covering (Num. iv. 7). The shew bread consisted of 12 cakes baked with fine flour, twotenth deals being in each cake (Lev. xxiv. 5). It was to stand in the Holy Place, and, being sprinkled with frankincense, was there to be eaten each Sabbath by Aaron and his priestly descendants (Lev. xxiv. 9). When the old shew bread was removed, new and hot bread was to take its place (I Sam. xxi. 6). When David was in want of food, he ate the shew bread, though he was not a priest (I Sam. xxi. 3-6), and Jesus approved the deed (Matt. xii. 4; Mark ii. 26; Luke vi. 4). The 12 cakes of shew bread were apparently one for each tribe; the deeper spiritual significance of the bread has been variously interpreted.
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Showerman
GRANT, an American university professor, born at Brookfield, Wis., in 1870. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin, from which he received the degrees of A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. From 1898 to 1900 he was a fellow at the Archæological Institute of America at the American School of Classical Studies, Rome, and in 1900 became professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin. He was a member of various educational and other societies. Besides contributing to the leading literary magazines and philological journals, he wrote "With the Professor" (1910); "Translation of Ovid's Heroides and Amores" (Loeb Classical Library, 1914); "The Indian Stream Republic and Luther Parker" (1915); "A Country Chronicle" (1916); and "A Country Child" (1917).
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Shrady
HENRY MERWIN, an American sculptor, born in New York City, in 1871. He was educated at Columbia University and studied law, which, however, he never practiced, being engaged in business from 1895 to 1900. From then on he devoted himself to sculpture. Although being entirely self-taught, he won the competition for the equestrian statue of General George Washington in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1901, and another competition for the Grant Memorial in Washington, D. C., in 1902. He also executed various other statues, chiefly equestrian, for Detroit, Charlottesville, Va., and Duluth. In 1909 he became an Associate of the National Academy, and he was also a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Architectural League, and the National Sculpture Society.
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Shrapnel
HENRY, an English inventor, entered the Royal Artillery in 1779, served with the Duke of York's army in Flanders, and shortly after the siege of Dunkirk invented the case shot known by the name of shrapnel shells, an invention for which he received from government a pension of $6,000 a year in addition to his pay in the army. He retired from active service in 1825, attained the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1837, and died in 1842. SHRAPNEL. See PROJECTILE: SHELL: EXPLOSIVES.
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Shreveport
a city and parishseat of Caddo parish, La.; on the Red river, and on the Texas and Pacific, the Houston and Shreveport, the St. Louis Southwestern, and other railroads, 326 miles N. W. of New Orleans. It is one of the most important cities in Louisiana, owing to its location in a great stockraising and cotton growing region. Here are St. John's College, St. Vincent's Convent, St. Mary's Convent, hospitals, sanitoriums, a high school, United States government building, United States Marine Hospital, board of trade, cotton exchange, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. Shreveport has a large trade in wool, cotton, livestock, groceries, and hides; cotton gins, cotton-seed oil mills, cotton compresses, manufactories of ice, cotton machinery, etc. Pop. (1910) 28,015; (1920) 43,874.
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Shrew Mole
a genus of insectivorous mammals, belonging to the family of Soricidæ or shrew mice, but also by some zoölogists placed in the Talpidæ or mole family. It is found in North America, usually near rivers and streams, and burrows after the fashion of the common mole.
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Shrewsbury
municipal and England, capia parliamentary borough of situated on a slightly tal of Shropshire, by a bend of elevated peninsula formed Birmingthe Severn, 42 miles N. W. of some handsome modham. It consists of houses ern houses and many old timbered . Several of very picturesque appearance and connect the bridges cross the Severn . Among objects town with its suburbs the remains of deserving of notice are castle; the the old walls; the ruins of the attached Church of Holy Cross, originally abbey, magnificent Benedictine to founded in 1083; the grammar school, public schools, a ranking high among in 1551, and founded by Edward VI. at Kingsland removed to new buildings the time in 1882; the market house, of statues of Lords of Queen Elizabeth; chief manufac- Clive and Hill, etc. The , the spinning tures are glass staining yarn, iron founding, of flax and linen of brawn, and brewing, the preparation the well-known "Shrewsthe making of the famous battle bury cakes." In 1403 defeat of Hotspur and which ended in the his ally, by Henry the Earl of Douglas, in the vicinity. Pop IV. was fought . about 30,000.
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Shrine
a case, box, or reliquary in remains of saints which the bones or other were deposited. They were often richly stones ornamented with gold, precious , generand elaborate carvings, and were of the church. ally placed near the altar
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Shropshire
or SALOP, a county adjoining Wales of western England, . . about Area, 1,346 square miles. Pop is the Sev- 250,000. The principal river direction ern, flowing in a southeasterly distance of some across the county for a throughout its 70 miles. It is navigable N. E., the entire course. In the N. and worked extengenerally level country is . In the sively for agricultural purposes is hilly, S. and S. W., where the county altitude of 1,800 rising at times to an principal infeet, cattle breeding is the sheep is dustry. A peculiarly horned the county. well known as the product of mineral The county also has extensive deposits, consisting of coal, iron, copper, worked successfully and lead, which are important iron inand form the basis of dustries. Capital, Shrewsbury. See MARDI SHROVE TUESDAY. GRAS.
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