These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Shapinshay, Shari, Sharp.
one of the Orkney Islands of Scotland, between the islands of Stronsay and Pomona. It is about 4½ miles long and 4 miles broad; area, 6,733 acres, of which nine-tenths are under cultivation, and yield excellent crops of grain. The surface is generally flat, but at one point rises to the height of 162 feet.
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a large river in Central Africa, which enters the S. side of Lake Tchad by several mouths after a course of about 1,400 miles from the S. E. See TCHAD, LAKE.
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DALLAS LORE, an Ameri-' can writer and educator, born at Haleyville, N. J., in 1870. He graduated from Brown University, in 1895, and studied theology at the Boston University. He was ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1895, and served as pastor of a church in Massachusetts until 1899, when he was appointed assistant HAMMERHEAD SHARK librarian of the Boston University. In 1902 he became assistant professor of English at that institute, and full professor in 1909. His books and articles on nature subjects obtained a wide popularity. They include "Wild Life Near Home" (1901) Hom (1901); "The Face of the Fields" (1911); "Winter" (1912); "Beyond the Pasture Bars" (1913); "The Hills of Hingham" (1916).
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ELIZABETH AMELIA (Mrs. William Sharp), an English art critic, born at London in 1856. She was educated privately and at University College, London, and in 1884 married the late William Sharp (Fiona Macleod). Her works include: "Women Poets"; "Sea-Music"; "Heine's Italian Travel Sketches"; "Heine's Art and Letters"; "Lyra Celtica, an Anthology of the Poetry of the Celt"; '; "A Monograph on Rembrandt"; "William Sharp, a Memoir"; "Collected Writings of Fiona Macleod" (7 vols.); "Selected Writings of William Sharp" (5 vols.).
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WILLIAM GRAVES, an American diplomatist, born at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, in 1859. He graduated from the Law De Department of the University of Michigan, in 1881 1881, and for several years practiced law at Elyria, Ohio. From 1885 to 1888 he was prosecuting attorney of Lorain co., Ohio. He was active in politics and was a delegate to several Democratic conventions. In 1909 he was elected to Congress, and was re-elected successively until 1914, when he resigned on his appointment as ambassador to France. He served in this capacity from December, 1914, to April, 1919.
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a part of a stream where the current runs very rapidly; as, sharps and eddies. In music, a sign, which, when prefixed to a note, elevates it by a semitone in the scale. When placed at the beginning of a piece of music, it denotes that all the notes on the line or space on which it is placed, and their octaves above and below, are to be played sharp. A double sharp X raises a note two semitones. To brace sharp, in nautical language to brace the yards as obliquely as possible, in order to bring a ship well up to the wind.
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ROBERT, an American educator, born at Lawrenceville, Va., in 1851. He graduated from the Randolph-Macon College, in 1876, and took post-graduate studies at the University of Leipzig. He was professor of English at the University of Louisiana from 1880 to 1884, and from 1884 to 1913 at Tulane University of Louisiana. From that year to 1918 he was president of the latter institution, and president emeritus from October, 1918. He edited several old English texts and wrote on Anglo-Saxon literature.
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WILLIAM, a British critic and man of letters; born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, Sept. 12, 1856; was educated at Glasgow University. He traveled extensively, and contributed to leading publications throughout the world. His works include "Humanity and Man," a "The Conqueror's Dream, and Other Poems"; "Dante Gabriel Rossetti" biography; "Shakespeare's Songs, a Poems and Sonnets"; "Sonnets of this "Ro- Century"; "Shelley," a biography; mantic Ballads"; "Lyrical Poems" (1899); in fiction, "Children of Tomorrow," etc. He also wrote under the name of FIONA MACLEOD, (q. v.). He died Dec. 14, 1905.
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HENRY GRANVILLE, an American soldier, born at Kingston, N. Y., in 1858. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1880, and was appointed 2nd lieutenant in the same year. He resigned in 1882, but was reappointed as a captain in 1883. He was promoted major in 1895, colonel in 1901, and commissary-general in 1905. In 1912 he was made brigadier general in the Quartermaster Corps, and in 1916 was made major-general and quartermaster general. In 1918 he became major general of the line of the army. He superintended relief work during several floods in the south, and had charge of the commissary of the 1st Army Corps, and of the Department of Porto Rico during the Spanish-American War. He was chief commissary of the Philippines from 1902 to 1904, and in 1918-19 commanded the Southeastern Department. He served in France in the latter year. He was the author of "The Art of Subsisting Armies in War," and "The Provisioning of the Modern Army in the Field."
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a borough in Allegheny co., Pa.; on the Allegheny river, and on the Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroads; 5 miles N. E. of Pittsburgh. Here are public and private schools, banks, and a number of weekly newspapers. The borough contains numerous coal mines, foundries and iron furnaces. Pop. (1910) 8,153; (1920) 8,921.
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MOUNT, a peak of volcanic origin in Siskiyou co., Cal., at the N. end of the Sierra Nevada, 14,350 feet above sea-level. On its summit are three glaciers, one of which, the Whitney glacier, is 3 miles long. On its slopes are some gigantic trees over 300 feet high. The mountain is almost a perfect cone, and is a dormant volcano.
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or SHASTRA, in Brahmanism, that by which faith and practice are governed, an institute of letters, law, or religion considered as of divine authority. Used of the Vedas and other books of the Brahmanic scriptures.
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THOMAS GEORGE, 1st Baron, born at Milwaukee, Wis., in the Catholic 1853. He was educated in public schools and in 1882 became general THOMAS GEORGE SHAUGHNESSY purchasing agent on the Canadian Pacific railway, subsequently becoming assistant general al manager and president. He was also president and director of a number of railway companies, all of which were directly or indirectly conrailway. d in 1907 was ALBERT, an American editor; in Shandon, Butler co., Ohio, July 23, 1857; was educated at Iowa Co Iowa College and Johns Hopkins University. After 1891 he was the editor of the American "Review of Reviews." Included in his publications are: "Icaria: a Chapter in the History of Communism" (1884); "Co-operation in a Western City" (1886); "The National Revenue" (1888); “Municipal Government in Great Britain"; "Municipal Government in Continental Europe"; "Outlook of the Average Man" (1907); "Cartoon History of Roosevelt's Career" (1910), etc.
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