Singmaster
ELSIE (MRS. HAROLD LEWARS), an American author, born at Schuylkill Haven, Pa., in 1879. She was educated at Radcliffe College. Besides contributing short stories to many prominent magazines, she wrote: "When Sarah Saved the Day" (1909); "When Sarah Went to School" (1910); "Gettysburg- Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath" (1913); "Katy Gaumer" (1914); "Emmeline" (1916); "The Long Journey" (1917); "Life of Martin Luther" (1917); "History "History of Lutheran Missions" (1917).
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Sinigaglia
or SENIGALLIA, a seaport on the Adriatic coast of Italy; 16 miles N. W. of Ancona; was down to 1869 celebrated for its annual fair, July 20 to Aug. 8. It was founded by the Senonian Gauls, and colonized by the Romans 289 b. c. There are here a cathedral (1787) and a palace of the dukes of Urbino. Pius IX. was born here.
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Sinking-head
So called because the molten metal falls or sinks out of it into the shrinking casting below. See FEEDING-HEAD; RISER. Sister Chains.-Two distinct pairs of foundry lifting-chains, having similar parts throughout, each one of which is an exact counterpart of the other--as, "sister buckle chains," sister sling chains," etc.
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Sinon
Son of Aesimus, or, according to Vergil (Aen. ii. 79), of Sisyphus , and grandson of Autolycus, was a relation of Ulysses , whom he accompanied to Troy. He allowed himself to be taken prisoner by the Trojans, and then persuaded them to admit into their city a wooden horse filled with armed men, which the Greeks had constructed as a pretended atonement for the Palladium . The Trojans believed the deceiver, and dragged the horse into the city; whereupon Sinon in the dead of night let the Greeks out of the horse, who thus took Troy. Siphnus (Siphno). An island in the Aegean Sea , forming one of the Cyclades. The moral character of the Siphnians stood low, and hence to act like a Siphnian became a term of reproach. Sirenes (The Sirens). They lured to destruction those who listened to their songs. When Ulysses sailed past their island he stopped the ears of his companions with wax, and had himself tied to the mast of his ship. Thus he passed with safety, and the Sirens, disappointed of their prey, drowned themselves.
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Sinope
a town of tongue pro Asiatic Turkey; on a rocky rocky jecting into the Black Sea; 220 miles W. by N. of Trebizond. It has two harbors, one presenting the finest anchorage along the N. coast of Asiatic Turkey. The town is surrounded by ancient Byzantine walls, and has a ruined castle built under Byzantine influence. The bay was the scene of a naval engagement on Nov. 30, 1853, when a Turkish squadron was destroyed by the Russian fleet. The ancient city of Sinope was founded by a colony of Mile sian Greeks, and for several years shared with Byzantium the supremacy of the Euxine. It was made by Pharnaces the capital of the kingdom of Pontus in 183 B. C. The great Mithridates, who was born within its walls, raised it to a lofty pitch of splendor. But in 70 b. c. it capit ulated to Lucullus, and in 45 B. C. was made a Roman colony. ony. After belonging successively to the empire of Trebizond (from 1204) and the Seljuks, it was conquered by the Turks in 1461. Sinope was the birthplace of Diogenes the cynic. Pop. about 9,000.
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Sioux City
a city and county-seat of Woodbury co., Ia.; on the Missouri river, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, the Illinois Central, the Chicago and Northwestern, the Great Northern, and other railroads; 100 miles N. of Omaha. Here are Morningside College, Trinity College, a high school, college of medicine, a city normal school, St. Joseph, Samaritan, German Lutheran and St. Vincent hospitals, United States government building, public library, sanitariand ums, auditorium, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, several National and private banks, and numerous daily and weekly periodicals. The United States census for 1914 reported manufacturing establishments, employing $22,610,000 capital, and having a combined output valued at $49,452,000. The city contains large slaughtering and meatpacking plants, flour mills, gas engine works, candy factories, brick works, and the general shops of several railroads. Pop. (1910) 47,823; (1920) 71,227.
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Sioux Falls
a city and county-seat of Minnehaha co., S. D.; on the Sioux river, and on the Illinois Central, the Great Northern, the Burlington, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Pau Paul and other railroads; 90 miles N. of Sioux City, Ia. It contains the Sioux Falls College (Bapt.), Lutheran Normal School, All Saints School, the State penitentiary, the State School for Deaf Mutes, libraries, several National and other banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The city is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop, and of the Protestant Episcopal bishop of South Dakota. It has imporbisha utakond mahasimies of woolen and linen goods, boilers, brick, brooms, flour, soap, etc. The meat-packing industry is important. Pop. (1910) 14,094; (1920) 25,202.
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Sir Charles Grandison
a novel by Samuel Richardson published in 1753. Sir Charles Grandison, the hero, is so entirely without fault, especially in his chivalric behaviour toward ladies, that his name has became a synonym for a "modern lady's perfect knight." See Richardson
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Sir Daria
a river of Central Asia. It is known in ancient geography as the Jaxartes. It rises in the Thian-Shan Mountains and flows through a delta into the eastern side of the Aral. The total course is about 1,500 miles, the lower half of which is navigable, not because the river is larger indeed, but because the bed is more level. The Daria, though but a name to New World readers, is a noble stream. It issues from the snows of its mountain home and creates a belt of unsurpassed fertility in an otherwise waterless region. By the aid of irrigation 3,000,000 inhabitants raise large quantities of grain, fruit, vegetables, and cotton. See Samerkand; Turkestan
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Sir Toby Belch
a character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. He is the uncle of Olivia, a rich countess. He is a type of the jolly roisterer of the period. Of Sir Toby himself--that most whimsical, madcap, frolicsome old toper, so full of antics and fond of sprees, with a plentiful stock of wit and an equal lack of money to keep it in motion,--it is enough to say, with one of the best of Shakespearean critics, that "he certainly comes out of the same associations where the poet Falstaff holds his revels"; and that though "not Sir John, nor a fainter sketch of him, yet he has an odd sort of a family likeness to him."--Hudson.
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