Each of these 9 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
in metallurgy, vitreous mineral matter removed in the reduction of metals; the scoria from a smelting furnace. It is used for making cement and artificial stone, in the manufacture of alum and crown glass, and is cast into slabs for pavements, garden rollers, etc. In founding, the fused sullage and dross which accompany the metal in a furnace, and which it is the business of the skimmer to hold back from the ingate. Also the scoria of a volcano.
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in law, a false tale or report uttered with malicious intent to injure the good name or reputation of another. In other words, slander may be defined as false, malicious talk about one's neighbor. If reduced to writing, signs, pictures, or print, slander becomes libel. Action at law may be brought for damages inflicted by slander, but slander is not in the eye of the law a criminal offense. In case of libel the sufferer may bring an action to recover damages. Libel is also punishable as a crime. Talking to a person to his face, in however unwarranted a fashion, is not considered slander unless a third person be present to hear.
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a gift held by trustees for the education of the negro of the South. The sum of $1,000,000 was placed in the hands of trustees in 1882, by John Fox Slater, a wealthy cotton manufacturer of Norwich, Connecticut, whose father, Thomas Slater, established the earliest cotton mill in the United States , at Pawtucket, Rhode Island . By the terms of the gift the principal is invested. The interest is used in assisting worthy institutions, not in founding new ones. Among the institutions that have received timely aid are the Hampton Normal and Industrial School, and Booker T. Washington's school at Tuskeegee. President D. C. Gilman of Johns Hopkins, Chief Justice Fuller, Mayor Seth Low of New York , and others have served on the board of trustees with fidelity. Over half a million dollars has been disbursed and the fund has grown (1910) to $1,500,000.
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CHARLES LEWIS, an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman, born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1867. He was educated at Harvard and the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. He was made a deacon in 1894, and a priest in 1895. From 1894 to 1896 he was rector of St. Andrew's, Ayer, Mass., and a master at Groton School from 1896 to 1907 dean of the Cathedral at Faribault, Minn.; from 1907 to 1910 rector of Christ Church, Springfield, Mass., and since May, 1910, rector of Grace Church, New York City. He was at various times a lecturer at Seabury Divinity School, Faribault, Minn., and at Berkeley Divinity School, as well as paddock lecturer at the General Theological Seminary (1911-1912); and West lecturer at Stanford University (1915). He wrote: "Felix Reville Brunot" (1901); "Edward Lincoln Atkinson" (1904); "The Master of the World-a Study of Christ" (1906); "Life Beyond Life-a Study of Immortality" (1907); "The Historic Ministry and the Present Christ" (1908); "Present-Day Preaching" (1909); "Alexander Viets Griswold Allen" (1911); Experience" "The Authority of Religious (1912); "The Light Within" (1915); "Why Men Pray" (1916); "The Gift of Immortality" (1916); "A Churchman's Reading" (1917); "Certain American Faces-Sketches from Life" (1918); "The Lord's Prayer" (1919).
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a maritime strip on the W. of Africa, on the Guinea coast, extending between the Volta and Akinga, a stretch of about 240 miles. It consists mainly of long narrow islands. The principal towns on the coast are Badagry and Whydah. A large traffic in slaves was formerly carried on at the ports of this region, hence its name.
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or SCLAVONIA, formerly a province of Austro-Hungary, forming, with Croatia, a kingdom united with that of Hungary, now a province of JUGOSLAVIA (q. v.), bounded N. and E. by Hungary, W. by Croatia, and S. by Turkey; area, of Croatia and Slavonia, 16,423 square miles; pop. about 2,650,000. Principal towns, Eszék (the capital), Pe- Mitrovitz, terwardin, Carlovitz, Semlin, and Brod.
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In the winter of 1806-7 Councillor Societies of Harmony Hahn and an officer named Charles Kern, living for the time in the Castle of Salwensik, Silesia, were disturbed by curious happenings which suggested that the Castle was haunted. Strange noises were heard, small objects were seen to rise from the table and fly through the room. The only account is by Councillor Hahn, and, as is generally the case in such circumstances, the most surprising occurrences were not witnessed by the recorder, but were told him by his friends. Thus Kern is said to have seen in the glass the apparition of a woman in white; while Hahn was not present when a jug of beer was raised from the table by invisible hands, tilted, and its contents poured down an invisible throat.
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Rachel Baker, known as the Sleeping Preacher, was born at Pelham, Massachusetts, in 1794. When she was nine years old her parents removed to Marcellus, N.Y. As a child she had a religious training, her parents being devout people, and she early manifested a strong conviction of her sinfulness. In 1811 she showed symptoms of somnambulism, in which she seemed stricken with horror and despondency. But gradually her mind became calmer, and delivered discourses of singular clearness, marked by a devout and solemn tone. These fits of somnambulism, or trance-speaking, seized her regularly every day, and soon became habitual. She began and concluded her devotional exercises with prayer, between which came the discourse. Then a state of apparent physical distress supervened, and sobs and groans shook her frame. At length the paroxysm passed, and she subsided into a natural sleep. Change of scene did not affect these exercises, but the administration of opium would interrupt them. Her trance discourses were afterwards published. Smagorad, a magic book: (See France .)
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LEO, an Austrian singer, born at Mährisch-Schönberg, in 1876. He early developed musical talent and when only 17 years of age made his first apin pearance as "Lohengrin." He sang Berlin in 1898 with great success, a and for seven years succeeding was member In 1908 he began of the Vienna Opera. studying with Jean de Reszke, and in the following year made a remarkable success at Covent Garden, London. This was followed by his engagement, lasting a number of years, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. He was especially excellent in the Wagner operas and in many of the Italian operas.
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