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
the general name of a family including the smallest quadrupeds known. The shrews resemble mice in general appearance but are not related to them. The shrews are rather smaller, and have pointed muzzles. They have sharp teeth and are related to the moles. Their natural food is insects, rarely seeds or grain. The common shrew of North America was called moon-eater by the Indians, from a legendary belief that the shrew with its little nose attacked the full moon and ate it away by degrees, until, when the old moon was all consumed, a new moon grew in its place. The shrew is active all winter. There are numerous species, both in the New World and in the Old. England has three; the Alps, one. There are thirty-five species between the Mexican border and the Arctic Ocean. Shrews feed at night. A pair of shrews will soon clear a house of cockroaches. Shrews are quarrelsome to a fault, and are noted fighters; hence the term shrewish applied to a quarrelsome person. Of late the word is applied to women only. The adjective shrewd is in better standing. Shrews are killed by cats, possibly under the supposition that they are mice, but a strong musky odor prevents the cat from eating a shrew. Owls, hawks, weasels, and shrikes make no distinction between a shrew and a mouse. See Hedgehog Wood shrew. House shrew. Water shrew. Insectivorous animals Flying-lemur. Insectivorous animals European mole. Insectivorous animals
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Shrew
in zoölogy, a popular name for any individual of the Soricidæ, particularly the common (Sorex vulgaris) and the lesser shrew (S. pygmæus). The former is about the size of a mouse, which it somewhat resembles, but has the muzzle produced, with prominent nostrils, far beyond the lip; the eyes are scarcely discernible through the fur; ears wide and short; the tail is four-sided, with the angles rounded off; fur usually reddishgray above, grayish beneath, but the color varies. They feed on insects and worms and the smaller mollusca; they are extremely pugnacious, and two males scarcely ever meet without a battle, when the weaker is killed and eaten. They breed in the spring; the female makes a nest of dry herbage in a hole in the ground, and brings forth from five to seven young, but their increase is checked by the weasel and barn owl.
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