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 the Apocrypha, a book generally placed between II Esdras and Judith, and containing 14 chapters. A pious man, Tobit by name, resident in Thisbe in Naphthali, was taken captive by Enemessar (Shalmaneser), King of Assyria, and located in Nineveh.
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a long narrow sled made usually of a single board turned up like the runner of a skate at the front end. The name is derived from the American Indians. Toboggans were first used by the Canadians to drag peltry and camp supplies over the snow. Sliding down hill on a toboggan, or tobogganing, as it has been called, has become a favorite sport in Canada and the colder parts of the United States . A well made toboggan carries from two to five persons crouching one behind another. Tobogganing has been introduced in the Engadine, Switzerland, as a winter sport for tourists. A slide at the head of a canon descends 600 feet in three-quarters of a mile. The run, including a final turn up a little hill at the foot, has been made in fifty-nine seconds. See Ski
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a river of Siberia, which rises in the W. slope of the Ural Mountains, in the province of Orenburg, and joins the Irtish at the town of Tobolsk, after a course of about 550 miles.
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a town of Western Siberia, capital of a province, at the confluence of the Irtish and the Tobol, nearly 2,000 miles E. of St. Petersburg. It is well built, with timber houses and wide and regular streets, and its position on the two great rivers is picturesque; but its situation, considerably N. of the great commercial highway between Russia and Siberia, and at a distance from the more productive regions of the country is unfavorable for the development of commerce. Pop. about 25,000.
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tok'vil, Alexis de (1805-1859), a French statesman and writer. He was born at Paris and was educated for the law. In 1831 he was sent to the United States by the French government to investigate our penitentiary system. This he did and made a report that attracted attention. While in America he took notes freely, and on his return he wrote Democracy in America, 1835. It was a work somewhat in the vein of Bryce's later American Commonwealth. It was the first scholarly examination of American institutions. It was translated into many languages. It won Tocqueville a seat in the French Academy. A brief edition was for a time a favorite textbook in American colleges. In 1839 Tocqueville was elected to the French chamber of deputies. He was not in sympathy with the Orleans party. Under the presidency of Louis Napoleon he voted against the measures of the radical democrats. In 1849 he held the portfolio of foreign affairs for five months. When Louis Napoleon broke faith with the people and sabred his way into the imperial office December 2, 1851, Tocqueville retired to private life and devoted himself to the labors of a historian. The Ancient Regime and the Revolution appeared in 1856. Socialists consider that Tocqueville was an observer of penetration, a profound student of democracy, but that he was afraid to give the people of France the reins. His interest in democracy was intellectual, not sympathetic. See Bryce
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HENRY DAVIS, JR., American army officer, born in Claverack, N. Y., 1866. After graduating from the United States Military Academy, he entered the artillery of the United States Army. During 1908-12 he served on the General Staff, and had reached the rank of colonel in 1913. He was in command of the artillery which supported the First American Division during the St. Mihiel offensive, in France, in 1918, and commanded the 58th Brigade during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. After the armistice he was stationed in Luxemburg with the Army of Occupation. On demobilization of the 33rd Division he was assigned to the General Staff College at Washington, D. C.
EDWARD HOWARD, an American college president, born at Council Bluffs, Ia., in 1863. Graduating from the Simpson College of Indianola, Ia., in 1886, he became Methodist-Episcopal pastor of the Villisca (Iowa) Circuit. In 1888 he was ordained deacon, and in 1890 went to the West Church of Boston as student pastor. After that he was successively pastor in Vancouver, B. C., Tacoma, Seattle and a number of other cities. In 1910 he became vicepresident of the Willamette University, in Washington. Since 1913 he has been president of the College of Puget Sound.
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the fermented sap of several species of the palm. It is a favorite drink in India, Borneo, West Africa, and Brazil. The wild date palm , the palmyra, and the cocoanut palm yield toddy. Fresh toddy, like sweet cider, is rather a pleasing drink, but it soon ferments. Arrack is obtained from toddy by distillation. See Alcohol ; Cider ; Wine ; Pulque , etc.
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HEIHACHIRO, COUNT, Japanese admiral; born at Kagoshima in December, 1847. He entered the navy in 1863 and participated in the civil war of 1868. From 1871 to 1878 he studied in England at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and on board British warships. In 1894 when in command of the cruiser "Naniwa" he fired on and sank the Chinese transport "Kowshing," which led to the war between China and Japan. In 1900 he became vice-admiral. In the war with Russia he was appointed naval commander-in-chief and on Feb. 8, 1904, made a successful attack with torpedoes on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, though war had not actually been declared. On May 27, 1905, he gave battle to the Russian Baltic fleet under Admirals Rojestvensky and Nebogatoff on its way to Vladivostok off Tsu Island, in Korea Strait, and practically annihilated it. In 1912 he was made Admiral of the fleet, and Chief of the General Naval Staff.
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a small town of Central Italy, in the province of Macerata, with a fine cathedral. Here Pope Pius VI., in 1797, concluded a humiliating peace with Bonaparte, and in the neighborhood, in 1815, Murat, at the head of the Neapolitans, was defeated by the Austrians under Bianchi. Pop. (1901) 12,875.
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