Each of these 10 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.
a town in Madras, British India; near the S. extremity of the peninsula; 70 miles N. E. of Cape Comorin, and 513 S. W. of Madras. In the roadstead here, where ships ride safely 2½ miles from the shore, is conducted all the sea-borne trade of the district. There is a pearl-fishery in the neighborhood. Tuticorin has acquired increasing importance as the terminus of the South Indian railway. Pop. about 40,000.
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MARY G., pseudonym MAXWELL GREY, an English h novelist; nov born in the Isle of Wight. She wrote: "The Broken Tryst" (1879); "The ); "The Silence of Dean Maitland" (1886); Reproach of Annesley" (1889); "In the Heart of the Storm" (1891); "Sweetends" (1897); "The House hearts and Friends" of Hidden Treasure" (189 (1898); "The Chapel" (1899); "The Great Forest C Refusal" (1906); "The Black Opal" (1918); etc.
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DANIEL SYLVESTER, an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman, born in Windham, N. Y. in 1837. He was educated at Columbia Un University and the General Theological Seminary, and received honorary degrees from the University of the South and from Washington University. He became a deacon After in 1862, and a priest in 1863. serving as assistant rector and then as rector at Morris, New York, from 1862 to 1867, he was consecrated Missionary Bishop of Montana, Utah, and Idaho in 1867. He was translated to the Diocese of Missouri in 1886, and in 1903 became Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
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an island of the Samoan group, belonging to the United States under the treaty of Dec. 2, 1899, between the United States, Great Britain, and Sta Germany. For several years the United States was anxious to acquire possession of the harbor of Pago Pago, on this is land, for a naval and coaling station. In 1872 the local authorities ceded the harbor for this purpose, and in 1878 a treaty was signed in Washington by which the United States was given the right to establish at that harbor a station for coaling, naval sup supplies, freedom of trade, commercial treatment as a favored nation, and extra-territorial consular jurisdiction. This harbor was occupied by the United States in 1898, with the purpose of utilizing its advantages as a coaling and supply station. Tutuila, the island upon whose coast this harbor is located, has a population (1916) of 6,185, and an area of 77 square miles.
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JOHN HENRY, an American landscape painter, born in Cincinnati in 1853. He studied art at the Cincinnati School of Design under Duveneck and at Munich and at Paris, becoming one of the leading exponents in the United States of the impressionistic school of painting. His landscapes were distinguished for their color and for their harmony of form and masses. As subjects for his paintings he chose ood of Greenwich, chiefly the neighborhood Conn., where he lived, although he painted one series each of Niagara Falls and Yellowstone subjects. Samples of his work were acquired by most of the important_public collections in this country. He died in 1902. In 1913 a lone exhibition of his paintings was held in New York, and an entire room was devoted to his work at the Panama Pacific Exposition, San Francisco.
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Mark. See Clemens
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William Marcy (1823-1878), a New York politician. His father, whose trade he learned, was a chairmaker. Tweed became influential in local politics through popularity as a fireman. He served as an alderman and as a congressman, as deputy street commissioner, and as commissioner of public works. He became "boss" of Tammany. He was noted for letting corrupt contracts for paving and other city improvements. He began a courthouse to cost $250,000 and spent $8,000,000 long before it was completed. The New York police service became affiliated with crime in every form. Thieves and gamblers were protected. Tweed and his ring stole enormous sums from the public treasury. He was pushed hard by such papers as the Times, and Harper's Weekly. In 1873 he was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary, but was set free by the higher courts. Civil suits were then instituted to recover the sums taken from the treasury. He was held in jail because unable to furnish $3,000,000 bail. Before the suit was concluded, he escaped to Cuba but was arrested and brought back. Pending his trial he died in Ludlow Street jail. Tweed's name is synonymous for dishonesty in public affairs. See Tammany; Nast , etc.
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The watchmaker will do well to purchase tweezers that are made of non-magnetic material, as they are no more expensive than ordinary ones of good make. Steel tweezers often become magnetized and by their use you convey the magnetism to the delicate parts of a movement. There are several makes of non-magnetic tweezers upon the market, all of which posses points of excellence. Soldering tweezers are made similar to Fig. 307, with hawk bill, for holding work while hard or soft soldering. See also Soldering Forceps.
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the name given to the earliest code of Roman law, civil, criminal, and religious, made by the decemvirs in 451-449 b. c. These, originally comprised in 10 tables, to which next year two others were added, were supposed to form the basis of all Roman law, and in Cicero's time were still committed to heart by boys at school. But they were very far from being a complete system. The occasion for them arose in the constant complaints made by plebeians of oppression by patricians; and the principal aim of the tables was to define rights, fix penalties, and prevent oppression under legal gal forms. Some of them were based on Greek models; most of them were derived from earlier Roman legislation. Many older laws were left intact by them, and reappear in Justinian's code. To the original tables commentaries were from time to time added.
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in astronomy, the faint diffused light which appears a little before sunrise, and again for some time after sunset, the amount and duration of the light varying materially in different latitudes and at different seasons. Popularly, the term is only applied to the evening twilight, the morning twilight being called dawn. Twilight is produced by the diffused reflection of light from and among the atmosphere after the direct rays of the sun have ceased to reach the earth. When the sun descends below the horizon, its rays pass through the atmosphere strata, and some of them are reflected toward the earth and illuminate its surface. At first the light, falling on the lowest and densest strata, is reflected in great abundance, but as the sun descends to a greater distance below the horizon, the rays fall on higher, and therefore rarer, atmospheric strata. Consequently fewer rays undergo reflection, and as the number of reflected rays diminishes as the sun descends, the strength of the twilight diminishes in the same proportion, till at last the solar rays fall on strata so rare as to be incapable of reflecting light, and the twilight accordingly disappears. In the morning the change from darkness to light takes place in a similar manner, but in inverted order.
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