Wattle Bird
an Australian bird ( Anthochæra carunculata) belonging to the honey eaters , and so named from the large reddish wattles on its neck. It is about the size of a magpie, and is of bold, active habits . English educator, poet, WATTS, ALARIC ALEXANDER, an born in London, England, March 16, 1797. His journalistic work was done with the bet, and journalist; Manchester "Courier," the London "Standard," and the "United Service Gazette." He edited a series of annual volumes, "Literary Souvenir" (1825-1835) and published "Poetical Sketches" (1822), and "Lyrics of the Heart" (1851). He died in Kensington , England, April 5, 1864. English painter; born in London, Eng-
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Watts, Isaac
Isaac (1674-1748), an English Congregational clergyman and writer. He was born at Southampton and died at London. From 1702 until the time of his death he was minister of the Congregational chapel in Mark Lane, London. His congregation was an influential one. Watts himself had greater popularity as a writer than as a speaker. He wrote about 600 hymns, many of which are still popular in church hymn books. He is best known, however, by his Divine and Moral Songs for children. Together with the Westminster Shorter Catechism they have held a large place in the religious teaching of English-speaking children. Among the better known hymns are no doubt, the two beginning: 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again." and How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
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Watts-Dunton
THEODORE, an English poet and critic; born in St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England, in 1832. He was educated at Cambridge; afterward settling in London, he soon became the center of a remarkable literary and artistic company, including Philip Bourke Marston, Rossetti, Browning, Tennyson, Swinburne, etc. He wrote extensively in periodicals, and the books: "Greeting at Spithead to the Men of Greater Britain" (1897); "The Coming of Love" (1897); "Aylwin" (1898).) "The Work of Cecil Rhodes; a Sonnet Sequence" (1907); "Old Familiar Faces" (posthumous, 1916). The poems of his which are most generally known are "The Burden of the Armada" and "The Ode to Mother Carey's Chicken," the latter of which has been often reprinted in England and America. He died in 1914. WAT TYLER'S INSURRECTION. See TYLER INSURRECTION.
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Waukegan
a city and county-seat of Lake co., Ill.; on Lake Michigan, and on the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern, and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads; 35 miles N. W. of Chicago. The principal part of the city is built on a bluff which rises rather abruptly to the height of 50 feet. Here are many churches, a high school, School of the Immaculate Conception, St. Alberta's Convent, St. Joseph's School, public library, waterworks, electric lights, street railroads, National and State banks, and several weekly newspapers. Waukegan is largely interested in the lake fisheries. It has flour mills, tanneries, the Forsyth Scale Works, a pump factory, silver plating establishment, and manufactories of farming implements, sashes, doors, blinds, etc. It also has a trade in grain, wool, and butter. Pop. (1910) 16,069; (1920) 19,226.
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Waukesha
a city and county-seat of Waukesha co., Wis., on the Fox river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, kee, and St. Paul and other railroads: 20 miles W. of Milwaukee. It contains Carroll College (Pres.), a high school, Keeley institute, the State Industrial School for Boys, electric lights, National bank, and several weekly newspapers. The city is chiefly noted for its wonderful springs of medicinal waters. It has bottling works, quarries of excellent building stone, extensive malleable iron work. Pop. (1910) 8,740; (1920) 12,558.
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Waul
THOMAS NEVILLE, an American lawyer; born in Sumter District, S. C., Jan. 5, 1813; was educated at Columbia College in 1829-1832, and was later admitted to the bar and began practice in Mississippi; removed to Gonzales co., Tex., in 1850; was a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States in 1861. During that year he recruited 2,000 tro troops, known as Waul's Legion; was commissioned colonel of this body; and remained with it throughout the war. He rendered the Confederates important services as commander of the defenses at Tallahatchie and Yazoo rivers, Miss., and during the seige of Vicksburg; was promoted Brigadier-General and later took a conspicuous part in the battles of Pleasant Hill and Mansfield, La. He was subsequently seriously wounded while leading a division in the battle of Saline. In 1865 he was a member of the Texas Reconstruction Convention; resumed the practice of law in Galveston, Tex.; and retired in 1896. He died in 1906.
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Wausau
a city and county-seat of Marathon co., Wis.; on the Wisconsin river; and on the Chicago and North- , western and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads; 42 miles N. E. of Grand Rapids, Wis. Here are numerous churches, court house, County Insane Asylum, waterworks, electric lights, National banks, aks, and daily and weekly newspapers. Large quantities of lumber are here shipped down the river in rafts . The chief industries are those connected with the lumber trade. Besides the lumber industry the city has granite quarries, mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 16,560; (1920) 18,661.
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Wave Length
the distance, in all kinds of wave motion, from crest to crest of successive waves. In the wave motion of light these distances are almost inconceivably minute. The wave in the visible part of the spectrum ranges from about 33608 inches in the red end to about sed inches in the violet. In the yellow part of the spectrum, where it is brightest (in sunlight) the wave is about 30 inches. When we remember that light travels through space with a velocity of about 186,000 miles per second , if we wish to get some faint idea of the almost inconceivable frequency of the vibrations, multiply the denominators of the above fractions by the number of inches in 186,000 miles. We shall find that the extreme red light vibrates about 400,000,000,000,000 times, the yellow light about 510,000,000,000,000 times and the extreme violet light about 800,- 000,000,000,000 times per second. The difference of color is simply a difference of wave length and frequency, for, so far as known, they all travel with the same velocity. There are heat rays, or vibrations, which are invisible to the eye, of much greater wave length and less frequency. These are below the visible red in the spectrum. There is no difference between the radiations that we call by the different names of heat, light, and chemical (or actinic) rays except in the wave lengths and frequency of their vibrations.
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