Washington (BUSHROD an American jurist)
BUSHROD, an American jurist; born in Westmoreland co., Va., in 1762; was nephew of George Washington, and became heir to his papers and library; was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and of the Virginia ratifying convention in 1788; associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1798-1829. He took great interest in the organization of the American Colonization Society, and was appointed its first president. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1829. His nephew, AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON, came into possession of the Washington residence, at Mount Vernon, and died in 1832. He was the author of "Reports of the Court of Appeals of Virginia."
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Washington (State in the Western Division)
a State in the Western Division of the North American Union; bounded by British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, Puget Sound, and the Pacific Ocean; admitted to the Union, Nov. 11, 1889; capital, Olympia; number of counties, 38; area, 69,127 square miles; pop. (1890) 349,390; (1900) 518,- 103; (1910) 1,141,990; (1920) 1,356,621. Topography. The surface of the State is exceedingly rugged, being traversed from N. to S. by the great range of the Cascade Mountains about 100 miles from the coast. The highest peaks, all extinct volcanoes, are Mount Rainier, 14,444 feet; Mount Baker, 10,827 feet; Mount St. Helena, 9,750 feet; and Mount Adams, 9,000 feet. Eastern Washington, lying between the Cascades and the Columbia river, includes the Yakima
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Washington and Lee Univ
309 VERSITY, an educational non-sectarian institute in Lexington, Va.; was founded in 1749 by the Rev. William Graham as an academy at Timber Ridge meeting house, afterward developed into Washington University, and finally received its present name in honor of General Robert E. Lee, who after the Civil War became its president. He is buried in the college chapel, where a noble recumbent statue in marble marks his resting place. It reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 30; students, 626. President, H. L. Smith, LL.D.
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Washington University
a coeducational non-sectarian institution in St. Louis, Mo.; incorporated in 1853. It has been formed by the union of six schools started at different times: the undergraduate department, which includes the college (1859); the St. Louis Law School (1867); the O'Fallon Polytechnic School ol (1870); the Henry Shaw School of Botany (188 1886); the School of Fine Arts; the St. Louis Medical College (1891); and the Missouri Dental College (1892). To the university have been attached three secondary schools: The Smith Academy for boys (1854); the Mary Institute for girls (1859); and the manual training school (1879). It reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 2003; students, 1,367; president, F. A. Hall, LL. D.
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Washita
or OUACHITA, a river of the United States and an affluent of Red river; flows in a S. E. direction through Arkansas and Louisiana, draining a rich cotton and corn country for a distance of 600 miles. It receives the Saline, La Fourche, Tensas, and Little Missouri rivers, and is navigable throughout the year by steamboats to Camden, a distance of 300 miles. The False Washita traverses the Indian Territory, and joins the Red river above Preston, in Texas.
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Waste Gases
The most efficient mode of utilizing the waste heat from puddling and other furnaces is the regenerative-gas furnace, where it is applied to raise both the gas fuel and the air for burning it to a high temperature previous to their meeting at the point of combustion. See REGENERATIVE FURNACE.
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Waste Lands
according to the general use of the term, uncultivated and unprofitable tracts in populous and cultivated countries. The term waste lands is not employed with reference to land not reduced to cultivation in countries only partially settled.
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Waste-wax Process
Making statuary, figures, etc., by melting out a wax model of the object, which has been previously encased in loam or composition, and filling the space with molten metal. See CIRE PERDUE; STATUE-FOUNDING. Water is a compound of 8 parts by weight of oxygen with one of hydrogen; by bulk it is 1 of oxygen to 2 of hydrogen, and is present in nature in three forms--solid, liquid, and gaseous. It is transparent, tasteless, and inodorous. It evaporates at all temperatures, boils at 212 deg., and freezes at 32 deg. At 60 deg. a cubic inch of pure water weighs 252.45 grains--exactly 815 times the weight of an equal bulk of air. The American standard gallon weighs 58,970 grains of pure distilled water at the maximum density of 484. The weight of an imperial gallon is 70,000 grains, or 10 pounds. A cubic foot of water is taken at 1000 ounces, and 62.5 pounds for convenience in reckoning; but the actual weight is 998.068 ounces, or 62.37925 pounds avoirdupois. Water expands 1/1124 of its bulk in freezing. The height of a column of water at 60 deg., equivalent to the pressure of 1 pound per square inch, is 2.30 feet, and the height of atmosphere is 33.94 feet. The number of cubic feet in a ton of water is 35.84, and a cubic foot of sea-water weighs 64.31 pounds. See HYDROGEN.
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Watch Hand Pliers
Fig. 313 shows Horton's combination watch hand pliers for removing watch hands, second, hour and minute. It also takes the place of the 9-hole hand sliding tongs.
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Watch Papers
These were circular pieces of paper, silk, velvet, or muslin, placed in the outer cases of the old watches, and were decorated with verses or devices; some of them were very elaborate specimens of scroll work, and had a miniature painted in the center, others merely bore verses. Later this same device was used by repairers as a means of placing a business card in the watch. Many old watches in various collections contain over a dozen of these cards, of repairers in whose hands the watch has been.
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Watchmakers' Cement or Wax
Eight ounces of gum shellac, heated and thoroughly incorporated with one-half ounce of ultramarine, makes the strongest and best wax for use on cement brasses and chucks.
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Watchman's Clock
A clock having a paper dial, which is used to control the movements of a watchman by means of keys fastened to short chains at various portions of his beat. The various keys operate variously shaped punches which perforate the dial, and thus show the time of his presence at any particular station.
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