Each of these 14 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 lake in New Hampshire. Its length is 25 miles, its breadth varies from 1 to 10 miles; area 175 square miles; elevation above sea-level, 472 feet. It discharges by the Winipiseogee river, an affluent of the Merrimac. It is studded with islands, and abounds in fish. The beautiful scenery of this district attracts many tourists.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Arnold, a legendary Swiss patriot. The story runs that at the battle of Sempach he gathered the spears of the opposing Austrians into his own body and made an opening for his countrymen. See Arnold Von Winkelried
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a lake in Wisconsin; in the basin of the Fox river. It is 26 miles long and 10 broad, and has an area of 212 square miles. Both the river and the lake are navigated by steamboats, and afford good fishing.
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a tribe of American Indians. The name is Iroquois, meaning muddy water. When first known by the French they lived about Green Bay, Wisconsin. They were neighbors to the Chippewas. They were an eastern branch of the great Dakota family. They have been pushed from one place to another. A remnant of 2,000 men, women, and children are found on reservations in Nebraska and Wisconsin. See Dakotas; Chippewas
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a river that rises in Minnesota, and flows to Lake Winnipeg. Its course, though serpentine, It passes through is generally to the N. Rainy Lake and the Lake of the Woods, which are thus connected with Lake Winnipeg. Though its length is only 250 a very large basin, and miles, it drains diseharges an immense volume of water into Lake Winnipeg.
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a city and county-seat of Winona co., Minn.; on the Mississippi river, and on the Winona and Western, the Burlington Route, the Green Bay, Winona and St. Paul, the Chicago, Mil waukee and St. Paul, and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads; 104 miles S. E. of St. Paul. Here are a United States Government building, court house, State Normal School, Winona Seminary, St. Mary's Academy, commercial colleges, library, hospital, street railroad and electric light plants, waterworks, National, State, and savings banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. A fine railroad bridge crosses the Mississippi river at this point. The city has flour mills, sawmills, foundries, gas works, carriage factories, tannery, barrel factories, and manufactories of sashes and doors, farming implements, etc. Pop. (1910) 18,583; (1920) 19,143.
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JUSTIN, an American historian; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 2, 1831. He was superintendent of the Boston Public Library in 1868-1877, and librarian of Harvard University in 1877-1897. He published: "Bibliography of Original Quartos and Folios of Shakespeare" (1875); "Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution" ory of Boston" (188 (edited, 1880-1882); "Narrative and Crit- "Memorial ical History of America" (edited: 8 vols. 1884-1889); "Christopher Columbus" Cartier to Frontenac" (1891); "From Ca "; and (1894); "The Mississippi Basin"; "The Struggle in America Between England and France" (1895). He was the highest authority on the early history of North America. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 22, 1897.
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a town of Connecticut, one of the county-seats of Litchfield co. It is on the Mad and Still rivers, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Central New England railroads. It is an important industrial community and has manufactures of clocks, hosiery, brass goods, tools, machinery, hardware, etc. It has a hospital, several philanthropic institutions, and two libraries. Pop. (1910) 7,754; (1920) 8,248.
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a city and countyseat of Forsyth co., N. C.; on the Southern, and the Northern and Western railroads; 120 miles W. by N. of Raleigh. The interests of Winston and Salem are nearly identical and they are usually designated as one city, being called Winston- Salem. n. Here are an academy, numerous churches, National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has cotton and woolen mills. shuttle and bobbin works, an iron foundry, and many large tobacco shops. Pop. (1910) 22,700; (1920) 48,- 395.
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a lofty mountain range in the E. of Cape Colony, forming a part of the great dividing chain, the backbone of south Africa." Its culminating point is the sometimes called " Great Winterberg Peak, 7,806 feet high.
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a low plant of the heath family, producing aromatic red berries. The name comes from the leaves, which are evergreen. The plant and its bright fruit give a cheery aspect to the northern woods, but they are so low that they are early covered with snow. The flower hangs bell-fashion. Thoreau called it a "very pretty chandelier of a flower fit to adorn the forest floor." Wintergreen is a well known flavor obtained from the berries. Other names are box-, checker-, and partridge-berry. The latter name, in particular, is shared by the handsome trailing vine with red berries known to the botanist as Mitchella. Wintergreen is a well known flavoring extract much used in candies and in medicine. The essence was first obtained from the leaves and berries of the wintergreen. Commercial wintergreen extract is now distilled chiefly from the bark of the tree known in New England and Canada as sweet birch. The oil has the fragrance and the composition of genuine wintergreen.
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a range in Cape Colony whose termination Port Elizais about 30 miles N. W. of beth. Its loftiest peak, the Cock's Comb, is estimated to be 8,000 feet high, and, though 20 miles inland, is visible 60 miles out at sea. There is also a Winterhoek Peak, 6,840 feet high, 75 miles N. E. of Cape Town, whence it is visible.
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So called by plumbers when the solder is left in a mass around a lead joint and smoothed, tapering each way, with a cloth pad.
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The doctrine of magnetic attraction and repugnance formulated by Tenzel Wirdig, professor at Rostock, who published his Tenzelius Wirdig, Nova medicina spirituum in 1673. Wirdig believed that everything in the universe possessed a soul, and that the earth itself was merely a larger animal. Between the souls of things in accordance with each other there was a magnetic sympathy and a perpetual antipathy between those of an uncongenial nature. To this sympathy and antipathy Wirdig gave the name of magnetism. He says: 66 Out of this relationship of sympathy and antipathy arises a constant movement in the whole world, and in all its parts, and an uninterrupted communion between heaven and earth, which produces universal harmony. The stars whose emanations consist merely of fire and spirits, have an undeniable influence on earthly bodies; and their influence on man demonstrates itself by life, movement, and warmth, those things without which he cannot live. The influence of the stars is the strongest at birth. The new-born child inhales this influence, and on whose first breath frequently his whole constitution depends, nay, even his whole life."
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