Yarra-Yarra
the Australian river on which Melbourne, Victoria, is situated; length about 100 miles. On account of falls it is not navigable above Melbourne. See MELBOURNE.
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Single-source entries: Y (3)
These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Yarrow, Yarrow, Yates.
Yarrow
or Milfoil, a hairy, erect roadside weed from Europe. It has a flat top of small white flowers. It belongs to the composite family. The leaves are soft and dusty, from two to four inches in length, and are cut into many fine segments. Yarrow is held in repute as a medicinal plant. Yarrow tea is an old household remedy for loss of appetite and for diarrhea. Tincture of yarrow used as an ointment, has a tanning, puckering effect like that of alum. It arrests bleeding. Yarrow plays its part in the folk-lore of Scotland. The lass desiring to see the face of her future husband puts yarrow under her pillow and repeats this rhyme before going to sleep: Thou pretty look of Venus'-tree Thy true name it is Yarrow; Now who my bosom friend must be, Pray tell thou me tomorrow.
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Yarrow
a celebrated stream of Selkirkshire, Scotland. It forms two beautiful lakes known as the Loch of the Lowes and St. Mary's Loch. It has a course of sixteen miles through Ettrick Forest, emptying into the Ettrick, near Selkirk. The braes of Yarrow are celebrated in literature. Sir Walter Scott was descended from Auld Watt and "his fair dame, the flower of Yarrow." Wordsworth made this stream the theme of three poems: Yarrow Unvisited, Yarrow Visited, and Yarrow Revisited.
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Yates
EDMUND HODGSON, an English journalist and novelist; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 3, 1831; the son of the actor Frederick Henry Yates (1797-1842), who from 1825 was manager of the Adelphi Theater. He was educated at Highgate and Düsseldorf, and from 1847 till 1872 had a position in the postoffice, being for 10 years chief of the missing lette letter department. He lectured in the United States in 1872- 1873; was special correspondent at , St. Petersburg, etc., of the New Vienna Vienna York "Herald" in 1873-1875; and London correspondent of the New York "Tribune" for a number of years. He wrote the following novels: "For Better, for Worse" (1863); "Broken to Harness" (1864); "Running the Gauntlet" (1865); "Kissing the Rod" (1886); "The Black Sheep" (1867); "Wrecked in Port" (1869); "Castaway" (1872); "A Waiting, etc., Race" (1872); and "Recollections and Experiences" (1885). He was editor of "Temple Bar," "Tinsley's" and other periodicals, and in 1874 founded, with Grenville Murray, a very successful "society" weekly, "The World," which, for a libel on Lord Lonsdale, involved him in 1884 to two months' imprisonment. He died May 20, 1894.
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Yates (RICHARD an American lawyer)
RICHARD, an American lawyer; born in Warsaw, Jan. 1818; was graduated at Illinois College, Jacksonville, in 1838; practiced law number of years; was elected to the legislature in 1842; and sent to Congress in 1850. In 1860 he was elected governor of Illinois. He was strongly opposed to slavery, and an ardent supporter of the government during the Civil War, taking an active part in the organization regiments. He was United of volunteer States Senator in 1865-1871, and afterward United States railroad commission- He died in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 27, er. 1873.
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Yauhahu
A spirit. (See American Indians.)
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Yazoo City
a city and county-seat of Yazoo co., Miss.; on the Yazoo river and on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad; 45 miles N. W. of Jackson. It is in an extensive corn and cotton-growing section. Here are waterworks, a sewer system, electric lights, National and other ba banks, and a number of weekly newspapers. It has large lumber interests, a large cotton seed oil plant, etc. Pop. (1910) 6,796; (1920) 5,244. YAZOO RIVER (from an Indian word meaning "river of death"), a tributary of the Mississippi. It lies throughout its whole extent in the State of Mississippi. The Yazoo proper, formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and the Yalobusha, originates near Greenwood, and after a deep, slow, tortuous S. W. course of 290 miles enters the Mississippi 12 miles above Vicksburg. It traverses a fertile country, and is throughout navigable. The waters of the Tallahatchie are partly received from the Mississippi itself, and, but for a slight obstruction, steamers from the Mississippi might thus enter the Yazoo at its extreme source, and after traversing its whole length re-enter the Mississippi at Vicksburg.
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Yeats
WILLIAM BUTLER, an Irish poet; born in Dublin, Ireland, June 13, 1865. He wrote: "The Wanderings of Oisin" (1889); "John Sherman" (1893); "The Countess Kathleen" (1892); "A Book of Irish Verse" (1895); "The Secret Rose" (1897); "The Wind Among the Reeds" (1899); "Reveries from Childhood and Youth" (1916).
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Yeddo
. See Tokio
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Yell
the second largest of the Shetland Islands; separated from the mainland by Yell Sound; 25 miles N. of Lerwick. It is about 17½ miles in length, and from half a mile to 6 miles in breadth. The surface is chiefly moorland, and fishing is the leading employment.
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Yellow
one of the primary colors. If light be decomposed by a prism, yellow may be found in the spectrum between the orange and green. Combined with blue it yields green; red and yellow produce orange. Yellow is a favorite color in nature. It is the color of the buttercup and of the harvest. Yellow silk is the garb of the Chinese mandarin of high rank.
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Yellow Brass
Bright-yellow brass or Bristol-sheet is composed of copper 16, zinc 6. Copper 16 and zinc 5 is Dutch alloy, which is a deeper yellow; and a very deep yellow, called pinchbeck, semilor, and bath-metal, is composed of copper 16, zinc 4. Good yellow-brass wire is copper 16, zinc 7; and good ordinary brass, bright yellow, is copper 16, zinc 8. Copper 16, zinc 9 makes a full yellow brass, usually called Muntz's extreme. Sheathing is composed of copper 16, zinc 10; and a paler yellow is copper 16, zinc 12, which is a good solder for copper or iron. Pale-yellow dipping-brass is composed of copper 16, zinc 14. Yellow brass is made sensibly harder by adding from 1/4 to 1/2 oz. of tin, and from 1/4 to 1/2 oz. of lead increases its malleability and makes it more fluid. These proportions are to the pound of mixed brass.
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