Zaandam
or ZAARDAM, a town the province of North Holland; on the Zaan, at its entrance into the Y, 5 miles N. W. of Amsterdam. Many of its wooden houses, mostly painted white or green, are separated by canals, and with their gardens round them they look like little islands. It has many corn, oil, and saw mills, in whose products an active trade is maintained with the Baltic, Black, and White Seas; and also manufactures of paper, dyes, starch, tobacco, and glue, rope spinning, iron founding, g, and still still a little shipbuilding. Most of the 60 wharves it had in the 17th century have disappeared, and its famous whale fishery is also a thing of the past. Here in 1697 Peter the Great worked in one of the shipbuilding yards as a carpenter, and the hut in which he lived is carefully preserved. It was visited in 1814 by the Czar Alexander. Pop. about 25,000.
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Zabern
a town of Bavaria, on the Erlenbach. The French here defeated the Austrians, July 29, 1793.
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Zabern
the name of three German towns. (1) ELSASS-ZABERN (French, 490 Saverne), a town of Elsass, on the Zorn, 27 miles N. W. of Strassburg. A Gothic Hauptkirche of the 15th century, a castle built in 1667, but now a barrack, and a museum with a collection of local antiquities, are the principal buildings. The Rhine and Marne canal passes through the town. Tanneries, potteries, and woolen mills are the chief indusrial establishments, and there is considerable timber trade. The town stands at the mouth of the Zabern Pass, leading across the Vosges Mountains. The Roman Tabernæ, this town still contains traces of Roman occupation. It was long an ecclesiastical city belonging to the bishops of Metz, and an episcopal palace occupied the site of its present castle. Always a German town, though held for a time by France, it receded to Germany in 1871, and the castle, formerly occupied by the widows of members of the Legion of Honor, was employed as a barrack. (2) BROG-ZABERN, a town of Rhine Bavaria, on the Erlenbach, 8 miles S. of Landau. (3) RHEIN-
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Zacatecas
capital of a State of the same name in Mexico; is a famous silver mining town, in a deep ravine; 440 miles N. W. of Mexico City. The streets are narrow and irregular, but there are numerous squares, and the market place, where the cathedral stands, is fine and handsome. It contains a ollege, gunpowder mill, and mint. Three miles to the E. is the Franciscan college, where the fathers of the old Californian missions were trained. Zacatecas is the great silver producing State of Mexico. The mines since 1540 have yielded over $1,000,000,- 000. Pop. of the city about 25,000; of the State, about 475,000.
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Zacharias
also known as ZACHARY, Pope from 741 to 752; a Greek by birth. He gave his consent to the setting aside Merovingian Childeric III. and of the Me the elevation of Pepin the Short to the French throne (752). He died in Rome, March 14, 752.
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Zacharias
father of St. John the Baptist, and husband of St. Elizabeth. He was a priest of the temple of Jerusalem, and became dumb on refusing to believe the announcement, made by the angel Gabriel, that a son should be born unto him; but recovered his speech at the birth of St. John the Baptist. He is believed to have been put to death by Herod.
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Zadkiel
One of the angels in the Jewish rabbinical legend of the celestial hierarchies. He is the ruler of Jupiter, and through him pass grace, goodness, mercy, piety, and munificence, and he bestows clemency, benevolence and justice on all.
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Zaebos
Grand count of the infernal regions. He appears in the shape of a handsome soldier mounted on a crocodile. His head is adorned with a ducal coronet. He is of a gentle disposition.
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Zagam
Grand king and president of the infernal regions. He appears under the form of a bull with the wings of a griffin. He changes water into wine, blood into oil, the fool into a wise man, lead into silver, and copper into gold. Thirty legions obey him.
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Zagreus
A surname of the mystic Dionysus ( Bacchus ), whom Zeus ( Jupiter ), in the form of a dragon, is said to have begotten by Persephone ( Proserpina ), before she was carried off by Pluto . He was torn to pieces by the Titans, and Athena (Minerva) carried his heart to Zeus.
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Zahuris or Zahories
French people who had travelled in Spain frequently had curious tales to tell concerning the Zahuris; people who were so keen-sighted that they could see streams of water and veins of metal hidden in the earth, and could indicate the whereabouts of buried treasure and the bodies of murdered persons. Explanations have been offered on natural lines. It was said that these men knew where water was to be found by the vapours arising at such spots; and that they were able to trace mines of gold and silver and copper by the particular herbs growing in their neighbourhood. But to the Spaniard such explanations are unsatisfactory; they persist in believing that the Zahuris are gifted with supernatural faculties, that they are en rapport with the demons, and that, if they wished, they could, without any physical aid, read thoughts and discover secrets which were as a sealed book to the grosser senses of ordinary mortals. For the rest, the Zahuris have red eyes; and in order that one should become a Zahuri it is necessary that he should have been born on Good Friday . Zanoni, by Bulwer Lytton: (See Fiction, Occult.)
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Zaimis
ALEXANDER, a statesman; born at Athens in 1855. He academies at educated in the was Athens, and entered politics, dabbling ALEXANDER ZAIMIS also to some extent in literature. He was elected to the Chamber at Athens and in 1906 was made High Commissioner of the Protecting Powers in Crete, a position he held till 1911. Later he became Prime Minister in Greece.
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Zalinski
EDMUND LOUIS GRAY, an American military officer; born in Kurnick, Prussian Poland, Dec. 13, 1849; came to the United States in 1853 and entered the army at the age of 15 as a volunteer aide-de-camp on the staff of General Miles. He received a commission in the United States army in 1866, was promoted 1st lieutenant of artillery in 1867 and captain in 1887. From 1872 to 1876 he was Professor of Military Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; was graduated at the Artillery School, Fort Monroe, in 1880, and at the School of Submarine Mining, Willets Point, several months later. In 1889 he was sent to St. Petersburg as military attaché to the American legation, remaining on duty for a year. He retired from active service in 1894. He wrote: "Notes on Telescopic Sights for Cannon"; "Deflection of Projectiles by Wind"; etc. He was the inventor of pneumatic dynamite torpedo gun which bears his name, the electrical onet, a telescopic sight for artillery, etc. fuse, an intrenching tool, a ramrod bay- See DYNAMITE GUN. He died March 10, 1909.
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