A The Relation Between
A. The Relation Between The 'ensured And Tiie Insurance Com Pant. The Risk. —an Insurance Contract Transfers A Liability To Uncer Tain Loss Of A More Or Less Narrowly Defined Nature From The Person Insured To The Insurance Com For The Insured It Is The Substitution Of A Definite Payment ...
Acute Of Thekidneys
Acute Of The Kidneys. The Causes Of This Disease Are Ninny And Varied. Con Gestion Occurs From Retained Products Passed Through The Kidneys During Recovery From Inflam Mation Of Other Parts, Or Fevers. Detained Urine, And The Possible Production Of Ammonia And Other Irritants, Are Also Frequent Causes. The Symptoms ...
Agriculture
Agriculture. A Very Large Part Of The State Is Arid And Irreclaimable Land. In The North The Rainfall Is Greater, And Supplies Sufficient Moisture For Grain Crops. Three-fourths Of The Total Area Is Yet Public Land. This, However, Is Being Rapidly Taken Up. The Great Development Of The Mining Industry ...
Agriculture
Agriculture. As A Result Of Natural And Historical Conditions, The Industrial Activity Of Ireland Is Largely Confined To Agriculture. Few Countries Have So Large A Percentage Of Area Adaptable For Cultivation. Most Of The Waste Lands Are In The Mountains Of Western And Southern Ireland, Though There Is Still Much ...
Agriculture Food
Food, Agriculture, Hunting. Fisi1ing. Ex Cepting On The Plains And In The Frozen North, Agriculture Was The Chief Dependence Of Most Of The Tribes. Those On The Coast, Including The Haida, Were Naturally Fishermen. Those Of The Upper Lakes And About The Head Of The Missis Sippi Planted Little, But ...
Agriculture And Other Industries
Agriculture And Other Industries. About Five-sixths Of The Inhabitants Live By Horse, Cattle, And Sheep Raising. A Large Part Of The Slopes And River Valleys Of The Plateaus Affords Excellent Pasture For Sheep, And In The Low-lying Lands Are Extensive Meadows, Which, Properly Managed. Could Support Twice The Number Of ...
Agriculture_2
Agriculture. For Several Years Following 1870 Illinois Exceeded All Other States In The Per Cent. Of Its Farm Area, In The Per Cent. Of Farm Land Improved, And The Acreage In Crope, And At The End Of The Century Was Exceeded In These Respects By Only One State—iowa. Ac Cording ...
Agriculture_3
Agriculture. Iowa Is Preeminently An Agri Cultural State. And In The Census Year 1900 Ex Ceeded Every Other State In The Value Of Farm Products. Of Its Total Land Area, 97.4 Per Cent. Is Included In Farms, And Of This, 86.5 Per Cent. Is Improved. In Neither Of These Respects ...
All Mission
All Mission.) The Law Of 1875, Giving Full Religious Liberty, Opened The Due,r To An Active Home-mission Nvork, Already Initiated In 1572 By The Interior Mission. .oeial Questions Have Large Ly Occupied The Attention Of Protestams. E. De Pressen-4% Pastor. Historian, Senator, Led The Movement For The Purification Of The ...
American Historical Association
Historical Association, American. A Society Of Historical Students And Writers, Founded At Saratoga, N. Y.. In September, 1ss4, At The Suggestion Of Ilerbert Ii. Adams. Of Johns Hopkins Lniversity. Its Original Member Ship Was 40, Hut Within A Year It Had Increased To 250, And In 1889 It Received A ...
American Indians
Indians, American. The Name Applied First By Columbus And His Immediate Successors To The Natives Of The Newly Discovered Islands And Mainland Of America, Under The Mistaken Im Pression That These Regions Were A Part Of The Outlying Roast Of Asia. The Name Most Fre Quently Used By Scientific Writers, ...
Amount And Frequency Of
Amount And Frequency Of Ininnanox. The Conditions That Must Be Taken Into Consideration In Determining, The Amount Of Water To Be Ap Plied Are: (i) The Storage Capacity Of The Soil, (2) The Depth To Which The Roots Of The Particu Lar Crop Penetrate, (3) The Rate At Which Water ...
And Allies And
And Allies. And Hy'menophyl'lum(xeo-lat.. Non. P1., From Gk. I'pilv, Hymen, Membrane + I'?.7.ov, Plcyllen, Leaf). A Genus Of Ferns, Comprising The Film Ii Ins And Lace Found Growing Parasit Ically On Roots Of Trees And In Other Like Situa Tions, And Characterized By Their Delicate Mem Lranaceous Leaves With Cup-shaped ...
Andrew Atkinson Humphreys
Hum'phreys, Andrew Atkinson ( 181° 83). An American Soldier. Ile Was Born In Philadelphia; Graduated Al West Point In 1831. And Was Assi!med To The Artillery. Ile Resigned In September. 183g. And For The Next Two Years A Civil Employe.] On Goat Rnment Work Under Major Ilartman Bache. In July, ...
Architecture
Architecture. In Seeking To Explain The Origin Of Indian Archi Tecture, Some Traces Of Greek Influence Have Been Found In The North, Filtering Through The Greek Kingdom Of Bactriana, And Visible In Early Monu Ments Of Kabul And Kashmir In The Ghandara Monasteries Of Jamalgiri And Takht-i-bahi, And In India ...
Armistice Flags Of Truce
Armistice: Flags Of Truce. In Naval Warfare Enemy Properly On Enemy Vessels Is Liable To Capture. But Since The Declara Tion Of Paris (1856) The Neutral Flag Covers Enemy Goods, And Neutral Goods On An Enemy Vessel Are Exempt From Capture. The United States Has Uniformly Maintained The Inviolabil Ity' ...
Artificial Ice
Artificial Ice. A Sketch Of The Development Of Ice-making Apparatus And Descriptions Of The Principles And Practices Involved Will Be Found Under Refriceration. The Foliowing Figures Re Garding The Growth Of The Industry In This Coun Try Are Taken From The Section On The :manufac Ture Of Ice Industry In ...
Banking
Banking. Iowa Is Remarkable In That It Has A Larger Number Of Banks And Banking Houses Than Has Any Other State In The Union. In 1902 It Had 230 National Banks, With Loans Amounting To Fii74,032,000; Cash, Etc., $5,533,000; Capital, $15,485,000; And Deposits, $66,585.000. The 508 State Banks Had In ...
Banks
Banks. In I9o2 There Were 69 National Banks, With Loans Amounting To $7.277,000; Cash, Cue., $548.000; Capital, $2.779,000; And Deposits, $5, 896.000. The 20 Private Banks Had In Loans, $602,676• Cash. $56,354; Capital, $203,975; And Deposits, $495.810. Remmon. Alissionary Work Among The Indians Of The Territory Has Always Been Very ...
Bessemer Process
Bessemer Process. The Most Eommon Steel Making Process Is The Bessemer Process, Which May Be Subdivided Into The Acid Bessemer And The Basic Bessemer Process. The Apparatus Used Is The Same For Both The Acid And The Basic Proc Ess, And The General Process Is The Same Up To A ...
Bibliogisaptiy
Bibliogisaptiy. (eurrts Compbtes Edition Rh' Fi Nit Ire, In 5s Vols. (paris, 1885-1902). For Biography And Criticism, Consult: Sainte-beuve, Premiers Lundis, Vol. I. (paris. 1827) ; Vol. Iii. (ih., 18291: Biographic Des Eontemporain,s. Vol Pt. Ii. 1831) ; Id., Portraits Contempo Rains, Vol. I. (paris, 1816) ; Heine, Lutece Burg. ...
Black Writing Ink
Black Writing-ink. Ordinary Black Writing Ink Is A Compound Obtained By The Action Of Ferrous Sulphate On An Infusion Of Nutgalls Or Any Similar Compound Containing Tannin. And Is Essentially A Ferroso-fcrric Gallate. Typical Of This Kind Of Ink Is The One Consisting Of The Fol Lowing Ingredients; Nutgalls. 12 ...
Book Of Isaiah
Isaiah, Book Of. One Of The Longest And Greatest Of The Prophetic Hooks Of The (lid Testa Ment. It Is Placed First In The Writings Of The Prophets In The English Bible, And Is The First Of The Four So-called Greater Prophets. :most Modern Scholars Are Agreed That The Hook ...
Brahmanism Proper
Brahmanism Proper. The Development From The Older Into The Newer, From The Elemental And Natural Into The Artificial, Ritualistic And Philosophic, Or From The Early Rig-veda Stage Of Religion Into Brahmanism, May Be Traced Through The Yajur-veda, Or Book Of Knowledge Of The Sacrifice And The Ritual. The Priestly Power ...
Breeds
Breeds. Numerous Breeds Of The Domestic Hog Have Resulted From Selection And Crossing And From Conditions Of Environment Favorable To Im Provement. Apparently There Were Two Original Or Native Breeds In Great Britain, The Old Eng Lish Hog And A Breed Found In The Highlands Of Scotland. From These Our ...
British
British Rrt.e 0757-1. Great Jealousy Ex Isted Between The English And The French. The War For Ascendency Began In 1745, And Did Not End Until The Peace Of Aix-la-chapelle In 174s. (see Dueletx.) The Struggle In The Carnatic Con Tinned With Ardor Tinder The Pretext Of Support Ing The Claims ...
Buddhist Style In Neighboring
Buddhist Style In Neighboring Lands. Passing Now To Outlying Parts Of India And Neighboring Provinces, We Find In The Seques Tered Province Of Nepal. Between India And Tibet, An Archaic Style That Explains Some Of The Origins Of Indian Art And Illustrates The Connec Tion With China. A First Type ...
C Relation Of Tiie
C. Relation Of Tiie Government To Insur Ance. The Economic And Social Value Of Insur Ance Can Hardly Be Overestimated. The Applica Tion Of The Insurance Principles In The Produc Tion Of Wealth Reduces Materially The Cost Of Commodities And Services; The Proceeds Of Life Insurance Policies Keep Many Families ...
Ca Uses
Ca Uses. The Causes Of Insanity Are Divided Into Two Classes: (1) Predisposing Eauses, In Eluding Stress And Strain. Nouropathie Constitu Tion, And Heredity (of Alcoholism, Epilepsy, In Sanity, Or Other Nervous Tlisea•e). 12) Exeiting Eauses, Including Sho•k, Intense Emotion, Worry, Ant] Intellectual Overwork, Exhausting Diseases, Excesses T Alcoholic Or ...
Care Or The
Care Or The Lloase. Careless And Improper Feeding And Watering Are Responsible For Most Of The Digestive Disorders With The Horse May Be Troubled. With The Horse, Digestion Takes Place Principally In The Intestines, And In Select Ing Food For A Horse The Anatomical Arrangement Of Its Digestive Organs And ...
Cast Iron
Cast Iron. As Stated Under Iron. East Iron Was First Produced In Germany. Previous To About 1330 The Highest Temperatures Obtainable In The Blast-furnace Had Been Barely Sufficient To Pro Duce A Pasty Bloom Of Iron Which Then Had To Be Hammered To Remove The Cinder And Forged Into Shape. ...
Cause Of The Evolution
Cause Of The Evolution. The Evolution Of The Horse, Adapting It To Live On The Dry Plains, Probably Went Band In Hand With The Evolution Of The Plains Themselves. At The Commencement Of The Age Of Mammals The Western Part Of The North American Continent Was By No Means So ...
Cells
Cells. The Histological Basis Of The Body Structure Is The (p11. In General Terms All Tis Sues May He Said To Be Composed 44 Veils Of One Kind Or Another. And These Cell: Are Always Eombined With More Or I,— Int,•reelinlar Sub Stance. This Intercellular Substance May Be Very Small ...
Central America Indians Of
Indians Of Mexico, Central America, And \vest Indies. The Tribes Of Mexico And Central America Ex Hibited Every Stage Of Culture From The Brutish Coehind And Savage Seri To The Civilized Maya. Tarasco, Or Aztec, With Thou' Highly Developed Agriculture. Architecture. And Literature. From The Rio To Panama Some Thirty ...
Cephalic Index
Index, Cephalic, Cranial. Pelvic, Cte. A Term Employed By Anthropologists To Mark The Proportions Of Certain Related Parts Of The Lunnan Body. Especially Of The Head Or Cranium, In Order To Distinguish Biological Varieties In Mankind. The Most Important Of These, And The Easiest To Obtain, Is The Ratio Of ...
Charities
Charities. The Poor-law System Is Similar To That Described Under Title Great Britain For England And \vales. The Adult Able-bodied In Door Paupers In 1901 Numbered 49.17. And All Other Indoor Paupers Nurnhered 36.934. The Out Door Paupers For The Same Year Numbered 57,575, And The Number I If Inmates ...
Charles 1797 1878 Hodge
Hodge, Charles ( 1797-1878 ) . An American Presbyterian Theologian And Historian, Of Scotch Irish Descent. He Was Born In Philadelphia; Graduated At Princeton In 1815, And At The Theo Logical Seminary There In 1819. Became Assistant Professor In His Alma Mater The Following Year, And With The Exception Of ...
Christian Iconography
Christian Iconography. In The Early Chris Tian The Representations Were Few In Number And Quite Simple, Having Much Freedom To The Artist. They Embrared Subjects Like The "good Shepherd" And The Emblems Of Faith, Fa Miliar To All. In The Fourth And Fifth Centuries Iconography Became More Complicated. The Clergy ...
Christop11 W1l Beim 1762 1836
Hufeland, Christop11 W1l Beim ( 1762-1836). A German Physician, Horn At Langensalza In Thuringia. He Studied Medi Cine At Jena. And Giittingen, Was Professor Of Medicine At Jena From 1793 To 1798, Was Physi Cian In Ordinary At The Court Of Weimar, And Re Sided At Berlin From 1798, Where ...
Ciiaritadle And Penal Institutions
Ciiaritadle And Penal. Institutions. The Following Is A List Of The Correctional And Charita Ble Institutions Of The State, With Their Situations: The Average Number Of Inmates In The Ehari Table Institutions For The Two Years Ending In June, Dam, Was 9015. The Ordinary Expense To The State For The ...
Cilaiiles 1737 Is23 Hittton
Hitt'ton, Cilaiiles ( 1737-is23). A Self-edu Cated English Mathematician, Horn At Newcastle On-tyne, Of Humble Parentage. He Received Most Of His Education In A School At Jesmond, Where, At The Age Of Eighteen, He Became Master. The Number Of Pupils Having Increased, He, In 1760, Opened A Mathematical School In ...
Civil Law
Civil Law. In The Early Period Of The Roman Law The Power Of The Husband Over His Wife And Her Property Was Absolute, As The Patria Potestas. Whatever Property The Wife Acquired, Both Be After Marriage, Became The Property Of The Husband; But In Case The Wife Survived The Husband ...
Cjiristianity In India
Cjiristianity In India. With Reference To The Spread Of Christianity In Hindustan, As Men Tioned Above, It May Be Stated That India Was One Of The Earliest Fields Of Christian Missions. Tra Dition Assigns It As The Scene Of The Apostle Thomas's Labors And Martyrdom. Whether This Was The Case ...
Classification Of Mental Disease
Classification Of Mental Disease. .a. Mental Diseases Without Apparent Organic Lesions. I. Psychoneuroscs, In Healthy Brain. 1. Melancholia. A, Simple. B, With Delusions. C, With Agitation. D, With Stupor. 2. Mania. A, Simple. B, With Frenzy. 3. Confusional Insanity. 4. Stuporous Insanity. A, Simple. Primary Dementia. B, With Periods Of ...
Climate
Climate. On Account Of The Great Extent Of India And Its Differing Altitudes, The Country Has Many Differences Of Climate. The Whole Land May Be Described As More Or Less Tropical Except In The Higher Altitudes. Slopes Of The Hima Layas, As High A, They Are Habitable, Enjoy A Tem ...
Collection Of B Yimogra
Collection Of B Yimogra Mi 1 (2 Data. The Sources From Which Hydrographic Data Are Gath Ered Are Numerous. One Of The Most Important Is The System Of Surveys Made Directly By The Hydrographic Office (q.v.). Some Of The Objects Of These Surveys Are The Determination Of Depths For Mapping ...
Com Illx Instincts
Com I'llx Instincts, .k Complex Instinct Like That By The Higher Animals Is Generally Regarded As The Mingling Of Conseionsness, Or, As Loeb And Also Bello. Would Call It, Associatke Memory, With Reflex Acts. The Test Is The Ani Mal's Capacity For Learning Or For Being "trained To React In ...
Com Merce
Com Merce. Prom The Earliest Periods Of His Tory India Has Held High Rank In The Trade Of The World, Having Been A Large Producer Of Com Modities That Were Highly Prized In General Commerce. The Attempts Of Portugal. Rolland, And France To Secure Re The Largest Share Of India's ...
Commitment Of The Insane
Commitment Of The Insane To Asylums Or Hospitals, In Many Countries. And In Most Of The States In The Union, Special Safeguards Are Erected By Laws To Prevent The Confinement Of Sane People In Institutions For The Insane, As Well As To Secure To The Insane A Full Enjoyment Of ...
Composition
Composition. The Ores Of Iron Always Con Tain More Or Less Foreign Matter, And Only Ap Proximate The Metallic Content Required By The Chemical Formula; The Discrepancy Commonly Amounts To 10 Per Cent. Or More. As The Costs Of Handling And Treatment Per Ton Of Iron Are Indirectly Proportional To ...
Daniel Dunglas 1833 86 Home
Home, Daniel Dunglas (1833-86). A Scotch Spiritualist Medium, Born Near Edinburgh. He Was Descended On His Mother's Side From A High Land Family Noted For Its Gift Of 'second Sight' When A Child He Was Brought To The United States, And Before He Was Twenty He Was Widely Known As ...
Daniel Huntington
Huntington, Daniel ( 1816— ) . An American Historical, Genre, And Portrait Painter. He Was Horn In New York, October 14, 1816, And Was Educated At Hamilton College. In 1835 He Studied With Professor „alorse, And Later With Inman And Trumbull ; In 1839 He Visited Italy, Studying With Ferrero ...
Daniel I Hill
Hill, Daniel I I Arvey ( An Ameri Can Soldier In The Confederate Service. And An Educator. Born In South Carolina. Ile Graduated At \vest Point In 1812, And Served In The Alexiean War, For His Gallantry In Which He Was Brevetted Major. Ile Resigned In 1519. And Beeaine ;i ...
Debt
Debt. The Permanent Debt Of India Gradually Increased From £33.577,414 In 1842 To 151.327.958 In 1857, When It Rapidly Grew In Consequence Of The Indian Mutiny, And Stood In 1862 At £97. 037.062, And Gradually Increased To £205.323.315 In 1901. Of This Last Amount. F76.887.936 Was Held In India And ...
Defense
Defense. Military Service Is Obligatory Upon Every Able-bodied Citizen Between The Ages Of Eighteen And Forty. The Active Army Is Very Small, Being Estimated At Only About 500 Men. The Militia Numbers Over 40,000. The Population Of Llondnras Was 587,500 In 1900, Exclusive Of (uncivilized) In Dians. .nlost Of The ...
Defense_2
Defense. The Supremacy Of The British Sea Power Practically Guarantms India From Invasion Lit- Way Of The Sea, And The Himalaya Mountains Perform A Like Service For A Great Part Of The Northern Frontier. The Main Interest In The Defense Of India Centres About The Northwest Frontier, Which Is The ...
Disease Of Ti1e Hip Joint
Disease Of Ti1e Hip-joint. Hip-disease Dif Fers In So Many Points Of Importance From Other Joint-diseases, And I5 So Serious An Affection That It Requires A Special Notice. Its Connection With The Scrofulous Or Strumous Diathesis Is More Dis Tinctly Marked Than That Of Most Other Joint Diseases, And It ...
Diseases Of Tiie Eye
Diseases Of Tiie Eye. It Is Impossible To Over Estimate The Value Of Sound Eyes In A Horse, For Not Only Does Disease Or Injury Depreciate The Selling Price Of The Animal, Hut It Is A Great Source Of Danger At N11 Times. Some Diseases, Like Recurring Inflammation Or !noon-blindness, ...
Diseases Of The Stoniacii
Diseases Of The Stoniacii. ( 1 ) Stomach Staggers (see. Staggetts), Or Gorged Stomach (1111 Portion): Distention Of The Stomach Caused By Food, In Which The Stomach Loses The Power Of Con Tracting Upon Its Contents. (2) Tympanites Of The Stomaeh: A Disease Corresponding To That Of 'hoven' Or 'blown' ...
Dois
Doi.s. Description Of The Various Varieties Of Dogs Used In The Hunting Or Pursuit Of Game Will Be Found Under Field Dogs. Other Closely Related Articles Are Ga11 E-presimve ; 1 Orsf And I I Olisenia Nsii I I'. There Are Many Too Of Hunting. And Some Animals A Pursuit ...
Douglas Hyde
Hyde, Douglas (1860—). An Irish Scholar And Writer, Son Of The Rev. Arthur Hyde Of Frenchpark, County Roscommon. He Was Edu Cated At Trinity College, Dublin. In 1891 He Was Interim Professor Of Modern Languages In The State University Of New Brunswick, And He Was Afterwards Made Examiner In Celtic ...
Dress
Dress. Became Tribes Largely Made Up Of Hunters, The Dress Was Generally Of Skins, So Fashioned As To Combine The Greatest. Protective Warmth With The Least Ineumbratnce Of Weight_ From The Arctic Circle To The Rio Grande Or Far Ther, Except In California And The Adjacent Region, The Native Dress ...
Duty Of Water In
Duty Of Water In Irrigation. The Amount Of Water Required To Irrigate Different Crops Under Varying Conditions Is A Matter Of Fundamental Importance, Hut Has Never Been Very Accurately Determined. And There Is No Very Accurate Simple Means Of Judging When A Soil Needs Irrigation. The Term Duty Of Water ...
Dwellings And Tiouse Building
Dwellings And Tiouse-building. North Of The Pueblo Region The General House Plan May Ho Described As Circular. Among The Haida And Others Of The Alaskan Coast, And Extending Down To The Columbia, The Prevailing Type Was Of Boards, Painted With Symbolic Designs And With The Famous Heraldic Totem-poles. Carved From ...
Dyeing
Dyeing Went ]norco. As Indigo Blue I, Insolu Ble In Water, It Must First Be Converted Into Indigo White, Wide]] Is Soluble In Alkaline Liquids. This Ehange Is Produced By The Ehemieal Addition Of Hydrogen, So That The Blur, Goes Over Into The White, This Is Effeeted In (-old Vats. ...
Early History
Early History. Articles Of Stone, Bronze, And Iron Have Been Found Together On The Site Of The Swiss Lake Dwellings. But The Most Ancient Speci Mens Of Iron At Present Known Come From Egyp Tian And Assyrian Ruins. There Is In The British Museum A Piece Of Iron Taken From ...