Facial Paralysis
Facial Paralysis, Although Locally Affecting But A Small Part Of The Body, Is Of Such Frequent Occurrence As To Require Separate Description. In This Affection There Is More Or Less Perfect Loss Of Power Over All The Muscles Supplied By The Portio Jura Or Facial Nerve. This Interference With The ...
Facies Development And Bionomy
Facies Development And Bionomy. Facies Is The Combination Of Physical And Biological Char Acteristics Exhibited By A Geological Formation At A Particular Point. These Are Determined At The Present Time By Climate, Depth, Tides, Nature Of Medium, Distance From Shore. Etc. (see Dis Tribution Of Animals; Ecology; Fauna; Flora), And ...
Facts And Principles
Facts And Principles. The Extinct Flora Of The Earth, As Evidenced By Its Fo--il Re Mains, Was Gradually Evolved From Simple Forms Low In The Scale Of Life Into Forms More And More Complex And Higher In The Scale. Each Subkingdom. Class, Order. Or Other Sub Division Of The Vegetable ...
Fauna
Fauna. The Islands Are Poor In Indigenous Mammals. The Most Important Animal Is The Earabao Or Water Buffalo, Which Is Caught Young, Tamed, And Universally Employed As A Draught Animal, While His Tough Flesh Is Valued By The Natives As Meat. He Is Usually Docile. But Is Slow And Lazy ...
Finance
Finance. The Revenue Is Almost Wholly Ob Tained From Customs Dues. Stamp Duties, Pat Ents, Harbor Duties, Postal Charges, And The Like Are So Moderate That They Are No Appreciable Burden Upon The People. The Revenues And Ex Penditures Are Small When Compared With Those Of Most Other Countries. The ...
Finance_2
Finance. The.maintenance Of So Many Institu Tions Involves, Naturally, A Great Annual Expense, And Their Municipalization Has Required The Con Traction Of Large Loans. The Budget Of Paris For ]901 Amounted To 31-6000.000 Francs, Of Which More Than A Third, 113,000,000, Went For Pay Ments On The Public Debt. It ...
Finances
Finances. 'rile L'onstitution Prohibits The Leg Islature From Contracting Any State Debt Exceed Ing $50,000, Or Assuming The Debt Of Any County, Town. Or Corporation, Except For Purposes Of War Or To Suppress An Insurrection. Debts To The Funount Of 8237,000 Were Contracted In 1864 In Order To Pay Bounties ...
Finances_2
Finances. The First Direct State Tax Was Levied In 1785, But Was Discontinued In 1789. Taxes Were Very Unpopular And The State Pected To Cover Its Expenditures By Income From Public Property, Sale Of Public Lands, Etc. Some Taxes Were Introduced In The Beginning Of The Nineteenth Century, But In ...
Fisheries Od
Fisheries. Od A Rio Shares With The United States In The Fishing Advantages Of The Great Lakes.. The Value Of The Annual Catch Has Beet Above $2,500,000, About One-fourth The Product Hieing Exported. Trout, Whitefish, Herring, And Piekerel, In The Order Named, Are The Most Impor Tant. This, The Leading ...
Forist And Forest Products
Forist And Forest Products. The Forests Of Oregon Are Scarcely Exeeetled In Extent And Value By Those Of Any Other State. Except Fur Limited Districts Already Cleared, Almost The Whole Of The Region Included Between The Coast Range And The Western Slope Of The Cascades Is Covered With Forests, As ...
Fountain Pens
Fountain Pens. A Fountain Pen Is One Having An Ink Barrel In The Holder Which Supplies Ink As Required By Means Of An Automatic Feed. Foun Tain Pens Were Manufactured In England As Early As 1833. Hut They Did Not Attain Any Great Degree Of Success. In The Schaeffer Pen ...
Francis Landes Patton
Pat'ton, Francis Landes.' (1843—) . American Clergyman And Educator. He Was Born At Warwick. Bermuda. He Studied At Knox College, Of The University Of 'toronto, And At Princeton Seminary, New Jersey. He Was Or Dained To The Ministry In 1865, And After Hold Ing Several Pastorates Was, In 1871, Appointed ...
Franoe And Germany
Franoe And Germany. In Southern France The Pastoral Love Song Goes Back To The Twelfth Century. At The Outset This Kind Of Poetry Be Longed To The Country Folk. Who Sang It Especially In Slay. Hut As Early As Marcabru The Pastoral Is Already An Artistic Form And Becomes Stereo ...
General Description
General Description. Peking Consists Of Two Parts Of Different Shapes, Sizes, And Dates: The Tatar Or City, Which Lies To The North, And The Chinese Or City, Which Adjoins The Other On The South, The South Wall Of The Tatar City Forming The Main Part Of The Mirth Wall Of ...
General Pathology
General Pathology. Of Prime Importance To The Pathologist Is The Study Of Disorders Of Circu Lation, Whether (1) Hyperwmia, Arising From Ex Cess Of Supply Or Diminished Escape Of Supply Of Blood; Or (2) A Decrease Of Supply Of Arterial Blood; O• (3) Hemorrhage. (see Bleed Ing) ; Or (4) ...
Geology
Geology. The Great Arcluean Belt Which Forms The Entire Eastern Flank Of The Appalachian System From Alabama To Canada Crosses The Southeastern Corner Of The State In A Band About 50 Miles Wide And Consisting Chiefly Of Gneisses With Tracts Of Serpentine. It Is Exposed In Two Sections. One Ending ...
George 1795 1869 Peabody
Peabody, George ( 1795-1869 ) . An Ameri Can Merchant And Philanthropist, Born February 15, 1795, In A Parish Of Danvers, Mass. (now Known As Peabody). Dependent Upon Himself For Support, He Went At The Age Of Sixteen Or Seventeen To Georgetown, D. C., Where, In 1813, Be Became Associated ...
George Hunt 1325 89 Pendleton
Pendleton, George Hunt (1325-89). An American Lawyer, Legislator, And Civil-service Re Former, Born In Cincinnati, (mm. Lie Studied Law, Was Admitted To The Bar In Ohio, And Became Distinguished In His Profession. He Was A Mem Ber Of The State Senate In 1354-55: Was Elected To Congress In 1356: And ...
Giovanni Bat Tista Pergolese
Pergolese, Giovanni Bat Tista (c.1710-36). An Eminent Composer Of The Neapolitan School. Evidence Regarding The Date And Place Of His Birth Is Conflicting: Probably The Correct Account Is That Of The :marchese Di Vii Larosa, His Biographer, Who States That He Was Born At .jeri, Near Ancona. In 1717 He ...
Giovanni Pierixigi Da Palestrina
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierixigi Da (c.1524-94).) A Great Italian Composer. Lle Was Horn In A Small Town Southeast Of Rome Called Palestrina. His Real Name And The Con Dition Of His Parents In Life Are As Uncertain As Is The Correct Year Of His Birth. The Late Of His Birth Is ...
Government
Government. For Political Purposes The Re Public Of Peru Is Divided Into 17 Departments And 2 Provinces (callao And Aloquegua), And These Departments In Turn Are Subdivided Into 90 Prov Inces. The Present Constitution, Based On That Of The United States, Was Proclaimed In 1856 And Revised Four Years Later. ...
Government_2
Government. The Executive Branch Of The Government Is Of A Dual Nature, Consisting Of County And Municipal Departments. The Municipal Form Of Government Is Provided For By The Pul Litt Bill, Act Of June 1, 1855, Amended April, 1903, The Basic Elements Of Which Are Concen Tration Of Authority In ...
Greek Art
Greek Art.) There Are Traditions Of Corinthian And Sicyonian Painters, Nvito Drew Outlines On Walls Or Whitened Tablets Of Clay By The Aid Of Shadows, And Indicated Details By A Few Lines, But Used Only One Color. There Are Also Records Of Paintings Which Would Carry Hack The Art Into ...
Greek Palimpsests
Greek Palimpsests. Among These, The First Place In Importance Belongs To The Biblical Pa Limpsests, The Earliest Of Which Was Fragments Of The Gospel Of Naha Matthew, In Fae-simile As Well As In Ordinary Type, Printed From A Palimp Sest Manuscript Of Trinity College, Dublin, By Barrett (dublin, 1801). The ...
Henry Palmerston
Palmerston, Henry .ions Temple, Third Viscount (1784-18(i5). A Vele 1,ra Ted English Statesman. He Was Horn In Hampshire, (k-tober 20. 1784. A Of An Old And Historic Family. Receiving His Early Education At Home Under An Italian Refugee And At Harrow, Pahnerston Studied Later In The Uni Versity Of Edinburgh, ...
History
History. Before 1836 The Region Between The Vaal And Orange Rivers Was A Wilderness. In Habited By Wandering Hands Of Bushmen And Broken Tribes Of Refugees From The Armies Of The Great Zulu Rulers. Chaka, Dingaan, And Slaseli Kutse. In 1s36 There Was A Great Emigration Of Boers From Cape ...
History
History. Little Is Clearly Ascertainable Regard Ing The Early History Of The Peruvian Empire, And The Lists Given Of Its Early Sovereigns Are By No Means To Be Trusted. Almost All We Know Of Their Early History Is Derived From The Traditions Of The People, Collected By The Early Spaniards. ...
History Of Pauperism
History Of Pauperism. On Account Of The Simplicity Of Their Economic Life, Great Poverty Was Rare Among The Jews. The Care Of The Poor Was Left To Custom And Religion. The Gleaning Of The Olive And Vine Orchards And Of Grain Fields Belonged To The Widows And Orphans. (dent. Xiv. ...
History Of Physics
History Of Physics. It Is Remarkable To Note How Few Facts Other Than Obvious Ones Were Known To The Ancients In Regard To Nature And Also To Find How Few Instrunients Were Available For Wlmt May Be Called Scientific Observation Beyond A Doubt Simple Forms Of Instruments Were Known For ...
History_2
History. Paleobotany. As A Science, Is Prac Tically A Product Of The Nineteenth Century. Al Though A Number Of Writers On Natural History, Agricola. Albertus Magnus. S[atthiolus. Gesner, And Others, Had Long Previously Described Petri Fled Wood In Common With Other Fossils And Min Erals. Leaf Impressions, However, Do Not ...
History_3
History. The Native Inhabitants Of The Re Gion Above The Junction Of The Parana And The Paraguay Rivers Belong To The Warlike Race Of The Guarani (q.v.). The Country Was First Explored In 1527-28 By Sebastian Cabot, Who Made His Way For Several Hundred Miles Up The Course Of These ...
History_4
History. The Earliest Notiee Of Paris Occurs In •julius Caesar's Rommentnries. In Which It Is Described, Under The Name Of Lartetia. As A Collec Tion Of Mud Huts, The Chief Settlement Of The Parisii, A Gallic Tribe Conquered By The Romans. The Ruins Of The Palatium Thermarum Ip:dais Des Thermes), ...
History_5
History. Knowledge Of Perspective In All Its Branches Is Comparatively Modern. Oriental Art Knew Nothing Of Any Branch. A Glance At Egyptian And Assyrian Relief- Shows That The Most Elementary Principles Were Ignored. Buildings And Trees Were Laid Flat On The Ground Or Stood Up In Front View; The Figures ...
History_6
History. Petroleum Has Long Been Known In Various Parts Of The World By Its Appearance In The Form Of Bituminous Springs Or As A Floating Scum On The Surface Of Pools. It Was Used At A Very Early Period In The Walls Of Babylon And Nine Veh, And Herodotus Has ...
Holland
Holland. Dutch Painting Differed From That Of Other Countries In That It Was Bourgeois In Stead Of Aristocratic. Its Prime Object Was The Decoration Of The Home, And It Consequently Pro Duced Chiefly The Small Panel Pictures. Begin Ning With Portraits, Dutch Painting Developed In Every Direction, Genre, Landscape. Cattle, ...
Hpit M Smoking
Hpit M-smoking Is A Habit That Is Chiefly Con Fined To China And The Islands Of The Indian Archipelago. An Extract, Called Chomloo, Is Made Into Pills About The Size Of A Pea. One Of These Pills Is Put Into The Small Cup At One End Of The Opium Pipe; ...
Hydrography
Hydrography. In The Smaller And Narrower Islands The Mountain Chain Which Is The Back Bone Of Each Island Is The Great Central Water Parting, Streams Flowing To The Sea On Either Side Of It In Short, Straight Courses. :mindoro, For Example. Has About 60 Independent Little Rivers. The Drainage Of ...
Hydrograpiiy
Hydrograpiiy. The Dry West And The Rainy East Of Peru Naturally Produce A Striking Con Trast Between The Hydrographie Aspects Of The Western And Eastern Slopes Of The Country. Only Feeble Streams Flow To The Pacific, And Most Of Them Are Lost In The Desert Or Their Waters Are Wholly ...
Illegitimate Children
Illegitimate Children. In Strictness Of Law An Illegitimate Child, That Is, One Born Out Of Wedlock, Has No Parent, And Consequently He Has No Rights As Against His Natural Parents, And They Owe Him No Corresponding Obligation. Nat Ural Parents At Common Law Were, Therefore. Not Bound To Support Their ...
In Plants
In Plants. Among Plants An Embryo Is Fre Quently Formed By A Budding Outgrowth Front Tissues Outside Of The Egg. And To Such A Phenom Enon The Term Parthenogenesis Has Often Been Wrongly Applied. The General Term Covering All Cases Of The Appearance Of Enihryos Without Fer When That Process ...
Indic
Indic. Sanskrit And The Pre-sanskrit Vedic Language. The Former Name Is Often Made To Cover Both Divisions, Ina, Like English In Relation To Anglo-saxon, Though Conveniently Used, It Is Not Accurate. There Was No Sanskrit Language Till After The Vedic Period. Whether Sanskrit Is Derived From The Vedic May Be ...
Indoor Exercise
Indoor Exercise. Sp:irrillg Is Perhaps The Hest Of Indoor Games. It Is A Most Admirable Exercise. It Use; All The Muscles Of All Parts Of The Body. The Swaying Of The Trunk, The Quick Movements Required In All The Leg Muscles, The Variety Of Moveutellts About The Arms, Neck, Back, ...
Intaglio
Intaglio Plioto-engraving. This Is Known By The General Mime Photogravure, A French Term Generally Accepted In All Languages. Hello Gravure Is A Term Iviiich May Be Taken As The Equivalent Of Photogravure, Varying In Meaning As Does That Inure General Term: But At Different Times The Name Heliog,ravure Has Been ...
Isthmus Of Panama
Panama, Isthmus Of. A Narrow Strip Of Land Extending Between The Southern End Of The Active Volcanic Region Of Central America And The Northern Termination Of The Andes (map: Central America, 0 6). Its Outline Is That Of A Gentle Are Stretching In An East And West Direc Tion, Its ...
Italy
Italy. In The Free Cities Of Italy, Especially In Those Of Gothic Painting Reached Its Highest Development. Here Gothic Architecture Was Purely Decorative In Character, And Left Large Wall Surfaces Which Afforded Ample Oppor Tunity For Paintings. • The Technique Used Was Fresco (q.v.). About The Middle Of The Thir ...
Italy_2
Italy. Toward The End Of The Sixteenth Cen Tury The Reaction Against Mannerism Hecame Manifest In Two Widely Different Schools: The Eclectic And The Naturalistic. While Not Neglecting The Study Of The Antique And Of Na Ture, The Eclectics Sought To Combine The Excel Lence Of All Schools: Miehclangelo's Line, ...
Italy_3
Italy. The Pastoral Of The Renaissance Did Not Spring From Vergil Alone. To It Contributed The Pastourelles, Love Songs With A Rustic Set Ting. Which Were Cultivated In Various Countries Of Southern Europe In The Thirteenth Century. They Especially Flourished In Provence. As Early As The Twelfth Century, Whence They ...
Ivan Feodoro Itch Paskevitch
Paskevitch, Ivan Feodoro 'itch, Count Of Erivan, Prince Of Warsaw ( 1782 1856). A Russian Field-marshal, Born At Poltava. Ile Belonged To A Polish Family, Was A Page Of The Emperor Paul, And, Entering The Army In 1800, Served In The Campaign Of Austerlitz. He Fought Subsequently Against The Turks. ...
James 1725 83 Otis
Otis, James ( 1725-83 ) . An American States Man Of The Revolutionary Period. He Was Born. February 5, 1725, At West Barnstable, Mass.; Graduated At Harvard In 1743, And Studied Law In The Office Of Jeremiah Gridley. He Practiced For Two Years At Plymouth, But Settled In 1748 In ...
Johann Friedrich 17891569
Overbeck, Johann Friedrich ( 1789 1569). A German Historical Painter, The Leader Of The Revival Of Christian Art In The Nineteenth Century. Ile Was Horn At Ltilteek. Joh- 4. 1789. Re Ceived A Careful Education. And In 1806 Went To Vienna To Study At The Academy. His Opposition To The ...
John 1611 85 Pell
Pell, John (1611-85). An English Mathe Matician, Horn At Southwick. In Sussex. Lie Was Educated At Steyning And At Trinity College, Cambridge. He Was A Remarkable Student. Hav Ing At The Age Of Twenty Mastered Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Italian, French, Spanish, And Dutch, And Having Shown Much Proficiency In ...
John 1613 86 Pearson
Pearson, John ( 1613-86 ) . An English Prelate Of High Celebrity. He Was Horn On Feb Ruary 2s At Great Snoring, In Norfolk. Fie Was Educated At Eton And King's College. Cambridge, Where He Took The Degree Of M.a. In 1639. And In The Same Year Took Orders, And ...
John Gorham 1790 18s1
Palfrey, John Gorham ( 1 790-18s1 ). An American Theologian And Historian. 11e Was Born In Boston. Slay 2. 1796, Graduated At Har Vard In 1815, And Studied For The Ministry. In Isis He Was Called To The Pulpit Of The Brattle Street Church (congregational-unitarian). Bos Ton, And In 1831 ...
John Grubb 1827 1900parke
Parke, John Grubb ( 1827-1900). An American Soldier, Horn In Chester County, Pa. He Graduated At \vest Point In 1849, And Was Assigned To The Topographical Engineers. From 1857 Until The Outbreak Of The Civil War He Was Engaged In Surveying The Northwest Boundary. Do 1861 He Was Commissioned Brigadier-general ...
John Howard 1791 1852payne
Payne, John Howard ( 1791-1852). An American Actor And Playwright; Best Known, However, As The Author Of Home, Sircut Llon/c. Born In New York, Be Lived In Childhood At East Hampton, L. I. Payne Showed Great Precocity. At Thirteen Years While A Clerk In A Mer Cantile House In New ...
John Punnett Peters
Peters, John Punnett An M I Ameriean Clergyman And Orientalist, Born In Neav York City. Ile Graduated At Yale (1873), And Studied At Berlin And At Leipzig. He Became Professor Of Old Testament Languages And Litera Ture At The Protestant Episcopal Divinity School In Philadelphia (1884) And Professor Of Hebrew ...
Jolin 1s17 6
Jolin (1s17-6; ). A Scotch Genre And Portrait Painter. He Was Born At Aberdeen. April 19, 1817. His Boyhood Was Spent In Pov Erty, But His Remarkable Talent Attracted The At Tention Of Lord Panmure, Who Enabled Him To Study At The Royal Academy. He At First Painted Scotch Genre ...
Joseph 1830 1902 Parker
Parker, Joseph ( 1830-1902 ) . An English Congregational Clergyman. He Was Born At Hexham, Northumberland. Ile Had Little Train Ing In The Schools, But Read Much. In 1852 He Attended Classes It Univer•.sity College, Lon Don. In 1553 He Became Pastor Of The Congrega Tional Chapel At Banbury, And ...
Karareorgevitcii Peter I
Peter I., Karareorgevitcii (1846— ). King Of Servia. He Was Born At Belgrade In 1846. His Grandfather Was George Petrovitch, Known As Kara (black) Or Czerny George (q.v.). Who Led The Servians In Their Struggle For Inde Pendence Against The Turks, And In 1812 Was I Recognized By The Sultan ...
King Philip
Philip, King ( A Famous Indian Chief. Son Of Massasoit : Called By The English King Philip, Though His Indian Name Was Meta Comet. He Became Sachem Of The Wampanoags, Who Were Settled In The Rhode Island Country In 1662. And In The Same Year Went To Plymouth And Promised ...
Lahe Ontario
Ontario, Lahe. The Most Eastern And The Smallest Of The Five Great Lakes Of North America. It Lies Between Latitudes 43° 10' And 44° 8' N., And Longitudes 76° 30' And So° W., And Is En Closed By The Canadian Province Of Ontario And New York State (map: United Stales, ...
Latin
Latin I'saleogdray. In Studying The History Of Latin Paleography, We Begin With Majuscule Writing As Found In The Earliest Latin Manu Scripts Extant, Such As The Vergil Of The Fourth Century. Uncials Described Above May Be Recog Nized In Latin Paleography By The Letters E And M, And Also By ...
Latin Palimpsests
Latin Palimpsests. The First Fragment Of Latin Literature Printed From A Palimpsest Origi Nal Is The Portion Of The Ninety-first Book Of Liry Already Referred To, Published At Hamburg And Also At Rome In 1773. It Was Reedited In A More Complete Form By Niebuhr In 1820. Of The Latin ...
Law As Oysters
Oysters, Law As To. Oysters Are Classed With Animals Ferry Nnturre (of A Wild Nature). And, Therefore, In Their Wild State May Be Gath Ered By Any One When They Are Located On Land Under Navigable Waters. In England The Eulti Vation Of Oysters Has Been Protected And Encour Aged ...
Legitimate Children
Legitimate Children. The Parents Mire The Legal As Well As The Natural Guardians And Pro Tectors Of The Child. They Have The Legal Right To Name The Child And Are Entitled To His Custody. As Such Eustodbins, They Or Persons In Loci, Pa Rudis May Reasonably Chastise The Child, But ...
Limited Partnerships
Limited Partnerships. This Species Was Intro Duced Into This Country From The Law• Of France. It Has Never Gained A Foothold In England, Al Though Strenuous Efforts Were Made To Develop It There After It Had Proved Successful With Us. Such Efforts Have Ceased Since The Organization Of Joint-stock Companies ...
Louis Philippe Paris
Paris, Louis Philippe D'orlf:ans, Count Of (1838-94). Pretender To The Crown Of France. He Was Born In Paris, August 24, 1838, Being The Eldest Son Of Ferdinand. Duke Of Orleans, And Grandson Of Louis Philippe. On The Death Of His Father In 1842 The Count Of Paris Became The French ...
Manifesto
Manifesto. A Dispatch Drawn At Ostend, October 9, 1854, And Signed By James Buchanan, John Y. Alason, And Pierre Souks, At That Time The 'united States 'ministers To Great Britain, France. And Spain Respectively, Declaring That The Sale Of Cuba Would Be As Ad Vantageous And Honorable To Spain As ...
Mark 1813 S4 Pattison
Pattison, Mark (1813-s4). An English Scholar And Writer, Born At Haukswt'll, York Shire. He Was Educated At Oriel College. Ox Ford (b.a., 1836; M.a., 1840). Ile Translated The "saint Matthew" From Thomas Aquinas's Ca Tena A Urea On The Gospels For Newman (written. 1839; Printed, 1s42), And Also Contributed Bi ...
Martin 1597 1639 Opitz
Opitz, Martin (1597-1639). A Ger Man Poet End Literary Reformer, Born At Bunzlan, Silesin, December 23, 1597. He Studied Nt Frankfort-on-the-gder And At Heidelberg; Visited, With His Friend Llandlton, A Dane, The Nether Lands And .jutland (1620) : Returned To Silesia (1621) : Occupied Various Subordinate Confiden Tial Posts At ...
Materials
Materials. The Materials Used By Mankind For Purposes Of Writiml Have Varied Much. Leaves And Bark Were Employed In A Primitive State Of Society. Linen Was Used By The Egyptians And By The Romans For Their Religious Books. Was Inscribed Or Stamped By The People Of Baby Lonia. Assyria. And ...
Matthew 1504 75 Parker
Parker, Matthew (1504-75). The Second Protestant Ar•c•hbishop Of Canterbury. -le Was Born At Norwich, August 6. 1504, Studied At Corpus Christi College. Cambridge. And Was Or Dained A Priest In 1527. At The University He Was A Distinguished Student, And Was From An Early Period Favorably Disposed Toward The Doc ...
Metagenesis
.metagenesis. Mk 04111 Was Proposed By ()wen Iu 1848 In His Parthrnogencsis, And After Wards More Fully In His Lecfaris On The Compara Tive Anatomy End Physiology Of The In R, Rl, Brat" .tnimals (london, 1855). Llis Examples Are The Alternation Of Generations Of The Distomes. The Hydroids, Medustr, And ...
Method Of Manufacture
Method Of Manufacture. The Familiar Lead Pencil Of Every-day Use Consists Of A Round Or Polygonal Stick Of Graphite Mixed With Clay, Surrounded By A Cedar Case. The Graphite Is First Reduced To An Impalpable Powder By Grind Ing. Water Is Then Added And The Substance Is Run Through Mixers ...
Military Pensions In The
Military Pensions In The United States. The System Of Military Pensions In The United States Had Its Germ In The Colonial Epoch. The Necessity Of Calling Upon The Inhabitants For Armed Defense Against The Indians And Other Foes • Seemed To Impose The Necessity Of Providing At Public Expense For ...
Mining
Mining. No State In The Union Compares With Pennsylvania As To Mining. Its Mineral Wealth Has Been In A Large Measure The Basis Of Its Di Versified And Highly Developed Industrial Life. The Annual Output Of Coal Alone Exceeds In Value The Total Mineral Product Of Any Other State, And ...
Mining And Transportation Of
Mining And Transportation Of Petroleum. The Modern Method Of Drilling For Petroleum Is Similar To That Used In Sinking Gas And Artesian Well.. The Most Prominent Feature Of The Drilling Outfit Is The Derrick, Which Is A Tall, Pyra Mid-like Wooden Frame About 75 Feet High, 12 Feet Square At ...
Mobile Carriages
Mobile Carriages. Carriages For Field Guns And Howitzers And For Siege Guns And Howitzers Differ In Detail And Size, While The Same In Prin Ciple. Siege Carriages Are Generally High Enough To Fire Over A Five-foot Or Six-foot Parapet. And Much Heavier Than Field Carriages Because Of The Greater Energy ...
Modern British Periodicals
Modern British Periodicals. From The Be Ginning Of The Eighteenth Century New Periodicals Have Appeared In These And In Other Countries In Ever-increasing Numbers And Diversity. In Eng Land, Daniel Defoe Began In 1704 .1 Ficricir Of The Affair& Of France And Of All Europe, As In Fluenced By That ...
Modern European Law
Modern European Law. In Modern European Law Maternity Is Purely A Question Of Fact ; Pa Ternity Is Based On The Presumption That The Child Born Or Conceived In Wedlock Is The Hus Band's Child, But Proof Of The Contrary Is Per Mitted. The Child Born Out Of Wedlock, If ...
Modern French Periodicals
:modern French Periodicals. In France The Periodicals Originating In The Eighteenth Century Begin With Jb'woircs Pour Set-1* I1 L'histoire Des Sciences Et Des Arts (1701-67), Founded By The Jesuit Michel Le Tellier And Philippe Laileman At Tri-voux (whence It Is Known As The Journal De Tri'vouxi: It Gained A High ...
Modern Paitinc
Modern Pai\tinc. Fnaxcr.. Owing To The Intelligent Patronage Of The State, As Well As To The Artistic Character Of The People, The Hegemony In The Fine Arts In The Nineteenth Century, Especially In Painting. Belonged To France. Here The Epoch-making Movements In Its Development Hare Originated. And The Chief Representatives ...
Modern Tendencies
Modern Tendencies. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Must Be Consid Ered First Of All. He Began His Career When Italy Was Still Absorbing The Melodic Treacle That Flowed From The Of Donizetti And Bellini, And Lie Closed It Two Decades After Richard Wag Ner Had Died. He Was A Most Prolific Writer ...
Mohammedan Persia
Mohammedan Persia. Two Centuries After The Mohammedan Conquest Persia Not Only Recovered Its Artistic Supremacy, But Enlarged Its Influence By Dominating The Caliphate Of Bagdad. But Of This Period Almost Nothing Remains. L'ersia Was Then Overrun By Tatars Mud Mongols, Whose In Thienee Modified The Purer Native Nolminmedan Ism. Persian ...
Nervous Tissue
Nervous Tissue. The Nervous Tissue Is Found In The Brain, The Spinal Cord, The Nerve Ganglia Of The Sympathetic System, And The Peripheral Nerves Or Nerve Trunks Distributed Throughout The Body. The Nerve Tissue Consists Of Nerve Cells And Their Processes. The Body Of The Cell Lies In The Nerve ...
Nner Relation
Nner Relation. [laying Thus Sketched The Geography Of These Parts Of The Indo-enfo Pean Languages, We Must Next Inquire Whether Any Of These Parts Hold To Each Other Especially Close Relations. Much That Here Seems Obvious Shows Itself To He Misleading. Thus Latin Is Often Regarded As Standing In A ...
Of Peter Of Amiens
Peter Ties Hermit, Of Peter Of Amiens (e.1050-1115). The Preacher Of The First Crusade. He Was Horn In The City Or At Least In The Diocese Of Amiens About 1050. The Stories Told Of His Early- Life, That He Was A Sohlier. Married, And Had Several Children. Are Fictitious. It ...