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UTICA, a city and the county-seat of Oneida county, New York, U.S.A., on the Mohawk river, about 45 m. E. of Syracuse and about 85 m. W. of Albany. Pop. (1890) 44,007; (1900) 56,383, of whom 13,470 were foreign-born, including 3696 Germans, 2458 Irish, 1661 It ...

UTICA, a city of ancient Africa on the sinus Ulicensis, 1 55 m. N.W. of Carthage and Tunis, on the route from Carthage to Hippo Diarrhytus (Bizerta) and Hippo Regius (Bona). The modern marabout of Sidi Bu Shater, at the foot of Jebel Menzel el Gul, occupies th ...

... In recent times it is among the more progressive of. the sciences, because the new and improved methods of research now at command have found in its cultivation a field of practically unlimited extent, in which the lines of research may ultimately lead to a c ...

... he Rhone, the Ebro and the Po. The activity of the Rhone, indeed, as a maker of new land, is astonishing. The tower of St Louis, erected on the coast in 1737, is now upwards of four miles inland; the city of Aries is said to be nearly twice as far from the sea ...

... or telegraphic purposes is much older. It was suggested again and again as each new discovery in electricity and magnetism seemed to render it more feasible. Thus the discovery of Stephen Gray and of Granville Wheeler that the electrical influence of a charged ...

... sippi (Miss.), Missouri (Mo.), Montana (Mont.), Nebraska (Neb.), Nevada (Nev.), New Hampshire (N.H.), New Jersey (N.J.), New Mexico (N. Mex.), New York (N.Y.), North Carolina (N.C.), North Dakota (N. Dak.), Ohio(O.), Oklahoma (Okla.), Oregon (Oreg.), Pennsylva ...

... an two-thirds of the total output was from the low-grade porphyry ores mined at Newhouse, Beaver county, and at Bingham, Salt Lake county. There are copper smelters at Garfield, Copperton and Binghamton. An anti-smoke injunction in 1908 closed the furnaces in ...

ANTHON, CHARLES (1797-1867), American classical scholar, was born in New York city on the igth of November 1797. After graduating with honours at Columbia College in 1813, he began the study of law, and in 1819 was admitted to the bar, but never practised. In ...

... the daughter of Quakers. Soon after her birth, her family moved to the state of New York, and after 1845 she lived in Rochester. She received her early education in a school maintained by her father for his own and neighbours' children, and from the time she w ...

... saner spirit of practical morality. See L. Dyer, Studies of the Cods in Greece (New York, 1891); A. Chassang, Le Merveilleux dans I'antiquite (1882) ; D. M. Tredwell, Sketch of the Life of Apollonius of Tyana (New York, 1886); F. C. Baur, Apollonius von Tyana ...

... the United States and in Scotland, to those who in England are called " pharmaceutical chemists." The Apothecaries' Society of London is one of the corporations of that city, and both by royal charters and acts of parliament exercises the power of granting lic ...

... om the tanks. The water wasted or evaporated during this process is replaced by new water pumped into the cisterns directly from the sea. The water flows from the large cisterns into a smaller cistern, from which it is distributed by means of an electric pump ...

... r Lytton in his romance of Eugene Aram, was born of humble parents at Ramsgill, Yorkshire, in 1704. He received little education at school, but manifested an intense desire for learning. While still young, he married and settled as a schoolmaster at Netherdale ...

... e the months in various southern states. A like practice has been introduced in New Zealand. See N. H. Egleston, Arbor Day: Its History and Observance (Washington, 1896), Robert W. Furna*. Arbor Day (Lincoln, Neb., 1888), and R. H. Schauffler (cd.), Arbor Day ...

... Geometry from Tholes to Euclid (1889); Florian Cajori, History oj Mathematics (New York, 1894) ; M. Cantor, Gesch. d. gr. Math. [1894 foil.). The mathematical fragments are collected by Fr. Blass, Melanges Graux (Paris, 1884). For Pythagorean mathematics see ...

... 1869 foreign-born); (1910) 7194. It is served by the Delaware & Hudson, and the New York, Ontario & Western railways, and by an interurban electric line. It is about 900 ft. above sea-level; in the vicinity are extensive deposits of anthracite coal, the mining ...

... England " and metropolitan of the province of Canterbury, and the archbishop of York, who is" primate of England " and metropolitan of the province of York. The jurisdiction of the archbishop of Canterbury as primate of all England extends in certain matters i ...

... he royal title and the semblance of power, while the real authority passes into new hands. In Athens, the new civil office is vested in the old royal family, while the old title along with its religious functions is transferred. The early history of the thesmo ...

... ith Persia seem to have been friendly. About 470 the conflict with Sparta was renewed in concert with the Arcadians, but all that the Argives could achieve was to destroy their revolted dependencies of Mycenae and Tiryns (468 or 464). In 461 they contracted an ...

... 's further great victory on the isth of August at Kilsyth, whence he escaped to Newcastle. Argyll was at last delivered from his formidable antagonist by Montrose's final defeat at Philiphaugh on the 1 2th of September. In 1646 he was sent to negotiate with th ...

... RTH (1832-1901), American merchant and philanthropist, was born in Stockbridge, New York, on the i6th of May 1832. He was educated at Cazenovia Academy, Cazenovia, N.Y., worked for several years on his father's farm, and in 1852 with a small party went overlan ...

... ce: " Great praise be given to God and little laud to the devil," and after the news of the rebellion in Scotland in 1637 he greeted Laud on his way to the council chamber at Whitehall with: " Who's fool now ? Does not your 59' Grace hear the news from Stirlin ...

... ntent to injure or defraud must be shown, e.g. when the property is insured. In New York one who wilfully burns property (including a vessel or its cargo) with intent to defraud or prejudice the insurer thereof, though the offence of arson is not committed, is ...

... nto the colonies only three years before, numbered scarcely 300. Asbury infused new life into the movement, and within a year the membership of the several congregations was more than doubled. In 1772 he was appointed by Wesley " general assistant " in charge ...

... ebel, was a country gentleman who belonged to an ancient family long settled in Yorkshire, his mother being a daughter of John, Lord Clifford. When in 1536 the insurrection called the " Pilgrimage of Grace " broke out in Yorkshire, Aske was made leader; and ma ...

... heodora (1899); R. Hamerling, Aspasia (a romance; Eng. trans, by M. J. Safford, New York, 1882) ; J. Donaldson, Woman (1907). Also PERICLES.

... How far the more serious claim is likely to be revived in connexion with the renewal of research into the " occult " sciences generally, it is still too early to speculate; and it has to be recognized that such a point of view is opposed to the generally esta ...

... igood exercise and laudable solace." It is probable that the disciples of the " new learning," who had become prominent in Sir Thomas's time, endeavoured to combat the influence of athletic exercises, their point of view being exemplified by the dictum of Roge ...

ATLANTIC CITY, a city of Atlantic county, New Jersey, U.S.A., on the Atlantic Ocean, 58 m. S.E. of Philadelphia and 137 m. S. by W. of New York. Pop. (1800) 13,055; ('9°°) 27,838, of whom 6513 were of negro descent and 3189 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 46, ...

... rter dates only from 1869. AUBURN, a city and the county-seat of Cayuga county. New York, U.S.A., 25 m. S.W. of Syracuse, on an outlet of Owasco Lake. Pop. (1890) 25,858; (1900) 30,345, of whom 5436 were foreign-born, 2084 being from Ireland and 1023 from Engl ...

AUCHMUTY. SIR SAMUBL (1756-1812). Hritish general. was born at New York in 1756, and served as a loyalist in the American War of Independence, being given an cnsigncy in the royal army in 1777. and in 1778 a lieutenancy in the 45th- Foot, without purchase. Whe ...

... in August 1350 took part in the naval fight off Sluys. When hostilities were renewed between England and France in 1354 Sir James was in constant attendance upon the Black Prince, and earned a great reputation for valour. At the battle of Poitiers on the igth ...

... to various parts of the United States and Canada for the purpose of collecting new material. In 1842 he bought an estate on the Hudson, now Audubon Park in New York City. In 1844 he published in America a popular octavo edition of his Birds of A merit a. He a ...

... e foundation of the regime under which the mass of American Jews (excepting the newly arrived Russians) now worship. In 1858 he published his revised prayer book, which has formed the model for all subsequent revisions. In 1 86 1 be strongly supported the anti ...

... , c. 170. ss. 19 et seq.; Manitoba, Rev. Stats. 1902, c. 1903). In others (e.g. New Zealand, Act. No. 55 of 1893, ss- I7S"I87; British Columbia, Revised Statutes, 1897, c. 182; Cyprus, Ord. 15 of 1895) there has been legislation similar to the Small Tenements ...

... attract the needle of the versorium (see ELECTROSCOPE). Robert Boyle added many new facts and gave an account of them in his book, The Origin of Electricity. He showed that the attraction between the rubbed body and the test object is mutual. Otto von Guericke ...

ELMIRA, a city and the county-seat of Chemung county, New York, U.S.A., 100 m. S.E. of Rochester, on the Chemung river, about 850 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1800) 30,893; (1900) 35,672, of whom 5511 were foreign-born (1988 Irish and 1208 German); (1910 census) ...

... ssachusetts, on the 25th of May 1 803. Seven of his ancestors were ministers of New England churches. Among them were some of those men of mark who made the backbone of the American character: the sturdy Puritan, Peter Bulkeley, sometime rector of Odell in Bed ...

... y country." In 1836 he became attached to the Geological Survey of the State of New York, and after lengthened study he grouped the local strata (1842) into the Taconic and overlying New York systems. The latter system was subdivided into several groups that w ...

... s other examples. Endogamy seems to have existed in the Sandwich Islands and in New Zealand. A community of Javans near Surabaya, on the Teugger Hills, numbering about 1200 persons, distributed in about forty villages, and still following the ancient Hindu rel ...