Books › Crown Encyclopedia and gazetteer, 1903 › scan 536
Scan 536
Crown Encyclopedia and gazetteer, 1903
30 lines. Read by computer on 19 September 2026. Printed page 1138. See the scan on archive.org.
1Wales a reward of $50,000. In 1855, one year after his return to England, he published "Australia and Its Goldfields."
3Hargreaves, James, an English inventor; born probably in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. He invented the spinning-jenny, but his fellow-spinners, imbued with strong prejudices against machinery, broke into his house and destroyed his frame. He then removed to Nottingham (1767), where he erected a spinning mill. He died April 22, 1778.
5Hargrove, Robert Kennon, an American clergyman; born in Pickens co., Ala., Sept. 17, 1829; ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and held pastorates in Alabama; and was made bishop in 1882. He has been secretary of the College of Bishops since 1884, and president of the board of trustees of Vanderbilt University since 1889.
7Haring, Georg Wilhelm Heinrich, pseudonym Wilibald Alexis, a German novelist; born in Breslau, June 23, 1797. He died in Arnstadt, Thuringia, Dec. 16, 1871.
9Hari-Rud, or Heri-Rud, a river of Asia, which rises in the Hindu Kush about 150 miles W. from Kabul, pursues a W. course through Afghanistan for nearly 250 miles; then, bending suddenly to the N. it forms the boundary between Persia and Turkestan, and, after a further course of about 250 miles, loses itself in several arms in the Tekke Turkoman oasis.
11Harlan, John Marshall, an American jurist; born Boyle co., Ky., June 1, 1833; was graduated at Centre College in 1850; became a lawyer; served in the Civil War; was attorney-general of Kentucky; a member of the Louisiana Investigation Commission of 1877, and in the same year was made associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1892 he was an arbitrator on behalf of the United States before the Bering Sea tribunal.
13Harland, Henry, pseudonym Sidney Luska, an Anglo-American novelist; born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in March 1861.
15Harlaw, a place 18 miles N. W. of Aberdeen, the site of a battle fought July 24, 1411, between the Highlanders, led by Donald, Lord of the Isles, and the Lowlanders of Aberdeen, Mar, Garioch, Buchan, Angus, and Mearns, under Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar. The battle was long and bloody, but the Highlanders were at last driven back, leaving more than 900 dead on the field. For long after "the red Harlaw" was a favorite theme of legend and song.
17Harlem, the name applied to that portion of Manhattan borough, New York city, above Central Park. It includes an East and West side, the latter magnificently laid out with parks and broad avenues, and is being rapidly built up. Officially there is no such place as Harlem, although in the early days of the colony, "New Harlem" was a town.
19Harlem River, a tidal channel which separates Manhattan Island from the mainland of the State of New York.
21Harlequin, a character of the Italian comedy introduced on the stage of other countries. On the Italian stage he is a comic character, full of drolleries, tricks, and knaveries, and resembles the American clown.
23Harmar, Josiah, an American soldier; born in 1753; served with Washington and Greene in the Revolutionary War; and was general-in-chief of the army in 1789 to 1792. He died in 1813.
25Harmattan, a dry, hot wind blowing from the interior of Africa to the Atlantic, between Cape Verde and Cape Lopez, in December, January, and February. It hurts vegetation and prejudicially affects man, drying up the eyes, the mouth, etc., even peeling off the skin.
27Harmonica, a musical instrument formed of a number of glasses which are tuned by filling them more or less with water, and are played by touching them with the dampened finger. Also a small wind instrument. A mouth-organ.
29Harmonichord, an instrument played like a pianoforte, but sounding like a violin. The tone is produced by the pressure of the keys, which sets a revolving cylinder of wood, covered with leather and charged with resin, in action over the strings. It has also been called piano-violin, violin-piano, tetrachordon, etc.
The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.