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# The New Student's Reference Work/Balfe, Michael William

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Balfe (bălf), Michael William, a musician and composer (born 1808, died 1870). He studied under various masters, and in 1826 wrote his first work, La Perouse, which was performed at Milan. In the same year he sang in Italian opera at Paris, and later conducted the London Italian opera. His most successful operas are The Bohemian Girl, The Rose of Castile and The Talisman. Many of his songs are favorites.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Springfield, Ills.

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​ Spring′field, Ills., the capital, is in Sangamon County, a short distance southwest of the center of the state; and, according to the latest census, had a population of 51,678. The first settlement was in 1818, and in 1821 the town was made the county-seat. In 1837 the capital was removed to this place, and a state-house erected. The present capital, begun in 1868, first occupied in an unfinished condition in 1876 and completed in 1885, cost $5,000,000. The surrounding country is a rich agricultural region, the chief products being corn, oats, wheat, hay, fruits and vegetables. Cattle, hogs and horses are raised extensively. Bituminous coal is mined in large quantities around the city, and is one of the leading products. During the year ending July 1, 1900, 2,519,511 tons of coal were mined in the county, and four fifths of this amount shipped by rail to other parts of the country. The principal articles manufactured here are iron, steel, steam-engines, boilers, agricultural implements, brick, watches and woolen goods. It is a railroad center, main lines of the Wabash; Alton; Illinois Central; Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern; and other roads passing through it, besides a number of interurban electric lines.
The city has a very efficient public-school system. There are 15 buildings, one for high-school purposes with a capacity for 800 pupils, and 14 other buildings for primary and grammar schools. The school enrollment has reached 7,500. Besides, there are colleges and many private schools. Springfield is of historical interest on account of having been the home of Abraham Lincoln. The house in which he resided, when elected president, still stands; and in beautiful Oak Ridge Cemetery just outside the city, is a fine monument erected to his memory, where his remains are deposited. The state-fair grounds and buildings, the most extensive in the country, the encampment-grounds and the armory are here.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Springfield, Mass.

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​ Springfield, Mass., a city on Connecticut River, 25 miles north of Hartford. It is a well-built city, parts of it elevated, with a fine park. It is noted for its excellent public school system and fine churches, including a cathedral. The United States armory, employing 3,000 men during the Civil War and from 500 to 700 ordinarily, and the arsenal, in which 500,000 stand of arms can be stored, are located here. The manufactures of the city are numerous and important, including the Smith and Wesson arms-factory, the great car-factory at Brightwood, a suburb, the Knox Automobile Company and others, making gold chains, goldleaf, filters, envelopes, hardware, spectacles, thimbles, needles, buttons etc. Springfield was settled in 1635 by emigrants from Roxbury and called Agawam, from the Indian name of a neighboring river. The city was burnt in 1675 during King Philip's war. It is served by six railroads, including branches, and splendid civic spirit prevails. Population 88,926.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Springfield, Mo.

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​ Springfield, Mo., a city in southwestern Missouri. It is built on a table-land 1,500 feet higher than St. Louis, and has an important trade. There are flouring-mills and wagon-factories. Drury College was founded here in 1873. Springfield was a trading-post in 1820, and incorporated in 1830; it has two great railroad-plants, one for the Kansas City and Memphis, and one for the St. Louis and San Francisco system. During the Civil War it was held by Federal and by Confederate forces in succession, and the battle of Wilson's Creek was fought near the city, Aug. 10, 1861. Population 35,201.
# The New Student's Reference Work/St. Albans

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​ St. Albans (a̤l′banz), a town of Hertfordshire, England, famous for its Benedictine abbey, which was founded by Offa, king of Mercia, in 793. Cardinal Wolsey was its greatest abbot. It contains the tomb of Sir John Mandeville, the early traveler. In St. Michael's church is Lord Bacon's monument. Here were fought two battles during the War of the Roses. Population 16,109.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Springfield, O.

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​ Springfield, O., a city in the western part of the state, on Mad River, 80 miles northeast of Cincinnati. It is in a fine farming region, and has a large trade in farm-products. With good water-power, manufactories are numerous, especially those of bicycles, piano-plates, iron fencing, steam-engines, road-rollers and farm machinery, including large numbers of mowers and reapers. Wittenberg College, opened in 1845 by the Lutheran church, and Springfield Seminary are institutions of higher learning. Located in this city are the state fraternal homes of three orders: Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. Population 46,921.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Tacoma, Wash.

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Tacoma (tȧ-kō′ mä), Wash., county-seat of Pierce County, is on Puget Sound at the head of navigation. The sound, which is from three to five miles wide, narrows near Tacoma to an inlet known as Commencement Bay, less than a mile wide but five long. The city is built on a bluff 200 feet high, overlooking the sound and the Cascade range, with the snowy peaks of Mt. Rainer, also known as Mt. Tacoma, in the distance. The city was laid out by the Tacoma Land Company, an organization by the managers of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which in 1873 bought 16,000 acres near the little village of Rainier, that consisted of one sawmill and the houses of its workmen. They made it the terminus of their road and built two hotels, the second costing $750,000. The salmon-fisheries of Puget Sound, the hop-fields in Puyallup Valley, the great forests of white pine and cedar on the neighboring mountains and the coal, iron and other minerals of the region furnish the materials of the large trade of the city. Regular transport-service has been established between Tacoma and London, trains laden with hops meeting the steamers at New York, and its harbor is a starting-point of steamers for Alaska. The works of the Tacoma Lumber Company cover 80 acres in the city, and it owns 150,000 acres of timber-land and 5,000 of coal-land. More than 40 establishments are engaged in the manufacture of lumber and other products of wood-working factories. The lumber and other products are loaded at the wharves for China, Japan and Australia. There also are large smelting-works and wheat elevators, rolling-mills, car-shops, flour-mills, iron-foundries, smelters, a large private dry-dock, meat-packing establishments and the most extensive fisheries-plant in the United States. Tacoma has ten banks and one foreign branch-bank (London). The public-school system includes a high school, with manual-training department and grade-schools, numbering 29, while the cost of maintaining the schools is $245,000 annually. Tacoma also is the seat of Puget Sound University (M. E.), Washington College, Annie Wright Seminary (Episcopal), Academy of the Visitation (R. C.), the Y. M. C. A’s. evening-institute and other institutions. There are fine public buildings, a free library and an ethnological and historical museum. The Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Tacoma Eastern railways serve the city. The following roads are building into it: The Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Canadian Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern, North Coast, Portland and Seattle and Port Townsend Southern. Population (1910), 83,743.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Tagus

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Ta′gus, the largest river of the Spanish peninsula, rises on the frontier of New Castile and Aragon, flows through Spanish and Portuguese territory, and, after 540 miles, falls into the Atlantic by an inlet at some places five miles broad. Near its source, and also near Toledo, the river runs between rock-walls several hundred feet high. The navigable part of the river, 115 miles, is wholly within Portugal. Lisbon and Toledo are on the Tagus.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe

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Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, a well-known French critic, was born at Vouziers, France, April 21, 1828. He studied at Bourbon College, and in 1864 was made professor of the history and æsthetics of art in the school of arts. One of his first essays was crowned by the French Academy. Among his most important works is The History of English Literature, a clear and valuable criticism written in brilliant style. In 1871 the University of Oxford conferred the honorary LL.D., and in 1887 he was elected to membership in the French Academy. His other writings embrace Journey in Italy, Journey to the Pyrenees, The Old Regime, Notes on England and The Ideal in Art. He died at Paris, March 5, 1893.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Tacitus (tăs′ ĭ-tŭs), Publius Cornelius, a Roman historian, was born probably about 55 A. D. He enjoyed the favor of Emperors Vespasian, Titus and Domitian, and married a daughter of Agricola (q. v.). He held several public offices, became known as an orator, and was a close friend of the younger Pliny, through the appointment of the two to carry on the prosecution of Marius. Eleven of his letters are addressed to Pliny. Tacitus probably lived for a time after Hadrian came to the throne. His Life of Agricola (A. D. 98) is one of the finest biographies ever written. His other works are Histories (104–110), Annals, Germany (98), and his Dialogue on Orators (A. D. 79), the first and least valuable of his writings. These histories rank among trusted sources of knowledge of the times of which they treat, and have given their author high rank among the world’s historians. But Tacitus is not one of the authors in whom our confidence is increased by rereading. His account of Tiberius is manifestly unjust, being steeped in the prejudices of the Roman aristocracy and drawn from a poisoned source. He died, it is thought, in 120 A. D.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Taft, Lorado

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Taft, Lora′do, American sculptor, was born at Elmwood, Ill., April 29, 1860, and graduated at the University of Illinois and at École des Beaux Arts, Paris. In 1886 he settled in Chicago, and became instructor in its Art Institute and lecturer on art at the University-Extension-Department of the University of Chicago. He has produced many busts and ideal subjects, and among other fine decorative work of his was that of the horticultural building of the Columbian exposition. The symbolic beauty and fine workmanship of these decorations won great praise. Among his many works are a bust of Schuyler Colfax in Indianapolis, a statue of General Grant and the fine reliefs for the Michigan regimental monuments on the field of Gettysburg. Mr. Taft is a member of the American Sculpture Society and of the Western Society of Artists.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Tailor-Bird

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Tai′lor-Bird, a small bird about the size of a warbler, living in India, Ceylon and southern China. There are about seven species. The common tailor-bird is olive-green above and yellowish white underneath, with a pale, brick-red crown. In making its nest, leaves at the end of a twig are sewed together, or sometimes the edges of one large leaf are united. The bill is used as a needle, and fibers and grass are used as threads. This habit gives its name of tailor-bird. The united leaves do not form the nest, but merely are a receptacle for it. The nest proper is made of wool and vegetable-fibers and is lined with hair.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Taganrog

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Taganrog (tȧ-gȧn-rôk′), a seaport of southern Russia, stands on the northern shore of the Sea of Azov. It was founded by Peter the Great in 1696. The shallow harbor forces ships to unload into barges half a mile from the quay. Wheat is the chief export, but linseed, skins and wool are also sent out. The place is strongly fortified and is the main port of the Sea of Azov. Alexander I built a beautiful palace and has a monument here. Other buildings are the admiralty, cathedral and marine hospital. French and English gunboats damaged Taganrog by bombardment in 1855. Population 58,928.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Taglioni, Maria

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Taglioni (tȧl-yō′ nḗ), Maria, perhaps the world’s greatest dancer, was born at Stockholm, Sweden, on March 18 or April 23, 1804. Her father was a noted Italian ballet-master, and under his guidance she first danced at Vienna in 1822. Five years later Paris went wild over the accomplished ballet-girl. She married Count Gilbert de Voisin in 1847, and left the stage. She died on April 23, 1884.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Taft, William Howard

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Taft, William Howard, twenty-sixth president of the United States, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 15, 1857, where in 1880, after graduating with honors from Yale, he began practicing law and became, successively, prosecuting attorney for the county, a judge in the Superior Court, solicitor general of the United States, and from 1892 to 1900 judge of the Federal circuit court, receiving the L.L.D. degree from Yale and becoming dean of the Cincinnati Law School. In 1900 he was made President of the Commission to set up Civil Government in the Philippines. Made Civil Governor in 1901, he rendered distinguished service by establishing a governmental system and settling the friar land problem. Appointed Secretary of War in 1904, he showed equal zeal and ability in promoting the construction of the Panama Canal and aiding in the reconstruction of Cuba. In 1908 he was nominated by the Republicans and elected President by enormous pluralities. Among the most important events of his administration were the passage of the Payne-Aldrich tariff, the acts establishing Postal Savings Banks and the Parcel Post systems, the Canadian reciprocity agreement, and the signing of general arbitration treaties with France and Great Britain. The reciprocity agreement was rejected by the Canadian parliament and the senate failed to ratify the arbitration treaties. The Payne-Aldrich act was severely criticized as a violation of the promise of the platform to reduce the tariff. President Taft was also charged with being hostile to the conservation movement, in connection with which he removed from office Chief Forester Pinchot who made an attack on the record of Secretary Ballinger, of the Interior Department, which led to the latter’s resignation. Owing to dissatisfaction with Mr. Taft’s course, particularly on the tariff and conservation, his party was sharply divided, and after his renomination, what was known as the Progressive wing of the party held a convention of its own, and, as the National Progressive Party, nominated Theodore Roosevelt. The Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, was elected.
# The New Student's Reference Work/Tai-Pings

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Tai-Pings, the name given to the Chinese rebels who rose in 1850 and laid waste some of the best provinces of China. The capture of Pekin by French and English troops in 1860, followed by a treaty giving foreign merchants valuable privileges, made it to the interest of the American, French and English governments to re-establish order in China. Ward, an American citizen, who had taken service under the Chinese emperor, showed a remarkable talent for disciplining irregular troops, and was the chief means of the success of the imperial forces in defeating the rebels at Shanghai in 1860 and 1862. In this year Ward was killed, and “Chinese” Gordon was placed in command of his force, which became famous as Gordon’s brigade. The Tai-Pings were defeated in over 16 engagements, and in 1864 almost every important city held by them was captured. The rebellion, however, was not stamped out until 1867. See Chinese Empire.
# The Pearl of Asia

Reminiscences of the Court of a Supreme Monarch or Five Years in Siam
By Jacob T. Child, Late United States Minister at Bangkok.
Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co. 1892.
Copyrighted, 1892, by Jacob T. Child.
The Pearl of Asia.
Preface.
During many leisure hours, while absent amid the sunny glades and emerald values of Asia's most favored kingdom, Siam, I made numerous notes concerning that land of mystic lore and ruined fanes, a section novel to all who have been so fortunate as to have visited its walled city its hundred glittering spires, whose temples and palaces are marvels of architectural beauty, whose wide-spreading rice-fields feed untold millions, its groves of waving palms ever ready to minister to man's wants, its rivers and canals plethoric with fish, its fruits and flowers lavishly luxuriant, an Eden of loveliness, the land of the lotus. To the general reader Siam is a terra incognita; much has been written concerning it by superficial observers, who came on one steamer and left on the next. What has been gathered for this volume has been carefully condensed and concisely told. It was my intention when appointed Minister to the Court at Bangkok, by President Cleveland, to prepare a work on this faraway and marvelous land that might prove of interest to many who may desire to know something of a people that live under a supreme monarch and follow the teaching of Buddha, and in doing so I have endeavored to hold the mirror up to nature, in fact, to "tell the truth."
Respectfully,
Jacob T. Child.
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# The Pearl/Volume 9/Song.

Translated from the Hindustani.
Oh when shall I behold, love, Thy noble manly face? O when thy neck enfold, love, Within my close embrace? All young, and warm, and willing, O when shall I receive Those raptures, fierce and thrilling, Which man alone can give? As the thirsty pearl shell opes, love, To imbibe prolific showers, All, all my bosom's hope, love, Expect thy vigorous powers; My dreams are full of pleasure, Naught else my heart employs, Come kiss me without measure, Thou source of all my joys!
# The Pearl (72 U.S. 574)

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# The Pearl/Volume 9/The Fruits of Philosophy.

Said good Mrs. Besant, To make things pleasant, If of children you wish to be rid, Just after coition, Prevent all fruition, And corpse the incipient kid.
To do this completely, Securely and neatly, That your conscience may suffer no twinge, Before having connection, Procure an injection, Likewise an elastic syringe.
Then after the "coup," All the ladies need do Is to jump out of bed on the spot, Fill the squirt to the brim, Pump it well up her quim, And the kid trickles into the pot.
A little lady who was, and we believe is, a great speaker at the Quakers' meetings, was once asked by Mr. Bright in his young days, "if she did not find the spirit inspired her with thoughts of marriage?" "No," she answered, "but I frequently find my struggling with the flesh does."
# The Pearl/Volume 9/The Colombine.

Written in London 12th January, 1837, on Fraulein Theresa Schmidt, an opera dancer, as Columbine.
Night after night I've fed my eyes, On sweet "Theresa Schmidt, Fraulein," And marvell'd how cold Northern skies Could mould so fair a Columbine.
No verse, no rhyme could tell my mind, To vent the praise my heart would breathe, But she's an English girl I find, And bears the vulgar name of Smith.
But whatso'er her name may be, No Roman dancer could surpass, The way she shows her open C, And flourishes her jutting arse.
Yes - whatso'er the name she bear. No graces, no celestial nymphs, Can grant to men a sight more fair, Of paradise a clearer glimpse.
Let others rave of Taglioni, Dancers from Florence or from France, But give Theresa for my money, She shines the goddess of the dance.
The sculptor modelling naked truth, Array'd in Eve's celestial dress, May find her here in blaze of youth, In all her native loveliness.
Pure English are the parts she shews, Although she's call'd Theresa Schmidt; What's in a name? A bright moss rose By any other name's as sweet!
# The Pearl/Volume 9/Ten Little Niggers.

Ten little niggers did a farting match design, One got excited and died, so there were nine;
Nine little niggers layed his body straight, One chanced to touch his prick, then there were eight;
Eight little nigger boys took a trip to Devon, One fucked a peasant girl, and then there were seven;
Seven little niggers got fooling with their pricks, One got his foreskin back, and then there were six;
Six little niggers a frig loop did contrive, One overspent himself, and then there were five;
Five little nigger boys each picked a whore, One had his in the arse, and then there were four;
Four little nigger boys for a prize did pee, One pissed himself away, and then there were three;
Three little nigger boys had connection with a Jew. The Chief Rabbi caught one, and then there were two;
Two little niggers were gamahuched for fun, One got his prick bit off, and then there was one;
The last little nigger met a Countess at a ball, Married her, got the pox and died, and now that is all.
# The Northfield

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The Northfield
Mr. Justice HUNT delivered the opinion of the court.

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