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# Little Folks (British edition)/The Songs of Simple Simon/Walloping Bandolier

THE SONGS OF SIMPLE SIMON. II.—THE WALLOPING BANDOLIER.
ou may laugh if you will at this song of mine, You may greet my tale with a sneer, But you’ll never meet with so moving a lay As the Tale of the Bandolier.
A handsome young Bandolier was he (And they can be gorgeously gay), And full of spirit, and blithe and free, Was the Bandolier of my lay.
But, alas! that we cannot all perfect be!— I pause to remove a tear— He was—I grieve to say it—he was A Walloping Bandolier!
Now a Bandolier who wallops, you know, Is not a respectable person; And a delicate subject he is, by the way, For a poet to have to write verse on.
But with this particular Bandolier It was not an original habit, For to walloping, clearly, he ne’er had been prone If it hadn’t been for the Rabbit!
For one dark, dark night, when no moon was seen, When all was still on the sea, The Bad Rabbit came to the Bandolier And whispered, “Oh, come with me!
“Oh, come with me to the dark sea-shore, Where the waves break soft on the sand, And there you shall see a wonderful sight!” And he seized the Bandolier’s hand.
Away they went to the lonely beach, And they crouched down behind a rock, And—I know not what sight the Bandolier saw, But he never got over the shock!
Some say that they witnessed a Mermaids’ Dance, Some say that they saw the Graboon; Some say that they went in an ice-cream boat To visit the Man in the Moon.
They may be right or they may be wrong, The truth we never shall know; For the Rabbit has never been heard of since, He has gone where the Bad Rabbits go.
And the Bandolier sits weeping alone On the top of a lonely rock, And there he wallops the livelong day, For he’s never got over the shock!
And as he wallops, he mutters low Strange, incomprehensible words; And now he swims as the fishes swim, And now he flies like the birds.
You may laugh if you will at this tale of mine, You may greet this song with a sneer, But there surely can be no sadder sight Than a Walloping Bandolier!
Simple Simon.
“Some say that they witnessed a Mermaids’ Dance, Some say that they saw the Graboon” (p. 104).
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# Little Folks (British edition)/The Songs of Simple Simon/Reginald's Comic Song

The Songs of Simple Simon. IV.—Reginald’s Comic Song.
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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 6

Chap. VI.—An Act for the relief of Winslow and Henry Lewis.
Claims to be settled for moneys deposited in the hands of M. M. Noah.Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers of the treasury department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle, in such manner as may [be] just and reasonable, the claim of Winslow and Henry Lewis, for moneys deposited in the hands of M. M. Noah, late consul of the United States at Tunis, and which may have been applied by the said M. M. Noah to the payment of certain bills of exchange, drawn by said Noah on the department of state, for the purpose of ransoming American prisoners at Algiers:Proviso. Provided, That the sum to be allowed shall not exceed sixteen thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars and forty-nine cents.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Apporved, January 22, 1818.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 7

Chap. VII.—An act for the relief of Joel Earwood.
Allowed to transfer moneys to any entry of land, &c.Be it enacted, &c., That the receiver of public moneys for the district of lands offered for sale at Jeffersonville be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to permit Joel Earwood to transfer, to any entry of lands he may make in said district, any moneys he may have paid into said office, on the north-east quarter of section numbered twenty-one, of township six, and range nine east, in said district; and the register of the said land office shall permit the said Earwood to withdraw his entry for the quarter section aforesaid.
Apporved, January 22, 1818.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John of Luxemburg

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​JOHN of Luxemburg (1296–1346)., King of Bohemia. His father, the German Emperor Henry VII. (Count of Luxemburg), secured for him the hand of Elizabeth, daughter of Wenceslas of Bohemia, and in 1310 he was chosen King of that country. After his father’s death, which occurred three years later, he hoped to be elected Emperor, but finding that his youth was regarded as an insuperable obstacle, he threw all his influence on the side of Louis the Bavarian and against the Hapsburg candidate. Through the favor of the new Emperor he was able to add considerably to his kingdom, and so laid the foundations of that great German-Slavic dominion over which his son, Emperor Charles IV., was to rule. His reign began auspiciously, but was soon disturbed by internal discord, which had its origin in the race hatred of the Germans and the Czechs; and as John, not a great ruler in any case, spent much of his time away from Bohemia waging wars in the interest of Louis, of his native Luxemburg, and of the Teutonic knights, or squandering his kingdom’s revenues at the gay Court of France, affairs at home, left to the management of deputies, went from bad to worse. So greatly did the feeling of his subjects toward him change during these years that when, in 1339, he became totally blind, the same Bohemians who had welcomed his accession with extravagant demonstrations of joy now felt he was justly punished by God. Other misfortunes overtook him also. His second son, John Frederick, who had married Margaret, famous as Margaret Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, was discarded by his wife, who thereupon married the Emperor’s son. This and John’s growing intimacy with the King of France, whose Papal protégé at Avignon had always opposed Louis’s claims, led to a rupture between him and the Emperor. In 1346 he accompanied Philip VI. of France in his disastrous campaign against the English, and at the battle of Crécy, guided by a knight on either side, forced his way into the thick of the fight, and there was killed. It was at this battle that Edward the Black Prince won his spurs, and afterwards he adopted the Bohemian King’s insignia, three ostrich plumes, and the motto ‘Ich dien,’ which ever since have been borne by the princes of Wales.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John of Nepomuk

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​JOHN of Nepomuk or Pomuk (?-1393). A popular Bohemian saint of the Catholic Church. The history of his life is very uncertain. He is said to have been born at Nepomuk between 1330 and 1340. Having entered into orders, he rose rapidly to distinction, being created a canon of the Cathedral of Prague, and eventually a vicar-general of the diocese. The Queen of Wenceslas IV. having selected him for her confessor, Wenceslas, himself a man of dissolute life, conceiving suspicions of her virtue, required of John to reveal to him what he knew of her life from the confessions which she had made to him. John steadfastly refused, and the King resolved to be revenged for the refusal. An opportunity occurred soon afterwards, and Wenceslas, having first put John to the torture, at which he himself personally presided, had him tied hand and foot and flung, already half dead from the rack, into the Moldau, March, 1393. His memory was cherished with peculiar affection in his native country, and he was eventually canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, his feast being fixed for May 16th. By some historians two distinct personages of the same name are mentioned—one the martyr of the confessional zeal, the other of his resistance to the simoniacal tyranny of Wenceslas; but the two are probably identical. Consult his life by Wratislaw (London, 1873), and by Frind (Prague, 1879), and Amrhein’s examination into the date of his death (Würzburg, 1884).
# The New International Encyclopædia/John of Salisbury

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​JOHN of Salisbury (c.1120–80). An English scholar and churchman, for thirty years the central figure of English learning. He was born between 1115 and 1120 at or near Old Sarum. In 1136 he went to France, attended the lectures of Abelard and other famous masters, and remained there for several years, studying logic, grammar, the classics, and theology. ​He was sent on important missions to Popes Eugenius III. and Adrian IV., by whom he was received with great honor. When Thomas à Becket became Archbishop of Canterbury, he was made his secretary, was with him in his exile in France, returned with him to England, and witnessed his martyrdom. In 1176 he was appointed Bishop of Chartres. His greatest works are: Policraticus sive de nugis Curialium et Vestigiis Philosophorum, in eight books, a work of great erudition, dealing with government, philosophy, and various learning; and Metalogicus, in four books, a defense of the studies of the schools against the sneers of the ignorant. His Vita et Passio Sancti Thomœ and his letters, numbering about 300, are of the highest interest. Other works are: Entheticus, an elegiac poem containing 1852 lines, which deals with the same subject as Policraticus; Vita Sancti Anselmi; and Historia Pontificalis. He died at Chartres, October 25, 1180. John of Salisbury is described as a graceful Latin poet, an impressive orator, and by far the most learned man of his age. Consult his Opera, ed. by Giles (5 vols., Oxford, 1848); Schaarschmidt, Johannes Saresberiensis nach Leben und Studien, Schriften und Philosophie (Leipzig, 1862); Stubbs, Seventeen Lectures on the Study of Medieval and Modern History (Oxford, 1886).
# The New International Encyclopædia/John of Seville

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​JOHN of Seville, also called John of Luna, and Johannes Hispalensis (Hispalis, Seville). A Jewish scholar of the twelfth century. He was engaged by Raimond, Archbishop of Toledo, in the translation of various Arabic works on philosophy and mathematics. He made at least some of his translations in Spanish, and these were put into Latin by Domenico Gondisalvi. Boncompagni published the text of one of his works, Alghoarismi de Practica Arismetrice (Rome, 1857). This is one of the oldest treatises concerning calculations with our numerals and zero. In spite of the title, the original Arabic was probably not that of Mohammed ibn Musa (see Al-Khuwarizmi), since it is much more developed than the arithmetical treatise of the latter.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John of Wesel

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​JOHN of Wesel. A German religious reformer who flourished about the middle of the fifteenth century. He escaped death at the stake only by recanting, and he then entered a monastery, where he died in 1481. Of his writings there remain only De Potestate Ecclesiastica and De Indulgentiis. Consult: Ullmann, Reformatoren vor der Reformation (2d ed., Gotha, 1866); and Clemen, Ueber Leben und Schriften Johanns von Wesel, in the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, Neue Folge, vol. ii. (Freiburg, 1897).
# The New International Encyclopædia/John the Constant

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​JOHN the Constant (1468–1532). Elector of Saxony, son of the Elector Ernest. He succeeded his brother, Frederick the Wise, in 1525, and soon declared for the Reformation. The next year he entered into the Torgau Union with Philip I. of Hesse, and attended the Diet of Speyer. In 1528 he ordered a general parochial visitation in his dominions and in 1529 protested against a decision of the Diet of Speyer which was unfavorable to the Reformation. During the closing years of his life he devoted himself to organizing the Schmalkaldic League.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John the Fearless

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​JOHN the Fearless (1371–1419). Duke of Burgundy from 1404 to 1419. He was the son of Philip the Bold. At the age of twenty-five he joined the King of Hungary against the Turks, and was made prisoner at the battle of Nicopolis (1396). After nine months he was ransomed. He succeeded his father in 1404 as Duke of Burgundy, and on the death of his mother in 1405 became Count of Flanders, but was opposed by the French Queen and the Duke of Orleans, his rival. In 1407 he instigated the assassination of the Duke, and soon obtained almost supreme power in France. (See Cabochiens.) This was followed by a civil war, in which John was aided by Henry IV. of England. In 1416 he formed a secret alliance with Henry V. of England, invaded France, and captured Paris in 1418, but was murdered on September 10, 1419, at the instigation of the Dauphin, son of Charles VI., on the bridge of Montereau, where he had gone to meet the Dauphin.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John the Parricide

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​JOHN the Parricide (1290-?). The assassin of the German Emperor Albert I. (of Austria), often known as John of Swabia. He was the son of Rudolph, Albert’s brother. John, when he attained his majority, demanded from his uncle the whole or a part of his patrimony, but was met with a curt refusal. After a number of abortive attempts to gain his end, John, with Walther von Eschenbach, Rudolph von Balm, and others, who had cause to complain of Albert’s rapacity, formed a conspiracy against the life of the Emperor. While Albert was crossing the Reuss, near the Castle of Hapsburg, on May 1, 1308, he was murdered by the conspirators. John disappeared and nothing definite is known of his later life, though various accounts represent him as repenting of his deed and expiating his crime in a cloister. He is one of the characters in Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John, Baptist Joseph Fabian Sebastian

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​JOHN, Baptist Joseph Fabian Sebastian, Archduke of Austria (1782–1852). An Austrian prince and general. He was born at Florence, the son of Leopold I., Grand Duke of Tuscany, afterwards the Emperor Leopold II. At an early age John showed considerable military talent, and in the wars with France he played an important part. As commander he was extremely unfortunate. His army was crushed by Moreau at Hohenlinden (1801); he was defeated at Salzburg soon afterwards; shared in the disaster of Austerlitz in 1805; was overthrown at Raab, June 14, 1809; and was unsuccessful in an attempt to join the army of his brother, Archduke Charles, at Wagram. He was popular, however, on account of his amiability, the interest he took in the sciences and public improvements, and above all his favorable attitude toward German unity, in which he stood alone among those who represented the Austrian policy. When the German National Assembly met at Frankfort, after the commotions of 1848, he was called by a great majority, on June 29th of that year, to be Vicar (Reichsverweser) of Germany. The progress of events being unfavorable to the Austrian interests, he resigned his office December 20, 1849. He died at Gratz.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John, Eugenie

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​JOHN, yōn, Eugenie. The name of the German author who wrote under the pseudonym ‘E. Marlitt’ (q.v.).
# The New International Encyclopædia/John A. Grindle

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​JOHN A. GRINDLE, or Johnny Grindle. A quaint name in the Mississippi Valley for the curious fish the bowfin (Amia calva), also called ‘lawyer.’ See Bowfin.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Anderson, My Jo

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​JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO. (1) A touching ballad by Robert Burns. (2) An old Scotch song, a dialogue between a man and his wife ridiculing popery.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Brown's Body

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​JOHN BROWN’S BODY. One of the most frequently sung marching songs of the Civil War. The melody is said to have been heard in a Southern colored church, and fitted to the words, “Say, brothers, will you meet us?” at a meeting of the Young Men’s Christian Association held at Albany about 1860. The music was set to the words of the first stanza by James E. Greenleaf, and the other stanzas were written by C. S. Hall, of Charlestown, Mass., in 1861. Consult Johnson, Our Familiar Songs.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John B. Stetson University

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​JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY. A co-educational institution founded at DeLand, Fla., in 1887. It has a preparatory department, a college of liberal arts, schools of law, technology, music, and art, a normal and practice school, and a business college. It confers the degrees of bachelor of arts, philosophy, science, and laws, and of mechanical, civil, and electrical engineer. In accordance with an arrangement made in 1898, graduates of the college of liberal arts in high standing may receive corresponding degrees from the University of Chicago. The university has a campus of 22 acres and well-equipped modern buildings, in large part the gifts of John B. Stetson, valued at $300,000. Its endowment funds amounted in 1902 to over $210,000, and its income to $40,000. The college property is valued at $520,000. It has a library of more than 13,000 volumes. In 1902 its students numbered 429, of whom 60 were enrolled in the collegiate department. The number of professors and instructors was 40.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Bull

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​JOHN BULL. See National Nicknames.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Bull, or, the Englishman's Fireside

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​JOHN BULL; or, the Englishman’s Fireside. The title of a comedy by the younger Colman (1805).
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Casimir

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​JOHN CAS′IMIR (1543–92). Count Palatine of the Rhine, the fourth son of Elector Palatine Frederick III. He was reared at the French and Lotharingian courts, and joined the Calvinist Church at the same time as his father, while the heir to the throne, Louis, remained a Lutheran. He at various times led troops into France to aid the Huguenots and into the Netherlands to aid the Dutch, but achieved little fame as a soldier. On the death of his brother he became Regent of the Palatinate during his nephew’s minority, and made his Protestant subjects adopt the Calvinist creed—the third time in ten years they had been forced to change.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Chinaman

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​JOHN CHINAMAN. See National Nicknames.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Company

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​JOHN COMPANY. A nickname for the East India Company, originating probably in India, in the eighteenth century.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Crow

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​JOHN CROW. The name in Jamaica and the British Antilles for the turkey ‘buzzard’ vulture (Cathartes aura).
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Brown's Body

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​JOHN BROWN’S BODY. One of the most frequently sung marching songs of the Civil War. The melody is said to have been heard in a Southern colored church, and fitted to the words, “Say, brothers, will you meet us?” at a meeting of the Young Men’s Christian Association held at Albany about 1860. The music was set to the words of the first stanza by James E. Greenleaf, and the other stanzas were written by C. S. Hall, of Charlestown, Mass., in 1861. Consult Johnson, Our Familiar Songs.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Dory

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​JOHN DORY. The English name of a small group of singular fishes found in the warm seas of the Old World. One species (Zeus faber) is well known in the Mediterranean as a food-fish, but is uncommon in the Atlantic. Its ugly and extraordinary form is shown in the accompanying illustration. The body is greatly compressed, and the total length rarely exceeds 20 inches. The bony jaws can be widely opened, so that surprisingly large objects may be swallowed, and the fish is active in pursuit of its prey (other fishes), though sluggish at other times. Its body-scales ​are very small, but it is armed with strong fin-spines, and has a row of large, spinous scales along the base of the dorsal fin and in front of the pectorals. The color is usually a pale olive
* THE JOHN DORY.
brown, with a large circular spot nearly black on the middle of the side. Various legends account for this spot. One declares this to be the fish which Saint Peter caught in the Lake of Gennesaret and marked with his thumb and finger while taking the tribute money from its mouth; another that the mark was similarly made by Saint Christopher, who seized one of these fishes while carrying Jesus through an arm of the sea. Its flesh is highly esteemed in Europe. Several related species occur in the deeper tropical seas, and all constitute a group of very uncertain affinities.
# The New International Encyclopædia/John Frederick the Magnanimous

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​JOHN FREDERICK, The Magnanimous (1503–54). Elector of Saxony from 1532 to 1547. He was the son of the Elector John the Constant, and was born at Torgau, June 30, 1503. In 1532 he succeeded his father in the Government conjointly with his brother Ernest, with whom, however, he concluded a partition settlement in 1542, ceding to him the Principality of Coburg. He was from the first an ardent champion of the Reformed faith. With Philip of Hesse he became one of the leaders of the Schmalkaldic League (q.v.), and as such was placed by Charles V. under the ban of the Empire in 1546. He successfully defended his territories against an invasion by his cousin, Maurice of Saxony, in the same year; but on April 24, 1547, the army of the Schmalkaldic League was defeated at Mühlberg, and John Frederick fell into the hands of the Emperor. Sentence of death was pronounced on the prisoner, and he was compelled to cede his possessions, together with the electoral title, to Maurice. For five years John Frederick remained in captivity, until, together with Philip of Hesse, he was liberated by the sudden uprising of Maurice against Charles V. The death of his brother Ernest in the same year (1552) placed him in possession of Coburg. He died in 1554.