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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Frere, Mary Eliza Isabella

​FRERE, MARY ELIZA ISABELLA (1845–1911), author, born at Bitton rectory, Gloucestershire, on 11 Aug. 1845, was eldest of the five children of Sir ​Henry Bartle (Edward) Frere, first baronet [q. v.], by his wife Catherine, second daughter of Lieut.-general Sir George Arthur [q. v.].
Privately educated at Wimbledon, she went out at the age of eighteen to Bombay, where her father was governor, and in the following year (1864), in her mother's absence in England, she was the hostess at government house. Profoundly interested in the Indian peoples, she accompanied her father on his tours, and gathered a large number of folk-lore tales from her ayah (Indian ladies' maid), to whom they had been handed down by a centenarian grandmother.
With an instructive introduction and notes by her father and illustrations by her sister Catherine, Miss Frere published twenty-four of these tales, in March 1868, under the title of 'Old Deccan Days.' The work was deservedly successful, and was four times reprinted (fifth impression 1898). Max Müller [q. v. Suppl. I] pointed out that Miss Frere's tales had been preserved by oral tradition so accurately that some of them were nearly word for word translations of the Sanskrit in which they were originally told. To Anglo-Indians the book 'opened up an entirely new field of scientific research … of inexhaustible wealth; and it gave a fresh impetus to the study of folk-lore in the United Kingdom, and throughout Europe and the Americas' (Sir G. Birdwood). 'Old Deccan Days' has been translated into German and Marathi, and recently selections have been included in Stead's 'Books for the Bairns' and in Sarah C. Bryant's 'Stories to tell the Children' (New York and London, 1911).
Miss Frere also wrote a pastoral play, 'Love's Triumph,' published anonymously in 1869, containing sonnets of poetic power and tenderness. One or two of her short poems subsequently appeared anonymously in the 'Spectator,' but most of her verse is unpublished.
Accompanying her father to South Africa when he was appointed high commissioner (March 1877), Miss Frere there, as in India, delighted in the country folk, and was a welcome guest at the old Dutch and English farmhouses. Here, too, she helped to dissipate racial prejudices. When she and a sister returned to England in 1880, shortly before the recall of their father by the Gladstone government, they were received with most gracious interest at Windsor by Queen Victoria.
In later years Miss Frere travelled extensively on the continent and in Egypt, and was in the Holy Land from the end of 1906 to August 1908. Living mainly at Cambridge, she studied Hebrew, and closely followed the results of biblical criticism. After some years of failing health, she died at St. Leonards-on-Sea on 26 March 1911, being buried at Brookwood cemetery.
[Miss Frere's books; Athenæum, 15 April 1911, memoir by Sir George Birdwood; Cambridge Daily News, April 1911; South Africa, 8 April 1911; information kindly supplied by the family.]
F. H. B.
# Doctor Nikola (Windsor Magazine, 1896)

[Copyright 1895. Also known as Dr. Nikola Returns. Book 2 in the "Dr. Nikola" series.] Extracted from Windsor magazine: An 8-part serial from January 1896 on; Vols 3 & 4, pp. 1-11, etc. Accompanying illustrations by Stanley L. Wood and Louis Wain will probably be added later.
Doctor Nikola
By Guy Boothby.
Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood and Louis Wain.
* introduction
* 01. how i came to meet dr. nikola
* 02. nikola's offer
* 03. nikola's scheme
* 04. we set out for tientsin
* 05. i rescue a young lady
* 06. on the road to pekin
* 07. a serious time
* 08. how pendergrast succeeded
* 09. the llamaserai
* 10. an exciting night in the llamaserai
* 11. en route to thibet
* 12. through the mountains
* 13. the monastery
* 14. an ordeal
* 15. how nikola was installed
* 16. a terrible experience
* 17. conclusion
* Copyright, 1895, in the United States of America, by Guy Boothby
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Warner (fl.1106)

​WARNER or Garnier (fl. 1106), writer of homilies, was a monk of Westminster. He was present at the translation of the relics of St. Withburga, 1106 (Liber Eliensis, ed. D. J. Stewart, p. 296). He is called 'homeliarius,' and dedicated a volume of homilies to his abbot, Gilbert Crispin [q. v.] This work is lost. His writings have sometimes been confused with those of the celebrated Werner Rolewinck, who wrote in the fourteenth century.
M. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Warren, Arthur

​WARREN, ARTHUR (fl. 1605), poet, wrote two poems descriptive of the pangs of poverty while he was imprisoned for debt in 1604. The titles of the poems were respectively ‘The Poore Mans Passions’ and ‘Pouerties Patience.’ A volume in quarto bearing the double title, ‘written by Arthur Warren,’ was entered on the ‘Stationers' Registers’ on 14 Jan. 1604–5, and was published ‘Anno Dom. 1605, at London, printed by I[ames] R[oberts] for R[ichard] B[ankworth].’ Warren dedicated his work to ‘his kindest fauourer, Maister Robert Quarme.’ He wrote, with a good deal of force and feeling, in six-line stanzas. The volume is rare. Copies are in the British Museum and in Malone's collection in the Bodleian Library.
Warren may be the writer who, under the initials ‘A. W.,’ prefixed commendatory verses to Gascoigne's ‘Posies’ (1575), Kendall's ‘Flowers of Epigrams’ (1577), and Cotton's ‘A Spirituall Song’ (1596). Warren certainly has a better claim to the authorship of these verses than Andrew Willet [q. v.], who has also been suggested as their author. There seems some ground, too, for identifying Warren with the ‘A. W.’ who was the chief contributor to Davison's ‘Poetical Rhapsodie’ in 1602. Davison only refers to his mysterious coadjutor, who has hitherto eluded definite discovery, by the initials ‘A. W.’ ‘A. W.'s’ most interesting poem ​in the collection is an ‘Eclogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney.’ The greater part of ‘A. W.'s’ voluminous verse in the ‘Poetical Rhapsodie’ deals with love. Its temper resembles that of Warren's ‘Poore Mans Passions.’ ‘A. W.’ in the ‘Poetical Rhapsodie’ very often employs the six-line stanza in which the whole of Warren's volume is composed. Some of ‘A. W.'s’ poems in the ‘Rhapsodie’ had circulated in manuscript in 1596 (Harl. MS. 6910). In the Harleian MS. 280, f. 102, there is a list in Davison's handwriting of the first lines of all the poems, ‘in rhyme and measured verse,’ which ‘A. W.’ had produced, apparently before 1602. The list includes 140 compositions, of which seventy-seven figured in the ‘Poetical Rhapsodie.’ Five further poems by ‘A. W.’ were introduced into the second edition of Davison's ‘Rhapsodie’ in 1608. Five others of ‘A. W.'s’ poems were subsequently transferred from the ‘Rhapsodie’ to the second edition of ‘England's Helicon,’ 1614.
S. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Warner, Samuel Alfred

​WARNER, SAMUEL ALFRED (d. 1853), inventor, from 1830 to the date of his death continued to press on the admiralty, the war office, and the master-general of the ordnance two inventions which he asserted were capable of producing the immediate and utter destruction of any enemy's ships or forts. The one he called an ‘invisible shell;’ the other his ‘long range.’ So far as can be made out from the very imperfect accounts, the first was a small torpedo or sea-mine, ‘no bigger than a duck's egg,’ charged with some high explosive; the second appears to have been a balloon fitted to drop automatically one or more of the ‘invisible shells’ over the devoted object. Several small committees, of the highest credit, were appointed to examine and experiment on these inventions; but as Warner persistently refused to show or in any way explain his secret till he was assured of the payment of 200,000l. for each, the committees could only report that they had seen a boat or a ship destroyed, but how or by what agency they were unable to say; that the proposed experiments with the ‘long range’ had not been made, and that, as far as they understood it, the same idea had been tried or proposed several times before; that they had no means of judging whether the ‘invisible shell’ could be of any use in war, or whether it could be carried safely in a ship's magazine.
In 1842 a committee, consisting of Sir Thomas Byam Martin [q. v.] and Sir Howard Douglas [q. v.], put Warner to a personal examination, and drew from him the statements that his father was William Warner, who in 1812 had owned and commanded a small vessel called the Nautilus, hired by the secretary of state and employed in secretly bringing over spies; that he himself had served with his father in the Nautilus, and had, towards the end of the war, by means of his invention, utterly destroyed two of the enemy's privateers, from which not a soul escaped. Of this there was no corroborative evidence. The occurrences had not been reported to the admiralty or to the secretary of state; the Nautilus had not kept a log; the dates could not be remembered; and no one could be brought forward as a witness. When he was examined on other personal matters, the result was equally unsatisfactory, all his attempts at autobiography being marred by flagrant anachronisms.
In 1852 the matter was again brought up in the House of Lords, on 14 May, and a committee was appointed to inquire into it; but a week later, 21 May, the Duke of Wellington pointed out that the inquiry was one of a scientific nature, and that it had been entrusted to the ordnance department. With this the matter appears to have dropped. The committee, though formally appointed, never reported, and Warner himself died in obscure circumstances in the early days of December 1853. He was buried in Brompton cemetery on the 10th. He left a widow and seven children.
J. K. L.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Kiln

Edition of 1802.
​KILN, a stove used in various manutactures. It also denotes a building for the admission of heat, in order to dry or burn certain materials deposited in such an edifice.—See Brick, Malt, and Lime.
In 1796, a patent was granted to Mr. I. Pepper, of Newcastle-under-Line, for his invention of a kiln, for the purpose of drying malt or other grain. As, however, this patent is not expired, and the ingenious inventor's plan would be understood only by architects, or builders, the curious reader will resort to the 5th vol. of the Repertory of Arts, &c. where it is illustrated with two engravings.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/King's Spear

Edition of 1802.
​King's Spear. See Asphodel.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Kitchen

Edition of 1802.
​KITCHEN, an apartment or room destined for the dressing of provisions, and preparing them for the table.
In 1794, a patent was granted to Mr. G. Stratton, for an improved kitchen-range, or stove, with an apparatus for the prevention of smoky chimnies. His invention is stated to be an improvement upon fire-places, by which great heat may be obtained from a small fire; by means of flues, connected either with the front, sides, back, or bottom of such grates, as occasion may require: it farther contains a contrivance for the immediate extinguishing of fire in chimnies; but, as his exclusive privilege is not expired, we refer the reader for particulars to the specification, given in the first vol. of the Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, where it is illustrated with an engraving.
A patent was likewise granted in 1780, to Mr. Brodie, for his invention of a ship's kitchen, including a stove, hearth, smoke-jack and iron boilers. These contrivances, however ingenious, are not connected with domestic economy; and the curious reader will find them detailed in the 7th vol. of the work before quoted.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Kidney-vetch

Edition of 1802.
​KIDNEY-VETCH, Anthyllis, L. an indigenous biennial plant, comprising several species, of which the vulneraria, or Lady's-finger, is the principal: it grows in meadows and pastures, in a chalky or calcareous soil; produces yellow flowers from May to August; and its seeds ripen in October.
In the cultivation of this vegetable, no particular care is necessary, farther than to keep it clean from weeds. It affords excellent pasturage for sheep. Linnæus remarks that, when the kidney-vetch grows on a reddish clay soil, the blossoms present a red colour: but, in white clay-land, they are uniformly white.—Although these flowers were formerly celebrated as vulnerary, yet we believe they might be more usefully employed as a dyeing material, and perhaps, as a substitute for indigo; because, in a dry state, they acquire a blue colour. Country people obtain from them a fine yellow dye.—The plant is relished by cows and goats.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Kilderkin

Edition of 1802.
​KILDERKIN, a liquid measure, consisting of two firkins; and two kilderkins make a barrel.—See Firkin.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Kino

Edition of 1802.
​KINO, a gummy resinous substance, exuding from incisions made in a tree called Pau de Sangue, a native of the inland parts of Africa, but of which there is no botanical account.
From its sensible qualities, and also by its striking a black colour with a solution of green vitriol, this drug is remarkably astringent. It was first recommended by Dr. Fothergill, and is now often prescribed in diarrhœas, fluxes, &c. It affords an extract both in spirits and in water, but is more generally given in the form of a tincture, frorn one to two tea-spoonfuls, three or four times in 24 hours.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Kidnies

Edition of 1802.
​KIDNIES, in anatomy, are those two viscera which separate the urine of animals. They are situated in the lower part of the cavity of the abdomen, on each side of t!ie vertebræ of the loins, between the last false rib and the hip-bones. The right kidney lies beneath the great lobe of the liver; and the left, under the spleen: they are generally about five inches in length, three inches broad, and one inch and a half thick, in adults. Their excretory ducts are called ureters, or canals which convey the urine into the bladder.
The kidnies of animals are, in general, tough, acrid, and difficult of digestion: hence they ought not to be eaten by persons of a delicate habit, or of a sedentary life. Those of calves, lambs, and other young animals, may however be used with safety; as they afford a more palatable and congenial food.
Inflammation of the Kidnies, or Nephritis, a painful affection of these parts, attended with a frequent discharge of water, which is either thin and colourless, or very red; with vomiting, coldness of the extremities, difficulty of breathing, numbness of the thigh, and other febrile symptoms.
The remote causes of this inflammatory disease are, stony concretions, external contusions, violent or long continued riding, strong diuretic medicines, such as the spirit of turpentine, &c.—The more immediate causes, are the same as induce other local inflammations.
Cure: In this, as in similar complaints, bleeding is the first remedy to be resorted to, especially by means of leeches. It will also be advisable to apply cloths immersed in hot water and wrung out, as nearly to the part affected as the patient can bear, and to renew them as often as they grow cool. Emollient clysters are also to be frequently administered; and the same treatment must be adopted, as has been already pointed out under the article Inflammation.
Should these remedies fail to ​afford relief, and the numbness of the part affected, together with the other symptoms, continue to increase, a suppuration will immediately ensue. In this disease, the patient must avoid all acrid, sour, and salted provisions, and subsist entirely on mild, mucilaginous vegetables. Butter-milk, if used to a considerable extent, has been found of excellent service, and in some cases, even proved a specific remedy for ulcerated kidneys. Goats' milk, and the balsams of Copaiva, or Canada, have been recommended as eminently useful.—Those persons who are liable to frequent returns of inflammation, or obstructions, of the kidneys, ought rigidly to abstain from wines, and all ardent spirits; their food should be of the lightest kind, and easy of digestion: they must likewise not attempt to lie on feather-beds, or be covered too warm; never sleep on their back; and carefully take daily, though moderate, exercise.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/King's Claver

Edition of 1802.
​King's Claver. See Common Melilot.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/King-fisher

Edition of 1802.
​KING-FISHER, or Alcedo, L. a genus of birds frequenting every quarter of the world, and comprising numerous species; the principal of which is the ispida, or common king-fisher.
This bird is about the size of a swallow; of a clumsy shape; and the bill disproportionately long. But the great beauty and variety of its plumage amply atone for its inelegant form. The crown of its head, and the coverts of its wings, are of a deep blackish green, spotted with a bright azure tint; the back and tail exhibit the most resplendent shades: the whole interior side ot the body is of an orange cast; and the tail, consisting of twelve feathers, presents a rich deep blue. When flying, in a bright day, the plumage of this bird exhibits a variety of the most dazzling colours.
The female king-fisher constructs her nest in holes scooped out of the sides of cliffs, to the depth of 3 feet; and deposits from five to nine eggs, of a semi-transparent white. She begins to lay early in the season, and excludes her first brood about the month of April; as the period of incubation does not exceed twenty days. While she is brooding, the male plentifully supplies her with fish; and, unlike most other birds, the female in that season is muscular and plump.
King-fishers are the most rapacious little animals that skim the deep; and, though of diminutive size, they devour almost incredible numbers of fish. Hence, their flesh is unfit to be eaten; but their beautiful plumage retains its lustre longer than that of any other bird.
# Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Kipper-nut

Edition of 1802.
​Kipper-nut. See Earth-nut.
# Edmondson v. Bloomshire

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United States Supreme Court
78 U.S. 382
Edmondson v. Bloomshire
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio, in which court John Edmondson and Littleton Waddell in right of his wife Elizabeth, sister of the said John, filed a bill against Adam Bloomshire and others, to compel a conveyance of certain lands in Ohio, alleged to be in the possession of the defendants. The court below dismissed the bill, and the complainants appealed.
Both in the court below and here several interesting and difficult questions were raised; and fully and ably argued by Messrs. H. Stanberry and J. B. Baldwin, for the complainants, and Messrs. William Lawrence and J. W. Robinson, contra:
But the case as passed on by the court avoided a decision on these, and placed the judgment on the meaning of a peculiar and badly expressed will, and certain facts which explained it. The case, therefore, presenting nothing of interest, the arguments of counsel upon the construction of the will and evidence are suppressed.
Mr. Justice CLIFFORD stated the case and delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Edmonds v. Baltimore P R

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114 U.S. 453
Edmonds v. Baltimore P R
A. G. Riddle, for appellants.
Enoch Totten, for appellee.
MILLER, J.

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# Draft resolution - Canada, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Malaysia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America (S-21425)

Security Council
Distr.
General
S/21425
2 August 1990
Original: English
Canada, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Malaysia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America: draft resolution
The Security Council,
Alarmed by the invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 by the military forces of Iraq,
Determining that there exists a breach of international peace and security as regards the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait,
Acting under Articles 39 and 40 of the Charter of the United Nations,
* Condemns the Iragi invasion of Kuwait;
* Demands that Iraq withdraw immediately and unconditionally all its forces to the positions in which they were located on 1 August 1990;
* Calls upon Iraq and Kuwait to begin immediately intensive negotiations for the resolution of their differences and supports all efforts in this regard, and especially those of the League of Arab States;
* Decides to meet again as necessary to consider further steps to ensure compliance with the present resolution.
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