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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kossuth, Lajos (Louis) 1802- (search)
, when old Cato never spoke privately or publicly, about whatever topic, without closing his speech with these words, However, my opinion is that Carthage must be destroyed, thus advertising his countrymen that there was one question outweighing in importance all other questions, from which public attention should never for a moment be withdrawn. Such, in my opinion, is the condition of the world now. Carthage and Rome had no place on earth together. Republican America and alloverwhelming Russian absolutism cannot much longer subsist together on earth. Russia active—America passive—there is an immense danger in that fact. It is like the avalanche in the Alps, which the noise of a bird's wing may move and thrust down with irresistible force, growing every moment. I cannot but believe it were highly time to do as old Cato did, and finish every speech with these words, However, the law of nations should be maintained, and absolutism not permitted to become omnipotent. I could not
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Russia. (search)
nclude a treaty of peace with British commissioners, and that Gallatin and Bayard had departed for Russia, there to meet Mr. Adams. The Senate refused to confirm the nomination of Gallatin, because he still held the position of Secretary of the Treasury, and the attempt at mediation by Russia was a failure. The sympathy displayed by Russia with the American government at a critical period of the Civil War is well known; at a time when the attitude of Great Britain and France was doubtful, the appearance of Russian vessels in Northern waters was taken as an evidence of goodwill. More recently, in the great famine prevailing in that country, American sympathy was manifested substantially by the shipment of a large quantity of grain. Russia ceded Alaska to the United States for $7,200,000 by the treaty of March 30, 1867, and formal possession was taken by the United States Oct. 9, 1867. An extradition treaty between the two countries was negotiated, to take effect June 24, 1893.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
bail......Oct. 27, 1871 Capt. Charles Francis Hall, Arctic explorer, dies on the Polaris......Nov. 8, 1871 Grand-Duke Alexis of Russia arrives at New York with a fleet of war-vessels, Nov. 19; gives a public reception......Nov. 21, 1871 Russian envoy to the United States, Catacazy, recalled, owing to personal differences with Secretary Fish......Nov. 25, 1871 Second session convenes......Dec. 4, 1871 Fish-Catacazy correspondence published......Dec. 6, 1871 Attorney-Gen. A. T. , Kan.......Sept. 18, 1891 President proclaims the ceded Indian lands in Oklahoma Territory open to settlement on Sept. 22......Sept. 18, 1891 Opening of the St. Clair River tunnel celebrated at Port Huron and Sarnia......Sept. 19, 1891 Russian man-of-war Alenta seizes an American sealer, the Lewis, at Bering Island and carries the crew to Vladivostock for trial......Oct. 2, 1891 Human Freedom League organized in Independence Hall, Philadelphia......Oct. 12, 1891 Boatswain, mate,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
Vizcaino (Biscayer) sails from Acapulco, and is said to have visited the bays of San Diego and Monterey during the latter part of......1602 After 150 years, with little further exploration, the Spaniards, aroused by priests and by reports of Russian advances southward from Alaska, send to the Pacific coast Jose de Galves, who leaves Mexico......April 9, 1768 Galvez, in Lower California, fits out an expedition for Fransiscan fathers, by sea and land; two vessels reach San Diego......Aprilstowaways from Port Saxon, and sails away......Nov. 6, 1796 By royal orders, the Californias are divided into two provinces, Antigua (the peninsula, then under the control of the Dominican missions) and Nueva California......March 26, 1804 Russian chamberlain, Nikolai Petrovich Rezanof, royal inspector for Sitka, finding that colony in great need of food, sails to San Francisco with a cargo of goods, which he exchanges for provisions, despite the Spanish restrictions on trade; he wins als
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zionists, (search)
provided with land, horse, cow, and implements of agriculture. The following extract from an official report by United States Consul Germain, in June, 1897, shows what had been quietly accomplished up to that time: The settlements founded by Russian and Rumanian Jewish exiles in the last decade were at first confined to Samarin, to-day called Sichron-Ja'akob, and Rosch-Pinah, in Galilee. Like all new enterprises, this one was subjected to many drawbacks. The colonists, formerly merchants s. Each colonist possesses a stone house, with a vegetable and flower garden adjacent thereto, a horse and wagon, a cow, and an assortment of domestic fowl. In the other villages similar conditions prevail. At Gadrah, a settlement of former Russian students, a distillery for the manufacture of brandy is already in operation. All in all, the prospects are now good and encouraging. According to the latest statistics there were about 44,000 Jews in Palestine, about one-half in Jerusalem a
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 24: (search)
ency. It was Sunday, and he had just returned from church. He entered, however, almost immediately. I had seen him a hundred times, in the portraits of half the English generals I had ever looked upon, so peculiarly was he English and military. He was a polite gentleman of the old school, though not a very old man, his age being not more than about fifty-five. Governor Codrington was a son of the Admiral of the same name, who, as the commanderin-chief of the combined English, French, and Russian fleets, had gained so signal a victory over the Turkish fleet, in the Mediterranean, in 1827, which resulted in the independence of Greece, and the transfer of Prince Otho of Bavaria to the throne of that country. His rank was that of a lieutenantgeneral in the British army. I reported my arrival to his Excellency, and stated that my object in visiting Gibraltar was to repair, and coal my ship, and that I should expect to have the same facilities extended to me, that he would extend to an
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
he Hypocaustum, or underground furnace. Here the oils and perfumes were applied. A douche bath is one in which the water is driven or dropped forcibly upon the person or the part affected. An earth bath is one in which the patient is covered with warm sand. The names of other baths are sufficiently descriptive without detailed description under this general head. Air-bath.Shower-bath. Electro-galvanic bath.Sitz-bath. Medicated bath.Steam-bath. Mercurial bath.Turkish bath. Russian bath.Vapor-bath. （Photography.) A solution in which plates or papers are immersed or floated; or the vessel holding said solution. Baths are known as sensitizing (the nitrate of silver bath), fixing, toning, or washing. They are of various forms, horizontal or vertical; the materials are glass, porcelain, or hard rubber. Bath-brick. A fine silicious material, found in the vicinity of Bath, England, compacted into the form of bricks, and used as an abradant. Bath-chair.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ission of heat. The necessary strength is obtained by means of numerous interior stays connecting the two cylindrical surfaces. The steam is admitted through the axis. Cloth Em-boss′ing. This is performed in a rolling-press, the engraved cylinders of which act upon the fabric (or paper), which is passed continuously between them; or one or more of the cylinders may be printing-cylinders having the usual colorvats and doctors. Clothes-brush. A brush usually having good black Russian bristles, adapted for brushing cloth. Clothes-dry′er. A frame on which clothes are suspended to dry. Among the multitude of forms may be mentioned the post with extensible bars and parallel cords, Fig. 1339; this may be dismounted and collapsed like an umbrella. The toggle-jointed frame, with cross-rounds like a ladder, and folding up on the lazy-tongs principle. Others are clotheshorses, consisting of frames with cross-bars, and shutting together like book-covers. Another form has
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
form. Also upon gravers which are rhombal, and not square in crosssection. 3. A valuable gem, the hardest of all, and of various colors. It has many uses in the mechanic arts, derived from its extreme hardness; some uses in optics, owing to its high refractive and small dispersive power. Sp. gr. 3.521. Among the celebrated diamonds may be noted the following:— Great Mogul. Found in 1550, in Golconda, and seen by Tavernier. Weighed 793 carats; cut to 279 carats (carat, 4 grains). Russian. Taken from a Brahminical idol by a French soldier; sold to the Empress Catherine for £ 90,000 and an annuity of £ 4,000. Weighs 194 carats. Pitt. Brought from India by Mr. Pitt, the grandfather of the first Earl of Chatham; sold to the Regent Duke of Orleans, in 1717, for £ 135,000. Weighed when rough, 400 carats; cut to 136 1/2 carats. Napoleon placed it in the hilt of his sword. Koh-i-noor. Seen by Tavernier in 1665, in the possession of the Great Mogul. Seized by Nadir Shah, in
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
re are 12 boilers, which will require at full speed 132 tons of coal in 24 hours; and at this rate of consumption the engines will work at 10,000 effective horse-power, and the ship will be driven at 14 1/2 knots speed per hour. If the engines are worked at the second grade of expansion, she will have coal for 17 days, steaming 12 1/2 to 13 knots per hour. With the single exception of the teak-wood backing, all the materials of the ship, engines, and armament were produced in Russia, by Russian workmen. A round vessel invented by the Russian Admiral Popoff is 100 feet in diameter, plated with 9 inches of iron, and propelled by six screws on the part which may, by courtesy, be called the stern. A turret amidships carries two guns, which are fired en barbette. Below the water-line the vessel is divided into a large number of water-tight compartments. I′ron, Cor′ru-ga-ted. Corrugated iron is used in many structures, — houses, sheds, cars, carriages, boats, tanks, etc. A<
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