ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Q Am3 1873 Among the Contributors to the Fifteenth Volume of the Revised Edition are. the following: Prof. E. CURTIS, M. D., College of Physicians G. A. HEWLETT, Shreveport, La. and Surgeons, New York. SPECTACLES. Rev. S. S. CUTTING, D. D. SLATER, SAMUEL. JOSEPH C. G. Kennedy, LL. D., Washington, SHUBRICK, WILLIAM CRAWFORD. Prof. ROSSITER W. RAYMOND, Ph. D., Editor of the "Engineering and Mining Journal." SILVER. TIN. PHILIP RIPLEY. STOCK EXCHANGE. TICHBORNE TRIAL. RICHARD E. ROBERTS, "Y Drych " Office, Uti ca, N. Y. STANLEY, HENRY M. THOMAS T. SABINE, M. D. STONE. SURGERY (in part). EPES SARGENT, Boston, Mass. SPIRITUALISM. Prof. A. J. SCHEM. SISTERHOODS, Protestant, and various articles in geography and history. J. G. SHEA, LL. D. and other articles on American Indians. Prof. S. KNEELAND, M. D., Mass. Inst. of Prof. J. A. Spencer, D. D., College of the Technology, Boston. SILKWORM, SWALLOW, TORTOISE, and other articles in zoology. City of New York. TEMPLE, FREDERICK. Prof. S. P. LANGLEY, Allegheny Observatory, E. C. STEDMAN. Allegheny, Pa. SUN (in part). STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY. Prof. FRANK H. STORER, College of Agricultural Chemistry, Harvard University. SYMBOLS, CHEMICAL (in part). HOMER D. L. SWEET, Syracuse, N. Y. SYRACUSE, N. Y. BAYARD TAYLOR. STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE. Prof. ALFRED M. MAYER, Stevens Inst. of Tech- Prof. GEORGE THURBER. THE AMERICAN CYCLOPÆDIA. SHOMER HOMER, Jebel, an inland division of Aralon. 37° 20′ and 47° 20′ E., bounded N. by the Syrian desert, N. E. by Irak Arabi, S. E. and S. by the Wahabee sultanate, and W. by Turkish Arabia. It is divided into the provinces of Jebel Shomer, Jowf, Kheybar, Upper Kasim, and Teyma, with a total population estimated by Palgrave in 1862 at 440,000, including 166,000 nomadic Bedouins. Jebel Shomer in its general aspect is a flat table land, a large part of which is desert, with occasional oases. These are merely depressions in the desert surface, and take sometimes the form of a long valley covered with a thin soil, under which water may generally be found at the depth of a few feet. Fruits, bushes, herbs, and coarse grass grow in sufficient quantities to supply food for the Bedouins and their camels and flocks. The entire N. portion is covered by a rocky desert. On the E. border, about lat. 31°, is a long valley, called Wady Sirhan or Serhan (valley of the wolf), which extends from near Bozrah in Syria in a S. E. direction to about lat. 29° 20′ in Arabia, where its base rests on Wady Jowf, a deep valley lying E. and W., and which may be considered the porch or vestibule of central Arabia. (See JoWF.) The Wady Sirhan is the common route for caravans to and from Syria. S. and E. of Jowf lies a wide expanse of sandy desert. The caravan route to the province of Jebel Shomer lies across this waste in a S. E. direction through what is called the Nefud or Sand pass, consisting of parallel ridges of loose reddish sand 200 to 300 ft. high, where no water can be obtained for nearly 100 m. The route runs beside a small range of hills called Jebel Jobbah, a cluster of black granite rocks streaked with red, about 700 ft. high. Beyond them, on the south, is a barren plain, partly white and incrusted with salt, partly green and studded with palm groves, among lat. 25° 40' heights overlooking Jobban are visible which is the small village of Jobbah. From The wood, and in spring and summer with grass. This great plateau is intersected at intervals by long broad valleys, which contain villages built around wells, surrounded by palm groves, gardens, and fields, and varying in population from 500 to 3,000. Dates are exported in large quantities to Yemen and Hedjaz, and cotton is raised to a small extent. The sultanate of Jebel Shomer originated in the present century. In 1818 Abdallah, an ambitious chief of the family Rashid, was driven out of Hayel by his rival Beyt Ali, who assumed the sovereignty. Abdallah took refuge at the court of the Wahabee monarch, who was then reconstructing his father's dominions, and for his services to him was made absolute governor of Shomer, with right of succession, and supplied with the means to establish his rule. Beyt Ali and his family were cut off, and Abdallah made himself master of the whole mountain district. He died about 1845, and was succeeded by his son Telal, who extended his dominions, subdued the Bedouins, invited trade from abroad, and established law and order. Under his rule the country has made rapid advances in civilization and prosperity, and has become virtually independent. SHOOTING STARS. See METEOR. SHORE, Jane, an English woman, the wife of Matthew or William Shore, a goldsmith in London, and mistress of King Edward IV. She was beautiful and amiable, and Sir Thomas More says that the king's favor "she never abused to any man's hurt, but to many a man's comfort and relief." After the death of the king she became attached to Lord Hastings; and when Richard III. had resolved on the destruction of that nobleman, he accused Jane Shore of witchcraft and of having withered his arm by sorcery. The king, though he sent her to prison and confiscated her goods, did not attempt to maintain his charge of witchcraft; but the bishop of London caused her to do public penance for impiety and adultery. After the death of Hastings, Thomas Lynom, the king's solicitor, desired to marry her, but was prevented by the king. She lived till the time of Henry VIII., and tradition represents her as dying of hunger in a ditch. A celebrated tragedy by Rowe is founded on her story. SHOSHONE, the N. county of Idaho, bounded S. by the Clearwater river, and intersected in the north by Clarke's fork of the Columbia and the Kootenay river; area, about 12,000 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 722, of whom 468 were Chinese. It is watered by tributaries of the Clearwater river and by the Spokane river, and contains Coeur d'Alène and Pend d'Oreille lakes. The surface is mountainous. There is fertile land around the lakes and along the streams. Timber is abundant, and there are extensive placer gold mines. Capital, Pierce City. SHOSHONES, or Snakes, a family of North American Indians, embracing the Shoshones proper, the Utes, Comanches, Moquis, Chemehueves, Cahuillo, and the Kechi, Kizh, and Ne | tela of California. The Shoshones proper are a large and widespread people. According to their tradition, they came from the south, and when met by Lewis and Clarke in 1805 they had been driven beyond the Rocky mountains. The various Shoshone bands have gone by numerous names. The most important were the Koolsatikara or Buffalo Eaters, who have long defended their homes on Wind river, and the Tookarika or Mountain Sheep Eaters, a fierce tribe in the Salmon river country and upper Snake river valley. The western Snakes near Fort Boisé were separated from the others by the kindred Bannacks. The Shoshocos (footmen), called also White Knives, from the fine white flint knives they formerly used, were digger tribes on Humboldt river and Goose creek, and included apparently most of those in the basin of Great Salt lake. These bands were generally mild and inoffensive, lurking in the mountains and barren parts, and having little intercourse with the whites. About 1849 they were in open war, and the peace made with some of the bands at Salt Lake, in September 1855, did not end it. In 1862 California volunteers, under Col. Connor, nearly exterminated the Hokandikah or Salt Lake Diggers in a battle on Bear river. Waushakee's and other bands of the Koolsatikara Shoshones made peace at Fort Bridger, July 2, 1863; Pokatello's and other bands of the Tookarika at Box Elder, July 30; the Shoshoco or Tosowitch at Ruby valley, Oct. 1; and the Shoshones and Bannacks at Soda Springs, Oct. 14. In 1864 the Yahooskin Snakes made peace, and with the Klamaths and Modocs ceded their lands; and on Aug. 12, 1865, the Wohlpapes also submitted. The government did not promptly carry out these treaties, and many of the bands renewed hostilities. In 1867, in the campaign of Gen. Steele, a number of Indians were killed, and immense stores of provisions laid up by the Shoshones were destroyed. Gen. Augur at last allowed them to come in and make peace at Fort Bridger. The government then attempted to collect the whole nation and restrict the Shoshone bands to certain reservations. The Yahooskin and Wohlpape Snakes had prospered on the Klamath reservation, although their crops frequently failed. The Fort Hall reservation in Idaho was begun in 1867 for the Bannacks, and several bands of Shoshones, about 1,200 in all. The Shoshone reservation in Wyoming, set apart under treaty of July 3, 1868, for Waushakee's and other bands of eastern Shoshones and Bannacks, is exposed to attacks from the Sioux, and only about 800 have united there. There are also the northwestern Shoshones in Nevada and Utah, estimated at from 2,000 to 3,000, and a band of 400 in the N. W. part of Idaho.-Vocabularies have been obtained from various bands of the Shoshones, but no critical study of their language has appeared. The Episcopalians have a mission on the reservation in Wyoming. |