YALE DISTRICT

2120

YANKTON

River, 5,000 miles from St. Petersburg The whole industry of the town consists of candle-works; but it is the principal market of eastern Siberia for traffic with the native tribes of Yakuts and Buriats. Population

6,534-

Yale, District of, west of the Kootenays, is rich in minerals and timber and possesses the largest area of agricultural land in southern British Columbia. It includes the rich valleys of Okanagan, Nicola, Similkameen and Kettle Rivers and North and South Thompson and the Boundary, and has been named The Garden of British Columbia. The main line of the Canadian Pacific passes nearly through the center of Yale from east to west, while its Okanagan branch and steamers on the lake give access to the southern portions. New branch-lines are projected and some are in course of construction, which will open a large mining and agricultural area. Cattle-raising on a large scale has been one of the chief industries, but many of the ranges are divided into small parcels which are eagerly bought by fruit-growers and small farmers. This district is rich in minerals and coal, but development has been delaved by lack of facilities for transportation.

Yale, Eli'hu, after whom Yale College (now Yale University) was named, was born at New Haven, Conn., April 5, 1648. When he was ten, his parents returned to England, and he never returned to America. In 1678 he went to the East Indies, where he remained several years and accumulated a large fortune. On his return to England he became governor of the East India Company and a fellow of the -Royal Society. His gifts to the new institution in books and money amounted to about $4,000, in consequence of which it was named Yale College. He died at London, July 8, 1721.

Yale U'niver'sity, at New Haven, Conn., is one of the oldest and most famous of educational institutions in the United States. It was founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School of Connecticut, and was at Say-brook until 1716, when it was removed to New Haven. In 1718 the name was changed to Yale College, in recognition of large gifts from Elihu Yale of London. This name was changed by statute to Yale University in 1887. Besides the academical department, still designated as Yale College, it has Sheffield Scientific School, a graduate school, a divinity school, a medical school, a law school, a school of art and a school of music. In all its departments it is thoroughly equipped and amply endowed. Its libraries contain 500,000 volumes. The faculty numbers 390, with an attendance of ,3,282 students in 1010.

Yam, the tuberous root of a species of Oioscorea, a genus of climbing vines chiefly displayed in the tropics, where they are

extensivsly cultivated for food. The name has also but wrongly been applied to forms of the sweet potato.

Yan'cey, William Lowndes, a highly distinguished southern orator, was born at Ogeechee Falls, Ga., Aug. to, 1815. After receiving a collegiate education he was admitted to the bar in Abbeville, S. C, but in 1836 moved to Alabama, where he successively edited The Catawba Democrat and The Wetumka Argus. He was a member of Congress in 1844-47, and in all the events leading to the secession of the southern states was one of the most prominent and perhaps the most eloquent leader of the proslavery party — the extent of his influence in "firing the southern heart" and inducing _t the effort to secede being hard to overestimate. When war broke out, he was sent (1861) to Europe as the agent of the Confederate government, but failed to secure recognition by any of the European powers. On his return home he became a member of the Confederate congress, and died near Montgomery, Ala., July 28, 1863.

Yang=tse=Kiang (yäng'tsê-kï-ãng'), the principal river of Asia, the "girdle of China," connecting all its central provinces between Tibet and Koko-Nor and the Pacific. Its entire length through all its numerous windings under various names cannot be less than 3,000 miles. To name the cities on the banks and tributaries of this rival of the Mississippi would be to enumerate a large portion of the cities of the empire. It is navigable by the largest vessels for 900 miles from its mouth and by smaller ones for a much greater distance.

Yan'kee, the popular name for a New Eng-lander in America, and in Europe often applied indiscriminately to the entire population of the United States, perhaps originated as a corruption of the word English or of French Anglais, as pronounced by the Indians — Yenghies, Yanghies, Yankees. It seems to have been first applied by British soldiers to the New Englanders as a term of reproach during the Revolutionary war. During the Civil War it was applied by the southern people to all the inhabitants of the northern states.

Yankee Doo'dle. This popular air was originally Nankee Doodle, and is as old as the time of Cromwell. It was known in New England before the Revolution, and is said to have been played by the English troops in derisive allusion to the then popular name of the New Englanders; and afterward the New Englanders adopted the air.

Yank'ton, So. Dak., county-seat of Yankton County, is beautifully located on the northern bank of Missouri River, near the mouth of the James. It fonnerly was the capital of Dakota Territory. Three lines of railway enter or pass through the city,