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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
Chinese and Maudshu words for drum are onomatopoetic, and are respectively kan-kan and tung-tung. The forms of drums among the Japanese are various,—kettle-drums, table-drums, tam-tams, suspended tambourines. The drum of the Yucca Indians of Sonora is about 20 inches in diameter, and consists of a skin stretched on a wooden hoop. The skin is apparently that of a buffalo calf, and is tightened by cords. It has but one head, like a tambourine. Stove-drum. Drummond's lamp. John Ziska, the Hussite, died of the plague, and before he expired ordered that his skin be made into the covering of a drum, to be beaten in the advance. His name shall beat the advance, like Ziska's drum. This noted Pole fought the Emperor Sigismund, 1420 – 22. The latter had given a safe-conduct to John Huss, who was cited before the Council of Constance. Huss was abandoned by the Emperor to his enemies, and was burned by the Roman Catholics, July 6, 1415. The modern drum f is a cylinde
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 6: third mission to England.—1846. (search)
through four pages flows Ere one is packed with tight-screwed prose, Threading the tube of an epistle Smooth as a child's breath through a whistle. The great attraction now of all Is the ‘Bazaar’ at Faneuil Hall, Where swarm the Anti-Slavery folks As thick, dear Miller, as your jokes. There's Garrison, his features very Benign for an incendiary, Beaming forth sunshine through his glasses On the surrounding lads and lasses, (No bee could blither be or brisker,)— A Pickwick somehow turned John Ziska, His bump of firmness swelling up Like a rye cupcake from its cup. And there, too, was his English tea-set, Which in his ear a kind of flea set, His Uncle Samuel for its beauty Demanding sixty dollars duty, ('T was natural Sam should serve his trunk ill, For G., you know, has cut his uncle,) Whereas, had he but once made tea in it, His uncle's ear had had the flea in it, There being not a cent of duty On any pot that ever drew tea. The tea-set was appraised at £ 40. Mr. Garrison's pro