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LEFT CAPITULARIES 340 CAPRI the whole was completed in 1827. July 4, 1851, the corner-stone of the S. ex- tension was laid by President Fillmore, and this was finished in 1857. The N. extension was occupied by the Senate in 1859. The present dome, commenced in 1855, was completed eight years later, and Dec. 12, 1863, the American flag floated from its summit. The cost of the entire building was $13,000,000: main building, $3,000,000; dome, $1,000,000; extensions, $8,000,000; miscellanenous items, $1,000,000. The length of the en- tire building is 751 feet 4 inches; its greatest breadth, 324 feet, and it covers a little over 3 ^/^ acres. The distance from the ground to the top of the dome is 307 V^ feet; the diameter of the dome, 1351/2 feet. CAPITULARIES (Lat. capitularia) , the name given to the laws, or royal en- actments, issued by the Frankish kings. These laws proceeded from the great as- semblies of the king, nobles, and bishops, which formed the estates of the king- dom, as distinguished from the laws is- sued for the separate states, which were called leges. They were divided into gen- eral and special ca'pitularies, according to the more or less general nature of the interests which they embraced, and the mode of their publication. They have by no means been all preserved. The most famous are those of Charlemagne and of St. Louis. CAPITULATION, in military lan- guage, the act of surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms, in opposi- tion to surrender at discretion. CAPO DI MONTE (ka'po de mon'ta) , a former noted china factory near Na- ples. It was founded in 1736 by Charles III., King of Naples. His queen, Amelie de Saxe, took a lively interest in the manufacture, and the King himself worked in the factory. When Charles quitted the throne of the Two Sicilies for that of Spain he took with him the greater part of his workmen, and set up new porcelain works at Madrid. The products of both factories are much ad- mired and can with difficulty be distin- guished. CAPON, a cock chicken castrated for the purpose of improving his flesh for the table. CAPPADOCIA, in antiquity, one of the most important provinces in Asia Minor the greater part of which is in- cluded in the modern province of Kara- man. Its boundaries varied greatly at different times. It was conquered by Cyrus, and was ruled by independent kings from the time of Alexander the Great until 17 a. d., when it became a Roman province. It was traversed by the river Halys, and among its chief towns were Comana, Ariarathia, and Tyana. CAPPER, ARTHUR, an American public oflScial, born at Garnett, Kan., July 14, 1865. He had a high-school education, and began work as a composi- tor on the Topeka "Daily Capital" in 1884, serving on the paper in various ca- pacities until he became its proprietor in 1892. He also owned several rural papers and magazines. He was elected Gover- nor of Kansas in 1915, and servtd until 1919, when he became United States Senator, his term expiring in 1925. CAPPS, WASHINGTON LEE, an American naval constructor, bom at Portsmouth, Va., Jan. 31, 1864. He graduated from the Annapolis Naval Academy in 1884. He was made naval constructor in 1895, and in 1903 was ap- pointed chief naval constructor with the rank of rear-admiral. In 1913, he was chosen by President Wilson as Commis- sioner of the United States at the Inter- national Maritime Conference. From July to December, 1917, he was general manager of the Emergency Fleet Cor- poration. CAPRERA (ka'-pra'ra), a small island in the Mediterranean Sea, off the N. coast of Sardinia. Length, 5 miles. This island is famous as the home of the Italian patriot. General Garibaldi. CAPRI (ka'pre) the Roman Caprece, a rocky but beautiful island in the Medi- terranean, situated under the same meridian as the city of Naples, from which it is 20 miles distant. It is com- posed of hard calcareous rocks, which are disposed in two masses, with a con- siderable hollow between them. The highest of these two masses is called Anacapri, with a little town of the same name. The town of Capri (pop. about 5,000) stands much lower, on a shelter- ing rock toward the E. extremity of the island. By great industry the islanders have retained and secured patches of good soil on steep hillsides, and in the midst of rocks and cliffs; the cultivable parts produce most kinds of vegetables and fruits, a small quantity of excellent oil, and a considerable quantity of a light but generous wine. This wine, which is much used at Naples, is of two sorts, Capri rosso and Capri bianco, or red and white Capri. Extensive ruins of the villa of Tiberius, who resided a long time at Caprese, are still shown near a bold perpendicular cliff at the E. end of the island.