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LEFT cox 182 CRABB duties as governor of Ohio, serving until March 4, 1921. See United States, History. COX, KEN YON, an American painter; born in Warren, 0.. Oct. 27, 1856. He studied in Paris under Duran and Ge- rome, settling in New York in 1883 as a portrait and figure artist. He was a member of the Society of American Artists. He was especially noted for his mural paintings. Notable examples are "Art and Science," Congressional Library; "Progress of Civilization," State House, Des Moines, la.; "Benefi- cence of Law," County Court House, Newark, N. J., etc. Among his pictures may be mentioned "Hope and Memory," Cox collection, Cleveland, 0.; "Harp Player," Metropolitan Museum, New York. His portrait of St. Gaudens re- ceived a medal at the Paris Salon. He died on March 17, 1919. COX, PALMER, a Canadian author and illustrator. He was born at Granby, Quebec, in 1840, and was educated at Granby Academy. In 1863 he went to California, engaging in railroading, con- tracting, etc., and writing for news- papers. He arrived in New York in 1875, and took up writing and illus- trating for children's magazines and humorous books. His works include: "Squibs of California/' "Hans Von Pelter's Trip to Gotham," "How Colum- bus Found America," "That Stanley," "The Brownies, Their Book," "Brownies at Home"; "Brownies," a spectacular play in three acts; "The Brownies in Fairyland," a musical cantata; "Brownie Primer," etc. COX, SAMUEL SULLIVAN, an American statesman and author; born in Zanesville, O., Sept. 30, 1824. He served some terms in Congress, and became minister to Turkey. His works are: "Eight Years in Congress," "Why We Laugh," "Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey," "A Buckeye Abroad," "Arc- tic Sunbeams," "Orient Sunbeams," "Free Land and Free Trade," and others. He died in New York, Sept. 10, 1889. COYOTE (koi-of), the American wild dog or prairie-wolf, Canis ochrojms or Lyciscus latrans. The Coyote is virtually a wild dog and breeds with the domestic dog, and dogs will often refuse to injure the female coyote. In general appear- ance the coyote resembles the typical wolf, the fur being a dull yellowish gray, with dark, even black, clouded spots. COZUMEL, an island in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Yucatan. CRAB, a popular name for all the 10- f ooted, short-tailed crustaceans constitut- ing the sub-order Brachynra, order De- capoda, comprising many genera, distin- guished from the lobster and other ma- crurous or long-tailed decapods by the shortness of their tail, which is folded under the body. The mouth has several COYOTE pairs of strong jaws, in addition to which the stomach has its internal surface studded with hard projections for the purpose of grinding the food. The stomach is popularly called the ''sand- bag"; a little behind it is the heart, which propels a colorless lymph (the blood) to the gills ("dead man's fin- gers"). The liver is the soft, rich jrellow substance, usually called the fat of the crab. They "moult" or throw off their calcareous covering periodically. The first pair of limbs are not used for locomotion, but are furnished with strong claws or pincers. Their eyes are com- pound, with hexagonal facets, and are pedunculated, elongated, and movable. Like most individuals of the class, they easily lose their claws, which are as readily renewed. The racer-crabs of the West Indies suck the juice of the sugar- cane. Most inhabit the sea, others fresh water, some the land, only going to the sea to spawn. The common large edible crab {Cameer pagurus) is much sought after. CRAB, a name given to various ma- chines, especially to a kind of portable windlass or machine for raising weights. Crabs are much used in building opera- tions for raising stones and many other weights, and in loading and discharging vessels. CRAB APPLE, a small, wild, veiy sour species of apple, from which a fine jelly is made. CRABB, GEORGE, an English lawyer and writer; born in Palgrave, Suffolk,