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LEFT COLERIDGE-TAYLOR 55 COLISEUM poetical works include "The Ancient Mariner," "Cristabel" (incomplete), "Remorse," a tragedy; "Kubla Khan," a translation of Schiller's "Wallenstein," etc. His prose works, "Biographia Lit- eraria," "The Friend," "The Statesman's Manual," "Aids to Reflection," "On the Constitution of Church and State," etc. Posthumously were published specimens of his "Table Talk," "Literary Re- mains," etc. COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, SAMUEL, an Anglo-African composer; born in Lon- don, Aug. 15, 1875. His father was a native of Sierra Leone and his mother an English woman. He composed many successful songs and waltzes and an op- eretta entitled "The Dream Lovers." He conducted orchestral concerts in several English cities, and made tours in the United States in 1904, 1906, and 1910. He died in 1912. COLESEED a name for a variety of cabbage (Brassica Napus), and its seed, which is made into oil-cake for feeding cattle. COLE-WORT, the common cultivated cabbage (Brassica oleracea) ; called also collet. COLFAX, SCHUYLER, an Ameri- can statesman; born in New York, March 23, 1823; removed in 1836 to In- diana. He was a delegate to the Whig conventions of 1848 and 1852; was elected to Congi'ess in 1854 by the newly formed Republican party, and re-elected until 1869, being thrice chosen Speaker; and in 1868 he was elected vice-president «f the United States, in Grant's first term. Implicated, unjustly, as he and his friends claimed, in the Credit Mobi- lier charges of 1873, he spent the re- mainder of his life in political retire- ment. Died in Mankato, Minn., Jan. 13, 1885. COLGATE UNIVERSITY, an educa- tional institution in Hamilton, N. Y. ; organized in 1819, under the auspices of the Baptist Church; reported at the end of 1919: Professors and instruc- tors, 44; students, 599; volumes in the library, 85,000; income, $193,353; presi- dent, Elmer Burritt Bryan. COLIBRI, a name for various species of humming-bird. COLIC, a name employed by the later Greek and the Roman physicians to de- note diseases attended with severe pain and flatulent distention of the abdomen, without diarrhoea or looseness of the bowels. The disease is now generally be- lieved to be spasmodic in character, and to be dependent upon irregular contrac- tions of the muscular coat of the intes- tines. Colic almost always ends in re- covery, preceded by free evacuation of the bowels. Purgatives, therefore, should be given combined with sedatives. A suppository or hypodermic injection of morphia may secure immediate relief from pain before aperients have time to act. Mustard plasters, turpentine stupes, and hot-water fomentations are also useful. COLIGNI, or COLIGNY, GASPARD DE CHATILL0N,(k5-len'ye), SIRE DE, admiral of Fran e, and leader of the Huguenots in the civil war; born in 1517. His father, also named Gaspard; was Marshal of France, and took part in the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII., and in the conquest of the Milanese by Louis XII. and Francis I. His mother was a Montmorency. He entered the army at an early age, distinguished him- self at the battle of Cerisole, at the tak- ing of Carignan, and at the battle of Rentz. He was made Admiral of France in 1552, by Henry II. At the siege of St. Quentin he was taken prisoner by the Spaniards. On the death of Henry II. he returned to his estates, became a convert to the reformed faith, and when the war broke out put himself at the head of the Protestants, with the Prince of Conde. They were defeated by the Duke de Guise at the battle of Dreux; the indecisive battle of St. Denis followed, and the Protestants were de- feated at Jarnac, and Moncontour. In 1570, after the treaty of St. Germain, Coligny was flatteringly deceived by Catherine de Medici, and a few days later his assassination was attempted by an emissary of the Duke de Guise. The King, Charles IX., visited him and professed his regret. On the signal be- ing given for the massacre of St. Bar- tholomew, Aug. 24, 1572, De Guise, with a party of assassins, went to the house of the Admiral; by these he was stabbed and thrown out of a window at the f^et of the duke. The corpse was exposed for three days to the mob, and then hung head downward. COLIMA (ko-le'ma), a Mexican State on the Pacific coast, with an area of 2,272 square miles, and a pop. of about 80,500. The soil is very fertile, the cli- mate warm; large quantities of coff'ee, sugar, rice, tobacco, maize, and cotton are grown. The capital, Colima, 1,450 feet above the sea, about 40 miles E. N. E. of the port of Manzanillo, has several cotton factories. Pop. about 26,000. COLISEUM, the Flavian amphitheater at Rome, built by the Emperors Ves- pasian and Titus. It seated 80,000 per-