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LEFT NORRIS 480 NORTH NORRIS, FRANK, American novelist; born at Chicago, III., March 5, 1870. Studied art in Paris, 1887-1889; took special course at University of Cali- fornia and Hai*vard, 1890-1895; war correspondent for a San Francisco news- paper in South Africa at the time of the Jameson raid; editor of "The Wave," San Francisco, 1896-1897. His published works are: "Yberville" (1891); "Moran of the Lady Letty" (1898) ; "McTeague" (1899); "The Octopus," first of a tril- ogy, the epic of the wheat (1901); "Blix," and "A Man's Woman" (1900) ; "The Pit'- (1903) ; "The Wolf," the last part of the trilogy, was left unfinished at the author's death in 1902. A volume of his short stories, "The Third Circle," was published in 1909. NORRIS, GEORGE WILLIAM, United States Senator from Nebraska, born in Ohio in 1861. By means of working on farms and by teaching he graduated from Baldwin University, Ohio, and later from the law school. Admitted to the bar in 1883. In 1885 he moved to Nebraska and was ap- pointed judge of the 14th Nebraska Dis- trict in 1895. He resigned in 1903 to become the successful Republican candi- date for Congress. During his ten years in the House of Representatives he led the insurgent wing of the Republican party against Speaker Cannon, and finally succeeded in having the House pass rules greatly limiting the speak- er's powers. In 1913 he was elected to the Senate, and re-elected in 1919. In the Senate he was opposed to the declaration of war against Germany, and likewise opposed to the Treaty of Versailles which closed the war. NORRIS, KATHLEEN, American story-writer, born at San Francisco in 1880. Took a special course of study at the University of California. Married Charles Oilman Norris in 1909. Since 1910 Mrs, Norris contributed stories to the "Atlantic Monthly," and to the popu- lar magazines, including "McClure's," "The American," "Everybody's," "La- dies' Home Journal," "Woman's Home Companion." Her books are: "Mother" (1911); "The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne" (1912) ; "Poor Dear Margaret Kirby" (1913) ; "The Treasure," and "Satur- day's Child" (1914); "Story of Julia Page" (1915); "Heart of Rachel" (1916) ; "Martin, the Unconquered," and "The Undertow" (1917). NORRISTOWN, a borough and county- seat of Montgomery co., Pa.; on the Schuylkill river, the Schuylkill canal, and the Philadelphia and Reading, the Stony Creek, and the Pennsylvania rail- roads; 16 miles N, W. of Philadelphia. Here are a Friend's Home for the Aged, Charity Hospital for the Insane, Ma- sonic Temple, street railroad and elec- tric light plants, waterworks, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The borough has pipe-cov- ering and steel-casting works, shirt fac- tories, machine shops, glass works, carpet mills, iron works, hosiery, cigar factories, wire, rolling, cotton, and woolen mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 27,875; (1920) 32,319. NORRKOPING, a town of Sweden, ranking next in manufactures after Stockholm; at the head of the Bravik river; 113 miles S. W. of Stockholm. First founded in 1384, it has been sev- eral times destroyed by fire. The rapid river Motala, which connects Lake Vetter with the Bravik, affords water power for the many manufactories, among which are cloth mills, cotton spinning and weaving, manufactures of sugar, paper, tobacco, etc., and ship- building (gunboats, etc.). Here Charles IX. (1604) and Gustavus IV. (1800) were crowned. Pop, (1917) 58,154. NORSE, the language of Scandinavia. Old Norse is represented by the clas- sical Icelandic, and still with wonderful purity by modern Icelandic. The litera- ture includes the early literature of the people of Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. NORTE, RIO GRANDE DEL (re'6 gran'da del nor'ta), a river of Mexico, rising in the Rocky Mountains and emptying into the Gulf of Mexico; length about 2,000 miles. Its mouth is 1,200 feet wide, but is barred so as to afford entrance only to boats. NORTH, FREDERICK, 8TH LORD NORTH AND 2D EARL OF GUILFORD, an English statesman; born April 13, 1732. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. When only 22 he entered the House of Commons; became a Lord of the Treasury in 1759; Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons in 1767; and prime minister in 1770. He was largely responsible for the measures that brought about the loss of the American colonies. In 1778 he renounced the right of taxing the colonies, already seeing that the war was hopeless, and in 1782 he resigned. Fox's dislike of the terms of peace with America led him to enter into a coal- ition with North, whom he had for so many years inveighed against. North and Fox took office under the Duke of