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LEFT NORWAY 491 NOTABY NOEWAY, a city of Michigan in Dickinson co., 9 miles S. E. of Iron Mountain, It is on the Chicago and Northwestern and Wisconsin and Michi- gan railroads. It has important iron mines. NOBWAY SPETJCE, a tree of the genus Abies, A. excelsa, which abounds in Norway : It is largely used for build- ing purposes. NOEWICH, a city of England, capi- tal of the country of Norfolk, on the river Wensum. It is 5 miles in circum- ference, and is skirted on the N. and E. by the river. Prominent among the public buildings are the castle, built about the 10th century and the cathedral in the Norman style. Its manufactures include bandanas, bombazines, shawls, crapes, gauzes, damasks, camelets, muslins, silk, and cotton fabrics, and shoes; also iron and brass foundries, oil, corn and mustard mills, etc. Pop. (1917) 1C8,877. NORWICH, a city and one of the ©ounty-seats of New London co., Conn.; on the Thames river, and on the Central Vermont and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads; 13 miles N. of New London. It comprises the villages of Greeneville, Yantic, Norwich Town, Fair Ground, Norwich, and Taftville. Here are a Free Academy, the Otis Free Academy, a public hospital, libraries, electric street railroads, gas and electric lights, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has manu- factures of firearms, locks, cotton and woolen fabrics, printing presses, bicycle chains, type, silk ribbons, electrical sup- plies, leather belting, machinery, rolled and cast iron, harness, stoves, furnaces, nickel-plated goods, hosiery, etc. Pop. (1910) 20,367; (1920) 29,685. NORWICH, a town and county-seat of Chenango co., N. Y.; on the Chenango river, the Chenango canal, the Lacka- wanna, and the New York, Ontario and Western railroads; 41 miles N. N. E. of Binghamton. It contains a stone court house, circulating libraries, Na- tional banks, and several weekly news- papers, and has manufactures of pianos, blast-furnaces, knitting goods, hammers, carriages, drugs and medicines, silk goods, chairs, machinery, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,422; (1920) 8,268.- NORWICH UNIVERSITY, an insti- tution established in 1819 for the pur- pose of fitting college men, who are training for a purely civil career, for effective service as volunteers in time of war. It is now the military college of the State of Vermont. Originally the institution was settled in Middletown, Conn., and then later, in 1829, at Norwich where it received its present name. It removed to its present location at North- field, Vt., in 1898. The college has an enrolment of 200 students and its grad- uates have an enviable record in war and peace time pursuits. Among the graduates was Admiral Dewey, the victor of Manila Bay. NORWOOD, a town in Massachusetts in Norfolk co., 14 miles S. W. of Boston. It is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. It is an important industrial center and has canneries, iron foundries, and manufactories of leather goods, ink, and glue. There are also several important printing shops and book-binderies. It has a hospital, a Memorial Library and other important public buildings. Pop. (1910) 8,014; (1920), 12,627. NORWOOD, a city of Ohio in Hamil- ton CO. It adjoins Cincinnati on the N. E. and is situated on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, and the Cincinnati, Lebanon, and Northern railroads. It is a residential suburb of Cincinnati. It has a library, city hall, and other im- portant public buildings. The chief man- ufactures are of playing-cards,, book- cases, pianos, washing machines, iron working machines, etc. Pop. (1910) 16,185; (1920) 24,966. NOSE, the organ of smell, consisting of two parts, one external, the nose, the other internal, the nasal fossae. The sense of smell is produced by the action of the olfactory nerve on the meatuses of the nasal fossae. NOSTRADAMUS, MICHEL, a French astrologer; born in St. Remy, Provence, France, Dec. 14, 1503. After graduating in medicine at Montpelier, in 1529, he acquired the reputation of a skillful physician by successfully arresting the progress of a pestilential disease. But he aimed at the character of an astrol- oger and adept in the occult sciences, and published a volume of obscure metrical rhapsodies in 1555, under the title of "Prophetical Centuries." Nos- tradamus was appointed first physician to Charles IX., who came himself in person to Salon, where Nostradamus then resided, for the purpose of visit- ing him. He died in Salon, France, July 2, 1566. NOTARY, a public official authorized to attest signatures in deeds, contracts, affidavits, and declarations. They pro- test bills of exchange and notes, draw