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LEFT WEYMAN 346 WHALE Here he further established his infamy by his cruel and inhuman treatment to the Cubans, and earned for himself the name of "Butcher Weyler." In his management of Cuban affairs Weyler had the support of the home govern- ment, under the control of the Conserva- tive party. As a result of the resigna- tion of the Conservative premier and cabinet Weyler was succeeded by General Blanco in the latter part of 1897. In 1902 he was Spanish minister of war. He was appointed Captain-General of Catalonia in 1909. WEYMAN, STANLEY JOHN (wi' man), an English novelist; born in Lud- low, Shropshire, England, Aug. 7, 1855; was educated at Christ Church, Oxford; became classical instructor in the King's School, Chester, in 1878; called to the bar in 1881, and practiced till 1890. He contributed to periodicals in 1883, and published in book form the historical romances: "The House of the Wolf" (1890) ; "Francis Cludde" (1891) ; "The New Rector" (1891); "A Gentleman of France" (1893) ; "Under the Red Robe" (1894); and "My Lady Rotha" (1894); greatly enlarged by the addition of manjr new and elegant buildings. Pop. about 20,000. WEYMOUTH, a town in Norfolk co.. Mass., on the South Shore line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 12 miles S. E. of Boston. The town contains the villages of North Wey- mouth, East Weymouth, Weymouth Center, South Weymouth, Weymouth Heights, Nash, Lovells Corner, Old Spain, and Weymouth Landing. It is a seashore summer resort, but has ex- tensive manufacturing and shipbuilding interests. The principal manufactures include boots, shoes, fertilizers, fireworks, hammocks, boxes, and clothing. There are daily and weekly newspapers, a Na- tional bank, electric lights, and street railways, public schools, public library. It is the second oldest town in the State, having been incorporated Sept. 2, 1635. Pop. (1910) 12,895; (1920) 15,057. WHALE, a name that may be taken as equivalent to Cetacean, and applied to any member of that order of mammals, which includes two great sets: A FA SKELETON OF WHALE B Blow-hole A Upper arm FA Fore arm "Memoirs of a Minister of France"; "The Red Blockade" (1895) ; "The Man in Black" (1896) ; "Shrewsbury" (1897) ; "The Castle Inn" (1898) ; "Abbess of Vlaye" (1904); "Wild Geese" (1908), etc. Several of his stories have been dramatized. WEYMOUTH, a seaport and market- tovvTi of England, in Dorsetshire, com- prising the town and chapelry of Wey- mouth and the town and parish of Mel- combe, the former on the S. and the latter on the N. side of the Wey, 8 miles from Dorchester. Weymouth is old and pooly built. It communicates with Mel- combe, to which it is united by a hand- some bridge. It became a place of fash- ionable resort, in consequence of its be- ing frequented by George III., and is now H Hand P. TH. L. Remains of hip bone W Whale bone the toothed whales, such as sperm whale and dolphin, and the whalebone whales, such as right whale and rorqual, in which the teeth are only embryonic. The order Cetacea is usually divided into three sub-orders: (1) the Mystacoceti or Balaiiwidea, haleen or whalebone whales; (2) the Odontoceti or Delphinoidea., toothed whales; and (3) the Archseoceti or extinct Zeuglodonts. The differences between the extant sub-orders are so great that any idea of the close relation- ship must be abondoned; their common ancestry must be far back, and indeed it is doubtful whether our classification might not be brought nearer the truth by recognizing two distinct orders. Less specialized than the modern types are the extinct Zeuglodonts of the Eocene