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LEFT WINNIPEG RIVER 390 WINSLOW 250 miles. Its navigation is interrupted by falls. WINNIPEG RIVER, a river that rises in Minnesota, and flows to Lake Winnipeg. Its course, though serpentine, is generally to the N. It passes through Rainy Lake and the Lake of the Woods, which are thus connected with Lake Win- nipeg. Though its length is only 250 miles, it drains a very large basin, and discharges an immense volume of water into Lake Winnipeg. WINIPISEOGEE LAKE, a lake in N[ew Hampshire. Its length is 25 miles, its breadth varies from 1 to 10 miles; area 175 square miles; elevation above sea-level, 472 feet. It discharges by the Winipiseogee river, an affluent of the Merrimac. It is studded with islands, and abounds in fish. The beautiful scenery of this district attracts many tourists. WINONA, a city and county-seat of Winona co., Minn.; on the Mississippi river, and on the Winona and Western, the Burlington Route, the Green Bay, Winona and St. Paul, the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul, and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads; 104 miles S. E. of St. Paul. Here are a United States Government building, court house, State Normal School, Winona Seminary, St. Mary's Academy, commercial colleges, library, hospital, street railroad and elec- tric light plants, waterwoi'ks, National, State, and savings banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. A fine rail- road bridge crosses the Mississippi river at this point. The city has flour mills, saw- mills, foundries, gas works, carriage fac- tories, tannery, barrel factories, and manufactories of sashes and doors, farm- ing implements, etc. Pop. (1910) 18,583; (1920) 19,143. WINSLOW, EDWARD, a Mayflower emigrant and governor of Plymouth Colony; born in Droitwich, England, Oct. 19, 1595. He was a hostage to Massa- soit, his account of which was in George Morton's "Relation" (1622). He was the author of "Good Newes from New Eng- land," etc. (1624), printed in full in Young's "Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fa- thers" (1841); "Brief Narration: or Hypocrisie Unmasked," etc. (1646), re- issued as "The Danger of Tolerating Levellers in a Civil State," etc. (1649, printed in part in Young's "Chroni- cles") ; "New England's Salamander," etc. (1647) ; "The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians of New England" (1649); and "A Platform of Church Discipline in New England" (1653). He died at sea, between Santo Domingo and Jamaica, May 8, 1655. WINSLOW, FORBES BENIGNUS, an English alienist; born in London, of a Massachusetts family, in August, 1810; v/as educated in Scotland and near Man- chester, and, after studying medicine at New York and the London University, passed the College of Surgeons (1835), and took his M. D. at Aberdeen. With his earliest practice he combined the du- ties of a "Times" reporter, but having after 1830 paid special attention to the study of insanity, he opened a private asylum at Hammersmith (later another in London), and rose in time to be the supreme authority on all relating to dis- eases of the brain. Founder and editor of the "Quarterly Journal of Psycholog- ical Medicine and Mental Pathology" (1848) and of the "Medical Critic" (1861), vice-president of the Juridical and president of the Medical Society (1853), president of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums (1857), and a Commissioner of Lunacy (1859), he was besides a member of numerous sci- entific bodies, a frequent contributor to the press, and the great "expert" in med- ico-legal cases. He published "The Ap- plication of Phrenology to the Elucida- tion and Cure of Insanity" (1831) ; "Anatomy of Suicide" (1840) ; "Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases" (1843) ; "Notes on the Lunacy Act" (1845) ; "Softening of the Brain" (1849) ; "Lett- sonian Lectures on Insanity" (1854) ; "Obscure Diseases of the Brain and Dis- orders of the Mind" (1860; 4th ed. 1868) ; "Light, Its Influence on Life and Health" (1867) ; etc. He died in Brigh- ton, England, March 3, 1874. WINSLOW, JOHN ANCRUM, an American naval officer ; born in Wilming- ton, N. C, Nov. 19, 1811; entered the navy about 1827, became a lieutenant in 1839, and commander in 1855. In 1862 he served under Captain Foote on the Mississippi river. He obtained command of the steamer "Kearsarge," of seven guns, and was ordered to the coast of Europe, to watch Confederate cruisers, in the early part of 1863. On June 19, 1864, he met the "Alabama," Captain Semmes, near Cherbourg. WheA the vessels were about a mile apart, the "Alabama" be- gan to fire rapidly and wildly, but the guns of the "Kearsarge" were directed with coolness and precision. The vessels fought in circles, swinging steadily around an ever-changing center. After they had described seven circles and had diminished their distance to about a quarter of a mile, the "Alabama" began to sink, and raised a white flag. Cap- tain Winslow lost only three killed and wounded out of 163 officers and men. He took 65 prisoners. He was promoted