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walls conceal them. The artist died in 1879, about a year after painting them.

Hun'ter, David* was born at Washington, D. C, July 21, 1802. He graduated from West Point in 1822. Entering the army, he became captain of dragoons, and left the service in 1836. But he re-entered the army as paymaster in 1842. At the breaking out of the Civil War, Hunter was made colonel of the 6th United States cavalry. He commanded a division at Bull Run and was wounded. In 1862 he was in command of the department of the south and abolished slavery in his department; but this order was countermanded by President Lincoln. Hunter defeated a Confederate force at Piedmont on June 5, 1864. He died at Washington, D. C., Feb. 2, 1886.

Hunter, John (1728-93), a distinguished Scotch anatomist and surgeon from whom is named the great Hunterian Museum in London. He did important work in comparative anatomy, and is one of the fathers of zoological science. His brother William (1718-83), famous as a surgeon, founded the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow University.

Hun'tington, Ind., city and county-seat of Huntington County, is on Little River, about 20 miles southwest of Fort Wayne. The city has excellent waterpower, and manufactures boots, shoes, barrels, plows, bicycles, pianos, lime, and cement, and, besides, has foundries and woodworking factories. The city has a trade in coal and lime, because of the coalfields and limekilns near by, and also in agricultural products. Located here is United Brethren College. The city has a public library, owns and operates its water and lighting plants, and is served by the Chicago and Erie and Wabash railways. Population 10,220.

Huntington, W. Va., the capital of Cabell County, on the Ohio River, founded in 1871, and named after the late C. P. Huntington, then president of the Southern Pacific Railroad. It lies 50 miles west of Charleston, the state capital, in a picturesque agricultural region, reached by the Chesapeake and Ohio, Guyandotte Valley and Ohio River railroads. Here is the seat of Marshall College (the state normal school), Douglas High School (for colored youth) and the West Virginia Asylum for incurables. Hunting-ton has an excellent public-school system, its high school giving a four years' course. It is the shipping point for a large trade in coal, iron and lumber; its industrial establishments include railway, machine and car shops, saw and planing mills, manufactories of glass, stoves, bricks, woodwork, paints etc. The city is beautifully laid out, and has a population of 31,161.

Hunts'ville, Ala., a city and county-seat of Madison County, 96 miles from Birmingham. It is in the center of a fine agricultural, cotton, fruit and stock raising region,

known as the Tennessee Valley. It has great importance as a manufacturing city in the south, and is second only to Lowell, Mass., in cotton manufacturing, having nine mills, with a combined annual output of $4,775,-ooo. Besides these, Huntsville has cotton-seedoil mills, planingmills, heading, fibre, spoke and handle factories, machine shops, foundries and brick plants.

Huntsville has a number of private schools, a public-school system and, close to the city, the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes. It has all the adjuncts of a progressive city? and owns and operates its waterworks. Water is supplied from a spring having a daily capacity of 2,400,000 gallons. This "Big Spring" attracted the city's first settler, John Hunt, a Virginian soldier of the Revolution. He built his cabin here in 1805, and brought his family from Tennessee in 1806. The settlement was in-<5orporated in 1811 as Huntsville, It is served by the Nashville, C. and St. L. and Southern railways. Population 7,611.

t Hunyady (tiobn'yod-§), Janos. John Cor-vinus Hunyady, governor of Hungary, one of the greatest war-captains of his age, was born near the end of the i4th century. His life was one unbroken crusade against the Turks. From 1437 to 1456 he was the shield of Hungary, not only against foreign foes, but against the lawlessness of the nobles at home. In 1442 he drove the Turks out of Transylvania, followed by a brilliant campaign south of the Danube in the next year; but his greatest exploit was the storming of Belgrade in 1456. Hunyady was governor of the kingdom from" 1445 to 1453, and the royal line was wholly displaced when his son Matthias came to the throne He died on Aug. u, 1456.

Hu'ron, Lake, the second largest of the five Great Lakes, on the frontier between the United States and Canada, is joined to Lake Superior by St. Mary's River and to Lake Michigan by the Strait of Mackinaw, The lake is divided into two unequal parts by Cabot's Head Peninsula and Grand Manitou-lin Island, the parts to the north being called North Channel and Georgian Bay Its greatest length is 263 miles and greatest breadth—without Georgian Bay-—105 miles. Its greatest depth is 750 feet, and it is 581 feet above sealevel. It often has violent storms, like the other Great Lakes There are about 3,000 islands in the lake. The water is very clear and pure, and fish are abundant. Good harbors are plentiful, and at Sand Beach, Mich., there is a harbor of refuge. See Grossman's Chart of the Great Lakes.

Htirons, a once-powerful tribe of American Indians belonging to the great Huron-Iroquois family. Their home was near Georgian Bay, Lake Huron. Their own story of their origin was that a woman fell from heaven into the ocean. Then the tortoise and