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ALLEPPI. canals and lagoons along the coast, Alleppi ooni- municates with Cochin on the north and Trivan- drum on the south. Population estimated at from 24,000 to 30,000. ALLER, al'er. A river of Germany, rising about 20 miles west of Magdeburg. It Hows northwestward, joining the Veser near Verden. Of its course of l.'i.') miles, the greater part across Hanover, the portion which lies below Calle is navigalile. AL'LERTON, Isaac (c. 1583-1659). One of the Pilgrim Fathers who came to America in the first voyage of the Mayflower. He was one of the energetic and wealthy members of Ply- mouth colony, and was sent to Europe several times as its agent. A disagreement with the colony in 16.31 resulted in his removal to New Amsterdam, where he became a member of the council in 1043. He spent the latter years of his life in New Haven. His daughter, Mary, was the last survivor of the Mayflower company. ALLEVARD-LES-BAINS, ari'-viir'la-baN'. A town of the department of Isere, France, on the left bank of the Breda, 15 miles southeast of Chambery. It has iron and steel manufac- tures, and is greatly resorted to for its valuable medicinal springs and the picturesque scenery of its valley. Pop., ISOO, 2726,  ALLEYN, al'lcn, Edward (1566-1626). An English actor, theatre manager, and the founder of Dulwich College. Born in the parish of St. Botolph, .just out of London, he went upon the stage shortly before Shakespeare eame from Stratford. AllevTi won rapid success, especially in tragedy, playing among other roles the Jew in Marlowe's Jew of Malta, and also Tambur- laine and Faustus. He ow-ned several play- houses, and in 1592 married the step-daughter of Philip Henslowe (q.v.), with whom he was asso- ciated in building the Fortune Theatre and in various other enterprises, including the profit- able business of bear-baiting. As his wealth in- creased, he ceased acting and became a manager. But though he seems to have been so much the favorite actor of his time that, as was said, "The name of Ned Allen on the common stage was able to make an ill matter good," his chief claim to remembrance is as the munificent founder of the College of God's Gift, at Dulwich. His motive in this benefaction has been ascribed by tradi- tion to an apparition of the devil, who ap- peared to him as he was playing that character in a theatre, but his well-known liberality and the fact that he was childless are more to the point. The cfdlege was l)egun in 1613, and in 1619, after some obstruction on the part of Lord Chancellor' Bacon, who wished the King to prefer the foundation of two lectureships at Oxford and Cambridge, it obtained the royal charter. Here for several years Alleyn resided, and managed the affairs of the institution. Alle.yn was a friend of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and a patron of Dckker (q.v.) and other writers. He was buried in the chapel of the college he had founded, and among its possessions are his portrait and a collection, in part, however, spuri- ous, of his business papers. Consult : J. P. Collier, Memoirs of Edward Alleyn (London, 1841) : J. P, Collier, Annals of the Stage (Lon- don, 1819); Warner, Catalogue of the Manu- scripts and Muniments at Dulwich College (Lon- don, 1881) ; and Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England (London, 1662). ALLEYNE, Ellen. A pseudonym under which Christina Georgina Rossetti wrote for The Germ.  ALL FOR LOVE, OR THE WORLD WELL LOST. One of Dryden's best-known tragedies, produced in 167S. It is unrhjnned. and in some respects is an imitation of .Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. ALLGÄU, al'goi. A subdivision of the Euro- pean Alps (q.v.) in its widest sense, surround- ing the basin of the Iller River in southwestern * Bavaria, Germany. The name is also applied to the Bavarian districts of Sonthofen and Immen- stadt.  ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG, al'ge-ml'ne tsS'- tung (Ger., "general newspaper") . The first Ger- man newspaper of a high class. It succeeded in 1798 the 'Neueste Weltkunde, and was published by Gotta (q.v.), who had sought Sell iller as edi- tor. The journal became the organ of states- men and publicists, and has always commanded the services of distinguished literary men as critics and correspondents. For more than a cen- tury it has maintained its founder's ideal of a newspaper, as a record of German thought, and a trustworthy storehouse of materials for the future historian. First published at Stuttgart, it was successively transferred to Ulm and Augs- burg, and is now published at Munich. ALL HAL'LOWS. See All Saints' Day. AL'LIA. In ancient geography, a small stream which flowed into the Tiber about eleven miles north of Rome. It is celebrated as the scene of the defeat of the Roman army by the Gauls, under Brennus, about 390 B.C. Immedi- ately afterward, Rome was taken, plundered, and burned. It is diflieult to identify the Allia with any of the modern streams; but the evidence seems in favor of the Fosso del la Bettina. AL'LIA'CEOUS PLANTS. Plants of the genus Allium (q.v.), or others nearly allied to it. The term is generally employed to denote not only the possession of certain botanical char- acters, but also of a certain smell and taste, el known by the term alliaceous, of which ex- amples are readily found in the onion, leek, gar- lie, and other familiar species of Allium, much employed for culinary purposes. These plants contain free phosphoric acid, and a sulphuretted oil, which is partly dissipated in boiling or roast- ing. The alliaceous flavor is, however, found also, although in comparatively rare instances, in plants of entirely dift'erent botanical affinities — for example, in Sisymbrium alliaria, of the natural order Cruciferoe (see Alliaria) ; in the young shoots of Cedrela angustifolia, a tropical American tree allied to nurhogany ; and in cer- tain species of Dyso.xylum, of the kindred order Meliaccne, the fruit of which is used instead of garlic by the mountaineers of Java. ALLI'ANCE. See Holt Alliance ; Treaty ; Triple Alliance. ALLIANCE, E'vanqel'ical. See Evangeli- cal Alliance. ALLIANCE. Farmers'. See Farmers' Al- liance. ALLIANCE. A city and railroad junction in Stark Co., Ohio, fifty-seven miles south-southeast of Cleveland, on the Mahoning River, and on the Lake Erie, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago, and several other railroads (Map: