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* CANANDAIGUA. 129 CANABY. tanned leather, and malt liquors. Settled about 178'J and incorporated as a village in 1815, Can- andaigiia is governed under the charter of 1849 bv a mayor, biennially elected, and a board of trustees. The village owns its oi water-works. Population, in 1890, 58G8 ; in 1900, 0151. CANANDAIGUA LAKE. A lake in OuUxrio County and forming part of the western border of Vatcs County, X. Y. (ilap: Xew York, C 3). It lies nearly north and south, is 15 miles long by nearly 2 miles wide, 668 feet above the tide, and 421 feet above Lake Ontario, into which it discharges its waters through the Canandaigua outlet, the Clyde, Seneca, and Oswego rivers. It receives its tributary waters mainly at the south end, and has its outlet at tlie north end. It is surrounded by high banks and furnishes charm- ing scenery, and its steamboats are e.tensi^'ely patronized by pleasure-seekers. CANANORE, k-in'a-nor'. See Kananub. CA'NA OF GAL'ILEE (Gk. Kavd r^g raW.atac A'fom tvs Oalihiias). A town mentioned several times in the Gospel of John. Here Jesus per- formed ilis first miracle, the changing of water into wine (.John ii. 1, 12). He visited it again later in His ministry ( John iv. 46 ). It was the home of one of His early disciples, Xathanael (John xxi. 2). The site is not certainly known. By some it has been located at Khirbet Kana, about 8 miles north of Xazareth, near the plain of Asocliis (Sahel el Buttauf). By others it has been identified with Kefr Kennah, about 4 miles northeast of Nazareth, on the road to Tiberias. CANABD, ka-nard' or ka-niir' (Fr., a hoax, clieat. literally a duck). An absurd and sensa- tional story. The origin of lliis application of the word canard (duck) is uncertain. Some derive it from the old phrase rrtulevr dp canard a moitic, literally 'one who sells half a duck,' that is, pretends to sell a duck, but cheats dtiring the transaction : while others attribute its origin to the following marvelous tale cir- culated by Cornelissen in order to try the gul- libility of the public: Having at one time twenty ducks in his possession, he killed them one by one and gave their bodies to the dimin- ishing number of survivors, who successively devoured them, until one out of the twenty was all that remained, and he had actually eaten his nineteen comrades. A corresponding expres- sion in the United States is the term roorback, a fictitious narrative published for purposes of political advantage. It originated in 1844 from a story of some notoriety purporting to be an extract from the Travis of Baron Roorback. CANARESE, kan'a-rez'. See Kaxabese. CANAKI, ka-nii're. An ancient tribe about the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador, conquered and incorporated by the Ineas, about 1450. They Were skillful metal-workers, their technique dif- fering from that of the Quichua. Copper axes, curiously ornamented, arc found in their tombs, sometimes as much as 500 pounds weight in a single deposit. Some of the most beautiful gold ornaments of the Andean region have also been found in their territory. Their linguistic con- nection is unknown. CANARIE, k.a'n&'re'. A dance, now obsolete, supposed to have come from the Canary Islands. Two persons danced before each other with ex- travagant gestures. It was a favorite dance in France in the time of Louis XIV'., and it is men- tioned by Shakespeare. The canarie is a si)ecie3 of gigue resembling the loure, only quicker in tempo. CANA'RIUM (X'eo-Lat., from East Indian canari, from Kanara, or Canura, a district of southwestern India). A genus of trees of the order BurseraeeiE, the species of which are na- tives of the southeastern parts of Asia, the Malaj'an archipelago, Australia, etc. The fruit is a drupe. The kernel of the fruit of Canarium commune is eaten both raw and roasted, and in Amboyna bread is made of it. An oil is expressed from it, which is used both for table purposes and for lamps. The tree is about 50 feet high and has a bark which yields a heavy oil that has the same properties as balsam eopaiva and may be substituted for it. Canarium sylvcstre also produces eatable kernels. The titnber of tliis species is hard, tough, and close- grained, and is used for furniture. Canarium commune is sui^iJosed to be one of the trees which yield the resin called elemi, and Canarium strictum is a large tree in Bombay and Madras, where it grows at elevations up to 4500 feet. The foliage is very brilliant and attractive. From the trunk a gum exudes, the black dam- mar of connnerce. It solidifies upon the tree into black lumps, but is amber-colored by trans- mitted light, ('anarium Australianum fur- nishes a timber valuable in finishing houses. CANA'RY (named after the Canary Islands). A small finch (C'arduelis Canaria), a native of the Canary Islands, iladeira, and the Cape Verde, but introduced into Europe as a cage-bird in the latter part of the Fifteenth or early in the Six- teenth Century, and now found, as a captive, in all parts of the world where Europeans have gone. So popular has the canary become as a cage-bird, on account of its power of song and its gentle manners, that the breeding of canaries for the market is not only a popular avocation in some places, but even an important industry. In the wild state the plumage is dull greenish, streaked with darker shades, like a siskin ( q.v. ), and the yellow, orange, or red shades of the domesticated birds are entirely the result of man's artificial selection. The size of the ca- nary, as well as its color, has been profoundly modified by domestication, and some varieties ^re lialf as large again as the wild bird, which is rather more than 5 inches in length. The musical powers of the bird have also been con- siderably modified, and there is much variety in the difTerent breeds in this particular, but it is doubtful whether in power and clearness the domestic liirds are the equal of those which are wild. In their native haunts canaries frequent the vicinity of houses, build their nests of nu)ss, hair, grass, feathers, etc., in bushes or trees, and raise two or more broods in the season. The eggs are four or five in a set, and are pale blue, generally unspotted. The birds feed ehicfiy upon seeds, especially of certain grasses, but they also cat soft green leaves, buds, and occasionally insects. The breeding and training of canaries is a subject of much interest and no little impor- tance. It has been carried on most extensively in northern England. Scotland, Belgium, and especially in the Harz Mountains in Germany. The various breeds of canaries take their names in part from the locality where bred, and in