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* HILL-PARTRIDGE. 82 HILPRECHT. other partridges. They arc favorite game bird.s in Northern India. HILLSBORO, hilz'bQr-6. A city and the uninlyntat vi .Mmitjiouiery County, III., til miles northeast of Saint Louis, Mo.; on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, (.'liicago and Suint Louis Railroad (Map: Illinois, C 4). Among its industrial es- tablishments are a coal-mine, tlour and woolen mills, furniture and carriage factories, etc. Popu- latiuM. ill I'.MiO, l'j;J7. HILLSBORO. A village and the county-seat of llijjliland County. Ohio. tiO miles east of Cin- cinnati: llie terminus of branches of the Balti- more and Ohio Southwestern and the Norfolk and Western railroads (Map: Ohio. C 7). It has a public library of 7500 volumes, and a handsome soldiers' moniunent of granite. The manufactures include lumlx'r. furniture, flour, foundry products, etc. The water-works are owned liv the nuuiicipalitv. Population, in 1890, 3620; in 1000. 453.i. HILLSBORO. A city and the county-seat of Hill County. Tex.. .'54 miles north of Waco; on the Saint I^ouis .Southwestern and the Missouri, Kansas and Te.xas railroads (Map: Texas. K ."! | . It is the centre of a fertile agricultural district, with an important trade in cotton, grain, live stock, and hides, and has cotton gins and com- presses, a cotton-mill, a cottonseed-oil mill, flour and planing mills, and manufactures of hosiery, garments, novelties, candy, hay-presses, etc. The water-works are owned bv the municipality. Pop- ulation in ISIKl, 2.141 : in' 1000. .5340. HILLSBOROUGH, hilz'bur .*.. A seaport town of .llicrt County. New Bnmswick, Can. ; on the right bank of the Petitcodiac estuary, just above its outlet into Shepody Hay. 24 miles by rail from Salisbury (Nlap: New Brunswick, E 4). It has manufactures of plaster, which, with mineral oil from the depleted "Albertite' coalmines in the neighborhood, it exports in con- siderable quantities to the I'nitcd States. The town was founded in 17t»3 by a member of the Steeves family, of whom there are now 700 repre- sentatives in a population of 3000. HILLSBOROUGH, Wills Hill. Earl of (171S'.t3i. A British statesman, first Marquis of Uownshire, a native of Fairford, Gloucester- shire. He was elected to Parliament for War- wick in 1741. and the following year succeeded his father as I^ord Lieutenant of Downshire. He became a peer of Ireland in 17.'il. )ut went from the Irish to the English Privy Council (1754), George II. having made him comptroller of his household. After entering the English House of Lords (17.50), he held various political ap- pointments. While Secretary of State for the Colonies (1708). his stubbornness and bad judg- ment m.ide much mischief between them and the mother country, and he showed but little more tact in advocating the union of England and Ire- land. He was said to have been a model Irish landlord. .At the conclusion of his first letter, Junius mentions Lord Hillsborough as one of the ministers responsible for the .merican crisis. HILLS'DALE. A city and the countv-seat of Hillsdale Cnunty. Mich.. 00 miles southwest of Detroit, on the Lake Shore and Michigan South- em Railroad (Map: ifichigan. .T 7). It is the centre of a fertile agricultural and stock-raising region, and manufactures fur and fur-lined over- coats, flour, window-screens and screen doors, furnaces, wooden novelties, tables, wagon-wheels, etc. The city has a beautiful private park, and south of the city limits is Baw Beese Park, a popular summer resort. Hillsdale College ( I-'rce Baptist) was established here in 1855. Hillsdale, settled about 1840. is governed under a charter of i8!tli, by a mayor elected annually and a uni- cameral council, of which the executive is a member. The city owns and operates its water- works and electric-light plant. Population, in 18!10, :!'.il.'): in I'.IOO, 4151. HILLSTAR. . y humming-bird of the genera Diplogena and Oreotrochilus. These are among the largest of the tribe, very gay in color, ami inhabit the Andes from Ecuador to Bolivia. Those of the former genus are remarkable for their brilliant crown spots. In the latter genus are many species, each of which is limited in its range to a single mountain, or very limited area of high elevation. See Hummixg-Biku. HIXL-TIT. One of a numerous family ( Leio- Irichida-l of small insect ami berry eating birds, often brightly colored, which inhabit the Hima- layan region and eastward. Among them is the red-billed hill-tit iLriolhrijr liilca). which is widely dealt in as a cage-bird under the name '.Japanese robin.' though it is unknown in Japan. It has brilliant colors, a sweet song, and gentle manners. HILMEND, hil'racnd. See Helmuxd. HILO, hc'lA. The second town in size r.nd the l)est seaport of the Hawaiian group, situated on Hilo Bay. on the eastern coast of the island of Hawaii "(Map: Hawaii. F 4). It has a pro- tected harbor with a lighthouse, and contains a court-house, a custoni-house. and a library. The town is surrounded by luxuriant tropical forests, with extensive lav:i-fields in the vicinity. There are delightful drives, and an excellent carriage-road winds from the town up toward the crater of Kilauea. The population (district, 10.785 in 1000) is extremely lictcrogeneous. and the American element i^ primiincnt. HILONGOS, or ILONGOS, .'■ Ifing'As. A town on the island of I.eyte. Philippines, situated on the southwestern shore. 00 miles from Tacloban (Map: Philippine Islands, J 9). Population, 13.800. HIXPRECHT, hil'pri'Kt. Hermann Vollr.t (18.")0— 1. . .-i>yriologist. born at Hohenerx- leben. Germany, and educated at Bernburg and Leipzig. In 1885 he was repetent in Old Testa- ment theology at Erlangen. and in the following year came to Philadelphia to become editor of the Oriental department of the Sundat/Hcboo! Times. Afterwards he was appointed professor of As- syrian in the University of Pennsylvania. He studied the Assyrian inscriptions (1882) in the British iluseum. traveled in Syria. Babylonia, and .sia Minor, and became an authority on cuneiform paleography, so that the Turkish Gov- ernment made him head of the Babylonian de- partment of the Imperial Museum in Constanti- nople. In 1888 be accompanied the University of Pennsylvania's expedition to Nippur, but re- turned the following year. JIany of the docu- ments found after his departure were sent to him. and in 1900 he returned to Nippur, and soon after was put in charge of the excavations, the results of which had much scientific im-