WINDMILL

mill which utilizes wind pre ure as motive-power for mechanical work, such as grinding corn, pumping water, or sawing wood. The wind gives a rotary motion to four sails mounted on tower. Sails are fixed to shaft, which transfers motion by cogwheels to vertical main shaft. Sails always face wind by automatic device, top of mill rotating. W.’s have been displaced in modern mes by steam-engine and other automatic power, but in Holland, America, and Australia they are still extensively used for pumping purposes. In the two latter countries steel has replaced wood in construction of w.’s. American cabinet officer; born in Waterferd, Ohio, May 10, 1827; died in New York, June 29, 1891. He joined the bar in 1850, and was prosecuting attorney for Knox County, Ohio, 1852-1855. He removed to Minnesota and was| elected to Congre 1859-1869 and to the U.S. senate in 1870, to fill unexpired term of Daniel S. Norton, deceased; elected 1877, and 1883. He resigned from the senate in 1881 to be Secretary of the Treasury in Garfield’s cabinet, returning to the senate after Garfield’s death. In 1889 President Harrison appointed him Secretary of the Treasury.