Shlu

See Shilha. Shoa (shō'ä). A kingdom in the southeastern part of Aby in i a, southeast of Amhara. The chief towns are Licheh (the capital), Ankober, and An go lall a. The inhabitants (Amharas and Gallas) are estimated at 1,500,000. Shoal haven (shōl'ha-vn). A river in New South Wales, Australia, which flows into the Pacific about 80 miles south-southwest of Syd- ney. Length, over 150 miles. Shoal water Bay (sh (shōl'water bā). An inlet of the Pacific Ocean, situated in Pacific County, in the southwestern part of the State of Wash ington. Length, 28 miles. Shoe bury ne Shoe bury ne (shöʻber-i-nes). A headland in E ex, England, on the north side of the Thames estuary, 33 miles east of London. Near it is the village of Shoe bury ne , with a noted artillery shooting-range. Shoemaker's Holi Craft. A comedy by Dekker. It was published anonymously in 1600, and had been played the year before. It contains one of his best characters, Simon Eyre, "shoo maker and Lord Maior of London." er's Holiday, The, or the Gentle Shoe-string District, The. See the extract. The most flagrant instance of gerrymandering is probably the sixth [Congre ional] district of Mi i ippi. This remarkable district consists of all the counties of the State which touch the Mi i ippi River. Its length is about 300 miles and its average breadth about 20, and its peculiar shape has given it its popular name of the "shoe-string" Lalor, Cyc. Polit. Science, II. 368. district. [In the late redistribution the Shoe-string District has disappeared.] Sholapur (sho-lä-pör'). 1. A district in Bombay, British India, intersected by lat. 18o N., long. 75° 20′ E. Area, 4,542 square miles. Population (1891), 750,689.-2. The capital of the district of Sholapur, situated about lat. 17° 40' N., long. 75° 53′ E. It is a trading center. Population (1891), 61,915. Shona (shō'nä), or Mashona (mä-shō'nä). A Bantu tribe of British South Africa, living on the highland which forms the watershed between the Limpopo and Zambesi basins (intersected by lat. 18o S. and long. 30° E.). They are industrious, work iron, and spin and weave native cotton. They were subjects of the Matabele before the subjugation of these by the British South Africa Company in 1894. See Mash on a land.