Arkansas

one of the United States of deriving its name from a tribe of Indians were the primitive occupants. It is bounded by Mi ouri, east by Tenne ee and Mi is south by Louisiana, and west by Indian The district was first colonised by in 1685, then ceded to Spain, restored to France, and finally in 1803 sold with to the United States. 1t was organised a territory in 1819, and erected into a state in 1836. area is 52,198 square miles. The Arkansns river, 2,200 miles long, waters much of it, and are also the Mi i ippi, Red, White, and rivers. The soil in the central portion is rich, and the surface charmingly undulating wooded. ‘Towards the east. marshes prevail, the western parts are mountainous. Until the state was devoted to agricultural and industries, producing all kinds of corn, sugar, cotton, potatoes, and tobacco, and numberle cattle; now the mineral wealth, of silver, coal, zinc, and iron, is being developed. Jittle Rock is the seat of Arkansas, Batesville, Columbia, and being places of importance. Arkansas River. [ARKAnsAS.] Arklow, 2 seaport in the county Wicklow, Ireon the Avoca river, close to the sea, and miles from Wicklow. The railway from to Wexford pa es through. The lower is the fishermen's quarter, the inhabitants mostly engaged in the herring and oyster The old castle now in ruins was by Cromwell in 1649, and a sharp between the United Irish men and the troops took place near the town in 1798, Ark wright, Siz RicHArn, Kxt., was born at in 1732. He started in life as a barber, in conjunction with Kay, a clockmaker at invented, about 1768, a machine for cotton, so as to adapt it for being dealt by the spinning jenny of Hargreaves. ‘The inventions revolutionised the manufacture of goods. He patented his spinning-frame in and entering into partnership with Mr. started in busine at Preston. ‘This was unsucce ful, so he moved to where he employed horse-power to his machinery. A little later he combined two capitalists, Mr. Strutt and Mr. Need, to a mill at Cromford, near Matlock, using the of the Derwent for motive power. Here in course of twenty years he ama ed a large though his easy was set aside by the of King’s Bench in 1789; and here he died 1792, after receiving the honour of knighthood, so much for his inventive genius as for a loyal to George III.