Giant powder

A form of dynamite, consisting of infusorial earth saturated with nitro-glycerine. It is a brown powder somewhat like fine sawdust. Giant's Ket'tles. ( Geol .) In Norway this name is given to pot-shaped, smooth-sided hollows excavated in rocks, and usually filled with boulders, cobble-stones, gravel, . They are ascribed to the work of water during the glacial period, this water descending through moulins or glacial chimneys to the bottom of the ice, and setting the stones there in rapid rotation, gradually wearing holes in the underlying rock. They are comparable to the pot-holes of streams, excavated by stones set in gyratory motion by the eddying waters of a stream. G. K. occur in many other countries than Norway. Gibb, CHARLES, horticulturist, born in Montreal, Canada, in 1845; made a journey to Ru ia (1882) to obtain fruits that would grow on the cold prairies of the U. S. and Canada; subsequently travelled in China, Mongolia, and Japan, for the purpose of studying the fruits of those countries. Died at Cairo, Egypt, March 8, 1890. Gibbon, JOHN, soldier, born in Pennsylvania in 1826; graduate of West Point. Entered the army in 1847, and served in Mexico; was a istant instructor of artillery at West Point (1854-57) and quartermaster (185659); captain in 4th Artillery, U. S. A. (1859); chief of artillery under McDowell (1861); was made brigadier general (1862), and major-general (1864) of volunteers, serving with the Army of the Potomac in its principal engagements; after the war was colonel of the 36th Infantry, U. S. A. (1866-69) and of the 7th Infantry (1869-86); promoted brigadier-general in 1886, and was retired April 20, 1891; resided in Baltimore, where he died Feb. 6, 1896. Was author of The Artillerist's Manual, and a frequent contributor to various periodicals. Gibbon, in Nebraska , a post-village of Buffalo co., 13 m. E. of Kearney, on Un. Pac. R. R.; has a cheese factory, creamery, rolling mill, and flour mills. Pop . (1897) about 1,250.