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See Jung. Stilling fleet (stil'ing-flet), Edward. Born at Cranborne, Dorset, England, April 17, 1635: died at Westminster, March 28, 1699. A noted English prelate and theologian. He graduated at Cambridge (St. John's College), in 1652; was chaplain to Charles II., and dean of St. Paul's; and was made bishop of Worcester in 1689. Among his works are "Irenicum (1659), "Origines Sacræ" (1662), "Unreasonablene of Separation," "Origines Britannicæ" (1685), works against the nonconformists and Roman Catholics, etc. Still water (stil'water). The capital of Washington County, Minnesota, situated on St. Croix River 19 miles northeast of St. Paul. It is an important seat of the lumber trade. Population (1890), 11,260. Still water, Battles of. See Saratoga , Battles of . Stimson (stim's on), Frederic Jesup: pseudonym J. S. of Dale. Born at Dedham, Ma ., July 20, 1855. An American lawyer and novelist. He has published a law glo ary (1881), and a number of novels under his pseudonym. Stinkomalee (stingk-ō-ma-le'). A name given to London University, first by Theodore Hook. Stirling (ster'ling), or Stir lings hire (ster'lingshir). A county of Scotland, bounded by Perth and Clack mannan on the north, the Forth on the east, Linlithgow on the southeast, Lanark and Dumb art on on the south, and Dumb art on (partly separated by Loch Lomond) on the west. It has two detached portions to the northeast. The surface is largely hilly or mountainous (Lennox Hills, Ben Lomond) It was the scene of many battles in the wars of Wallace, Bruce, Montrose, and the Young Pretender. Area, 447 square miles. Population (1891), 125,608, Stirling. A royal and parliamentary burgh, cap ital of the county of Stirling, situated near the Forth in lat. 56° 7' N., long. 3° 57′ W. It has important woolen manufactures. Its castle is a picturesque agglomeration of battlemented buildings of various dates, occupying a height commanding the town. It was a favorite abode of the kings of Scotland, whose palace of the 16th century still stands on the lower court: on the upper court front the Parliament House and the Chapel Royal. It was frequently taken and retaken by the Scotch and English in the wars of Edward I., Edward II., and Edward III.; was taken by Monk in 1651; and was unsucce fully besieged by the Highlanders in 1745. The town contains also the Grey friars Church. In a picturesque location in the vicinity are Bannock burn, Sauchieburn, and Cam bus kenneth Abbey. Stirling is one of the oldest Scotch towns, and was long a royal residence. Population (1891), 16,781, Stirling, Earl of. See Alexander , Sir William . Stirling, James. Boru at Garden, Stir lings hire, 1692: died at Edinburgh, Dec. 5, 1770. A Scottish mathematician. At eighteen he entered Oxford, but was expelled in 1715 for corresponding with his Jacobite relatives, and as acce ory to the acts of rebellion. Stirling Bridge, Battle of. A victory gained at Stirling by the Scots under Wallace over the English in 1297. Stirling-Maxwell (ster'ling-maks'wel), Sir William. Born near Glasgow, 1818: died at Venice, Jan. 15, 1878. A Scottish author. He graduated at Cambridge (Trinity College) in 1839. His works include "Annals of the Artists of Spain" (1848), "Cloister Life of Charles V." (1852), "Velasquez and his Works" (1855), "Don John of Austria" (1883: privately printed earlier). Stock ton (stok'ton). The capital of San Joa- quin County, California, situated on the Stock- ton navigable channel, near the San Joaquin River, 64 miles east by north of San Francisco. Lambert Simnel at Stoke-upon-Trent, 1487. Stoke Newing ton (stok nü'ing-ton). A north- ern suburb of London, 3-4 miles north-northeast of St. Paul's. Stoke Poges (stōk pō'jis). A village in Buck- ing hams hire, England, 23 miles west of London: the burial-place of Thomas Gray. Stokes (stoks), Sir George Gabriel. Born at Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland, Aug. 13, 1819. A British mathematician and physicist. He gradu. ated in 1841 at Cambridge (Pembroke College) as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman; was appointed Lu- casian profe or of mathematics in 1849; was made presi- dent of the Royal Society in 1885; and in 1886 was returned as member of Parliament for Cambridge University. In 1846 he wrote a report for the British A ociation on hydro- dynamics. He discovered the refrangibility of light, for which discovery the Rumford medal was awarded to him in 1852. He was made a baronet in 1889. It is the commercial center of the San Joaquin Henry VII. over the adherents of the pretender valley. Population (1890), 14,424. Stock ton, Frank Richard. Born at Philadel- phi a, 1834. An American humorist. He has written a number of stories for children: "Roundabout Rambles, "Tales out of School," etc. His chief works are "Rudder Grange" (1879), "The Rudder Grangers Abroad," "The Lady or the Tiger? and other Stories" (1884), "The Late Mrs. Null" (1886), "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine" (1886: with its sequel "The Dusantes," 1888), "The Hundredth Man" (1887), "Personally Con- ducted" (1889), "The Merry Chanter" (1890), "The Squir- rel Inn" (1891), "The Clocks of Rondaine, etc." (1892), "The Watchmaker's Wife, etc." (1893), and "Pomona's Travels" (1894), "The Adventures of Captain Horn" (1895). Stock ton, Robert Field. Born at Princeton, N. J., 1795: died at Princeton, Oct. 7, 1866. An American naval officer and politician, son of Richard Stock ton (1764-1828). He served in the War of 1812, and in the Algerine war; negotiated the pur- chase of Liberia in 1821; served against the pirates; was sent to California in command of a squadron in 1845; with Frémont conquered California 1846-47, and organized a government; resigned from the navy in 1850; and was Democratic United States senator from New Jersey 1851-53. Stock ton-on-Tees (stok'ton-on-tēz'). A sea- port in the county of Durham, England, situ- ated on the Tees in lat. 54° 34′ N., long. 1° 19′ W. It has considerable commerce, and imp or- tant iron and steel manufactures. Population (1891), 49,731. K. O. Müller, Hist. of the Lit. of Anc. Greece, III. 379. [( Donald son .) Stockach (stok'käch). A town in the circle of Con stance, Baden, 16 miles north-northwest of Con stance. There, on March 25, 1799, the archduke Charles defeated the French under Jourdan; and on May 4, 1800, the French under Moreau defeated the Austrians under Kray. Stoddard (stod'ärd), Amos. Born at Wood- bury, Conn., Oct. 26, 1762: died at Fort Meigs, Ohio, May 11, 1813. An American soldier, an officer in the Revolution and in the War of 1812. He was governor of Mi ouri Territory 1804–05. He published "Sketches of Louisiana" (1812). Stoddard, Charles Warren. Born at Roches- ter, N. Y., 1843. An American writer, profe or of English literature at Notre Dame College, Indiana, 1885-86, and later lecturer on English literature at the Catholic University, Washing- ton, District of Columbia. He has written "South Sea Idylls" (1873), "Summer Cruising in the South Seas" (1874), "Mashallah!" (1880), "The Lepers of Molokai" (1885), etc. Stoddard, Mrs. (Elizabeth Barstow). Born at Matt a poi sett, Ma ., May 6, 1823. An Ameri- can poet and novelist, wife of R. H. Stoddard. Among her novels are "The Morgesons" (1862), "Two Men" (1865), "Temple House" (1867). Stoddard, Richard Henry. Born at Hingham, Ma ., July 2, 1825. An American poet and literary critic. He has published "Poems" (1852), "Songs of Summer" (1857), "The King's Bell" (1862), "The Story of Little Red Riding Hood" (1864), "Children in the Wood" (1865), "Abraham Lincoln: a Horatian Ode" (1865), "Putnam the Brave" (1869), "The Book of the East" st (1867: "The Book of the East, and other Poems," 1871); and has edited various works, including the "Bric-a-Brac" series (1874-76) and the "Sans Souci" series. Stoddert (stod'ért), Benjamin. Born in Mary- land, 1751: died at Bladensburg, Md., Dec., 1813. An American politician: the first secre' tary of the navy (1798-1801). 98-1801). Stoics (sto'iks). [Formerly also Stoick ; F. sto- ique , Sp. estóico , Pg. estoico, It. stoico, from L. stoic us , from Gr. στωικός , pertaining to a porch or portico, specifically pertaining to that Stolberg (stol'berg). 1. A countship in Thu- ringia, at the southern foot of the Harz. It is divided into Stolberg-Stolberg and Stolberg- Ro la.-2. The chief town of the countship of Stolberg-Stolberg, 50 miles southwest of Mag- deburg. It contains a castle. Population, 2,088. Stolberg. A town in the Rhine Province, Prus- sia, situated on the Vichtbach 7 miles east of Aix-la-Chapelle. In Stolberg and its vicinity are ex- tensive manufactures of bra , iron, lead, zinc, gla , etc. Its manufactures were established by French Huguenots in the 17th century. Population (1890), 12,792. Stolberg, Count Christian. Born at Hamburg, Oct. 15, 1748: died on his estate Windebye, near Eckernförde, Schleswig, Jan. 18, 1821. A German poet, a member of the "Göttingen Dichterbund." His works, with those of his brother, were published 1820-25. Stolberg, Count Fried rich Leopold. Born at Bramstedt, Holstein, Nov. 7, 1750: died near Osnabrück, Dec. 5, 1819. A German poet and author, brother of Christian Stolberg, and mem- ber of the "Göttingen Dichterbund." He wrote the "Iamben" (1784), with his brother "Schauspiele mit Chören," and "Vaterländische Gedichte"; he also wrote a translation of the Iliad, Plato, etc., the novel "Die Insel" (1788), travels, etc. Stolen Heire , The, or the Salamanca Doctor Outplotted. A comedy by Mrs. Cent livre, produced in 1702: from Thomas May's comedy "The Heir." Agora at Athens, and to the school of philosophy Stollhofen (stol'ho fen). A small village in Ba- founded by Zeno, who frequented this porch.] Disciples of the philosopher Zeno, who founded a sect about 308 в. с. He taught that men should be free from pa ion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to the unavoidable nece ity by which all things are governed. The Stoics are proverbially and for the influence which their tenets exercised over some of the noblest spirits of antiquity, especially among the Romans. Their system appears to have been an at- tempt to reconcile a theological pantheism and a material- ist psychology with a logic which seeks the foundations of knowledge in the representations or perceptions of the senses, and a morality which claims as its first principle the absolute freedom of the human will. The Stoics teach that whatever is real is material; that matter and force are the two ultimate principles; and that matter is of itself motionle and unformed, though capable of receiv- ing all motions and all forms. Force is the active, mov- ing, and molding principle, and is inseparably joined with matter; the working force in the universe is God, whose existence as a wise, thinking being is proved by the beauty and adaptation of the world. The supreme end of life, or the highest good, is virtue-that is, a life conformed to nature, the agreement of human conduct with the all- controlling law of nature, or of the human with the divine will; not contemplation, but action, is the supreme problem for man; virtue is sufficient for happine , but happine or pleasure should never be made the end of human en- deavor. The wise man alone attains to the complete per- form ance of his duty; he is without pa ion, although not den, near the Rhine 23 miles southwest of Karlsruhe. The Stollhofen lines were a defense against the French 1703-07. Stolp (stolp), or Stolpe (stol'pe). A town in the province of Pomerania, Pru ia, situated on the river Stolpe 65 miles west of Dantzic. It was a Hanseatic town. Population (1890), Stone Stone (ston). A town in Staff ords hire, England, situated on the Trent 7 miles north of Stafford. Population (1891), 5,754. Stone, Amasa. Born at Charlton, Ma ., April 27, 1818: died at Cleveland, Ohio, May 11, 1883. An American financier and philanthropist. He largely endowed Adelbert College of Western Reserve University. Stone, Charles Pomeroy. Born at Greenfield, Ma ., Sept. 30, 1824: died in New York city, Jan. 24, 1887. An American general and engineer. He graduated at West Point in 1845; served in the Mexican war; was head of the survey and scientific exploration of Sonora, Mexico, 1857-60; was engaged in the winter of 1861 at Washington (as colonel and inspector-general of the local militia) in drilling volunteers; was placed in command of the defenses of Washington May 14, 1861; served as brigade commander under Patters on in the Shenandoah; was in command of the corps of observation of the Army of the Potomac Aug. 10, 1861, Feb. 9, 1862; directed the unfortunate attack at Ball's Bluff Oct. 1861; was imprisoned in Fort Lafayette (New York harbor) Feb.-Aug., 1862; served at the siege of Port Hudson in 1863; and was chief of staff in the Red River campaign of 1864. He was in the service of the khedive 1870-83, and became chief of staff. He was chief engineer for the erection of the pedestal of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.