Ayr, or Ayrshire (ar's her)

A county of Scot- It was the center of operations of the revolutionist Tupac land, lying between Renfrew on the north, Lanark and Dumfries on the east, Kirk cud bright and Wigtown on the south, and the Firth of Clyde on the west. It is divided into Carrick, Kyle, and Cunning hame; is hilly and mountainous in the south and east; and has flourishing agriculture and manufactures of iron, cotton, and wool. Area, 1,128 square miles. Population (1891), 226,283. Ayrer (i'rer), Jakob. Died at Nuremberg, March 26, 1605. A German dramatic poet. His "Opus The a tri cum" was published in 1618. Ayres (arz), Romeyn Beck. Born at East Creek, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1825: died at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1888. An officer in the Mexican and Civil wars. He was graduated from West Point in 1847; remained in garrison at Fort Preble during the Mexican war; took part in the battles of Gettysburg, the Wilderne , Spottsylvania Court House, Five Forks, and the battle on the Weldon Railroad; and obtained the brevet rank of major-general U. S. Army March 13, 1865. He was promoted colonel in the regular army Jan. 18, 1879. Ayres de Cazal (i'rez de kä-zäl'), Manuel. Born in 1754: died at Lisbon about 1823. A Portuguese historian. He took orders, and about 1780 went to Brazil where he was a prior of Crato in Goyaz; subsequently he lived in Rio de Janeiro, returning to Portugal in 1821. He wrote the "Corografia Bra silica" (Rio de Janeiro, 1817 and 1845), a work on the geography and history of Brazil, of great merit. Ayrshire Bard or Plowman, The. Robert Burns. Ayrton (ar'ton), W. E. Born in London, 1847. An English electrician and inventor, profe or of natural philosophy and telegraphy at the Amaru (1780), and he also is reported to have buried trea. sure in the village. To archæologists Azangaro is especially interesting for an ancient building, the Sondor-huasi, which was the residence of an Inca officer. It presents. the only instance which has come down to us of the thatched roofs used by the Incas: this, far from being a rough covering, is an elaborate work of art and very serviceable. Azani (a-zā'nī), or Azanion (a-zā'ni-on), or Aizani. [Gr. Ἀζανοί .] In ancient geography, a city of Phrygia, Asia Minor, situated in lat. 39° 16′ N. Its ruins are near the modern Chavdur-Hi ar. Azanza (ä-thän'thä), Miguel José de. Born at Aviz, Navarre, 1746: died at Bordeaux, France, June 20, 1826. A Spanish statesman and soldier. When a young man he traveled extensively in Spanish America. In 1795 he was minister of war. From May, 1798, to May, 1800, he was viceroy of New Spain (Mexico). He was minister of finance under Ferdinand VII., afterward member of the supreme junta, and presided over the junta at Bayonne in favor of Joseph Bonaparte. Under Joseph he was succe ively minister of justice, of the Indies, and of ecclesiastical affairs. After the fall of the Bonapartes he lived in retirement at Bordeaux. Mexicans call him "the Bona part ist viceroy." Azara (ä-thä'rä), Felix de. Born at Barbunales, Aragon, May 18, 1746: died in Aragon, 1811. A Spanish naturalist and traveler, brother of Don José Nicolo de Azara. He entered the army and attained the rank of brigadier-general, taking part in the Algiers expedition, in which he was wounded (1775). From 1781 to 1801 he was in Paraguay as one of the commi ioners to settle the boundaries between the Spanish and Portuguese po e ions, and he devoted much of his time to studying the geography, Imperial College of Engineering, Tokio, Japan, and zoology of this region. The results were published 1872-79. He was appointed profe or of applied physics at the City and Gilds of London Technical College, Finsbury, in 1879, and chief profe or of physics at the Central Institution, South Kensington, of the City and Gilds of London Institute in 1884. With Profe or Perry he constructed ammeters, voltmeters, etc., and with Profe or F. Jenkin and Profe or Perry devised the system of auto matic electric transport called "telpherage." His works include "On the Economical Use of Gas-engines for the Production of Electricity" (1882), "Electricity as a Motive Power" (1879), "Practical Electricity" (1887), and, with Profe or J. Perry, "Contact Theory of Voltaic Action" (1880), etc. Ays (iz), or Hais (hiz). An extinct Indian tribe of eastern and southeastern Texas. They were met with, in the first half of the 16th century, in what is now the eastern part of Indian Territory. in French, in a work on the quadrupeds of Paraguay and the Rio de la Plata, and in his "Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale" (Paris, 1809, 4 vols. 8vo, with atlas). Azara, José Nicolás de. Born 1731: died 1804. A Spanish diplomatist and art connoi eur, brother of Felix de Azara. Azariah. See Uzziah . Azay-le-Rideau (ä-zā'lė-rê-dō'). A small town in the department of Indre-et-Loire, France, near Tours. It contains a château, a very fine example of the Renai ance manor-house of the 16th century, with cylindrical flanking towers, high roofs, and dormer-windows.