

PALMITIN 



PA LOLO 



Allen, .U.inn/o^C*r,r.-.^ (1SS5); L. Cotton, I'alm- 

 utrf ami it* fraelital Vttt ( 1KSW). 



rulmilln. See FATS. 

 Pitlm-oil. See PALM, and OILS. 



I'allll Sllllllnv I l-it. Iknainirn Palmartim, or 

 in or ml /'n/m/Mt, tin- Siinilny In-fore Faster. 

 is o called from tin* custom of hlrs-ing brunches 

 of the palm tree. or of other In-es siilistitutcd in 

 those countries in which (mini cannot. l>e procured, 

 mill of earning tin- hh-<srd liram-hr- i,> pri'e--ion, 

 in coininiMiiornlioii of tin- triumphal miry of our 

 Lord into .Irni-.-ilri.i. The date of tin- origin of 

 this rust, mi is uncertain ; I In- procession raiinot lie 

 ir.-uiil luick lieyond thi> Hth century. though the 

 n.mir I'nlin Sunday is fonml two or three centuries 

 earlier. The < necks appeur to have adopted the 

 festival long In-full- thr Latin-; their procession is 

 at matin-. In tin- lioinan Catholic Church the 

 celebrant blesses the branches l>cf.vre the ma--, 

 ami they are thru distributed tn the people ; the 

 clergy in procession pass nut of the church, the 

 iloi>r are closed, and the ancient hymn known in 

 Knglish as 'All glory, 'ami, nml honour' in sun-; 

 by tin- choir within and those without, until, on 

 thr suh.ileacon's knocking at the door, it is again 

 thrown niicn, nml the proccs-ion n< enii-rs. During 

 tlie singing of tint rM*iea in the solemn ma 

 which ensues. thr congregation hold the pnlm- 

 hianch in their hands, and at the conclusion of 

 thr service it is cairied home to their respective 

 ..line it is preserved during the year. 



Afterwards it is hurned. nml the nshes employed, 

 as a rule, for \-h Wedne-dav. At I'ome the pope 

 himself distrihutef) the palm liranrhes to all tlie 



chnrche* of the city. In MOM-OW until 1700, 

 and in parts of (Jermnny until the U'^innin^ of 

 the 19th century, n wmxlrn imn#e of nn ass wa- 

 led nlmut the xtreeto, followed hy the people hear- 

 ing the consecrated hranches. 



I'nlin-lree. Se- PAI.M. 



l';ilin> r:i. in nncient timex, from almut 100 

 A.i>. to the 14th century, more es|>eciallv in the 

 2d and 3tl centuriec, a wealthy and magnilicent 



Portico of the OrMt Colonnjtdo. 



city of northern Syria, situated in an oasin on 

 tli- northern i-dl,"' of the Arahinn desert, nUmt 

 l.Vi miles NK. of Dninnwus nml ueailv midway 

 Iwtwern tliat city nml the Kuphrates. TiieSmiitir 

 name wa Tadmnr, Palmyra ( = 'city of |wilms') 

 IHMIII; the Creek an<l Ijitin i-<|iiivn)ent. Arrording 

 to i he old tradition, it was founded hy Solomon. 

 There U stronger prolmliility that it was an 



Arahir -ttlrmriit, ]>lante<l at a spot that 

 formed n eonvriiirnt slatioli on the jjieat r:iia\an 

 lirtwi'Ui the I'ersian tiiilf and the Medilri- 

 ranean. At all rvrntH, after the decline of I'elrn 

 (ij.v. ; also NAIIAT.KANS) in 105 A.H., rnlmyin 

 t(H>k its place us the chief commerrial cenln- ill 

 iiuitlii in Aialiia. Its meirhant aristiK-racy leapeil 

 great advantage from the long-protracted wai- 

 iM-twi-rii Kome and Paithla by acknowledging tlie 

 siipremncy of Home. Kroni lioth Hadrian nnd 

 SeplimiiiH S<-verus it received spei'ial favours and 

 privileges. One of its chiefs, < M:rna(hiis, liuslinml 

 of the more famous Xmohia (ij.v.), extruded his 

 power ovei most of the adjoining eouniiies, fmm 

 Bgypt t<i Asia Minor. Aurelinu at length crushed 

 in - J7i tlie attempt of the ralmvrenrs to found an 

 inde|'iident empire. After thr liomnn empire 

 iHi'ame Christian Palmyra was made n liisiiopric. 

 \Vhcn tin 1 Moslems coni|iiered Syria I'almyia also 

 Miliiuitteil to them. Kroni the loth century it 

 lie-jaii to sink into decay, aloii^ with the rest of 

 the Orient. Miignilicent rrmains of the anrinit 

 city still exist, chief among them It-ing the great 

 temple of the Sun (or Haal ) ; the great colonnade, 

 nearly a mile long, ami consisting originally of some 

 1500 Corinthian columns; and BepulchtBJ towers, 

 Overlooking the city. The ancient I'almv renes. 

 liesides conducting and controlling the caravan 

 trade across the desert, extracted salt, tanned 

 leather, and worked in gold and silver. 



See Wood, Bouverie, and Hawkins, Ruin* of Palmyra 

 (1753); St-iff. litiurn in der Afiatitchen Tiiriri I Is 7 

 n Russian work \>y Prince Abamelek-Lasareff (1885); 

 unil Dr W. Wright, Palmyra inul JSttuMi (Is 1 ' 



Palmyra Wood, properly the wood of the 

 Palmyra palm (see I'ALM, p 723); hut the name 

 is generally iisiil for all kinds of palm-tree wood 

 imported into Britain ; much of w Inch is the wood 

 of the cocoa -n ut palm, Cvcus nutifera, and the allied 

 species C. pltimosa. 



I'allli Hills, n range of Southern India, 

 linking the southern extremities of the Kastern 

 and Western (lli.its; average height of the higher 

 ridge, 7000 feet. The climate of the 1'alui Hill- is 

 singularly pleasant nnd prpmlile, 

 many preferring the sanatorium of 

 Kodaikanal to OotMMiaiML 



Palo Alto, 33 miles SE. of San 

 Francisco, the. seat of a university 

 founded at a cost of 110,000,000 by 

 Senator Leland Stanford, :nid oprurd 

 in 1891. It is designed to proviile, 

 entirely gratis, education from the 

 Kindergarten sta^'e to the nm-t 

 advanced instmction that human 

 tearhers rail supply : the pupils are to 

 Imard on the premises, at the smallest 

 possible charge. 1'op. ( l!Xnn |c - 



Palolo ( 1'nttilo viii'ilis), an edible 

 annelid, allied to the Lug-worm, ex- 

 tremely abundant at certain sea-ou- 

 in the sea above and near thermal 

 reefs which surround many of the 

 Polynesian Islands. The bodv i- 

 cylindrical, slightly tapering at lioth 

 end-, di> ided into nearlv eijiial joints, 

 each joint with a small tuft of gills 

 on each side. In thickness the palolo 

 resembles a very line straw; in 

 length it varies from !) to IS inches. The- e an- 

 nelids make their appearance in great multitudes, 

 apparently rising out of the coral-reefs, and with a 

 iicriodical regularity which is very remarkable. 

 They nre eagerly sought after by the islanders, 

 who nre on the watch for their appearance, and 

 PI out in canoes l>cforc -uinisc to take them liy 

 meaiis of nets ; but they often occur in lucn 



