HAGENAU 



HAGGERSTON 



Carl Hagenbeck, 



Dealer in wild 



animals 



Hagenau. Town of France, in 

 Alsace-Lorraine. It stands on the 

 Moder, 18 m. N. of Strasbourg. 

 It was fortified by Barbarossa in the 

 12th century, and the palace which 

 he built there remained until de- 

 stroyed by the French in 1678. The 

 centre of a hop-growing dist., the 

 industries include wool-spinning 

 and the manufacture of porcelain 

 stoves. The town became a free 

 imperial city in 1257. The princi- 

 pal church is that of S. George, 

 dating from the 12th century, and 

 containing a great wooden figure of 

 Christ (1488). Hagenau passed to 

 France by the treaty of West- 

 phalia (1648), becoming German in 

 1871, and once more was trans- 

 ferred to France after the Great 

 War. Pop. 18,868. 



Hagenbeck, CARI, (1844-1913). 

 German dealer in wild animals. 

 He was born at Hamburg, the son 

 of a fishmonger 

 who started a 

 small mena- 

 gerie, after- 

 wards trading 

 in wild beasts. 

 At his death his 

 son succeeded 

 him in the busi- 

 ness, and his 

 energy and en- 

 terprise made it 

 the largest in 

 the world. A skilled trainer of 

 animals, he was the first to exhibit 

 performing Polar bears. He started 

 the Zoological Gardens at Stellin- 

 gen, near Hamburg, in 1897, and 

 introduced the system of display- 

 ing wild animals out of doors. The 

 food restrictions enforced during the 

 Great War made it increasingly diffi- 

 cult to keep the animals alive, but 

 the gardens were not finally closed 

 until October, 1920. See Zoologi- 

 cal Gardens. 



Hagerman Pass. Lofty moun- 

 tain track over the Rocky Mts. of 

 Colorado, U.S.A. It is on the line 

 of the Colorado Midland Ely., and 

 reaches an alt. of 11,535 ft. 



Hagerstown. City of Mary- 

 land, U.S.A., the co. seat of Wash- 

 ington co. It is 80 m. W. by N. of 

 Baltimore, and is served by the 

 Baltimore and Ohio and other rlys. 

 The chief buildings are Kee Mar 

 women's college, a public library, 

 and a hospital ; and the industries 

 include the manufacture of car- 

 riages, motor vehicles, bicycles, 

 furniture, boilers, flour, silk, and 

 fertilisers. In the neighbourhood 

 is Gettysburg. Settled about 1740, 

 Hagerstown was incorporated in 

 1791. Pop. 26,125. 



Hag-fish OR HAG (Myxine gin- 

 tinosa). Order of marine animals 

 belonging to the lamprey grouj 

 In appearance they 



small round eels, but have no side 

 fins and no lips. They have teeth 

 on the tongue and palate, and 



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Hag-fish, species of lamprey found 

 on the coasts of Britain 



tentacles on the bead, which seem 

 to assist them in boring their way 

 into the bodies of the fishes on 

 which they feed. They are eyeless, 

 and secrete a remarkable amount 

 of thick slime. The common hag- 

 fish is found on the British coasts, 

 and is occasionally 2 ft. long. These 

 animals are not true fish, and are 

 separately classed by zoologists as 

 Cyclostomata, round-mouthed. 



Haggai. One of the minor pro- 

 phets. He returned from the 

 Babylonian captivity with Zerub- 

 babel, and began to. prophesy in his 

 old age. His short book in two 

 chapters is homely in style and 

 contains four prophecies, all be- 

 longing to the same year, and de- 

 signed to encourage the people in 

 rebuilding the temple. It was 

 written, according to his own state- 

 ment, in the second year of the 

 reign of Darius Hystaspis (520 B.C. )u 

 Haggard, Sm HENRY RIDER (b. 

 1856). British novelist and agri- 

 cultural economist. Born at Bra- 

 denham, Nor- 

 folk, June 22, 

 1856, and edu- 

 cated at Ips- 

 wich grammar 

 school, he held 

 various official 

 posts in S. Af- 

 rica, 1875-79. 

 He was called 

 to the bar 

 at Lincoln's 

 Inn, 1879, 

 and pub- 

 lished his first work, Cetewayo and 

 His White Neighbours, in 1882. 

 South Africa figures prominent!}' 

 in his novels, the success of which 

 is due largely to the author's ex- 

 ceptional narrative and descriptive 

 power. 



In addition to King Solomon's 

 Mines, 1885, his most successful 

 adventure story, and Jess, 1887, 

 perhaps his best work, his novels 

 include Dawn, 1884 ; The Witch's 

 Head, 1885 ; She, 1887, in which 

 mystery is blended with adventure ; 

 Allan Quatermain, 1887 ; Maiwa's 

 Revenge, 1888 ; Col. Quaritch, 

 V.C., 1888; Cleopatra, 1889; 

 Allan's Wife, 1890 ; Eric Bright- 

 eyes, 1891 ; Nada the Lily, 1892 ; 

 Montezuma's Daughter, 1893 ; Joan 



Haste, 1895; The Heart of the 

 World, 1896 ; Lysbeth, 1901 ; 

 Stella Fregelius, 1904: Ayesha, 

 1905 ; Fair Margaret, 1907 ; Red 

 Eve, 1911 ; When the World 

 Shook, 1919; and The Ancient 

 Allan, 1920. In 1891, with Andrew 

 Lang, he wrote The World's Desire. 



Sir Rider Haggard, who was 

 knighted in 1912, also became 

 prominent as a practical farmer 

 and an agricultural economist, 

 his journeyings through England 

 in 1896-98 to investigate rural 

 conditions resulting in a most 

 valuable work, Rural England, 

 1902. His agricultural treatises 

 also include Reports on Salvation 

 Colonies, 1905 ; The Poor and the 

 Land, 1905 ; and Rural Denmark, 

 1911. After the war he visited 

 every part of the British Empire, 

 in connexion with the settlement 

 of ex-service men. 



Haggerston. Suburb of N.E. 

 London. Mentioned in Domesday 

 as Hergotestane, and once a hamlet 

 in the parish of S. Leonard's, 

 Shoreditch, it is covered with 

 factories and artisan dwellings, 

 and stretches from the N. side 

 of Hackney Road to Dalston, and 

 from Kingsland Road on the W. 

 to London Fields. Goldsmith 

 Square, S. of the Regent's Canal, 

 is a public recreation ground. 

 There are several almshouses 

 founded by city companies. Near 

 the Hackney Road is the Great 

 North-Eastern Hospital for Chil- 

 dren, built 1868. Of the churches, 

 S. Augustine's dates from 1867; 

 S. Columba's'from 1868 ; and S. 

 Chad's from 1869. Nichols Square 

 was named after John Nichols the 

 antiquary. Halley, the astronomer, 

 was born in Haggerston. The dis- 

 trict is well served by the N.L.R. 

 from Broad Street, and by 'buses 

 and trams. 



Haggerston. Interior of tne church 

 of S. Columba 



