OSHKOSH 



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OSLER 



ether articles made of iron, and steel. Oshawa 

 is a customs port of entry. Alexandra Park, 

 covering twenty-five acres, is a local feature, 

 and also noteworthy are the Carnegie Library, 

 the armory and the public hospital. Power for 

 electric energy and lighting comes from the 

 Trent River, which is a part of the Ontario 

 hydroelectric system. The waterworks are 

 owned by the town. Su^ar beets of good 

 quality are raised in the vicinity. Population 

 in 1911, 7,435; in 1916. estimated, 8.240; with 

 suburbs, 10,000. G.O.C. 



OSH'KOSH, Wis., the commercial center for 

 a large territory in the eastern part of the 

 state. It is the county seat of Winncbago 

 County, and is situated on the western shore of 

 Lake Winnebago at the mouth of Fox River. 

 Milwaukee is eighty-one miles southeast, and 

 Madison, the state capital, is eighty-five miles 

 southwest. The Chicago & North Western, the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul and the 

 Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Sainte Marie 

 railways serve the city, and electric lines oper- 

 ate to other cities and towns in the Fox River 

 valley. Steamboats ply north to Green Hay 

 and south through the Fox and Wisconsin riv- 

 ers to the Mississippi River. The place was 

 settled in 1836 and was chartered as a city in 

 1853; it was named in honor of a Menominee 

 Indian chief who was friendly to the early set- 

 tlers. Oshkosh suffered heavy loss by fire in 

 1859, 1866, 1874 and 1875, but was each time 

 rebuilt. Its government is administered on the 

 commission plan. The population increased 

 from 33,062 in 1910 to 36,065 (Federal esti- 

 mate) in 1916. 



Oshkosh is located in a district that once 

 yielded immense quantities of lumber, and al- 

 though the forests in this locality are less dense 

 than formerly, the lumber industry is still 

 paramount in the city. There are large saw 

 and planing mills and factories for making fur- 

 niture, matches, building material, wagons and 

 carriages; canneries, breweries and grass-twin, 

 factories are among the other industrial estab- 

 h.-hinents. Noteworthy buildings are the gov- 

 ernment building, city hall, courthouse and 

 Saint Mary's Hospital. Near by are the county 

 hospital for the incurable insane, the county 

 almshoiiH ami the state Northern Hospital for 

 the Insane. The city has in addition to its 

 iientary and high schools a state normal 

 school and n ; >rary. Lake Winnebago 



provides ng and boating in sum- 



ng and skating in winter. A 

 state fish hatchery is located here. 



OSIRIS, osi'ris, in Egyptian mythology, the 

 husband of Isis and the father of Horus. He 

 was the chief of the gods before the introduc- 

 tion of the worship of Ammon, and was recog- 

 nized as the father of agriculture and of civili- 

 zation. Set was the god of evil, the personifi- 

 cation of all that was OJ-JOM.! to man, and 

 Osiris, as the personification of good and of 

 beneficence, foiHit with him. but was defeated 

 and killed. Isis, however, found his mutil 

 body, and according to some accounts made 

 from it Horus, who finally slew Set. Osiris 

 lived always in the realms of the dead, and his 

 soul inhabited the sacred bull, Apis, pas- 

 when the bull died, to its successor. He is 

 represented in K'.ryptian art in many forms 

 sometimes as a man with an elephant's trunk, 

 sometimes as bearing the head of a goose or 

 an ibis. Frequently the horns of a bull are 

 shown on his head. Many temples were erected 

 for his worship and the ruins of some of them 

 still exist. His worship was introduced even 

 into Rome, but the rites became so licentious 

 that they were prohibited by law. 



OSKALOO'SA, IOWA, the county seat of 

 Mahaska County, is in the southeastern part 

 of the state, sixty-five miles southeast of the 

 state capital, Des Moines. It is on the Chi- 

 cago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago, Rock 

 Island & Pacific and the Minneapolis & Saint 

 Louis railroads and has clrciric intenirban 

 service. The area is time and a half square 

 miles. In 1910 the population was 9.466; it 

 was 9,624 (Federal estimate) in 1916. The city 

 contains Oskaloosa College (Christian), the Na- 

 tional Holiness University and Penn College 

 (Friends). The society of Friends in Iowa hold 

 their annual meetings at Oskaloosa. The city 

 has a Federal building, city hall, Carnegie Li- 

 brary and two hospitals, and in the City Park 

 (one block) is a fine bronze statue of Chief 

 Mahaska. A rich agricultural section surrounds 

 the city. Industrial establishments include 

 manufactories of silos, structural steel, fire 

 hydrants, hot-air furnaces, brick, tile and build- 

 blocks. Oskaloosa was settled in is 13 and 

 incorporated in 1853. 



OS'LER, the family name of two 1>: 

 who li.ive achieved tame in two widely-varying 

 - of activity. 



Sir William Osier (1840- ), a Canadian 

 physician and >uiy "n. loof d 

 profession for the breadth of In- DM died kn. mi- 

 edge no less than its depth, but in tin mind of 

 tin- general public unjustly known as the author 

 of a misquoted statement that "a man should 



