Snohomish

Snohomish, a N. W. county of Washington territory, bordering W. on Puget sound and E. on the Cascade mountains, and drained by several streams; area, 1,500 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 599. Extensive forests skirt the streams, and lumber is the chief source of wealth. Coal is found in various places. Along the sound are extensive cranberry marshes, and in the interior large tracts adapted to agriculture. The chief productions in 1870 were 1,290 bushels of oats, 1,415 of barley, 11,680 of potatoes, and 857 tons of hay. The value of live stock was $25,305. Capital, Snohomish City.

Snow Bunting

See Bunting.

Snowball

See Guelder Rose.

Snuff

See Tobacco.

Snyder

Snyder, a central county of Pennsylvania, bounded E. by the Susquehanna river; area, about 260 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 15,606. The surface is hilly and the soil fertile. Iron ore and coal are found in great abundance. It is traversed by the Pennsylvania railroad, and the Pennsylvania canal passes along the E. border. The chief productions in 1S70 were 247,381 bushels of wheat, 12,752 of rye, 255,-831 of Indian corn, 283,841 of oats, 73,889 of potatoes, 4,762 of clover seed, 18,939 tons of hay, 9,366 lbs. of wool, and 241,246 of butter. There were 3,964 horses, 3,900 milch cows, 4,489 other cattle, 3,367 sheep, and 9,050 swine; 3 manufactories of carriages and wagons, 11 of tanned and 10 of curried leather, 21 flour mills, and 8 saw mills. Capital, Middleburg.

Soame Jenyns

Soame Jenyns, an English author, born in London in 1704, died there, Dec. 18,1787. He finished his education at Cambridge. His first production was a poem on the " Art of Dancing" (1730). In 1742 he was returned to parliament as a member for Cambridgeshire, and in 1755 appointed one of the commissioners of the board of trade and plantations. In 1757 he published his "Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil," which Dr. Johnson severely criticised. In 1776 appeared "A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion," in which he avowed his early skepticism and recent conversion. A complete edition of his works was published in 1790 (4 vols. 8vo, London).

Soapstone

See Talc.

Sobieski

See John III. Sobieski.

Society For The La Societe Pour La Propagation De La Foi (Propagation Of The Faith)

Society For The La SociéTé Pour La Propagation De La Foi (Propagation Of The Faith), a Roman Catholic society in aid of foreign missions founded at Lyons in 1829. Its plan is to raise, through committees and sub-committees, one cent a week from each subscriber, the money being forwarded to the central committee at Lyons, by whom the funds are apportioned to bishops of the various missionary countries throughout the world. The society spread rapidly over the whole of Europe, and has now paying members in almost every country in the world. It is sometimes confused with the Roman propaganda, with which it has nothing in common except a similar object. The central committee at Lyons publishes six times a year the Annales de la propagation de la foi, to inform the subscribers of the use made of the funds and of the progress of the missionary" work.