SIOUX FALLS

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SIOUX FALLS , a city and the county-seat of Minnehaha county,

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Dakota, U. S. A., on the Big Sioux river, about 12 m. N.W. of the N.W. corner of Iowa. Pop. (1890), 10,177; (1900) 10,266, of whom 1858 were foreign-born; (1905), 12,283; (1910), 14,094. It is the largest city in the state. Sioux Falls is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the Chicago,

Rock

Island & Pacific, the

Great

GREAT

Northern, the Illinois Central, the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha (North-Western lines), and the

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Dakota Central railways. In the city are the State Penitentiary, the State Children's

Home

, the South Dakota School for Deaf Mutes, a United States Government
Building, the County Court

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, Sioux Falls College (Baptist; used as a container for aerated waters a tube passes through the neck of the vessel, one end terminating in a curved spout while the other reaches to the bottom of the interior. On this tube is a

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

valve which is opened by pressing a lever. The vessel is filled through the spout, and the water is driven out by the pressure of the gas it contains, when the valve is opened. The " Regency portable fountain, " patented in 1825 by Charles Plinth, was the prototype of the modern siphon, from which it differed in having a stopcock in place of a

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

valve. The " siphon champenois " of Deleuze and Dutillet (1829) was a hollow corkscrew, with valve, which was passed through the cork into a

bottle

BOTTLE (Fr. bouteille, from a diminutive of the Lat. butta, a flask; cf. Eng. " butt ")

of effervescent liquid, and the " vase siphoide " of Antoine Perpigna (Savaresse pere), patented in 1837, was essentially the modern siphon, its head being fitted with a valve which was closed by a spring.

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