Incroyables Independence improvements, and that this paid a very 75,000,000 chicks. Within recent times inadequate rate of taxation. His effort much improved methods have been devised, to tax this land at its true value met with various ways of maintaining the requisite vigorous opposition in the House of temperature being employed. The latest Lords, but the Lords were in the end American incubators employ hot air. The obliged to pass the bill. advantages of hatching by artificial means Incroyables (Fr. Incredibles). A are many, and a much larger number of name which, under the chicks can be raised with much less care French Directory, was applied to a class than where the hatching is done by hens. of Parisian dandies, who made themselves Incubus (in'kū-bus), a spirit or deconspicuous and to some extent ridiculous mon, to whom was formerly by their extravagances in dress, manner ascribed the oppression known by the and speech. Among their peculiarities name of nightmare. These demons play was the omission of the r sound in speak- a somewhat important part in the supering. Their name was taken from their stitions of the middle ages. favorite expression, Ma petite pa'ole Incumbrance (in-kum'brans), any d'honneu', c'est inc'oyable. (Me wohd of bonnah, it's inewedible.) This type of affectation has been known in France by various other names. The term has also been applied to the exaggerated style of hats which they wore. Incubation (in - kū-bā'shun ), in pathology the period between the introduction of the morbific principle and the outbreak of the disease. It is then gathering head in the system, and indicated only by such general symptoms as loss of appetite or sleep, etc. In epidemic and contagious diseases the period of incubation is well defined. right or interest in land which may be held by third persons which diminishes the value of but not the right to pass title to such land. Examples of legal incumbrances are unpaid taxes, leases, mortgages, easements, mechanics' liens, private right of way, and so forth. The vendor of real estate is bound to disclose incumbrances and to deliver to the purchaser the instruments by which they were created or on which the defects arise. Failure to specify incumbrances, if such exist, gives the purchaser the right to reject the title and sue for damages. "Covenants for title" are covenants inserted in conveyances attestcommonly bring forth ing that there are no incumbrances except their young, that of sitting on the eggs such as may be specified. till they are hatched by the natural heat Incunabula (in-ku-nab'u-la), a term of the body. In general it is the female applied by bibliograwhich undergoes the labor of incubation, phers to editions of books printed during but among some species, chiefly of monog- the early period of the art. It is generally amous birds, the male relieves the female limited to works which appeared previous while she seeks her nourishment; in to 1500. Incubation, the mode in which birds like the cuckoo, abandon their eggs to be others the male feeds her. Some birds, Indemnity (in-dem'ni-ti), a term frequently employed in polihatched by others. In a state of nature tics and jurisprudence. It is used in varibirds generally commence to sit in spring. ous significations, but is usually applied The time of incubation varies with dif- to an act of the legislature passed for the ferent species, but is always the same purpose of relieving individuals, especially with the same species. In the humming- in an official position, from the penalties birds it is 12 to 14 days; in the swallow to which they may have rendered themand lark, 15; the canary, from 15 to 18; Crow, 20; common hen, 21; pheasant, partridge, etc., 22; peacock and turkey, 30; swan, 40-45; cassowary, 62.-Artificial incubation, the hatching of eggs by prolonged artificial warmth, has been long practised among the Egyptians and Chinese. Attempts have been made to carry out the artificial system on a considerable scale, both in America and England, and with remarkable success. selves liable by some violation of the law whether by act or omission, or in case of members of government in consequence of exceeding the limits of their strict constitutional powers. Indenture (in-den'tür), a deed en tered into between two or more parties, and so called because duplicates of every deed between two or more parties were once written on one skin, which was cut in half, with a jagged or indented edge, so that they were seen to eggs by artificial means belong to one another. See also Apwas known to the Egyptians and Chinese prentice. at a very remote period. Brick ovens, Independence of Montgomery Co., Incubator. The art of hatching heated with horse or camel dung, were a city, county seat used during four months of the year, while Kansas, on the Verdigris River, 170 miles the annual product has been estimated at s. of Kansas City. It is an oil and gas THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE From the Origina 1 Painting by John Trumbull in the Capitol at Washington. Independence Hall, State" W Pennsylvania, bet ea Chestur Spoeg, hvem and thus the Congress of the new republic w independence was declared, July 4, 1ut tex 49 It is now regarded as the Mecca of boys at an indefinite number of values or Index Expurgatorius, * pr tions. Indeterminate analysis is a branch of algebra in which there are alwaysIndia ala Hamy properly anpit given a greater number of unknown quan tities than there are independent equa Tibaw Faputs tions by which means the number of which I buy pumilachy a niched to solutions is indefinite. the way of wonreal powwsula of Mouthern Index Librorum Prohibitorum mulated from the rest pl A-da h the al (list of prohibited books'), in the Ra most impas alle is of the Himalayas man Catholic Church, a title used to dea the Hindu hoch, good Muleiman Mo and by the Indian Ocam ignate the catalogue or list of book pro fales hibited by ecclesiasticnl nuthority, on ne tenth mouth and mouth, and its pahet count of the heretical opinions supped becadth cast and west are both about to be contained in them, or mo'ntaloo₫ 100 mith Wight thean bordcia la an by the authors or editors of them, who arc of about tipi tore my mile with a the list or catalogue is of booler alow. population (OMT) of 4a Jan impulia to be read after correction or alteraft n, may he Frarded as consleting of three agreeably to the orders of the 1 pal separate readons well-defined by difer authorities, it is termed Inder Pam of there of moll, tousty, proud Hone, and torius. Such prohibitory catalogues have anlation The fist in the region of the been in use from a very early perlout in Himalayan Incllately south of the the history of the church, commencing Himalayas How the vast North Indian with a list of prohibited books drawn up Plain, contaluding the most fertile and by a council held at Home in 191 op d nachy populated portions of the empire even earlier with the proscription of the Mouth of the northern plain race the Alded writings of Arius, These prohibitions, in Eaton of India, the triangular plateau of fact, were often issued by other than the the Deccan, which has a pencial eleva Papal authorities. In 140% a wynod at ton of from 2000 to 3000 feet Its London prohibited the reading of the northern warp is formed by a number books of Wickliffe. In 1544 the Faculty of hill ranges known as the Vindhra |