The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . he firstFrench revolution, when it formed a battalion,and in red uniform with silver buttons took partin the storming of the Bastile. The guild wasabolished in 1790. BEACH, MosES S., American publisher; bornin Springfield, Massachusetts, Oct. 25, 1822; diedin Peekskill, New York, July 25, 1892. He wasan elder brother of the owner of the ScientificAmerican, and son of Moses Y. Beach. He be-came proprietor of the New York Sun in 1852,and did much to raise it to eminence. BEACH, MosES Yale, an eminent American
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . he firstFrench revolution, when it formed a battalion,and in red uniform with silver buttons took partin the storming of the Bastile. The guild wasabolished in 1790. BEACH, MosES S., American publisher; bornin Springfield, Massachusetts, Oct. 25, 1822; diedin Peekskill, New York, July 25, 1892. He wasan elder brother of the owner of the ScientificAmerican, and son of Moses Y. Beach. He be-came proprietor of the New York Sun in 1852,and did much to raise it to eminence. BEACH, MosES Yale, an eminent Americaninventor and publisher; born at Wallingford, Con-necticut, Jan. 7, 1800; died there, July 18, was long connected financially with the NewYork Sun, and is regarded as the originator ofthe American one-cent newspaper. He inventedthe rag-cutting machine now generally used inmaking paper, and was much interested in experi-ments on machines for propelling balloons. BEACH-PLUM (Prunus maritima), a strag-gling bush found growing along the Atlantic coast BEACON — BEACON SFIELD 395. of the United States. It bears a red or purplefruit, whicli is somewhat like the cultivated plum,and is eaten either fresh or preserved. BEACON, a signal. The term is commonlyused of any signal set upon a height to give newsof momentous events, or to give warning of dan-ger. In former times alarm-fires at night, andcolumns of smoke by day, were used for these pur-poses; but there are beacons of every imaginablevariety, from substantial stone pillars and ironstructures on piles, to heaps of stones and poleswith baskets or bushes at their head. In Americaand England, great numbers of beacons, usuallyof iron framework, have been erected by theLighthouse Board, and Trinity House Corporation,respectively, for the guidance of vessels enteringchannels, harbors and rivers. See also Light-house, Vol. XIV, pp. 625, 626. BEACONSFIELD, Earl of (Benjamin Dis-raeli), was born in London, England, Dec. 21, 1804. H
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