Pinguicula

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Pinsuti

players, and is practically lawn tennis on a
table with specially prepared balls and rack-
ets of a much smaller size.

Pinguicula, a genus of small marsh-plants
belonging to the order Lentibulariaceae. They
usually bear a rosette of greasy-feeling radial
leaves and violet, spurred flowers borne singly
on erect flower-stalk. The leaves act like
rennet, in curdling fresh milk.

Pine-tree Shilling.

Ping-yang, town in Chosen, 30 m. n.e. of
its port, Chin-nam-po. Scene of battles
between Japan and China in 1592 and 1894,
China winning the former, Japan the latter;
p. 71,702.

Pink, a name applied to the plant genus
Dianthus, but more especially to the descend-
ants of D. plumarius of Eastern Europe, and
to the Oriental D. chinensis. Modern garden
pinks are divided into two main classes—
border pinks and show or laced pinks.

Pink (Dianthus plwnarius).

Pinkerton, Allan (1819-84), American
detective, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and
emigrated to Chicago in 1842. He became
the first detective of Chicago, and in 1850
organized Pinkerton's National Detective
Agency. The recovery of $40,000 for th<
Adams Express Company in 1859-60 gav«

. Pinkerton his first reputation in the East,
nd, discovering a plot to murder Abraham
^incoln on his inaugural journey to Washing-
on, he was authorized to make arrange-
ments to insure the safe arrival of the Presi-
.ent-elect in that city. Soon afterwards he
was commissioned to organize the U. S. Bu-
eau of Secret Service, which he conducted
,ntil the close of the Civil War. After the
war he expanded his business, opening offices
in New York and Philadelphia, the recovery
f $700,000 for the Adams Express Company
nd the arrest of some noted Bank of Eng-
and forgers, adding greatly to the prestige
if his agency.

Pinkerton, WiEHam Allan (1846-1923),
imerican detective, born at Dundee, 111,
iVith his brother, Robert A. Pinkerton, he be.
arne chief assistant in the Pinkerton Agency,
he business coming into their control on tht
death of their father in 1884, William taking
harge of the western division, and Robert oi
he eastern.

Pink Root, a name given to the worm-
grass or Indian pink of America (Spigelia
marilandica). The root is sometimes used
as an anthelmintic.

Pinna, a genus of bivalve molluscs, whose
members are allied to the mussels. The shell
s wedge-shaped, and consists of two equal
valves.

Pinnace. A boat used in the British navy,

inch very nearly corresponds to the U. S.
navy sailing launch. In build it resembles a
cutter, but is larger and relatively broader of
beam and shallower of draught,

Pinochle is played with two packs of cards,
all below the nines being discarded, making a
pack of 48 cards. It may be played by two,
:hree, or four players, and the limit of
points is 1,000. Ace is high and counts u;
ten is next, and counts loj then come king,
4; queen, 3, and jack, 2. The nine counts 10
when it is turned up for trumps, and the
last trick taken counts ten for the winner of
it. The only technical term in the game is
'melding,' which means to declare. See
Spalding's Home Library on Pinochle.

Pinsk, tn., Poland, to which it was restored
in 1918 after being Russian 123 years; has
potteries, tanneries, oil, soap and leather
works; p. 23,291; seized by Russia, 1939.

Pinsuti, Ciro (1829-88), Italian musical
composer. He wrote two successful operas,
11 Mercante di Venezia (1873) and Mattia
Corvino (1877); a Te Deum (1859); nearly
three hundred songs, English and Italian, and