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any aviator anxious to come down liam Craigle's" "Dictionary of the perience one has never met a Oner in the dark air field he spotted, but Older Scottish Tongue," which will shop in that category than the where he would almost certainly carry the story down to 1700; the establishment which is producing wreck his plane if he tried to land second the "Scottish
the Bristol aero-engines. The without light. All he has to do is Dictionary," which Mr. William called the most manufactured aero- National Bristol Jupiter engine has been to drop from the air a Bengal-light. Grant is editing for the Scotth engine in the world, for it is built Less than one minute later the National Dictionary Association, under licence in every epuntry aerodrome is fully illuminated.
Ltd. This work will deal with the which pretenda to have an aircraft A small instrument, no than a cigar-box is placed in one of ceased to be
larger modern period when Soots, having industry, and, incidentally, In those the
a lettered language, countries is built by the most com. Bengal-light strikes the television
of the field. The had split up into various dialects. patent firms. After a visit to the cell of the instrument which is a since Dr. John Jamieson's famous ton. anybody would be convinced In the century that has elapsed Bristol Aero-engine Works at Fl- municating its changes of resistance age" was completed, an enormous manufactured engine in England. lamp with two electrodes, com "Dlationary of the Scottish Langu-that, the Jupiter must be the most to an incandescent relay that acts amount of research has been done
The organization of the works is upan an electro-magnet, Thle in Scotland. Ms. Grant's dictionary extraordinarily good and the work- electro-magnet closes the circuit of alone will contain thousands of manship is certainly not beaten in WHEN BIRDS LOSE THEIR GAY a stronger electro-magnet serving words that have never appeared in any class of engineering work. In as power-relay, and opening the a dictionary before. It will be all fact, the new methods employed lighting system.
corners
Numerous tests have been made
the more deplorable, therefore, if bring the manufacture of the parts lack of support brings the devoted of the Standard Jupiter engine
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SIGNS OF AUTUMN
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parts, such as gudgeon-pins and mals have not started to think about
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Also 600 feet up, by the same The fact that an unfortunate valve-gears, but even big stuff like winter coats, the daer and many of of the Sale by Public Auction process, all the lamps of a factory duplication has come about is it cylinders, are ground and lapped to the birds have announced that the to be held on MONDAY, the have been lighted and the engines self due to the failure of Scotsmen size within 3/1000's of an inch, summer is over. The deer are los- 21st day of October, 1929, at
set to work in the factory.
enough to convince anyone of the ing the velvet from their antlers, 3 p.m., at the Ocea of the
Susana has found that his in-pleting in an adequate way what Jupiter.
to appreciate the importance of com- efficiency and reliability of the and in another week or two they Public Works Department, by strument cannot be put out of order ought to be an elementary national
will be ready and anxious to fight Order of His Excellency the Gov-by moon rays, lightning, or lateral possession.
Research Work
for their mates, and the Zoo will promptly printed. "China Mait" Officer of one Lot of Crown Land rays coming from the ground. No. 3A, Wyndham St. Telephone Con- of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 tion of his invention to road-light-William Craigie that he has had to done by the Bristol Co. One sees
One reason for the continued im-echo with their battle-cries, a sound in the Colony
He is now studying the applica- No one regrets more than Sir immense amount of research work days.
provement of the Jupiter is the that always suggests chill, dreary years, with the option of renewal ing for automobiles
The birds-of-paradise are grow- at Crown Rent to be fixed by the
travelling at seek American assistance. He has the result of this policy in the ing their magnificent plumes, and Surveyor of His Majesty the King,
devoted a considerable portion of splendid experimental and testing this again is a far from cheerful for one further term of 75 years.
Also they are seeking aid for the his leisure for many years to the section of tas works. For example, sign, since, unlike most avlans, Amoy Civil Aviation school. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
"China is aware of the numerous freely on it.
work, and has spent his own money when a new type of cylinder head the bird-of-paradise makes no gay advantages, commercial and political, has only aided him with a paltry one on to
But so far Scotland is to be tested, instead of putting preparations for the arrival of that will result from establishment grant of £100,
a single-cylinder unit spring. but grows his fuil plumage of an airline across the China Sea,"
coupled to a Froude dynamometer at the approach of the rainy season "The Chicago University Press and running it to destruction, three 80 that he may have some protec- Mr. Feh said. "Only lack of has agreed to publish the dictionary separate experimental uults of the tion. adequate finances is
postponing as soon as the names of the first 200 sume type are started up at the
Other decorative birds, such as operation of regular air service be subscribers have been received," he same time, and, if one of them the egrets, the peacocks, and man- tween China the Philippines."
said to me, when I saw him the shows any variation on a dynamo- darin ducks, have lost their fine other day in his Oxfordshire home, meter from the others, the reason plumage, and they now look de- writes John Malcolm Thornton. has to be discovered. This method pressed and ashamed of themselves "Some of my students there are gets over the possibility of an al-as they wait for sunless months, PILGRIMS TO SWEDEN helping me with the fling and clerk-teration in design being scrapped Even the butterfly cage is no ing work. It is, of course, a pity because an experimental unit has longer gay; a handful of butterflies that Scottish students are not doing gone wrong owing to some invisible still fly about sucking honey from this work, but I am assisted by n
defect, and, likewise, it prevents the flowers provided for them in Scotsman, Mr. Watson. I have design which is inherently wrong their little garden, but the beauty Sweden, now
been greatly disappointed by the being put into, production because of this cage is over until next year, thoroughly Protestant country, has
the experimental unit happens to for the majority of these inaccta results of an appeal I.addressed to been the object
the Burns of
Clubs, pilgrim-
When I left be above the average strength in a are now dead. age from all parts of Europe. Chicago not one of them had written place which might ultimately fall. Nesting a Second Time These activities are dua to the fact
to subscribe."
Among the most interesting ex- Fortunately, there are that eleven hundred years ago St.
Mr. Grant's dictionary le in the interests of the Bristol Com-and they, unlike the avian beauties Great Northern Telegraph Com-
periments now being carried out in more optimistic inmates of the Zoo, Ansgaríus, a
Benedictine monk slightly better case, for on the from the monastery of Corbey, on latest list of subscribers the name ignition engine, also sleeve-valves imagine that spring is here again. pany is one with the compression and the butterflies and the deer, TSUNG HING CLOISONNE STORE, the river Weser in Germany, was figures, along with one Scottish When the writer visited the works, waders' aviary could only think of (at Hamilton) and inverted air cooled engines. The ruffs and other birds in the Bent by King Lewis the Pious to Birka, than capital of Sweden, to Society (in New Zealand).
The one of the most interesting things one reason why the weather should prench the Christian faith to the names of seven English booksellers he saw was a Mercury engine, be so sunny, so they began to nest heathen Vikings.
appear, but not
a single Scottish which, after a long and gruelling for a second time. Their chicks bookseller is there. Birka, once a flourishing Swedish extraordinary fact. about the list driving a wind club (that is to say, no doubt that the waders' second The most test on a stand at the aerodrome, have not appeared, but there is city but now a peaceful and rural is the generosity with which Aber- an airscreen of no particular sec- venture will be a success, since in farming island district, was found- ed about the year 790 A.D. on the donians have subscribed;, had the tion, which merely provides air re-previous years when the end of fyland of Bjoerkoe, in the Lake rest of Scotland given propor-sistance and requires a certain August has been fine they have Maelar in Central Sweden.
tionately there would have been no known power to drive it), had been reared a second batch of young. St. Anagarius got a courteous re-question-as there unfortunately is stripped for examination. The test
The water-fawl are also making ception and was allowed to preach the dictionary being in some was partly to find what the Mercury plans for another brood of off. freely the .""new doctrine"; he
danger.
itself would atand, and partly to spring. but this is their usual proc- baptised some heathen Swedens,
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The work on the National conditions with a Pennsylvania reared, city, and built a church, the founda- Dictionary is being carried on in a mineral oil.. tions of which can be traced even
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LAMMERT BROS. today. He visited Birka twice, Aberdeen. Mr. Grant, with three So far as the engine itself was
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STANDARD TIME,
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assistanta, performs the whole concerned, nothing seemed any the FORGOTTEN FUND Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:- tianised Swedes forgot
their laborious work of compilation and worse for wear, but there was a Christian doctrine and continued, to
classification; assisted occasionally good deal of interest to be got out worship Wotan. When in theby some of the senior children of of the effect of the ordinary dirt in eleventh century Olaf, the first the Demonstration School, who file the air which had been sucked into the word-slips as they are received the blower of the super-charger. baptised Swedish king, came to power he found Birks quite heather from different parts of the country. The cages of the suction vanes, and removed the citizens to Sigtuna, The whole of Scotland excluding corresponding to the leading edges ing in these days that something is where they had to adopt the the Highland area, where Gaelle of an airscrew in a plane, had been rotten in the state of Denmark. Christian faith. Later the Royal
is being replaced by board-school away, just as if they had been filed The suicide of Gustav Arendrup, capital was
with a rough file, and the plate at a well-known man in an important English, has been divided into areas the back of the casing, where these and finally removed to Stockholm.
roughly corresponding to the coun-pieces of grit were thrown against Ministry of Commerce, aroused the trusted position in the Birka
reached by ties, each has a supervision under it by the vanes, was pitted all over suspiolon of his superiora, and an easily steamer from Stockholm in two whom work ministere, teachers just as if somebody had been hit investigation revealed that during a Kong for October (Standard time of hours through the winding lake cattar women, fisher-folk, and other ting it with a fine punch. This period of six years Arendrup had the 120th Meridian, East of Green- labyrinth of the Maelar, lake, and humble but enthusiastic lexicogra-only shows one of the reasons why embezzled sums totalling a quarter wich), are as follow:-- five or six thousand people, amongst pherd. The work of collecting aero-engines, to ensure as nearly as of a million kroner from a fund them many Roman Catholics from material was begun by the Scottish possible absolute reliability, have
is
abroad, annually come to the island Dialecta Committee about twenty to be so constantly, taken down for which had been in his sole charge. of Bjoerkon to vialt the remains of years ago, but the actual editing of inspection."
The fund, which amounted to one past grandeur. A memorial chapel the dictionary started last year. Another point about the Bristol million kroner, had accrued from a is, to be built on the spot where the half the words under "A" are ready is the extreme care taken over as
It is already so far advanced that methods which inspires confidence wartime marine Insurance scheme. Christian faith gained its first
The money had been deposited in foothold in Sweden.
for the press; in the case of Sir sembly. One particularly well- the Landmands Bank, and the ac William Craigle's dictionary "A" is known American engine, of a size count-book placed in a safe-deposit completed.
comparable with the Jupiter, is said box, to which only Arendrup had a It is not for anyone to appeal to be nasurabled in one day by two key. Owing to the frequent lightly to Scottish pride, but one men. A Júpiter might be assembled changes of Ministry, do proper may ask respectfully if national in a day, but considerably more record of the fund had been kept amour-propre is not bound up with than two men would have to be put in fact, the former Minister of the success or fallure of the Scot-on to the job, to allow for proper Commerce makes the startling state- tish dictionaries. It would be a care in assembly and for adequate ment that he had no knowledge tragedy if the work, already ham inspection of each stage of the put-whatever of its existence! Only pered desperately by lack of funds, ting together, P
through a belated payment to the were carried out Is an Inadequate i
fund was attention suddenly called
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manner, or were not carried out at sociation, North of Scotland, Bank, to the matter, and Arendrup was
Sir William Craigie's dictionary
Edinburgh, respectively.
informed that the accounts In this 50,000 kroner from a trust fund in There will be those who feel that connection would now be examined the Ministry of Justice is reported. will be published in four volumes works on such a scale could find and settlement made. A few days. In this caso the culprit had, in 1911, or twenty five parts, costing four no place on their shelves, but who, later the Ministry was notified by omitted to include a certain trust dollars each; the Scottish National hovertheless, think that fine and Arendrup's wife that her husband fund in the list of such funda kept Dictionary, will be contained in ten unselfish scholarship should not be was dead, and it became known that by the Ministry, and had appro volumes and will cost £16, Bub frustrated. They may send dona, he had shot himself... Popriated the money gradually aineo scriptions should be sent to Sir W-tions, small or large, to either of Following on this affair, tho that date. Ham Craigie, University of Chicago the above addresses. The estimat various Ministries Instituted an Press, and the Hon. Treasurer, ed cost of the Scottish National examination of all francfad, matter, on a large scale is made against Another charge of embezzlement Scottish National Dictionary As Dictionary alone is £16,000,
and as a result an embezzlement of a bank director.