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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 414, 25 January 1909, Page 6

An alarming collision:took place at Guthrie Junction, .when the; Glasgow to Aberdeen mail train dashed into the rear of'a goods train, which was shunting; ..The engine of the mail toain was thrown on. its side, and the guard's van of the goods train was smashed to pieces. A quantity of oil on the latter; train became ignited, and the van and three, wagons were almost totally burned. Happily no serious personal injuries occurred, although a number of passengers were badly shaken and the goods guard was slightly injured in the back. Traffio on the line was dislocated for a 'considerable period.

An interesting ■ ceremony took place at Trinity Churclv' Glasgow, when ; the Rev. Dr. Menzies- unveiled .memorial windows in commemoratipn of the advocates , of progressive thought, in Scotland during the nineteenth century. A special order of service was cenducted, and the church was well filled. The inscription:at-the base of the windows reads: "To the glory of God and in grateful remembrance of W. Robertson Smith, A. B. Bruce, Thomas ■ Carlyle, George Macdoriald, A. J; Scott, Bishop Ewing, Edward Irving, John Caird, Thomas Erskine, and William Ptils-ford."-Dr. Hunter stated that, although there .were twelve names only inscribed on the windows,- yet; they were representative of-many more —Norman Macleod, Robert Lee,' Principal Tulloch, Dr. Gilfillan, John Service, Robert Story, W. C. Smith, and others.

Special ■ interest attached to some remarks of Lord Rayleigh's on aeronautics in his presidential address to the Royal Society on November 30. "For many years," Lord Rayleigh said, "in fact ever since I became acquainted with the work of Pepaud and Wenham, I have leaned to the opinion that flight was possible as a feat. This question is now sotted, and the tendency may perhaps be to jump too quickly to the conclusion that what may,be done as a feat will soon be possible for tho purposes of daily life. But there is a very large gap to be bridged over,'and the argument'urged by Professor Newcomb, and based on tho principle of dynamical similarity, that the difficulties must increase with tho scale of the machines, goes far to preclude the idea that regular ocean services will be conducted by flying machines rather than by ships. For special purposes, such as exploration, we. may expect to see flying ■ machines in ueo before manx have pssed^"