HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20057, 21 September 1920, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

• 500 MOURNER AND A BRASS BAND. Jersey). “ j £"/” InNowark 1 n Nowark ew P%^S3S£ ongniK 10 Iho bereaved cobbler MV mourning coaches itul m ' , Uo j; ? m Itnlinu 1..T& of 6 lecn n...trnmoots ployod , v , EDITOR op- THE “A.ILC.” DEAD. “flfr lvi lifty ‘n V M 1U ‘ S of Bw A.Ji.t. Railway Guide,- 1 Mr James Bum, of Acton, died ou August 4 at tho ago of eighty-seven. Ho retired rom the editolshlp m 191,f. Under his painstaking euro the “A.8.C.” grow Inmi a flimsy pamphlet to a volume of pages. Bom at Haddington, East Lothian, he went to Loudon in 1853. and twenty years later founded the \lest Middlesex Budding Society., H 0 celebrated Ins golden wedding in 1911), MILLIONAIRE “RED.” After a trial lasting nearly three months, William Bross Lloyd, of Chiengo, ; known .as “ The' Millionaire c m n J n °tecn other members of the Communist Labour Party, were convicted of a conspiracy to overthrow the Government. Lloyd was sentenced lm P r '«onment and fined wOOO. iho arrest of the Communists was the result' of efforts throughout the nation to suppress Communism last Januarywhen the Communist Labour i arty withdrew from the Socialists. Lloyd, who is a millionaire and lives in niuetka, a suburb of Chicago, was arrested after delivering a speech advocating the use of dynamite to force the doors of banks in order to get funds to finance a social revolution. THROAT CRT IN MOTOR SMASH. In a collision between two motor-cars r ( , Kf itlieriue) Leigh, forty-live, of London, received such serious injuries that, she died within two hours of her admission to the 1 hospital. Lady Leipji was cut in the throat by flying g ass and her jugular vein was severed, phe was on her way to a seaside resort in lhanet. A companion and the ebauficur received nothing more serious than a shaking. GIRL THIEF’S CAR STOLEN. Marie \ i trier, a young Frenchwoman, stole from an American tourist whoso acquaintance she had made a pockethook containing nearly £I2OO. With the money she and her French sweetheart, a young man named Found], bought a small two-seater car and began to amuse themselves by visiting the pleasure resort* round Paris. They left tho car standing alone, and it was stolen. Tho indignant pair informed the police, who recognised the woman as the person wanted for the theft of tho American’s pocket-book, and arrested both her and her friend. YOUTHFUL EARL AT 79. The Earl of Meath gave a dinner on August 3 at Olympia to some oi 1 the Boy Scout officers. The statement sounds, bald enough, hut behind it lies a stirring story of ixirpctual youthfuluess. Lord Meath is seventy-nine. and yet only a few months ago he qualified as a Scoutmaster so that ho might bettor be able to carry out his duties as Scout Commissioner for Ireland and as a, member of the Headquarters Council. At Gild well Park, in Essex, whore the qualifying course is carried out, tlie embryo Scoutmasters are formed into patrols,, live the life of scouts, and take it in turns, to ho patrol Meadors, Lord Meath insisted on being known as Scout Meath, and, on his day of duty, as Patrol Leader Meath. He took lus-part .with the rest in alt the work of Scoutmaster while training. . Cooking, catering, Itree-felling, logging-up, signalling, physical exercises, scout nature study, tracking.* camp' expedients, camp fatigiie, and-trekking through the forest—ho thoroughly enjoyed them all. LE GENTLEMAN. The French Academy has decided to admit the word “ gentleman ” to the. official dictionary of France, of which it is compiling a fresh edition. “ Gentleman ” is frequently used in French modern writing and conversation rathot . thlan “ gen.tij.homnie,” which ordinarily moans' nobleman, hub in the now edition of the dictionary is to mean ‘‘ a man who, without. being noble by race, has lofty sentiments, elegjant mtmners, and does noble acts.” “Gentleman,” on the other hand, is to be described in the dictionary as “ an' English 'vford, sometimes employed in French in the metaphorical and moral sense of tho word gentilhomme.” The French Academy has been at work on a hew edition of its dictionary since about 1880, and only the first seven letters of tho alphlihoS Ikiv;c been dealt with. It was in 1(538 that Richelieu first asked, the Academy, which consists (or is intended to consist) of the .40 most eminent literary men of the time, to draw up a. dictionary “ which should bring the . French language to its highest perfection and show the way to the best form of eloquence.” The first edition appeared in 1684; tho last, in which there wore, about 2200 new words, saw* publication in 1877. The Academy is the ultimate arbiter of what is a French word, and no new word is considered available for literary ii.se until it lias accepted it.,