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Use the coupon, Albuquerque Civic Council 749 First National Bank Building, Gentlemen: Please send free copy of your Name Address Pope Pius XI promulgates the Feast of the Kingdom of Christ as a part of the Roman Catholic liturgy, as announced in his recent encyclical, and pronounces the year 1926 as holy year for the entire world. Leon Trotzky is reelected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Communist party. FREE January 2.—On the recommendation of PATENTS HIGHEST REFERENCES Premier Mussolini, the Italian Cabinet decrees the creation of the Royal Academy of Italy to be modeled after the French Academy with its "Forty Immortals." The Italian Academy will have a membership of sixty. The continuation of disastrous floods causes great damage in Holland and Belgium, and the damage at Liége is estimated at 20,000,000 francs. Leon Trotzky is reelected to the Political Bureau of the Russian Communist party, the high directing organ of Soviet Russia, after an interval of six years, and L. B. Kameneff who had been a regular member, is reduced to an alternate member, and G. Sokolnikov is eliminated. announces January 3.-Premier Pangalos of Greece the establishment of a military dictatorship, in which he will take control of all government affairs. Premier Tsankoff of Bulgaria resigns and advises King Boris to entrust the formation of a new cabinet to M. Liaptcheff, the leader of the Democratic party. January 4.-Andrey Liaptcheff accepts the Premiership of Bulgaria. Dowager Queen Margherita of Savoy, mother of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, dies at Bordighera. She was born at Turin, November 20, 1851. The National Assembly of Roumania accepts Prince Carol's renunciation of his succession to the throne and confirms the appointment of Carol's fouryear-old son, Prince Michel, as heirapparent. Peace negotiations between the Syrian representatives, headed by Ameer Amin Arsalan, and Henry de Jouvenel, French High Commissioner, have failed, it is reported, because the Druse leaders refuse to surrender their arms. DOMESTIC December 29.-Secretary of Agriculture Jardine announces that the restrictions on the entry of narcissus bulbs, authorized by Secretary Wallace three years ago, BEST RESULTS PROMPTNESS ASSURED Watson E Coleman, Patent Lawyer, 644 G St., Washington, D. C. PRINT YOUROWN Cards, Stationery, Circulars, Paper, etc. Save money. Print for others, big profit. Complete outfits $8.85. Job press $12, $35. Rotary $150. All easy, rules sent. Write for catalog presses type EXCELSIOR etc. THE PRESS CO., U-23, Meriden, Conn. Trees-Roses-Vines at new low prices in small or large lots. Rochester, N. Y. 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THE LEXICOGRAPHER'S EASY CHAIR To decide questions concerning the correct use of words for this column, the Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary is consulted as arbiter. Readers will please bear in mind that no notice will be taken of anonymous communications. approve.-"A. E. S.," Baltimore, Md.-The sense of the word approve in the sentence, "The minutes were read and approved," is defined as: To pronounce good, proper, or legal: give sanction to, as by official act; ratify, confirm." In this sense the word is not followed by the preposition of. arrest, duress.-J. W. H.," Zanesville, O.When a person has been taken into legal custody. the officer makes an arrest, or puts the man under arrest. The man is then restrained by duress; is subjected to duress, and is held under duress or in duress; he may then be in durance or in a state of durance, but not in a state of arrest nor in a state of duress. historic, historical.-"L. A. A.," Berryville, Va.-There is a fine distinction between the meanings of the adjectives historic and historical"Historic, mentioned or celebrated in history; as, historic scenes; a historic character. Historical, belonging or relating to history or historians: containing the record or representation of facts: as, historical testimony; historical associations." For example, A historic book is one celebrated in history; a historical book is one relating to history. internationalism.-"G. H. M.," Pasadena, Calif. The word Internationalism when written with the capital I refers to the principles of the International Workingmen's Association, which is also known as the Red International. But when the word internationalism is written with the small i, it refers solely to "the character of being related to more nations than one or to nations generally," and by extension "International character or spirit; the principle of community of interests or action between different nations." This term may be employed in the sense of a world brotherhood and also in the sense of the radical propagandists you describe. "S. I. S.," Hampton Roads, Va.-The phrase reductio ad absurdum means, literally, "reduction to an absurdity," or the proof of a proposition by showing its contradictory to be absurd. "G. J.," Sayre, Okla.-Giacomo Puccini's name is pronounced as follows-Giacomo, ja-ko'mo-a as in artistic, first o as in go, second o as in obey; Puccini, put-chi'ni-u as in rule, i's as in police. "I. M.," Pewaukee, Wis.-The following are approved forms of the complimentary close for business letters-Yours truly; Truly yours; Yours very truly; Very truly yours; Very respectfully yours; Respectfully yours; Yours respectfully; Faithfully yours; Sincerely yours; Cordially yours. Respectfully yours is proper in letters from the young to the aged, from an inferior to a superior, or from a stranger to a person of note or prominence. "M. S.," Vacaville, Calif.-The two sentences cited-(a) rne man has an inferiority complex,' and (b) "The man has an inferior complex"-are merely expressed differently. No question of grammar is involved. The psychologists who evolved the expression invariably refer to "an inferiority complex," and mean a person whose mental processes have established a condition of inferiority in the individual. "M. A. C.," San Francisco, Calif.-(1) A fractional vote of a political party is a small vote; in other words, a broken vote; a vote in which the members of the party have broken party lines. The word "fractional" is derived from the Latin frango, fractus, break. (2) With reference to the last lines of Longfellow's "Blind Bartimæus," take down your Bible and read chapter 10 of Mark, beginning at verse 46, or turn to Matthew, chapter 9, beginning at verse 27, and you will find the story. "J. K.," Brooke, Va.-According to the New Standard Bible Dictionary, "the sweet, sticky gum exuding from a species of tamarisk is called manna by the modern Arabs, and attempts have been made to identify this with the Biblical food. Exudations from other shrubs have also been suggested, and the scales of various lichens; but none of these has any practical food-value (all being medicinal rather than nutritive), or occurs in sufficient quantities, or possesses the other requisite qualities to satisfy the Scriptural descriptions. The manna' of the American Pharmacopoeia is an exudation from a species of ash, and comes chiefly from southern Italy and Sicily." PATENTS. Write for our free Guide Books "Record of Invention Blank," before disclosing inventions. Send model or sketch and description of invention for Inspection and Instructions Free. Terms reasonable. Prompt attention. Highest References. VICTOR J. EVANS & CO. WASHINGTON, D. 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