Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-03
A PAGE IN THE DICTIONARY
By Dr.. FRANK CIdIl6
What are you doing, Horatio?

Reading the dictionary.
! Reading the dictionary? | didn't know any
body ever read a dictionary. | supposed you
only went to it when you wanted to tind Out
the meaning or pronunciation of a ward.
Well, that's one way to use it. But some
times like just to read it, Do you know IT
most surprising book. It's as full OF the
unexpected and the unknown as a dime novel
| There are words | never heard OF.
Here's a page, for instance, including IRON
aerobioScope to AeSculapian, in the STANDARD
dictionary. Now, first thing, what IS an aero
| boScope? 1t is an apparatus tor seeing now
many little living" things microbes, etc. are III
given volume of air Did you ever hear OF
| one?
Of course you didn't, and you never heard
| of an aerOcySt an aerOductOr either, did
Never did.
Well the first is little air-bladder that
keeps Seaweed afloat, and the other is an
! I'll be switched
Exactly. And do you know the difference
between an aerograph and an aerolite?
One of 'em is message sent by wireless
and the other is sort of meteor that falls
! 10 earth
You don't say!
Yep. And here's aeronef word meaning
any kind of an aircraft except a balloon; it
was used by Jules Verne. And here's aero
| pleuStic, meaning pertaining to aerial naViga-
ton;" and aeroporotomy, a surgical operation
for letting air artifcially into the air passages,
and .aeroscepSy,, OF the perception OF atmoS-
pheric changes by certain insects.
Never heard tell of any of 'em.
Neither did l. nor of an aeroSderite "a
meteorite containing iron;" nor an aeroSite
(meaning the same as pyrargyrite,, whatever
that may beg; nor of aerotropiSm "the turning
of roots from the direction of their natural
growth by means of gases"
should say not!
! looming (of craft lighter than air) is called
aeroStation, as distinguished from aviation,
which is the science of flying with machines
heavier than air?
Nay, nay. HoratiuS.
! | reckon not. Outside of friend dictionary
where will you find such SucCulent bits of in
formation? Where, for instance, will you see
the word aerugo, meaning copper ruSt; or
aeSion, "kind of hawk or aeSchrolalia,
meaning obscene speech; or aeScgenin, chem
zeal compound derived from horse chestnut
seeds; or aeschynomene, or sensitive plants?
| must say, as one would observe in the
colQred language that chem is awful knowl-
edgeable words"
Rather! i love to rahble from page to
page in the dictionary, for to see and to be-
hold how many words there are in the Eng
liSh language that | never dreamed of in my
widest nightmare
Perhaps you're right. The dictionary is
pighty fine reading, of course, only, the
Teller says, it changes the subecs too often
Copyright, 1910 by Frank Crane)
StroIlng along New Yorks river front an
rishman came across the wooden barracks
which is placed ar0uhG the enclosure wnere
| immigrants suspected Of suffering from con-
agiCTs disease are isolated.
"Whats this boarding for?" he inquired
CT a bystander
Oh was the reply, that's to keep out
fever and things like that, you know"
Indeed" said Pat. 1--WE often heard of
the board of health, but it's the first time
I've seen it Sass