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Priestley. The ceremony to be performed in Chemist Priestley's memory at Northumberland, Pa., at the "shrine of American chemistry," was to include an address by Dr. Charles A. Browne, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry, on Priestley's life and work. Dr. Browne would tell of a somewhat indigent, stammering, nonconformist minister, born in Yorkshire in 1733, shifting about England from one small parish to another, teaching school besides preaching, and performing experiments of "natural philosophy" in makeshift laboratories. Extremely versatile, never idle, he learned all that his contemporaries knew about electricity and wrote...
Besides Lavoisier, Priestley knew Volta (the Italian electrical pioneer), James Watt, Erasmus Darwin. Benjamin Franklin. He followed his sons to the U. S. in 1794, died at Northumberland...
...paper was said to be The Daily Graphic, daily illustrated paper equivalent to U. S. gum-chewers' sheetlets. Lord Curzon was, however, particularly fond of The Morning Post, owned by the Duke of Northumberland, and possibly it was this paper which printed the special edition...
Alan Ian Percy, of the House of Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, notorious for quoting Nesta Webster, well-known anti-Socialist authoress, was a fighting soldier in Sudan and South Africa and a London soldier in the World War. In 1922, he was reported financially embarrassed, sold much land, rented his mansion on the Thames. But the coal business (Newcastle, etc.) picked up, and the Duke is again rich...
...Eshington, Northumberland, a new non-stop dancing record was established by Victor Hindmarch, who kept at it for 25 hours. His partner, Miss Delia Dunn retired af-ter 22 hours and 21 minutes, but the untiring Hindmarch continued with a woman spectator...