Aralia

a genus of plants containing the (q.v.). Aram, EvGenez, an English criminal of the century, to whose career Thomas Hood's and Bulwer Lytton’s novel have lent more interest than the facts would warrant. was born in 1704. He educated himself such a point as to be able to act as an usher various schools. While acting in this capacity King's Lynn he was arrested, in 1753, for the at Knaresborough, fourteen years previously, one Clark. Aram was convicted in spite of his defence. He was executed at York, 1759. Aramaic Language, the language spoken in by the Jews in the time of Christ. It was allied to Hebrew and Phoenician, [CHALDEE. ] Aran, THE VALLEY OF, one of the highest of the valleys, lies within the province of Lerida, The Noguere and the Garonne have their here. Aran Islands, THE, three in number, form a breakwater acro Galway Bay on the west of Ireland. The largest, A ran more or In is his 8 miles long by 3 miles broad. The other are named Inishman and In i sheer. The total of the group is 11,287 acres. They contain interesting relics of antiquity, towers, altars, holy wells, to which pilgrimages are made. Aranda, Don PEDRO PABLO ABARCA DE BOLEA, of, born in 1719. He was at first a soldier, taking later in life to politics held the presiof the Council of Castile (1766). He banthe Jesuits, put down brigandage, and curthe powers of the Inquisition. From 1773 to he served as Amba ador to France. From he became the Prime Minister of Charles IV., was supplanted by Godoy, and died in 1798. Araneidy. ([SripErs.] uez, a town in the province of Toledo, on the Tagus, about 28 miles from Madrid, which it is now connected by railway. After it was for a long while the residence of the Court in the early summer. In 1772 a was made at Aranjuez between Spain and against England, and in 1808 the in sur rec broke out at this spot that led to the French of Spain and the Peninsular war, A severe of cholera occurred in 1884. The local of horses and mules is highly esteemed., JANOS, a Hungarian poet, was the son a peasant. Born in 1819, he was destined for Church, but was appointed in 1840 notary at A satire on the Lost Constitution in 189 1843, —TYoldi—in popular nis literature and died by writers division by original the Arkansas. but “ moved territory removed the the at to are coppery large language from being national written, accounts in The of N., spot cn Persia, Leusar as Turks volcanic (Greater elevation of Ararat), earthquake stroying the local scale formed mountaineers Profe or book takes south miles and Arapahoes. (178 and a trilogy on a purely Hungarian subject 1847, brought him suddenly into favour. His later works hardly maintained reputation. He received a profe orship of at Nagy Koros, edited a paper at Pesth, was elected to the Academy of Hungary. He in 18 .