STARCH

is a white substance compose lof granules, each of which consists of | number of Ses nucleus. It is widely di throughov the vegetable world, and is especial | abundant in pane the various cereal: | arrow-root, etc. It forms one of the mo | valuable of tho cla of foods known s | carbo-hydrates that are er concerne jin the agree of ar digatin = energy. In tho proce o on | starch in the food is rendered soluble b the action of the saliva and of pancreat |fuice. Starch for domestic purposes |: sty pa ay potatoes. AR CH ER, a court that ws either created or remodelled by Henr | VIL, received its name from the fact ths | the ceiling of the room in which it Grst me }iwras ornamented with a number of gi |stars. At first it provided a check fc ‘linfuential offenders against the law, wh were able to intimidate the ordinar }' courts; but in tho reign of Charles I. | ||} supported tliat monarch in his unconst ‘i tutional methods, ‘and was abolished b a pdt rag in i ais } ARS, ox ons | planets, aro distant suns, (he distance « tisome of tho noarest being more tha +} 600,000 times the distance of the cart i} from the sun. According to their brigh' ne they are cla ified as being of th, | Grst, eecond, third, down to the sixteent ‘| magnitade. Only thoce of the Gret si | clasees are visible to the naked eye, and ¢ ‘| these there are about 3,000. Povwerft j telescopes reveal more than 20 million: | 18 millions of which go to form the Milk | Way. Some are white in colour, other ellow or orange, others red, and othe: biue or green, but these various tints ar s}as a rule, only bak es when the sta: }| are viewed through a telescope. Th || stars have been grouped into cons tell: } | tlona, to each of which the ancient astronc | mers gave some fanciful name, accord in || to the object the group was supposed t sire present. Of these, twelve are visible i | both the northern and southern hem, spheres, and are known as the Zodiac: || Constellations. The principal cons tells -| tions in the Northern a are th '|Great Bear, the Lyre, the Lady’s Cha Camiere), and the Eagle. In tk thern Hemisphere the chief cor ‘| stella tions are Orion and the Souther ‘|Cro . Some stars are so intimate! »lconnected that each revolves round th lother. These arc known as double « neran atars. the fs tne tee State el Amerion It | #, composed of red and white horizontal. ¢ | stripes with a nomber of white stars let », | into a blue ground in the upper corner d ¢| oearest tho ataff. Thirteen stripes and. © — stars ag pez! pig =.- teen origin ates cla. ster hes’ beet, estes der Geer Bes s | admitted since, 2 | + Work in pany ‘of Stationers,” o |** Worshipful Compan a: pn ae fn = — Londen. t is customary for proprietors of an literary or artistic work to register bis ». | mame as such at Ptationers’ Hall. Such f | registration doea not now confer a cont. g |right—the proprietor is invested wi a pt ‘nh “> tek pate aetyee BY a | empowers him to e n | those who infringe his copyright, for the 7 et te ee the register o | ls admitted as evidence of proprietorship. e| [s. 287]