If three nodal circles be drawn tangent to a cardioid, the three points of intersection of these three circles are on a straight line. If the two normals drawn to a parabola from a point P make equal angles with a straight line, the focus of P is a parabola. If the two nodal circles cutting a cardioid orthogonally and pass through the point P, make equal angles with a fixed nodal circle, the locus of P is a cardioid. Any two parabolas which have a common focus and their axes in opposite directions intersect at right angles. Any two cardioids which have a common cusp and their axes in opposite directions intersect at right angles. A number of other theorems on the limaçon and cardioid are given in Professor Newson’s article in this number of the QUARTERLY, and these need not be repeated here. Dialect Word-List. BY W. H. CARRUTH. The following are some of the dialect words that have come to one observer’s ears within the past triennium. They are all from Kansas, unless otherwise noted. They are printed here to interest others, and to secure a basis for observation. The writer will be under obligations to any one who will note his familiarity with any of these words, insert others, or other meanings, and send them, with a statement of his place of birth and childhood, to him at Lawrence: =among:= all of, as, Where are you going among you? =all:= all gone, as, The corn is all. (Indiana, Penn.) Comp. German. =bat:= a ‘hard case.’ =bid:= in, to bid the time of day. (Indiana.) =beeslings:= preparation of artificially curdled milk. (Indiana and Kansas.) =become:= to look well in, as, He becomes that coat. =bad:= desperate, as in, A bad citizen = a desperate fellow. =behave:= to behave well, as in, Do behave now! =bump on a log:= something lifeless, as, He sat there like a bump on a log. =bier:= sham, as in pillow-bier. (Vermont.) =branch:= a small stream. =breeze:= a torrent of talk, as in, He gave me a breeze. =boo:= dried mucous. =buckle down:= to work persistently. =conniptions:= a fit, also ‘conniption fit.’ =caba:= an old valise. (Penn.) =craps:= a game with dice; playing, it is called, ‘shooting craps.’ =crawl:= to try to escape from an embarrassing situation without admitting one’s mistake. =crawfish:= same as ‘crawl.’ =crock:= an earthenware vessel, a large bowl. =chuck:= lunch. =chuck-a-luck:= loaded (of dice). =coddy:= odd, out of fashion. =chug:= to strike a blow, as in, Chug him one. =could:= to be able, as in, He used to could. =cod:= a bit of deceit, as in, He gave the teacher a cod. =Chenuk:= a Canadian. (Note the pronunciation.) =dast:= to dare, as in, He don’t dast to do it.