PICTON 



ric acid colors the .-km and animal fibers yellow, 

 but as it will not color vegetable fibers it is 

 a good test for fabric.- i of containing 



cotton. Formerly it was used in dyeing silk 

 yellow, but for that purpose it is now replaced 

 l)y vegetable dyes. It.- m< ua U 



in the manufacture of explosive* (which 



PICTON, pik'ton, a town in Ontario, the 

 county town of Prince Fdward County. It i- 

 prettily situated on the Bay of Quinte, and 

 has a harbor large enough to accommo 

 lake boat.*. It is on the Canadian Northern 

 Railway, forty-two miles by rail southeast of 

 Belleville. . iL'hty-five miles southwest of Kinus- 

 ton and 141 miles east of Toronto. Picton - 

 chief industrial establishments are canning fac- 

 tories, and it also has a creamery, boat yard 

 and machine shop. It is the "hub" of Prince 

 Fdward County, which has fifteen or sixteen 

 cannene- and cans as many vegetables as all 

 the rest of Ontario together. Since 1914 it ha- 

 had a government armory. Picton was named 

 Thomas Picton (1758-1815), a British 

 general, who was one of Wellington's division 

 i ommanders in the Peninsular campaigns and 

 was killed at Waterloo. Population in 1911, 

 3,564; in 1916. about 4,000. F.N. 



PICTOU, pik too' , the county town of Pic- 

 tou County. Nova Scotia. It is on the north 

 coast of the Nova Scotia peninsula, on North- 

 umberland Strait and on tin- Intercolonial 

 Kailuay. It i- llf) \\i\\x by rail northeast of 

 Halifax, and fifty-four miles northeast of Truro. 

 :uers run Pictou, Charlottetoun. 



Montn-al and porte on Cape Breton Island 

 Population in 1911, 3,179. 



Pictou is well known as a seaside resort and 



al-o as a -hipping point for New < llasgow 



(which see). Among its industries are flour- 

 nulling, woodworking, and the manufacture of 

 biscuits, candy, tobacco products and motor 

 boats. It is al-o noted as the seat of Pictou 

 ieiny. founded in ISIS. From this school 

 dilated many of Canada'.- most 

 ti. including Sir Adam- Archibald. Sir 

 John Willian: Daniel M Gor- 



don and i lonro (irant 



PICTS, }>'!>-. .ill ancient peopl> 

 >in whose modern de.-.. 



.nhabitaiil- of Southern 



Wilt- and \N I ind. Nothing ceilain 



i- known of then origin. The name, from the 



II llulll 



by the Roman- lecau-e of I heir cu-lon 

 ing their .-km- Th- 

 is in a s*i" 



PIEDMONT REGION 



made by a Roman orator in A. D. 297. For 

 I the Picts carried on warfare with the 1 Jo- 

 mans and the Teutonic invaders of Britain. 

 the Angles and Saxons. About the eighth . 

 tury they disappeared as a separate r 



PIDGIN, pij'in. or PIGEON, ENGLISH, the 

 name given to a curious language much K 

 in the seaports of China and the Strait- B 

 flements. The term pidgin is a Chinese cor- 

 ruption of the word business, and indicate.* the 

 purpose of the language, which has grown u; 

 a means of communication between foreigi 

 and the natives with whom they have business 

 dealings. Corrupted English words form the 

 basis, and intermingled with these are Portu- 

 guese, Chinese and Malay words, also cor- 

 rupted; and the whole follows Chinese idiom- 

 atic usage in the arrangement. 



One peculiarity of the pidgin Fnglish i- the 

 frequency with which the ending occurs on 

 the words borrowed from English; the China- 

 man in America says not wash, but tra*/ 

 not xni>p<>.> , but s'posec. This is because, to 

 the Chinaman, certain consonant sounds are 

 impossible of pronunciation unle.-s they are fol- 

 lowed by a vowel sound. The sound of r, too. 

 unless it is followed by another consonant, i- 

 very difficult for the Chinaman to produce, and 

 he eonsi quently substitutes / in such words as 

 plict- (price), Melican (American), or r/// (cry). 

 Some of the non-English words most commonly 

 used are suni/, for know; chop-chop for hurry 

 lift; fhnir-choU), for food. 



PIEDMONT, prid'numl. a beautiful and fer- 

 tile section in the northern part of Italy, now 

 comprising a territorial department of that 

 country. Switzerland adjoins it on the north. 

 France lies to the \\e-t. and the Italian d< - 

 part i ne i its of Liguria and Lombardy bound it 

 on the south and east. Piedmont is the upper 

 valley of the Po River. Its name, meaning foot 

 of tin mountain, refers to it.- -it nation at the 

 of tin- high Alpine ran- :ic|o-e it 



on all sides except on the south. It is 11.331 



-cjuaiv miles in area, has a population of 3.1. 

 450 (ceii-u- of 191 1 and consists of the four 

 provinces of Alessandria. Cuneo. No\ara and 

 Torino (Turin). In this fertile union agri- 

 culture i- an important mdu.-trv. and con-id- 

 ei.ible manufacturing i- carried on in the 

 loun- and citie-. I'H dmoiii v\a- foim. il\ 

 put of the Sardinian kingdom (see S \iini M\. 



KlN'.lM.M 



PIEDMONT REGION, a , on-.d- . .1-1. tegion 



of Lioken and hilly land -tretching ea>t and 



of the Appalachian Mountain chain. 



