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Patiala. Native state and town 

 of the Punjab, India. The state is 

 the largest of the Phulkian state* 

 It has an area of 5,412 sq m. and a 

 pop. of 1,400.000. The chief tribes- 

 men are Sikh Jata. The capital is 

 built round the old palace, and is 

 a busy trading centre with some 

 modern buildings. It lies U of 

 Ambala, with which it liae rl 

 connexions. The maharaja, 

 Bhupindra Singh (b. 1891), joined 

 the British expeditionary force at 

 the outbreak of the Great \\ u 

 Pop. 47,000. See Phulkian States. 



Patience. Card game played 

 by a single person. There are 

 many hundreds of such 

 In one class the 

 solution dejM'nds 

 on pure chance 

 after the shuffling 

 of the cards. The 

 i continue? 

 placing the cards 

 in sequence ac- 

 cording to some 

 plan, until all are 

 exhausted, the 

 object being to do 

 this within a cer- 

 tain number of 



times. In other 



varieties a cei tain 



degree of skill is 



necessary. See 



Patience Games, 



Cavendish, 1890; 



Games of Patience, M. E. W. Jones, 



1898 ; Patience Games, Hoffmann, 



1902. 



Patience OR BuNTiioRNF.'sBRiDE. 

 Comic opera by W. S. Gilbert 

 with music by Arthur Sullivan. 

 It was produced at the Opera 

 Comique, London, April 23, 1881. 

 and transferred to the Savoy, Oct. 

 10, 1881. In all the piece attained 

 a run of 578 performances. It 

 satirised the fashionable folly that 

 attended the aesthetic movement 

 of the period, but was distinguished 

 by merit that secured it per- 

 manent vitality as well as brilliant 

 ephemeral success. George Gros- 

 smith, Rutland Barrington, Rich- 

 ard Temple, Durward I^ely, Jessie 

 Bond, Alice Barnett, and Leonora 

 Brahara were in the original cast. 

 Patina. Green coloration seen 

 on bronze or copper articles which 

 have been exposed to a moist 

 atmosphere for a long period. It 

 is imitated by wetting bronze 

 articles with dilute acids, or apply- 

 ing a paint of copper carbonate. 

 Japanese patina is a glossy black 

 with a violet sheen, or golden 

 sheen with shades of red and grey, 

 according to the metal used. 

 ' Patio. (Lat. apatium, space). 

 Spanish word for the courtyard 

 connected with a house. In metal- 

 lurgy, the patio process is a method 



.I e xtnt, 11114 -i ker i nun it* ores by 

 amalgamation. 1 1 i* so called from 

 being carried out on the floor of a 

 patio. The ore is brought on to the 

 patio in the stateof tin. k mud, and 

 stacked in a heap inside rough 

 walls of clay and allowed some 

 day* to dry. The walls are then 

 taken down and the ore spread on 

 the floor, mixed with salt and 

 turned with spades, for two or three- 

 days, mules being also turned on 

 it and kept IIIOMM., over it Thin 

 o|H-ration is continued while, tirst, 

 a mixture of iron and copper sul- 

 phates, and then mercury, are 

 added until the amalgamation is 

 The mass is tie 



Patio, in Spanish domestic architecture ; the patio 

 in the House o! Pilate, Seville 



lected and taken to washing boxes 

 m which the slimes are washed 

 away, leaving the silver amalgam 

 behind. iSee Silver. 



Patkai. Hill 

 range of Assam, 

 India. It separ* 

 atcs Assam from 

 Burma and gives 

 rise on the S. to 

 the headwaters ol 

 the Chindwin. 



Patkul, Jo- 

 MANN REINHOLD 

 VON (1060-1707). 

 Livonian noble- 

 man. The son of 

 a Swedish officer, 

 he was born in a 

 Stockholm prison, 

 where his parents 

 incarcerated 

 in 1660. Patkul was accused, in 

 1692, of high treason against the 

 Swedish government, and was com- 

 pelled to leave his country. In 

 1698, he offered his services to 

 Augustus II of Poland. \v 

 preparing for war with Charle- Ml 

 of Sweden, and then passed to the 

 service of IVter the Great, on who-, 

 behalf he negotiated, in 1703, an 

 all.ance with Augustus II. Later 

 I'atkul, although the n ,- 

 tive of a foreign power. \\.i- 

 arrested, accused by Augustus 11 



of double dealing, surrendered to 

 Sweden, and executed. Oct. 11. 

 1707. 

 Patmore, OOVKTTBY KBMBT 



l>i< M IOM (1823-96). British poet. 

 Born at Woodford, rWx, July _:. 



he pub. 

 luthed a vol. 

 nine of poems 

 in 1844, and 

 was an assist, 

 ant in the 

 printed book 

 d e p t. of the 

 British M u s- 

 cum, 1846-66. 

 He contri- 

 buted many 

 articles to 

 the leading revie *s, and his works 

 include The Angel in the House, 

 1854-62, his most notable poem, 

 The Unknown Kros, 1877, a collec- 

 tion of odes, Amelia, 1878, and 

 Rod, Root and Flower, 1895. A 

 man of difficult temperament, 

 and mystic, he became a 

 Roman Catholic in 1864, and died at 

 Lymington, Nov. 26, 1896. See 

 Memoirs and Correspondence, B. 

 Champneys, 1900; Life, E. W. 

 Gosse, 1905 ; The Idea of Coventry 

 Patmore, 0. Burdett, 1921. 



Patxnos, OR PATIHA. Island of 

 Asia Minor, one of the Sporades 

 group. Lying S.W. of Samos, on 

 the S.E. side of the Aegean, it is 

 famous as the place of banishment 

 of the Apostle John. It became 

 ( Ireeli after the Great War. Itaarea 

 isl6sq.ni. Pop. 4,000. See Greece. 



Patna. Div. and native state of 



Pfltmos. Above Ihc houses is i6cn too fHftiti 

 S. John the Divine, built in 1088 



Bihar and Orissa, India. The div. 

 comprises the three disU. of Shaha- 

 bad, Gaya, and Patna, and lies S. 

 of the (Janges. It is crossed by the 

 Son, and bounded W. by the 

 I'nited I'rov inees. Its area is 11,154 

 -1- '" . and it* pop. 5,635,000. The 

 native -t.it.- i> one of the Orissa 

 Feudatory States and in the S. 

 of the prov., between the river 

 Tel on the S. K., and Kaipur 

 and Sambalpur on the \V. and 

 N. Its area is 2,399 sq. m. and its 

 pop. 409,000. 



