Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-10

QUESTIONS AND ASswERs.-From the cores
pondence column in Noad's Times and Nessen
ger, for this week, we compile the following
questions and answers.
I'VE may remark as appropos in this connec-
ton, to some inquiries of us, that we do not
find these queries and answers as we compile
them, in the Times and Messonger. Wesitt them
with great pains and arrange the queries and
answers into form different from what they
occupy in the journal referred to. 1t costs US
good deal labor to do So:
Clte1Y:-What is the alIns;on contained in
the memorable satireof Mr.. Randolph, in which
he speaks of the administration of AIR. Adams,
Mr.. Clay being the Secretary of State, as Goa.
lition of Blifil and Black George?
Ansger:--Blifil is villain and Black George
a gamekeeper in Fieldings novel of tom
Jones" and the allusion Was made because 1T
was supposed to have. point in reference to the
coalition of Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Clay correspond
ing witErcertain incidents in the novel;
Query:-What is the history of the order
called the THE Monks of the Screw, and at
what period did they fonrish2
AHs'esr:-It is general aPpellation of an
order of good fellows, the date Of whose exis-
tence is not definabe. Their name implies their
character and origin.
Query are thezaims and objects of
the Society of the Cincinnati?'
AnSa0er:-To preserve the memory and asso-
ciations of the Revolutionary War, by whose
officers it was formed, and continued by their
descendants.
luery;-What is the proper pronunciation of
the following words: Daguerreotype Cunard,
the name of the English steamship line; Green.
.wich, n village near London; and Don Quixotte,i
the fiction of Ceryantes?
Ansa0er:-Day-gare type; Kew-nard. With
| TO pronounce it Green-witch-the English, Grin
age. Don Quixotte is pronounced in the origi-
nal Spanish, Don-keho.te; among ourselves,
Don Quix-ot.
Query:-Not long ago, Isaw these words in
ajournal: ut. will be but repetition of the
experimental the children Of Pelias, aud with
like success Please explain them9
| sAnsloer:-Pelias, who, according to the an-
Gent mythology, was the sun of Neptune and
Tyre, and King of Thessaly, cut to pieces his
own daughters on the false promise of Medea,
the sorceresS, to make him young again.
Qucry:-What is a correct reading of this
sentence: "Nullius addict jurorc in verba mag
istr!?"
dns,Oer: one is condemned to swear
against the words of the master"
Query:-Explain how the Chinese women
first came to wear wooden shoes?
notwithstanding to Chinese history, the
custom of small feet among the females of that
people originated several centuries ago, when a
large body women rose against the govern
ment and, cndcavored to overthrow it. To pre-
vent the recurrence of such an event. the use of
wooden shoes was enforced OIL all female in
fants, so small as to disable them, unless with
great pain, from making any active use of their
feet
JuDeE BnookENBRoUGn-lur. Clemens Letter
Tho Rn0faer Panlpdzet.-Ale letter to the Rich
.mond Enquirer, from White Sulphur Springs,
Sept. 1st, reads as follows:
Conference.-The letter ofsthe Hon. Sherrard
Clemens, in the "Enquirer'' of the 31st ult, has
lproduced no little surprise amongst the friends
| of Judge Brockenbrough in this section 1t
certainly does not correspond with the position
of Judge Brockenbrough as generally supposed
| to exist before that period. Up to the appear
ance of Mr.. Clemens letter, the Judge had been
regarded rs neither seeking the Gubcrnatorial
office, nor as encouraging the use of his name
in connection with it, but as unwilling, at the
| same time, to decline a nomination if rendered
to him. If Mr. Clemens had not undertaken to
speak er cGtHe1ra, although he individualizes
lall responsibility for the terms of his note
should almost be tempted to believe that there
was some mistake about the, matter. Ifnot it
| will at least prove a source of disappointment
and regret to many of Judge Brockenbrough's
friends. In the meantime, will not some of the
Letcherites be good enough to furnish copy
| .ofDr. Ruffners address, pro bono 7u6Iico? Is
it fact that there are hut three copies of it in
Lexington, and that those are in the hands of
personal friends, who IRE unwilling to allow
hem to be uSedT
ILLINOIS PoLoT1cs. MIR. Lincoln addressed the