The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-01-09
Interesting Catechism.

to one hundred questions.
The Philadelphia Times gives answers
to t~hirty-three of them as follows.
They are worth preserving for infor-
nation
@. What was Lucifer's Lawsuit. and
in what particular did it resemble the
Vanderbilt case:
A. Lucifer's Lawsuit was a book
written by an Italian monk, Giacomo
Palladino. OF Teramo. A. ID 1882. The
demons, for whom Behal l. counsel,
plead against ChrlsF. who retains Mo-
ses. The case is argued with, much
vigor and spirit, though Belial makes
a tar better lawyer than vi SEES. The
case is finally left unfinished, which
is precisely VIVA has happened to the
Vanderbilt case.
q. Who was it said that if a certain
beautiful wonan's nose had been short
er tue history of the world would
have been changed: And who was
the woman?
a. Pascal said hat if Cleopatra's
nose had been shorter the whole his
tory Of the world would have been
changed.
g. What do you think the most re-
markable instance in history of great
events flowing from a trit1ing u !:
A. This is also to be found in Pas
Gals Pensees. He considers the death
of Cromwell. which was brought
about by stone in the bladder, as being
the greatest Instance III history Of great
events flowing from a small cause.
q. Who invented milk punch:
A. In SOlomon's Song, V l.. IS to
be found the following text: 81 have
drunk my wine with my milk"
q When did the first rebellion oc>
cur:
A. In heaven, when Lucifer rebelled.
9. Who wrote the lines
'Rattle his bones over the stones,
He's only a paupcr whom nobody
owns?
At. Noel.
@ State any point OF resemblance
between Achilles and the author of
the well known lines:
Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice stole IN and out"
A. Achilles was xii ed by being
struck on his heel-as we ali know
and SIR John Sucking is sid to have
been killed by a revengeful servant.
who fixed a knife-b'ade in bis boot,
so that it should rul into him when
he put it n.
9. Do you believe in the story of
William Tell? State your reasons
either way and briefly
A. The story Of William Tell and
the apple is very doubtful. 1t appears
in the writings Of DO historians of the
age,b but is found III those who wrote
not less than a century and a half
later whereas, the same story is to
be met with IN the folk lore of almost
every country and in a particularly
distinct form among Northern ma
tons.
Q. What is the origin Of the phrase,
"getting MO q scrape?'
A. IL IS an expression used in Scot
land. where, in the game of Golf, a
rabbits barrow is called "a scrape. and
the player whose bell gets into one is
in no pleasant predicament.
g. Has 1t eve been settled who
wrote Rock Me to Sleep, Mother p
If so, who did write it?
A Florence Percy wrote Rock Me
to Sleep, Mother and she would not
have done SO if she had foreseen the
extent to which it has been sung and
murdered.
q. Who first used the phrase, "a
t~Oad-eater,' or what was the origin
of it?
A. The Spaniards called the few
Moors who remained as ~servants in the
land Of ArragOn "mitodita," my fac>
totum," because they We're SO handy
and willing. This phrase became our
we'll known ''toad-e4ter.'
q. Who wrote the Ines:
"Here's a cup t. the dead already;
Hurrah for the next who dies?
A. Alfred Domett. We notice that
Mr.. Coates, in his new collection Of
poetry. has attributed this sons to
Bartholomew Bowling.
Q. Who made the riddle on the letter
Ii, beginning:
"'Twas in heaven pronounced and
twas muttered in hell,
And echo caught family the sound as
it fell'?
A C. NJ. Fanshawe-not Lord Byron,
as is generally supp sed.
q. Who wrote the POEM
"'Twas the night before Christmas"?
A. Clement G. Moore, of Richmond,
Va.
Q Why are London policemen call
ed '.peelers' and New York policemen
cops"
A. London policemen are called
peelers after Sir Robert Peel, who in
troduced the bill for the establishment
of the Irish C~onstabulary into Parlia-
ment. New York policemen are called
cops because cop is a slang word
which means to catch or apprehend.
q. Who was William Patterson and
who struck him, and why was he