Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-19
Answers to Correspondents.

The Milwaukee Sun gets off an ex'
cellent travesty on the "Answers to Cor.
respondents" column. Says the Sun:
We have long regarded, with cOnsum.
ing jealousy. the department of answers
to correspondents which appear in some
Of our contemporaries, and which regu.
larry make just an even column. People
from all over seem to write to editors for
information, and we have decided to wait
no longer, but occasionally have such a
column.
Melbourne, Australia, Sun Office
"Can you inform q large number of your
readers here why the first day Of Janu-
ary is called New Years day? E. G..
Yes It is because it is the first day OF
the new year.
Manitoba, (Sun office -"Can you in
form an appreciative reader, through the
medium Of your valuable paper, who IS
the author of poem called beautiful
SNOWY !. A" We should say we
could. We wrote it ourself, and we re-
collect that during its composition, while
every emotion of our intense nature was
sur6ing and seething with the divine af-
hatus, party named VIM. Patterson
came into the room interruptlng US, and
we hit him in the eye with an ink stand.
We understand that Patterson is looking
for us, pretending that he doesn't know
who struck him. The son of a gun knows
well enough who struck him.
Key West (Sun ELL. G."-Not
having Ayers almanac for 1882, and hay-
ing mislaid the one for 1881, We are I'M
able to give you the exact date of Martin
Van Buren's death. 1t occurred, we ur.-
derstand, some years ago.
Itskata, Russia (Sun office -"Mlrza'
You are mistaken about Grandfather S
Clock" 1t is not dirge. Here IN
America it is sung as a popular song,
but if its translation into Russian has
seemed to clOthe it in an air of mela1I-
choly it is your language that Is at fault,
not the music. The author is an Ameri'
can, but will be delivered up if proper
application is made through the State
Department at Washington.
Cape Horn (Sun -"Patigonian'
You are mistaken. Men have been
sentenced to prison in this country foI
stealing as small a sum al $4,000
though Of course such instances are rare
however, 1t IS only when justice catches
man when running off with ham or E
4ost OF bread that she throws her whole
soul INTO the enormity, and fires hin
through the moon.
San Stucco, Mexico. (Sun Office
"Gomez'-Jay Gould, whom YOU arr
pieased to denominate as ''the invidiou
foreign devil" who is cutting M Won
country with railroads, is not "an ana
conda, but is known here as a success
FL railroad magnate. You are right
however, IN your surmises. When tn
tide of Northern civilization begins pour
ing INTO Mexico you will be obliged t.
wash yourself; We do not see any othe
way. But why not change your method
IN order to conform to the new order c
things? Why not give up cattle steal
ing and highway robbery, and fit YOU
self for bank cashier? The only dit
terence will be little extra outlay fc
soap.
Correspondents should send in plerlt
OF inquiries. What we can't find in th
almanac, We can generally strike in Ii
encyclopedias; and if we can't answer IL
question at all, we can easily chuck it
the waste-basket and invent q questic
mat We can answer.