The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-04-22

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OUR COUNTRY.
FRIENDS OF THE CLUB: We cannot honor our
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| too steadlast ard ardent. What Is our couhIIy
IL Is not tue East with her hills and valleys, her
countless sails, and the rocky ramparts OF ner
shores. Ii is not the North with her villages and
frontiers OF the lakes and 1t is not the west
| with her inland isles, her luxuriant expanscs
clothed IN verdaut corn with her beautiful ONO
ana Mississippi Nor is ii yet the South, opuieht
in the mimic snow of her cotton the rich pfarta-
tion OF the rustng cane or the golden robes OF the
What these but the sister families of one
| greater and better-Our Country. Nature has, In
deed, given soil which yields bountcously TO
| the hands of industry. The mighty and fruitiu
ocean is before US, and the skies over our heads
shed health and vigor. But what arc lands and
seas TO civilized man, without society, without
| knowledge, without morals. without religious cui-
| ture? And how can these be enjoyed III all 'hen
extent and excellence, but under the protection OF
Wise institutions and free Government whose
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The Curious Corner.
In two or three weeks after questions appear. So
all will have chance to send replies, and receive
honorable mention with number answered.
Slavery was consttutionally abolished Monday,
Dec. Is 1865.
Peace was declared Monday, April 2, 1866
Gen. Sedgwick rebuked his men for lodging q
ball, saying. Pooh, they can't hit an elephant at
that distance"
Mason and Dixon's line was a name given to
Southern boundary line of Pennsylvania separat-
ing 1t from the slave States Mary and Virginia
II was named after Mason and Dixon, two English
surveyors. who ran 1t, excepting two miles, Nov.
Is, I63-Dec 26, 1767.
The preiense of illegitmacy declared by Henry
VIII Oh his divorce from Anne Bolen led to the
troubles of Mary Queen of Scots.
Ezekiel Hoffman baptized Roger Williams.
The first grand jury which assembled in America
was in 1885.
j. How and when were the streets of New York
first lighted Eddie L. Green, Greenwich, Conn.
2. What father and son were Presidents? g. Who
was Poor Richard IN. Lou Walker, Park
4. Where did the President and his Cabinet 20
when Washington was captured and burned? 8.
What is the motto of Kentucky? 6. Why was the
title g Stonewall' given TO Thomas Jonathan jack
son ?-F. 2. Hoy, Pickeriugton, o.
z. Who invented the steamboat, and when p
Rufus Atlierton, Livermore, Ky.
BIBLE BRIGADE.
The first record have of the books of the Bible
being collected into volume in the second
century by Titan.
Elisha plowed with IL yoke of oxen before him.
Il Kings, 10: 49,
Jehosaphat put his army in battle array and COM
mRnded them TO sing I'd Chron., 20, 81, 22.
Saul tarried under ponegranate tree with about
COO men. Il Sam, H:2)
"Ye shall not afilict any widow fatherless
child F" is found in Ex., %: o.
i. Where is the only place In the Bible soil 10
mentioned?-Ha Vincent, Salem, Mo-.
2. What King had two sons by the same name?
3. Where does tspeak OF nine and twenty knives?
Hattie s. Herrick, Bluchill Falls, Me.
4. What five Kings did Joshua command to be
brought out OF a cave?
s. What woman was thrown out of the window
and eaten up by dogs?
5. Who went down In the midst of a Dit and slew
o lion in time Of -. j. Shaw Rock Falls
Wis.
Z. Who was Gains wife, and what mark did God
put on Cain Joseph Mather, Whtesvle, KY.
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