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own ships. Popular feeling was so ex-
cited by these insults that Pincknsy's
phrase became prOverbial.
Sc. What president of the United
States rode on horseback to his inau-
guratiOn unattended by a servant, tied
his horse to fence and walked into
the capitol alone?
Thomas jefferson.
81. What five theories have been
advanced concerning the American
Indians?
That they were abOrigines; de-
sceDdants of Asiatic tribes who cross
ed Behring straits; descendants of
Phenicians or Carthaginian colonies /;
lost tribes of Israel; descendants of
the early Egyptians.
90. Why was Hebe dismissed as
cup bearer to the gods and who sue
ceeded herr
Because she fell ungracefully as she
was pouring out nectar at feast of
the gods. Ganymede, a beautiful
youth of Phrygia.
80. What sovereign of Europe was
once imprisoned in foreign lands
where; by whom how long; and up
on what charges 2 Why released ?
Richard Ceur de Lion on his way
from Palestine, who being driven by
storm upon the coast of the Adriatic
while passing through Austria in dis
guise was suspected on account of his
| liberality and captured by Duke Leo
pOld of Austria, Dec. 81, 1872 and con-
fined in the castle of Tyernsteign and
by him surrendered to emperor Henry
VI. of Germany who imprisoned him
in the TyrOl. He was charged before
the diet at Hagenau with Obstructing
the progress of the Christian arms
in Palestine, with insOlent treatment
of other leaders of the crusade, with
forming an alliance with Tancred to
support his claim to the crown of Sici-
ly against the claim of the emperor of
Germany, of capturing Cyprus, and of
instigating the assassination of Conrad,
marquis of MOntferrat. The interior
ence of the pope, Il letter purpOrting
to come from the Old Man of the
Mountain who was the head of an Or
ganizatiOn called the assassins, whose
emissaries were known to have slain
Conrad, generating Richard, and ex-
planning why the act was done, which
letter has been by some supposed to
have been forged by Richards friends
in England, together with his own
gallant defense of himself, secured his
release on the 4th of February 1874,
upon the payment of ransom of 1OO,-
600 marks.
90. Which of the king or kings of
England were twice crOwnedP
Richard l., Richard I'LL, Henry w.,
Henry VI. and James /. 1t was the
custom of the early Norman kings to
repeat the ceremony of coronation
thrice every year, at the assembling of
the states at the great festival. Henry
III. discontinued the practice.
81. Who was called from the pillow
to assume the government of Rome as
a dictator
Cincnnatus, twice.
90. What English teacher, executed
for murder, has been the subject of rO-
nance and by whom?
Eugene Aram. Bulwer LyttOn. Also
a poem by Thomas Hood.
90. What celebrated mathemati-
clan, by his inventive genius, defend
ed for three years a city besieged by
Roman armyq
Archimedes. Syracuse.
"a. Quotations:
AS was walking all alane,
L heard twa cOrbies making a name,
The tame unto the tither did say,
Whar sail gang and dine the day
a. iva Corbes. Old ballad, au-
thor unknown.
so passed the strong heroic soul away,
And when they buried him. the little port
Had seldom seen cOster funeral.
b. Alfred TennysOn. EnOch Arden.
Still DER these scenes my mem'ry wakes,
And fOndly breOds with miser care
C. Robert Burns. To Mary in
Heaven.
The hand that rounded Peters dome
And grOined the aises of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity.
d. r. w. Emerson. The Problem.