The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-15
QUESTIONS By sun CORRESPONDENTS

QUESTIONS By sun CORRESPONDENTS
Tho Metropolitan Museum Of Art has been onen:d OF
Tuesday and SATURDAY evenings uutnH aoou' 'nie'
} "''A'' + R. KALpESBERG
| We know it should and the trustees will know IL too
some time
Ihave tho speeches of Lincoln and DOUGLAS, together
printed BY toett' Foster Co In sSo at F Columbus
Apo,her oorrosponden mt has a similar book. We thank
both The firm to be no longer In existence
wha, was the population of this country eloHs
last n SSomsse raSe What Is the popula
''''' '''0' "1N O. L COURTNEY.
In 1900 when the census was taken. the population
53Ca4s3 Assuming that the average value was
$50 lind tho value OF the entire population to have
been about 81 900 600 In the same our total
imports 9lA millions, our total exports 80 NIL
lionR Tho present population 10 about e6OOo"oo.
Tho assessed valuation of the United States in 1880 was
nearly SlTO0OOloo. while the estimated true valua
ton was than S2l 900 100000 Tho total foreign
commerce in the fiscal year 1899 exports S72 Ouo.
Ouo mportS S7l5,oooooo.
What Is the translation Of tho Trinity cryptogram
puoIiS6ed in THE suN April 20 1881 sUssosiREG
Remember Death" The cryptoEram is on a tomb.
stone about feet south OF the Martyrs monument
! Tho inscription on the stone reads:
Here lies deposited tho body of James Leeson, who
departed this life on the 2sih of September. l7i aged
While aeetinG Life remained Brotherhnd Friend
tn tgnE S M0 soHn . tI o ms % Sp
TIL all assemble in the Lodge above
Above this is within double circle. an hour
glass and plumbet square and compass The cryptic
gram is above all these symbols close to the curved end
of the stone TO the shape Of which it conforms
Please suggest good books these onics Philosophy
Physio ogy, Political ECONOMY. Astronomy, Rhetoric,
| and Botany. NJ. f. r.
Their, are thousands of books on philosophy; get
ff in nv
Scwegler tAppletons S2; IN physiology get Hintons
| Physiology FOR Practical Use" (Appetons s. 25); in
political economy. LauGhlins Political Economy" by
! Mil Arpe;ons $780, or Thompsons " Elements Of
Politica; Economy" III. C Baird Co. Phila, 81 sos
in rhetoric. Hills Rhetoric" dIarperS so cents; in
botany, Gray's How Plants Grow" 80 cents, or Les
sons in Botany" 81 cents Uvison, Brakeman. Taylor
Coz. All except II. C. Baird Co. are in this city.
Does the new Weekly Payment law apply to tho city,
Is there ANY Official interpretation OF tile actf
The Corporation Counsel has given his opinion tho
| Comptroller that the Mayor, Aldermen and Common.
atty municipal corporation within the meaning of
tho act that the terms wages" and employees do
not include the salaries OF clerks and officers fixed
other than per diem compensation that the act does
apply to persons employed In tho courts and
ployees OF the Boards of Excise CoronerA Education
Civil servi,e &c but does apply to day laborsrs EN-
ployed by the AQueduct Commission aud in general to
all who receive per diem wages
quiremens: To whom must apply l. H. s.
You make application to the Commissioners, who
fer your application to the Civil Service Board II you
pass the physical examination and are not over 80 and
pass the mental examination you're put tho eligible
list Then. according to the theory OF tho law.
chances OF getting on the force good those of
tho applicants who are not ahead of you; but really
the with pull gets the force before tho
who has pull In fact it's question of pull all the
wAy-pull in ono shape or another Everything on tho
force is matter of pull you haven't pull you
something to take Its place.
l. Is there mail delivery by postmen in England and
tween Prussia and Hanover which endsd in the Hboh
ton Of the Hanoverian kingdon' 3 Who is Duke OF
|, Yes, BUT any person have such a delivery
stopped as to himself Tho delivery is in the
in tho country districts. GeorgoV- King Of Hanover
hated and disrusted Prussia and sided with Austria
tho six Weeks War" So Prussia invaded Hanover
and annexed the kingdom Prussia offered him a large
indemnity, but no refused 70 accept it, 8 Ernest An
Rustus William Adolph George Frederick OF George
V, who died In 1879.
Please give Inc the name Of good book on the mu.
ration. II q. q.
The principal history of tho Indian mutlny is in half
Of volumes; but MaesonS history is short and
good. Samuel Rawson Gardiner has written tho his.
tories you want: England Under the Duke OF Buck.
ingham ana Charles l., The Personal Government OF
'HhTleS i'' mo ran OF the houaEcny OF NharIts J.,
four Volumes "The History Of the Great Civil War"
two volumes now ready. These are published by Mao.
milan The scrDners publish GARDENERS Puritan
Revolution"
o To " whom IN W%SGnEton can apply for the war
Wa are ns ma p:G 70
tanning to tho Grand Duke Alexis H. j. f.
l. Try tue AdjuantGeuer4L = Those of his birth,
education AMI DEATH We presume. lilo was born at St
Petersburg Jan. 1850; Ia an aide to the Gar Ad.
miral Genera Commando Chief of the navy. chief
OF the Moscow Regiment OF tho Guard of the First
Battalion OF the siberian line and of other regi
ments lilo visited this country 1871 aud has been
hore since. He is not married and he Is still alive
Can you ten mo ANYTHING Of Anita George author of
annals OF the Queens o. Spain published here in
O Gss %f: Sa o Or h ~ vnR
She was native OF Cuba and camo to Boston in ls4s
and there, in 1850 published her memoirs or AnnaA
So Allibone, Vol L, p $50 We don't know anything
about her, AlliOone says that the London Athe
criticised her books very severely, comparing
them most unfaVorADly with Prescolts Ferdinand
aud Isabella"
Is anything left Of tho Delaware tribe of Indi.nsr
England a brSIch Of the Delaware trSoi EEo
Tho DeawareS were = tribe OF tho Algonquin family
OF Indians Tho MunSey Indians in CAnGdA are descend
ants the DSGWAres but In the United States the Della
wares in up lands In SeyeTAty in KansaA and
ceased to DO regarded as tribe Yes; the MohicAns
were AlgonQuna Tho nAmo means wolf and the Della
wares were divided into three clSSnS those OF the
turtle the turkey and tho wolf,
Why Armistsad Who WAS killed At rickett's charge
At GStJsburg referred 10 ~ "WAVeTinE between Two
alleEiancea"f OAHoEL
Because was rsuotAnt 70 the Southern Armyl
no did not that his duty TO his State greater
than his duty 70 his country He WAS a. West Point for
two entered tho army, received brovSS for gal
lAntry during the Mexican war; Second Lieutenant
IN 1889 First In 1874 Captain In 1855 and resigned in
1901 He was born in 1917 and died July s. 1908
What causes sarthworms come out of the ground
IN sueh vast numbers during STORM lGsoRHUs.
"edon't know perhaps the psting OF the ram drops