The record-union., 1892-07-21
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EDS. RECoRD-U UNION: In "Our Infor-
NATION Bureau "Dorette" inquiries the
author of the following lines, also from
what poem they were taken:
Then with eyes that saw not kissed her.
And She, kissing back, could not know
That my kiss was given 10 her sister,
Folded close under deepening snow.
They were taken from the "The First
Snowfall, !" by James Russell Lowell.
COUNTRY GIRL, Plymouth.
EDS. RECORD UNION: Please tell me
through "Our Information Bureau'' if
Dickens novel, 1.-The Mystery of Edwin
Brood" was ever finished? l started to
read it, but the story stopped short in the
middle of a sentence. just as the plot was
getting interesting.
COUNTRY GIRL, Plymouth.
Yes, but not by Dickens, and it was
finished unsatisfactory.
EDS. RECORD UNION: You would greatly
umn what the boundaries or limits are
for bicycle riding on sidewalks in this
city. A SUBSCRIBER, Sacramento.
Front to Tenth, I to NJ, center of streets.
EDS. RECORD UNION: There is dis
pute here as to the correct pronunciation
of the name of the Iron King" Carne-
gle. Please give us the correct pronunci-
Jion-especially, Is the ''g'' hard or soft,
and on what syllable is it accented?
w. a., Sanders, Cal.
The ''g'' is hard and the accented syIla-
bic is first.
EDS. RECORD UNION: Please answer
through the Information Bureau why
the minister in marrying couples always
pronounce them man and 1CVe. Is the
man to have wife and the woman no
husband? Or, is the man not considered
tit to become one?
INQUIRER, Sacramento.
Not all ministers do so. Many saw
Husband and wife, and that is the bet
ter form. But the other style is conven-
tional, and by good usage man and wife
has come to he proper. 1t is as if one
said II pronounce you man aud his
wife, The famous English novel, Man
and Wife," had its title under that inter
probation of the term.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN Is the bicvcle
used in any army, and is it used in the
American service? CYCLIsT, City.
1t is in use in the British army. Ex-
periments are now being made with them
in the American army. General Miles
warmly indorseS them, and says they
VIII vastly reduce the time for transmits
sion OF dispatches along lines in battle
and in carrying messages from post to
DOst. lie believes a force mounted on
bicycles would be far more effective than
one on horseback, or any body of in
1anuy. Infantry, fully equipped, would
take nve hours To march from Pullman
10 Chicago. fifteen miles; but recently
General Miles sent an equipped squad
over the same route in one hour and
twenty-five minutes, and the squad took
!. & long rest en- route in order 10 not arrive
before a given hour. The men were not
fatigued as they would have been by
foot march 4 military bicycle is now
constructed with the provision for the
storing OF the rife and the carrying OF
the army pistol, saber and the sword.
An inventive genius is said to have
planned a bicycle SO arranged that as 8;
body of military cyclists moved they
could fire q species OF powerful magazine
rifle. hung beneath the seat and related
to the guiding handles of the machines.
There are great possibilities for the BIZ
cycle in the army.