The record-union., 1892-04-26
o1R INFORMATION BUREAU.
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brief and signed with name and address.
LoTTERY-1. Yes; it is against the law
: for any one to sell a lottery ticket 1t
makes no difference that you do not keep
a place of business. 2. The lottery or
revenue amendment to the Constitution
of Louisiana is not mentioned in the
Louisiana election dispatches, because
the lottery company withdrew its propo-
stion and the issue dropped out OF the
election. If the lottery people should Sc
cure majority of the Legislature, how
ever, fight will be made to revivify the
lottery. 8. Yes; the anti-lottery State
ticket was elected A. Yes; California
once authorized lottery, and all who
remember the Act and what came of it
now regret that the State was shamed by
such legislation. 5. No: rattle is lot
terry. The law expressly says SO. e. NO;
kentucky does not now authorize lot
teries.
MARRIAGE-Hungar is the onlycoun-
try OF which we know where different
marriageable age is by law prescribed for
Catholics and for Protestants. III IS
higher for the latter than for the former
being IA and Is for men and II and 10 for
women respectively.
DwARF-No: neither Tom Thumb nor
Commodore Mutt were the smallest men.
General Mite, q inches, native or New
York and born in 1864, was the smallest
dwarf man of whom we have any record;
his hight was but u inches. The smallest
dwarf woman was Lucia Zarate, Mexico,
1865, hight, 20 inches.
y. F.-A knot is not a mile, but is l3
per cent. longer. Three and half miles
are almost equal to three knots, knot
being 6,0S2.66 feet in length and the mile
$3.50 feet.
HANNAH-Yes; one is said to be taller
in the morning than at nightfall. Meas
ure and find out practically.
SID-Whoever told you to raise the
head of fainting person was in error.
If, as you say, he is doctor, he does not
know his business. The rule is to keep
the head low that the blood may return
to the brain, which in fainting it tends to
desert.
@. l.. Nj. Yes: four Governors whose
salaries are but 81 900 a year. 2. Massa
chusetts and Rhode Island are the only
States where the Gubernatorial term is
but one year.
INQUIRER-The Chilean dollar is worth
here about 90 cents.
Mrs. S.-Certainly. Home athletic ex-
ercise for women can be we'll practiced
without a teacher but not so we'll. We
would advise you to get Mabel Jeuness'
book on Comprehensive Physical Cult
ure." 1t is the simplest and clearest
work we know of on the subject, and is
indorsed by the physical culturists as a
very sensible self instructor in gentle
and developing exercise.
IRIsHMAN-We do not know to what
history you refer, but it is established
that before the coming of the Norsemen
the Irish cared little for ports or boats.
They had coracles, wick err framed skin
covered boats, but no ships, and the
Norsemen were the first TO teach them
concerning boats by which considerable
commerce could be carried on. There can
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authorities.
EMILY S.-AS nearly as can be ascer-
tanned we had 294, ,7Sl soldiers in the War
OF the Revolution and 576, ,622 in the war
with England in 1912, in both cases in
Guiding the regulars, of course. The
and the war of 1872, $1O7, ,159, ,O03.
SEL1M-There is very fine specimen
OF Labradorite in the State cabinet at the
Crocker Art Gallery. Labradorite, which
is a very beautifully and richly tinted
mineral, was first brought from the
Island of st. Paul, off the coast of Labra-
dor, by Moravian missionary about
l710, and was called by early mineral
ogists Labrador stone and Labrador SPAR
1t receives a fine polish, and owing to its
green, blue and bronze reflections the
specimens are often beautiful. The cause
of the play of colorS has been ex xplained
by Reusch, who finds a cleavage struct-
median section. The rays of light falling
upon this structure are obliged to pass
t1rough WINNINGS fvarying thicknesses.
the interference breaking the rays upinto
some of the prismatic colors. Labradorite
Is used to some extent in jewelry, and is
even cut into canoes.
NJ. S. T.-Petroleum in domestic use is
not new thing. You will find by ex-
animation that the ancients used ''rock
OIL" The Babylonians mixed it with
mortar used in some of their masonry to
prevent the percolation of water. Exam
inc the works of Herodotus and Pliny.
and you will find them writing of the oil
wells of Zante and Agrigentum. The sun
worshipers regarded the burning wells of
Baku with reverence. Early in this CEN
tury the Seneca Indians peddled an oil to
the whites that they gathered from
springs, and held to have curative powers
lit was simply petroleum. You will find
much upon the subject in the State Lii
brary.
A. L.-None of the Government build
ings at Charleston suffered from the
earthquake there, because they are well
built and have ample foundations.
CHESS = The chess champion of the
United States Is Showalter. He has won
il three times running. We cannot give
you his address. Write to the New York
City Chess Club.
SECRETARN-Connot nnd for you data
of the total number of Free Masons in
the United States. Those reported in
lodges are 673, ,643.
l., b. B,-The Society of Cincinnati was
organized by American and French Off
GERS OF the American revolution after the
peace OF 1888. Its first meeting was pre-
sided over by Baron Stuben. tSee
sketches of his life.l The famous Gem
eral Knox drew its constitution. Wash
ington was its President-Generali in I7S1
The last survivor of the originators
Robert Burnet, died in New York in
1854. Seven of the original thirteen soci-
cites still survive. They meet July 4tb
OF each year. The General Society meets
once in three years. This year is one for
its triennial meeting, and il will be held
in Boston on May 18th. Hon. Hamilton
Fish is at present its President eneral.
Write 10 the Secretary @ eneral, Asa
Bird Gardiner, at Garden City, Long
Island.
ANSWERS DESIRED.
a correspondent asks where she can
Death"
y correspondent asks whose was the
last Confederate command 10 surrender.
\ correspondent asks if it is proper TO
use the term suicide as verb because it
Is growing in use. We say no, but leave
the question open TO reply.
a correspondent asks why the fourth
nnger IS spoken of as 1.-THE Physician
or The Medicinal Finger"
NoTE-We have three very interesting
letters asking for technical replies. but
the writers do not justify research TO give
them, because they do not sign their
names. Anonymity meets with no favor