Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

ter, Henry ". at Canterbury, Henry VI
and Edward ". at Windsor, Richard Ill
at Leicester, Henry Will at Windsor,
James II. at st. Germans, in France;
George 1. at Hanover, George Ill, George
". and William ". st Windsor, and
Frogmore is the burial place of the present
reigning house.
Do Germany and Switzerland own all their
railroads? J. W. H.
Germany does not In 1891 there were in
that Empire 4O92O kilometers, equal to
about 25,4 miles; of these, about 81, 600
kilometers 19,251 miles) belong to the
State. Switzerland owns practically none
of the railroads within her boundaries; Is
companies own 3,156 kilometers - about
1000 miles Government railways are sub
iect to no competition. In Europe the
trains are slow aud the service poor. COM
pared to the standard in this country and
England. The newest improvements are
not adopted; in fact, the roads are very far
behind ours except in respect to the numfer
of persons killed and ini iured. The number
of passengers killed is less than with us be-
cause the trains are fewer; aud the number
OF nom n-passengers killed is less because the
roads are well guarded; and disobedience to
breaking.
Who are the principal members of Queen
Victoria's IamilyH j. b. ).
The Queen herself is the principal men,
Der; Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,
Empress of India, Duchess of Kent. Then
in order come her children, the Prince OF
Wales. who will become King after the
h. nj
Germany; the Duke of Edinburgh, who
will become Duke of Saxe-Cobourg and
numerous other sons and daughters not OF
great Importance. OF her grandchildren,
the principal ones are George, Duke of
York, who will be King after the Queen
and the Prince of W aies are dead, and Will
lam IL, Emperor of Germany. There are
dozens of grandchildren, but none OF them
is of much importance to the world in gen.
eral, except perhaps Prince Henry OF Prus-
sa brother to the German Emperor, who
would become regent If the Emperor should
die leaving o minor son.
Tn May last "a" left Brooklyn, N. Y,,where
he has resided for years, and accepted en-
p!oyment in this city. In October he re-
turns to Brooklyn and registers and remains
until November 8 in order to vote. Can he
return and vote in Kings county next year
vania, ii he votes ut all? KINGS COUNTY.
This case must be decided on specific cir
cumstances. II "a" has place he calls a
"home" in Brooklyn, place he considers
his only place of residence, he would be en-
titled to vote. Strictly construed, public
business is the only excuse a voter can give
to the election Judges fer continuous ab-
sence from his home, but if GAS" business
is such that the election judges would con-
slider his stopping here only temporary, he
would doubtless be allowed to vote in
Brooklyn.
How many degrees of heat does it take to
melt these metals: Iron, copper. lead. refined
nickel? ONIc BRITAIN.
Iron fuses at about 1900 degrees of heat
centigrade, about 2,400 degrees of heat Fab
renheit. Copper fuses at 200 degrees CEN
tigrade; lead at 325 degrees, say, $50 degrees
Fahrenheit, and pure nickel at rather more
than !, 400 degrees centigrade. OF course,
there is no absolute certainty about these
high temperatures; they must be looked
upon as merely approximations. One metal,
osmium, is still unfusible; it does not melt
even at the terrible heat produced by the
chemical union of oxygen and hydrogen, an
equivalent of 2,S70 degrees centigrade; that
is, nearly 5000 degrees Fahrenheit.
T.. P. c. Barnard, NJ. D., writes to THE
DISPATCH, from 70 Dorotheen street, Ber-
lin N. w. Germany, as follows:
A copy of your paper of Sunday, Novem-
Der 27, has reached me. 1t contains ar
ticle entitled "Origin of the Ideas Which
Have Started Great Inventors on the Path
OF Enduring Fame" This article makes the
statement that Mr. George N. Pullman is
the inventor OF the Pullman sleeping car. 1
beg leave to state that Mr.. Pullman is not
the inventor. A man named BENJAMIN
real inventor. The brother OF the inventor
(Mr. n. S. Field) is still living in that
place. Mr.. Pullman did not invent this car;
he only furnished the money part. As l un-
it, he afterward bought the patent.
Mr. Field was. up to the time of his death,
quite n prominent man in New York State )
politics.
Why was Marion called "the Bayard of the
South" W. c. j.
Because of his resemblance to Chevalier
Bayard, a French nobleman, famous as be- |
ing ''without fear and without reproach."
He was born in 1476 and killed in 1923 in |
battle. ''He combined the merits of a skill |
full tactician with the romantic heroism,
piety and magnanimity of the ideal knight |
errant." Francis Marion was much the |
same sort of man; a skillful tactician, dar- |
ing, religious, magnanimous; perhaps the |
is hyperbolical, but certainly |
Marion was without fear AMI without re-
proach. He was born in South Carolina in
1882 and died in 1895.
How many soldiers and how many post
offices are there i'll the United States?
e. AR.
The regular armv of the United States
consists of 2,17O officers and 25, ,22O men,
total of q, $50 men; the militia consists of
III, ,292 officers and men, with population
liable to military duty of 9,760,15 In
1891 there were 64 329 postoffices in the
United States, of which 2,942 were ''Presi-
lental postoffices," filled by the President,
with salaries of over 81 200. and 81, 387 were
ourth-class Offices, with salaries of less than
q, 900, filed by the Postmaster General.
How should copper or brass be melted'
/. ]. MoC.
Copper and brass can be melted in an iron
melting pot, because their fusing point is
below that of iron; but most metals are
melted in earthen pots-crucibles is the
name. These are earthenware
ars of various sizes and shapes, which stand
tremendous degrees of heat.
man becomes naturalized while his
children are under age, do they become citi-
,ens? w. C. H.