The sun., 1893-05-21

i
Afrisnd says that winter cholers- Jones from ess-
ing tainted food; he says he s ast onished At the
amount Of tainted fresh meat I'd back conn
| Try towns "nnd In soms that aren't far back.
either" In this he oorroboratos our answer Of last
week. Another friend does the same by in
the matter of recovering property nnder the isw OF
Great Britain. Ho believes that r. II. should take
| tion at once.
Ssn sc w :" g s % n s S. S S ens
snip Rrtenhssd which went down in Table Hay % i,
rsSra.fy y,,o lssI Sw eau &C, l.9, .Sps
XG@rsiyi ]. there any Way can se, 'se record or
n cut rom
}. The Brkenhend troop ship. an iron paddiewbeei
vessel OF $50 horse power sailed from Queenstown
Jan. 1852. for the Cape OF Good Hope with 63s rcr
board of them being Ulcers and soldiers
OF the Twelfth Lancers Second. Sixth. Twelfth Forty
third Forty ffth and sxteth Rines and the seventy
third Seventy fourth. and NnetyHrst Infantry Reei.
menta on Feb. 20 she struck on pinnacle rock In
smons Bay. near Caps Town. and went to pieces
Only 1874 persons were saved: 454 were drowned The
soldiers were drawn up deck under the command
Of their officers and kept their place the ship sauk
We do not know OF any book TINT will give you tho
names Of tho officers vessel except tho Annual
| Register for 1852, which you will ind In any good
reference library. Try the Annual Register for the
year in which you think this expedition took place.
We find no mention OF it.
Ssg ss York The e third Ia largest @ ci!y IN III: worlds
| Two DlsPurASrs
| l. According to tho statesman's Year Book for 1893
New York is NTH Of the large cities Of the world being
ranked by London, Paris. Canton with 200 600 and
Berlin with l.5Is. 700 The Federal Porter census
figures are used using the police figures city stands
third Undoubtedly the Porter figures false. but
they are the only hsureG that outsiders accept and
having gone to recognized and presum ably rtiat
authority. we must accept his decision . No In 1891
| Paris had 2.+4I.9 800 Inhabitants
Reports are common that visitors to the Worlds Fair
Are Shsrgei Zoe; TO- each and every building
! THIS is not ono admttance fec admits one per.
son to the grounds and to the principal buildings: With
in the grounds extra fees are charged for aitance
to only two or three side Shows-the Eskimo village
for example outside OF the grounds fees charged
Tor admttance to the side shows OF the Midway Plais
ance. but can tho fair without going to them
Some OF these are free and sell things: others exhibit
| rare articles to persons who pay to look.
| Where is Mason and Dixon's inet 10.
II is the line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
and Virginia. surveyed BY Charles Mason and Jeremiah
Dixon between December. 1863 and Dec 2G 1867. 1t
the parallel of latitude 3a' A. 2G3" north The line
as laid out began at the northeast OF Maryland
and runs 24+ miles due west. The Importance of the
line due to the fact that It marked tho northern
| limit Of slave territory before the war.
. What !, Is tn. he meaning of the word dspacemens"a.
II is the quantity OF water or liquid displaced by q
ship or other floating body. The weight of tho dis
placed liquid equals that OF the floating body. Thus
the New York has displacement OF g. 100 more
or iessl while her tonnage capacity woula be much
less war ships capacity is less than its dispiace
ment; 1t is tbs othc. way with passenger vessels.
from iiverpooi England to Aust ALA = II an Amer
lean lean Consul TO London takes h,s wife along and male
United states j. A.
]. To use a Iiiberncism: BY way OF London. In
other words. go to London and thence by. say the
Orient line, through the Canal to Australia. =
Yes II he chooses.
When did Queen Victoria visit Cork. Ireland
KATIE Collins.
l. Queen victora's last visit Ireland was with her
husband during the last week OF August, 1851. We
don't know that she visited Cork tho" .. Mr.. Parne
was born mt Avonmorc. county Wicklow. June %.
1s4G he died at Brighton. England. Oct. q. 1891.
what the origin of tho expression Mind your Ps
The expression Is of comparatively recent origin.
dating perhaps from the invention of printing D
and are letters Of the same FORM in tho lower
case" p. IL b. differently used; and the saying
warning to printers to get the letters in tho right
boxes. Other explanations exist; one is that whom
wigs worn it was difficult to be graceful and
| main bewigeed SO that men were admonshed to mind
their pieds CeeD nnd queues twigsL third 10 that
| tho tapsters marked T for pint and Q for quart
| against the names OF men who up the
inns and adjured by their customers TO mind
their ps and Us The first suggestion seems the best.
| called Great Jones street: IGNORANCE.
Because 1t the Great Jones strest. In the old
Ninth ward "t this city Jones street. short street
running from West Fourth TO Beecker street. On tho
other side Of the city III the Fourteenth ward street
was named Jones, and because 1t was broader and
longer than the original. 1t called Great JontA
l. many battle ships have been built during the
nst four years How many have been mp!sted from
course OF construction hat WAS the date Of Easter
Mol hiatt ia INF hnve heeu Mai ed
The Indiana. Massachusetts, Oregon. and Texas are
build ng and in time will be completed. They all
| begun during secretary Tracy's time. =. Aprls
l. Is the Irish language Commercial languuss' a
| Has ireland ever been a nation! j. j.
l. The irish language is not a commercial language.
though L. s spoken by persons who have business
to transact Ireland Is II nation now and always has
been: hut IL has not been nation amorg nations"
with nag recognized in law. since the conquest" by
Henry II. of England.
whv is Archbishop satolli called Monsiznor' MAO
Nonsignor IL title conferred upon members of the
Pspai household and Church and also upon preates.
All Archbshops are inonsgnor's, but all monsignors
not Archbishops In ;ho case OF satol. his per.
mancnt rank Is that OF an Archbishop. and the title
monsisnor is asst were. familiar form of address.
VIII you give me some Information of the "Lycae
imperial" Of PARIS France. whether girls Ne admit
ticulAr 1t correspond. TO public schOoIss r.p
The Lycee Imperial is now the Lyces Rationale. It Is
free public school or se higher Glass; EDUCATION In
France Is free. As II ~ here.
Was not the rrst electric railroad. upward OF mile
In length run IN IrcIaEd and patented by an Irish
manE GLAEENtk.
We do not ind that II II may be that the trst
electric road OF mile in length In ireland. but
that do not find Asto tile patentss being an
Irishmaii, We think that he was not
Please tell mo whether Irish natives residing
In England Ay and Hsunly do. display their national
flag on the I1th OF March, H. N. l..
In Liverpool they dos Liverpool Is the chief Irish
town in England We think there IN no legal objection
TO their carrying the flag In any part OF England
What was the date Of the Barton ReySickes shoot