The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-05-18
Questions and Answers.

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When was the steamer Atlantic lost j. CPD.
On April 1, 1878, on Meagher Rock, near
Sambro Head, on the coast of Nova
Scotia. Over 400 persons were saYed. IN
Guiding the master, Capt. Williams. and
$50 persons were lost. Capt. Williams
two years
| What is the first light seen by steamship from
Liverpool to New York SUBSCRIBER.
The Fire Island light, on the island
named, off the southern cost of Long Is
land, about forty miles from New York.
This is not the most easternly light; but
the steamers aim to keep to the south
ont Of sight Of Nantucket lightship, and
other Long Island lights" (the Block
Izland, Montauk Point and Shinnecock
lights. and to see no light until they are
comparatively Gloss into their port.
| How are postoffices divided as first, second,
| third and fourth class? j.. ]. r.
| First and second-class Offices are these
| the salaries of which are $1,000 and over;
appointments to these are made by the
President, with the consent of the Sen
ate. Third class offices are those eraw-
| ing salaries between 800 and $1,000; and
fourth-class Offices are those drawing
less than $10o, Appointments to these
last classes are made theoretically by the
President, bnt practically by the Post
master. General,
ten by himself wherein he compared himself to
| an old book? FARMER.
Trankiins epitaph runs thus:
1.-The Body of Benjamin Franklin,
| Printer, like the coyer of an old book,
Its contents torn ont, and stript of its
lettering and gilding) Lies here food for
worms Yet the work itself shall not be
once more, In new and more beautiful
Edition, Corrected and Amended by the
Author
This was written by Franklin simply
as a Jest; it is not, and never was, on his
grave-stone.
Was Christ in the tomb three days and three
nights if he was crucfed Friday and rose
| again on Sunday? L. H. w.
Not according to our way of counting;
Monday would, by our notation, be.the
third day. But the aneents counted the
day on which an event happened in
reckoning the days between any two
events, so that Friday, the day .of the
crucifiction, was the first day durii K
which Christ was dead; Saturday was
the second dav, and Sunday, the day
the resurrection, was the third day. ri .
Hebrews said "a day and night" wl,r,,
they meant natural day; so that "thr,"
days and three nights" means Simply
three days.
Wherein do the American newspapers differ
from those of France, Germany and great
Britain? Is. NJ.
To an American the points OF differ
ence would be that our papers give tie
news, while the French papers 90 ~
but offer instead new novels and gossip;
that our papers give the news with solu"
: flippancy, while the German papers give
some news and some novels with soblir
ty and earnestness; that our papers give
5 both local and general news in shap
that appeals to busy men, while II e
, British papers give comparatively lit''
local news, and set forth the general AMI
political news at great length, seemingly
with the idea that no one who buys q
, paper can be too busy to read every word
in it. Our American papers offer head
4 lines, which in theory tell the contents
g of the article; most of the Papers o
| France, Germany and Great Britain de-
r not.