The sun., 1894-12-30

we b,ve no, examined every p.se OF the shipping
Record; but we have examined many pages thereof,
and feel justified In saying that though some sailing
vs..,,s sy have been buns there, there !, no ship
building At CardlT.
Did Levi P Morton subscribe scooOo to the trsd for
In 1880 Mr Morton paid nequarter Of the expens.
Of sending ship load food to Irelsnd this amounted
to about $4,000.
Can you tell me when the change wa, made from
psrchnent rolls to books such as We have now
Tho ancient books were not always rolls; books con-
.isting OF wooden metal. clay leaves were square
or obong. In the British Museum are books OF clay
from Nineveh. about $500 years old, the leaves OF
which are by o. inches or less. Parchment and
bark leaves were rolled. but always, when the ma.
terial allowed, the leaves square. When printing
was invented t did not change the form Of books but
made the Of rolls Impossible in practice
1. How 1. the word .toresdor" pronounced ..
what IL the word trolley derived from, and why
are the Sars thss arc PITT In motion by eIee1rissV
l. To-ray ah-dor. with the accent the nrst and
the last syIlables 2. The word perhaps comes from
the Celtic troll something round. The trolley s the
wheel that travels on the wire through which the
electricity 10 sent which moved by electric
ity taken up through the trolley called trolley
cars properly enough, but the sboreVistion into
"trolleys" IL wrong.
Please give the name OF the suthSr ot the ssS
ec,pe o. r.qse AcSordpS ss 10 81 in sss
understand that the author then anonymous was AZ.
sensrailon would ms TO know the name of 'rShs
The author was Richard Grant White, born in this
city 1881. died here 1855. The book came out be
tween 1893 and 1seo and publIshed in Cambridge
in the latter year.
Did chauncey ~ Dcpew ever run for Governor OF
Lieuten ant. Governor of this ststeI HIM.
Mr.. pepew was elected Secretary Of State a. q Re
II
he ran LieutenantGovernoro on the Liberal Repuo-
lican and Democratic ticket-Francis Herman being
the candidate for Governor-snd was defeated
Would you kindly inform me through ne column,
RrosySsI sSSsT q 5s ir.R Ps.iS. limit
sdon fer three pay, in his onns Sn van and ssns
an American Citizen Twentyfour hours after he land;
ed also Ao A,3rny Sn1sd Of g ss memory Sa n Se%
York city is this or any Part S O. !. 1.gs s,,n,.An
| Not much of this is true. Robert Emmett exc-
| euted in isos Thomas Adds Emmett came to this
country in 1904 naturalzed until some years
| afterward. and did not become Attorney-Genera OF
New York until 1917. We do not md that Congress
adjourned in his honor and there Is no statue OF him
I'm this city though there monument to his mem
! ory In St Pauls churchyard
l. Is the monarchiai form Of ocyernment in Eng
eminent In the United statesi Z. Which Government
! costs the most per capita. b.
/ No. IL ia ra,her more expensive. That IL. the er
pendtures are larger here though Great Britain
gets more for Its money than we do In iss3-s& the
Brtish spent es5 0OO. 900 their army and s7OoOO
900 on their navy the Queen and royal family and
Judges cost about $3.50 900. In the same year we
spent as much on pensions as they spent on their
array and navy. and spent besides about esooooooo
on those two Tho total expenditures OF the
| two countries werei Great Britain. e4t3.oooooo
the United States s3ss 100000. 9. The british Gov
| ahnnt par
ours costs about % per head.
| where IL Herald square in thiscityf BrRASoEa
There /, no such place really any more than there
| an idiots Four Corners"
t IL very hard to understand how Louisiana got the
steam tonnage OF 1000 tons a. early as isit So1lc
| teresting report in THE srS OF Oot- 40 H. G.
why under the didn't you read the whole sun
beam, instead OF going on half cock The sunbeam
remarks that most OF the Mississippi RIVER tonnags
was registered at New orieans Now don't ask an,
more questions for q time and time and half time
WIN you kindly give me any information you maj
possess 'e'A'''' ~ '-' "e WEN.
Recently the waves dashed over che lighthouse q
Tnlamook. Wash. the lantern OF which Is lS6 fec
above the water. Waves at sea, however which 70
centuries perhaps have been mountains high" ar
now said never to be over so feet In height.
l. What s the cause OF the dimin ution In the rate
Of Interest and Is such decrease world
wide or confined TO this countryl 2. What I. mean
CT, I ase in ssomstrca proportion; please explain IN
Mna; Is the % opinion 9c thS s os r th
study of Is 70 SAY the Aristotlelan sy
p,Sper and gressT meaning % shs r.".a 1ssg
for the uni"rsted TACT that mortal man cannot III
himself by hi ootstraps fIRsr OfTEscG
l. The dminution of interest Is due to the inerens
OF confidence II is universal. Look at any country
| try.t In n borrow At frOI
4 to 5 per cent while this city borrows at les
than 8 per cent: further west where thina
aren't so settled the rates up until In New hexic'
and perhaps in even settled places l2 per cen
Is the usual OF the decrease In intsrei
varies in each country. but the tendency Is always
lower rate. g. An arhmetical progression Is one
which the terms increase or decrease BY equal dine
ences, As 2, T. 9. where the difference Is 2; seome
rcal progression Is wherein the terms increase
decrease by equal ratios as e. s, 10, where the rat
is2. Both progressions may be descending as well
ASCENDING s. In favor OF IT, the study OF logic is e
eourased In every college. and new books
the subject appear comparatively often
The Malthusian theory IL that enunciAts
! By Thomas Malthus an English clergyman. who too
! up the study Of political economy and In lT0s pu
Iished his Essay on the Principles OF Population
| it Affects the Future Improvement OF Society" II
| idea Vas that population unchecked increases In
Eeometrical ratio. while food can Increase at mo
onlv in an artthrnetca ratio; vice and misery opera
as natural checks He insisted that abstinence fro
marriage and confluence were moral and int
IectuaI checks Most persons speak OF the " hAith
sian theory calling in practice for the social ev
and mention it with Oated breath g. He can't get
fulcrum. or In simpler language he 10 incapacitAts
by the absence OF any available point OF which
make use a fulcrum from exerting the powers
leverage with which he has been endowed by nAtuI
WIN you inform me where can Obtain sSpy OF a 9
also the price thereoff l. II. W
. But We don't know. Comparatively few Muss'
!. mans know English well enough TO translate the
ran into that language; and, besides George sAl'
TRANSLATION IA good enough
l. In what year was Grover Cleveland elected sher
OF ETie county: on what ticket he ram ~ he Was Q
posed By regular democratic and hfpphiican non
- 0ToVer Cleveland was elected Mayor OF Buffalo.
what ticket the names Of bis oppo1e nta and whet tn
n nees 7. X
" l. Cleveland was elected sheriff OF Erie county
a 1870 on the regular Democratic ticket We doI
know the names os his opponents :. He was elect
Mayor Of Buffalo IN 1891 on the regular Democrat