The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-03-03

In regard 10 the same.
What that name might imply;
But his smile IL was pensive ana child
as i frequent remarked TO Bill Nye.
IL was August the third.
And quite soft was the skies;
Which II might be inferred
That All Sin was likewise:
Yet he played II that day upon William
And me in way | despise.
which we had a small game.
And All Sin took hand;
IT was euchre. The same
He did not understand;
But he smiled as he sat by the table,
With the smile that was chlldlike and
bland.
Yet the cards they were stocked
In way that ! grieve.
And my feelings were shocked
At the state OF Nye's sleeve.
Which was stuffed fun OF aces and bow
crS.
And the same with intent to deceive.
But the hands that were played
BY that heather Chinee,
AND the points that he made.
Were quite frightful to see
I'M at last he put down right bower.
Z Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.
Then looked up at Nye,
And he gazed upon me:
And he rose with sigh,
And said: Can this be?
We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor
Snd ne went for that heather Ch'nee.
In the scene that ensued
/ did not take a hand
But the floor II vas strewed
Like leaves on the strand
With the cards that All Sin had been
hiding
In the game "he did not understand"
In his sleeves. which were long.
Which was coming IL strong,
Yet i state bat the facts;
And we found on his nails. which were
taper,
-Nhal is frequent in tapcrsz.thats wax.
Which Is why remark
-. And my language is plain.
That for ways that Gre dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The heather chinee is peculiar
Which the same am free to maintain
What Is the status of the North river
funnel" at New York? w. r.
The tunnel is still unfinished Work is
stu being. carried on, however The sys-
fish system, in which the ground to be
excavated is frozen and dug from its
place while solid.
What influence has the moon upon the
weather? n 4
No real influence. although the belief
u coHlIlon that u mas. At every new
moon persons will look at the crescent
and remark that it is "a wet moon" or Il
dry moon" according as the crescent
Is vertical or horizontal. The moon, as is
known. influence the tides, but ii does
not influence the weather.
Please tell me how old the world Is.
Noah took 10 build the ark? r.. c. /.
According to Usher, the earth was
created 40Oi years before Christ. so that
II would be now $500 years old. There
are about 40 dates given for the creation,
ranging from 6sSi b. c. 10 56i6 Il. c.
These are all based on the Bible Natural
lists say that the earth is really thou
The deluge occurred In the year OF the
world 1656-'57-that is. 234S b. G. Noah
was 10 years in building the ark.
Who wrote MARY Had Little Lamb"
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale the famous editor.
She wrote the poem in 1893. DR.. Lowell
Mason composed the music and the poem
was published by Marsh. Capen q Lyon,
OF Boston. in 1880. There was no real
MARY" Mrs. Hale had a pet lamb when
child, which followed her 10 school,
and sne used the incident in the famous
poem. A few years ago IL was said that
Mary Tyler. OF Summerville. Mass, was
the Mary or the poem. which was writ
ten in 1917 by John Rollstone, but Mrs.
Hale proved her claim to the authorship
How much OF the Atlantic ocean do
Great Britain and the United States con-
troll respectively, and what is the divid-
inl line between them? H. NJ.
The Jurisdiction OF any country extends
only one marine league, or three miles.
in every direction from the shore OF It's
posse ssions. Beyond the three-niilc limit
the high seas" begin. over which no
country has jurisdiction. On the high
seas jurisdiction over crime committed
on "A vessel depends on the nationality
~ tho vessel That lS why read
sionally of a vessel arriving in some OF
our ports with sailor in irons, charged
with some crime committed on the high
seas. who is taken back 10 the country
where his ship belongs and tried there
not here. for his offence.
In case the President and Vice-Presi-
dent should die, who would succeed. the
Speaker OF the House or the Secretary
OF state? In case these were OF foreign
birth, who would succeed? J. r. Mex
of the Senate and the Speaker of the
House. in the order named. succeeded TO
the presidency. The presidential sue,
cession acts OF 1856 and lSn empowered
of his removal. death, resignation or
disability" the Secretary of the Treas
ury succeeds. and after him stand the
the postmaster-General, the Secretary of
The. Navy. the Secretary OF the Interior.
and the Secretary. OF Agriculture. 1t
IN especially PROVIDED Dy the acts that |
only those members of the Cabinet who
are eligible for election TO the presidency
shall act under the law. So a foreign
born Secretary OF State would have 10 |
stand aside and let the Secretary OF |
the Treasury become President
Why Will there be no leap year for |
twelve years. My birthday is on Feb !
ruary 10Th. and feel sighted.
ID. +. WHITE.
We must 30 back far beyond your |
Birthday to explain. Julius Caesar re- |
formed the calendar. which in his time |
fB. G. 40 was hopelessly tangled. lie /
ordered that the year should consist
of three hundred and sixty-dve and one
quarter days. and that every fourth
year the quarter should make a full hay. |
when the year should have three hundrei |
and gixty-sx days. But the year really
has three hundred and sixty-five days
Ave hours and forty-nine minutes, eleven
minutes short OF a quarter of a day. and
n a. D. 1859 Pope Gregory XIII. found