The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-26
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| We presume Won moan those hadies si,n.
mar 10 our senate and congress. III Eng
iahd 1t is known as parliament. divided
INTO TWO chambers-house of lords and
mouse of commons Germany, the figie.
rung' hundesrath and reichstag; France,
national assembly. senate and chamber
u deputies Austria and Prussia, reichs-
RAIN herrcnhaus and abgeordnetenhaus;
Sp"in' eortes. senate aud congress. Italy.
parliament senate and camera de depu-
,du' Holland, states general first cham
per and second chamber: Norway. storth-
ihs iaything and odlcsthing: Sweden
aiet' first chamber and second chamber;
switzerland, Understanding. stan
uerath and nationalrath: Belgium, pnrlia-
heht, senate and chamber of reprcsenta-
yves; Denmark. rigsdag, lantMng und
'olKethins' Hungary. reichstag or orsza-
sEales' magnetcntafel and repraeseptcn-
,ehtatei' Portugal, cortes geraes. camera
uos pares and camera dos deputados: Ju-
pan imperial diet. house OF peers and
mouse OF representatives. Roumania, con-
sl'ueht assembly. senate and chamber
OF deputies; Bulgaria, National assembly.
oile nody' Greece. Boule, one chamber.
9er'ld' skuptchina, state council and ma
'lohal assembly. The Orange Free State
81 south Africa has a parlamcn, OF one
representative chamber called the Volks-
Nai. The absolute governments of the
World Russia. China, Turkey, etc. have
no representative assemblies.
Give the names OF officers IN an army
lrom commandment chief to sergeant and
Nc' INV many companies are under each.
Guillelmus.
The president OF the United States is
commander-n-chief OF the army in this
country, with a major general in active
command. Then there are two other
major generals and slx hrigadler generals
IN charge of the eight military depart
ments- AT present the army consists Of
- regiments of Infantry, 10 of cavalry and
OF artillery. Each regiment includes u
companies, each differed by a captain,
one first and one second lieutenant. and
two extra licutcnants who are the adju-
tant and quartermaster Of the regiment.
These. with the colonel lieutenant colo
mel and major. complete the officers of
an infantry regiment The cavalry regi-
companies, with three officers to the
troop, one captain, one first aud one Sec
ond lieutenant, aud has three raajors IN
E'NHNN'
mont contains II companies or batteries,
each being differed by one captain two
fint lieutonants aud one SECOND ncutcn-
mcnt there are twenty-six first lieuten-
ants, allowing two for each company
and one each AS adiutant and quarter
master. The field officers consist Of a
colonel lieutenant colonel and three ma
jors.
Which country. the United States or
Great Britain, has the greatest number
OF rich people? p.D.N.
1t is the general opinion that America
boasts Il greater number Of rich people
than Great Britain. The wealth Is also
more equally distributed and less cen
tralizcd IN the United states According
TO the last English census about go 600
persons in Great Britain have an annual
income of $1,000. and 2cD0,0Do have an in
come of 500. BY this it would appear
that one Englshman out of every five
is capable Of supporting a family II is
TO be borne IN mind that $500 year
amounts to only sl.37 day. which is not
very much for a family, say. of four per
son. on the other hand there are In the
United Kingdom $4,000 families having
an annual income of about $1,000 and 5000
families with an income of more than
$4,000 According to T. q. Sherman. We
have IN tho United States about 100000
families whose annual income amounts
to 5000. and more than 1900 families nav
Ing an income Of more than $4,000.
Can YOU tel me why the lower class OF
ltal ans in this country are called DaEos2
What does the word mean? Ted.
Dago was a name originally given by
sailora to Spaniards, Portuguese and
Italians in general. 1t is claimed by come
to be a corruption OF the frequent Spanish
name Diego" equivalent to the English
name James. BY others IT is a title given
exclusively to those born of Spanish mar
ents. especially in Louisiana. BY others
again IT is claimed to be purely
corruption or nickname derived from
"hidalgos," which, though "A Spanish and
not an Italian word. came by some acct
dent to be sneeringly applied to n for
cignor of Latin Europe who chunced to
he out Of his element. Whatever the
royal or semi-royal derivation of the word
'hdalgoes" may have BEEN the prostl-
tuted derlvatiye is especially applied 10
that lower class Of the Southern Europe
Latin element in this country. There is
no reason for this except that given
| note in advocacy OF ! cent postage
that one of the evening papers of this
city asserts that there was a surplus of
$50. 000, 000 of receipts over Disbursements
OF the postoffice department. | do not be-
lieve this to he correct. Please give cor
rect amount II any. R.W.T
The revenues of the United States post
office department for the fiscal year end
ing June 80 1895, were SG9S3, 1es: expendl-
lures $50. 100 l72, showing a loss to the gov
eminent during that year alone of s.. $780,
GA. II Is asserted, however, that ] cent
postage would be easily possible without
running the government into debt but for
the books, etc, entered second class
matter, which now overload the mails.
II is this fraudulent second class matter
that now prevents the government from
paying the expenses Of the postoffice de-
partment.
I have heard 1t alleged that there il a
majority Of Englishmcn on the American
man Of war Chicago. followed up by Ger
mans. and least of all American seamen
or sailors. This is also said OF the IN
diana. II this n correct statement.
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