The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-12
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II ? cst- KIM rats IN minutes how many cats XIII
90 rat, n 90 mi1ntssi Issy u butt want I'd ,sti'fy
One cat will kill one rat In one-scventh OF a minute,
therefore 90 cats will Kill ono rat In one.thrce hun.
dred and nftieth Of = minute, and 30 rats in nifty.
three hundred and nftieths, that 10. in seven minutes.
which IL the greatest railroad centre in American
That IA. which city hiss the greatest number Of trains
going and coming from the cityF Y. o. Mcc.
Probably New York, through is suburban cities,
Brooklyn. Hoboksn. and Jersey City.
1, Does the new Tarin law snect books from France,
Germany, and Italyp .. what books published in
England are afrected by II, or has any change been
%sso from the duty formerly charged on English PS6-
1. II does not AFFECT them; they arc free. 2. All
books In English published within twenty years pay
20 per cent. duty. There IL no provision especially
affecting books published in England.
A dispute arose at n dinner a. to the correct quota.
tion. Where McGregor sits - the head OF the table"
some maintaining that Il should read. where Mo
Donald sits" &C. Which 10 correct? d.
"where McGreeor sits IL the head OF the table" 10
the common rendering. and the version given In
SCOTS "Rob Roy Emerson. in his American
Scholar" makes IL: "where Macdonald sits 10 the
head of the table, and the american Notes and
Queries gave II years ago az Where sits McNab is tho
head Of the table, The idea Il found in Don ouixote.
neither Of the two combatants should be allowed to
TNap tlF iEulth VI tht hCtot BiV'tSuh " tuo eClhf
tion OF the T~urco-Grecian warp
We do not know. The decision was announced In
the Identical notes' delivered to Turkey and to
Greece by the various powers through their repre-
sentativeso on March Q, 1897.
Can you tell mo how many rebels were killed At
Big Bethel, also how many on the Union aide? J. p.
Tho Confederate losses are reported at from 8 to
100: the Union Iossos were 10 killed, 50 wounded,
o missing.
s, Plea. :; &, give ,, the name, .1m: of the cities in N.g York
In alphabetical order. they are: Albany. Amster-
dam. Auburn. Binghamton. Brooklyn, BuIalo. Cohoes.
Corning. Dunkirk. Elmira, Geneva (1s97) .Gloversville.
Hornellsvilio. Hudson, Ithaca. jamestown. Johns.
town. Kingston. Little Falls. Lockport. Long Island
City. Middletown. Mount Vernon. NewburR, New
York. Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda 1seT. og.
d%ensburs. olean. oswego, Poughkeepsie, Rensselaer,
(ls9O, Rochester Rome. schenectady. Syracuse. Troy.
Utica. wstertown. watervliet, YonkeS.
!. II the magnetic bearing of acompss, needle in
Pitt County. n. G.. in 1890 was north 40 east. what
was Il at the following times. beginning with Jan. ! of
description from which q gravity clock can be made.
". r. c.
1. We DO not know. because we cannot nnd the
rate ut which the needle moved. Assuming that 40
years ago IL was moving westward At the present rate
Of about 1. in IL years. We should have the needle
bearing about 8s' east In 1850, So east in 1901, S2'
in 1sA5. and 28' in 1897. Q. We don't know what .
| gravity clock Is. You'd better buy an alarm clock for
| o dollar in Fulton street.
This Interesting letter contains what seems to BIO
the explanation of q question asked some time ago:
In regard to as. o. 3" query in your Sunday issue
for Oct. 81 about Mr.. waliace's scoto- Circassian, I
would beg to state that you are probably mistaken in
assigning the above allusion to Alfred Russell Wal.
lace. author of ..Malayan Archipelago" AID Darwin's
co-discoveier Of natural selection. The nllusion prob
/ ahlv r.faru q ctr nopald NnrkaDvfa Wallaca auth0r