The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-12
|sT,S LETTER BOX.

sT,S LETTER BOX.
n.rtment lie intended to answer
49, fhat are of general interest. Its
infect Is to supply out-of-the-way
Va curious information. Questions
sn,aI interest only will not be an
u No business or personal addresses
e given. All correspondence should
addressed to , Inc Lever tS a Sox' n care
ruestions received answers can not
r. be given promptly
80 let me know how long 1t is since
year. and when 1t will come agaih I
N.E.J.
year 1894 was the one set for the
.rance of both the IL and 13-year va.
q hut we have no record of their
aring in abnormal quantities In any
- localities expected. The 17-year
"a had previously appeared in 1877
3 vicinity of New York, Brooklyn and
sv City, and on both sides Of the
son river as far north as Troy, in
,ons of Connecticut, New Jersey,
,sv1vania, Virginia and the District
Eolumbia. seventeen years before they
ared in North Carolina, Dearborn
~. Indiana, and Kalamazoo county,
biran. The 13.year variety had last
AIRED in 1881 In Southern Illinois, Mis-
Louisiana, Arkansas, Indian Ter
n. kentucky, Tennessee. Mississippi,
bama. Georgia and North and South
Nina. 1t Is possible that at the next
"A Of their appearance they may be
reat numbers again. The year 1907
I'd witness the return OF the 1S-year
sts and 1911 the 17-year, variety.
!, stated recently that the United
~ Is the only country in the world
~ has no National holidays. Now, the
raster generals instructions to the
masters throughout the United States
az follows: You may observe as
days New Year, Christ mas. Thanks
Fourth OF July. Decoration Day and
other days IS may be declared hoii-
. nv the presidents proclamation or
governors of the various States"
can you show enc State in the Union
shich the United States courts, the Ma
Ial banks and the postoffice depart
n observe less than four of the above
ned hoi. days established by custom or
SSH.
hey observe them because the holidays
made such by State laws. The con-
s. has no lega! authority to make holi-
IS for any portion of the United States
ept the District Of Columbia. Post
ices observe ali State holidays. There
no National holiday. and no general
lutte on the subject. The presidents
Exclamation In regard to a holiday only
likes such legal holiday IN those States
ich provide by law for 1T.
b one of Secretary Olney's letters to
Spanish minister, during the recent
ban correspondence. he wrote of 1.-THE
|luctable and lawful sovereignty of
aim" Please explain the derivation OF
heluctable.'
This strange word comes from the Latin
btari, to struggle; eluctari, to struggle
/ Of; and ineluctari. not to struggle out
1t is in the latter sense that the
thor used the word, but Mr.. Olney's
rase is not sustained by history. Hol
I'd, Mexico, Nicaragua. Costa Rioa, San
lvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Venc-
Ella, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador. Argen-
be, Paraguay and Uruguay have all at
70 time or another "eluctated" out Of
Q sovereign grasp of SPAIN
|Will YOU please inform me through The
bst's Letter Box of the date of the
hath of John Mccullough the great ira
hed In the Bloom!ngdale asylum before
died? J.B.C.
John Edward Mccullough was born in
plerlme. ireland, November 2, 1887; died
! Philadelphia. Pa, November s, 1885. His
pit appearanceS>n the stage was in Chi
lgo. Septembsreg9. 1884, when he broke
bwn IN the rA-.st of his performance,
living to be led from the stage. He died
the Bloomingdale insane asylum, hav-
beon confined there for little over
be year.
Pm how many States of the Union are
pere qualifications for suffrage, educa-
lonal or property? DER.
I'm California, Connecticut, Massachu-
PITS and Wyoming there is an education
qualification, California excluding any
frson unable to read the constitution in
English or to write his name; Connecticut
equiring the voter to read the English
(nguage; Massachusetts, that he should
FAD and write; Mississippi that he shall
z able to read, and Wyoming that he
pail be able to read the constitution. Nc
Foperty qualification exists.
althful to history? H.B.O.
NO. This chieftaln was not a tyrant
ut was an able and just prince. Whose
We to the throne was better than Dun
ans He was not slain by Macduff al
>ulsinane, but escaped from the battle
ND was killed, in 1856. at Lumphanan
Sor did Macbeth murder Duncan at the
'aste Of Inverness, but at the Smiths
'ouse." near Elgin. in 1889.
now are the Texas State Rangers ap
unted! With whom should an appli
alton be filed? Noname.
me adjutant general is the proper of
cer to apply to for enlistment in tn,
rontier battalion. For convenience, how
yer. the company commanders have au
norlty to fill vacancies in their respect
70 companies, when applications of per
ohs OF well known or well recommended
re on file in the adjutant's office. Thu
nhstment papers are always filed with
ne adjutant general.
Inc? STS
no. In the enumerated powers Of con
less not "a word can be found that au
nofszes the enactment of a general quar-