The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-21
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| questions THAI ara Of general interest us
| man object IS 20 supply out-ot -the-way
| iac,s and curious information 0uesuo,ss
OF personal inteceS, only viii not be an
sesred. No business or personal addresses
! VIII be gwen. All corfesnondence shoul1
| " addressed TO The Letter Box cl1e
| houston Post. Owing to the large num-
Aer OF questions received answers can not
Always be given prompilyD
In connection with the. feet that Queen
| Niciora Is about 10 celebrate tho SIXTEEN
| year OF her reign, can You nitSltloh lne
| names Of other mouarchs who have reign
cd lengthy period? Regal.
| / onls NV OF France resgiei the I'M
reccsicntcd tine OF seventy-three years.
and was succeeded BY Louis XIV, his great
| grandson, ana this king regned fifty-nlne
| yeurs. Thus two successive monarchs
| rule Tor the amazing time OF 1871 years.
| The Spaaiards boast justly OF the re.gns
OF some of their sovereigns James of
Aragon ruled saty-three years. from l2la
TO 1876, while Pedro " and John II ruled
respectively ffty-one and iifty-tour years.
From the time Spa n was consolidated in
1919 eight kings ruled whose reigns aver
aged thirty-.ive years Alphonso | occu-
nei Portugal's throne FOR seNenty-three
years uii2-ils5>. and he is regarded as tho
founder OF their independence by the
Portuguese Other Portuguese kings
relrued for thirty-three, tn rty-four and
forty-slx years. The relgns OF several OF
the Prussian kings have bean very long.
Frederick William. the great elector and
founder OF the Prusslan military power,
reiEred forty-elght years. from lGi> to
lass Frederick the Great was Oh the
th'ene ferty-siN years and TINS was aoou.
tne most important r"sn IN the anf'ls Vi
the kins1o'n Frederick NilhAm III reisA-
ed LOT terty-three ears V'"-NF''
I Pls,ss give tho measurements OF San
dow, the strong man. ,. VIVA, weight
,8uEht man to be N proportion 70 nus
V'esi'' ,io"' % ieu'' - 49,.
,e, ~ 10y. - % -
r,,.,, ,'aa's,. ''.'s'.S ,e 80 n,ast 49,
inches. length of upper arm. Is inches; ell
how "a fnper +,ns IL md Is i r.,rht ana |
l.f, arm ,asne,ts,,el,. vast % : inches.
tbigh ~ . and - : ,ncha@ ,lsht and left |
respec,ivelv. calf n 4 and r. q right ana
left resnectivelv . A man feet inch in
height sbould u,t,h ,oo no,,,,as fest
,ncbs, 19s. r 100, t,chs. ,gg. fe,t
Inches ,3s. r f..,t inches 10. = foot &
,rchcs AZ. r foo, inches iiS. r feet
inches. 155: 3 fest Q inches. I6e. feet 10
inches tGo. r fA.., II ,r,b,s ia and q feet
IT'S.
,rncted u un,e a NV, ~ ,h We ir
land of Italy and the ishud ot .1loly?
Such n +,,,ra, ID; ,,,io.,o1 ban, ,be
money needed for lis construction (ahout
$50 ono. 0cW has not vet been appropriated.
The entire tunnel. If huNt W q be nearly
two u!ie, long and VIII consist of two
Ing at - grade no. exceeding S2 feel in
each 1000 Such a tunnel would DE mucn
preferable to a br iee which would have
to have a span of 1910 feet and, with the
enormous strength of the winds I'm tho
stray; of Meselna, such an attempt APP
,ars to he exceedingly dangerous.
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m peachn3q s0'''''' u 4'N'S ~"
NO. When Houston refused to take the
oath of fealty TO the new government,
iftcr Texns had doclared har,alf out or
.tn Union the l4eisl,,,,,o lo,,o,,.,i lt,,,
lom Office Jntnes " rhrockr,nrton
who WIS cleeted governor in tSai whom
r,y,s ,vas und.r uili,,,, r,io ,,,s
,oy..I from ono, hv Genersl sl.,-i,, Il,
IuIv Of that wear. unon renorts u,l. ly
;on,ral Grimm. tho llni,od s,,tes o(1.o.
llrpftlN i'm charge. These inst |
oull h7r1ly be- called imneacbrnents how
,ynr for neither officer was accused of
INV crime
mai meaning OF the word cemetery
IVES.
In tracing the derivation of the word II
Is found that the root is an oil Hebrew
word. "caometeria." meaning dormitories.
Or sleeping places. Later On the form of
The expression was changed to "redue-
torum' The Greeks call it "caeme-
,erion." which means a sleep ng place I'M
til the Resurrection. The Old Hebrew
word for place of burial means tine
house of the living" the idea being that
death Is only a protracted slocp that Will
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From 1917 IA 1891 Galveston island .v,s
he haunt of the famous nitrate I,ant,e
Oh, was orou,. dielodc1 Il, ,t i,4,