The age-herald., 1898-05-29

Thurman and Thomas F. Bayard. The
 members from the House were Henry B.
 Payne, Eppa Tauton, Josiah G. Abbott,
 James A. Garfield and George F. Hoar. sThe
 five justices of the United States Supreme
 court were Nathan Clifford, Stephen J.
 Field, William Strong, Samuel F. Miller
 and Josehp P. Bradley. It was expected
 that the fifth justice would be Hon. David
 Davis, but on his election as senator from
 Illinois he resigned from the Supreme court and Justice Bradley was put in his place. 8-He can accomplish 1t by the following rule: Add to the head diameter Qnside) two-thirds of the difference between the head and bung diameters: but if the slaves are only slightly curved. add six-tenths of this difference. This gives the mean diame- ter. Express 1t in inches: square it; multi ply 1t by the length in inches and this pro- duct by .0034. The product will be the con tents in wine gallons. 9-Samuel Warren was the author of ''Fen Thousand a Year." a novel in which Tlttle- bat Titmouse appears.
 10-The dealer perhaps meant by the sec
 ond offer that he would sell his shoes for one and one-third dollars per pair. This he
 failed to state correctly. The language of the advertisement admits of two different constructions, according as the shoes after
 the first reduction, or the original price is
 made the basis upon which the 100 per cent. Is estimated Tn the first case according to the language used the dealer offers to give his shoes for nothing. In the second case he promises to give away the shoes and
 with each pair one and one-third dollars besides.
 i1-James K. Polk, of Tennessee. and
 Henry Clay, of Kentucky, candidates for the presidency in 1S44. 12-The names of the days of the week and their succession rest upon an astrolog- ical principle which assigns each day. Tn
 succession to one of the planets as regent. If the planets are arranged in their order of distance from us as held by the ancients namely: Saturn, Jupiter Mars, Sun, Ve- nus, Mercury, Moon-then if the first hour of a day is allotted to Saturn and each fol-
 lowing hour to the next planet. the twenty
 fifth hour, or the first of the next day. will fall to the sun, the forty-ninth hour, or the first of the following day, to the moon and so on to Mars, Mercury, Jupiter In success sion; and each planet being reckoned as
 regent of the whole day of whose first hou 1t is regent, the days are Suns day, Moons day. Mars day and so on to Saturn's day. where the same succession is taken up anew These names passed from Roman use to European, not only In their Latin forms but also as translated into Germanic Ian guages the names of Germanfc divinities being substituted in them for those of the
 Roman without any regard to the planets. Accordingly we have: Sunday-Sun's day. Monday-Moon's day. Tuesday-Tiw's day, from Tiw, divinity of the ancient Teutonic mythology.
 Wednesday-Woden's day. from Woden,
 the Anglo-Saxon name of the deity
 called by the Morse. Odin.
 Thursday-Thorsday, from Thor, Q god
 of the ancient Scandinavians.
 Friday-Frigg's day, from a goddess of
 Morse mythology
 Saturday-Saturn day.
 13-Victoria, daughter of Prince Edward
 Augustus, Duke of Kent, son of George III.
 son of Frederick Lewis. Prince of Wales,
 of
 Sophia, electress of Hanover, daughter of
 Elizabeth Stewart, Queen of Bohemia.
 daughter of JamesI, son of Mary, Queen Of
 Scots, daughter of James w., of Scotland,
 son of Margaret, daughter of Henry VII, son of Margaret Beaufort, daughter ofJofn n
 Beaufort Earl of Somerset, son of John of
 Gaunt. son of Edward III, son of Edward IT., son of Edward l., son of Henry III, son
 of John, son of Henry IT., son of Matilda, daughter of of Henry I, son of William the | Conqueror.
 14-Sovereigns in Europe and the countries | they ruled over in 1700 William III, Great Britain. The same was also Stadtholder of Holland. Louis XIV, France. Leoqold l.. Germany. Frederick William, Prussia. Charles XII, Sweden. Peter l., Russia.
 Frederick w., Denmark and Norway. Augustus IT., Poland. Peter H., Portugal. Victor Amadeus IT., Sardinia. Innocent XII. and Clement XI., Papal states.
 Charles IT. was king of Spain and Ma ples He died during the year 17O0 and was succeeded by Philip V. as king of Sapin and Naples, including Sicily. 15-The area Is diminished as given per meter encloses the greatest possible area when it is in the form of circle. 16-December s0 1799, he commenced his sixtieth year. Then two days in December, thirty-one in January and twenty-eight in February make sixty-one days 17-Provdence, Saint Louis. Springfield and Hartford.
 1S-Pure gold in 1000 quarter eagles of the
 coinage of 1SSO is 61,S75 grains Pure silver
 in 2.O00 United States half dollars of 1S56 IS | 345, 600 grains. Pure silver in 1000 standard silver dollars is 742500 grains. Adding 61,S75 grains 345 600 grains and 742,5 300 grains gives | 1149975 grains. Dividing by 1000, the num- Der of Troy grains in one pound avoirdu- pois, gives 164.2S21 pounds. Dividing by 56, the number of pounds in a bushel of shelled corn, we have 2,934 bushels as our answer.
 2O-As the equator passes through the
 centre of Sumatra, the birds will reach the equator at the same point. 1S0 degrees from the starting place.
 Third Prize A. R. Forsxthe, of Birmingham.
 1.-The earth is described as an "oblate
 spheroid," that is, flattened at the poles,
 with polar diameter of 1899 miles and an equatorial diameter of 7,926 pnp 5. The
 mouth of the Amazon river fore, be- ing exactly on the equator, h... her from
 the center of the earth than Lake Superior. 2-The following vice-presidents of the United States afterwards became president:
 John Adams, Willard Fillmore Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson
 Martin Van Buren, Chester A. Arthur
 John Tyler
 The following vice-presidents of the United States died in office. George Clinton died 1872. Elbridge Gerry, died 1874. William R. King, died 1853. Henry Wilson. died 1875. Thomas A. Hendricks died 1885, 3-Do not let the hen-roost in the yard. Although he may head the profession, a cowboy may lose his head trying to head a thousand head of cattle when they head for water.
 5-Where "often" and 'frequently differ.
 often is the simpler and stronger and ex- presses the more regular recurrence