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Answers. Second series.)

81 Printers type at the present time are
| nearly universally measured by points -
in this country. A point is about q 72d OF
an inch and 12pOint type tpicaj is 1272d
(one-sixth) Of an inch in thickness That
is six, plea lines, read down the column
would occupy the space OF one inch. Some
old names for type, with the corresponding
new ones, are: Brilliant, 35 point. pearl
point; nonpareil, 6point; BREWER. point;
small plea, II; etc. Two lines OF nonpa-
reil take up the same room as one Of plea.
So. The three principal fertilZing bodies
which have to he supplied artiicially to
crops are potash phOSphOric acid and
nitrogen. All other things necessary for
growth of plants occur in sufficient album
dance in all ordinary soils or are found in
the air. though there are times when a
further supply Of water might he desired.
In buying artificial fertilizers these three
bodies are what are bought and paid for,
the other substances occurring being
mostly merely so much waste matter, what
the lawyers call q Surplusdge," Much
interesting information on this subject is
contained in the bulletins OF the agr-
cultural stations OF the various States.
Most States maintain fertilizer control.
publishing a statement of the composition
of all brands on the market and also the
contained in them contrasted with the mar
ket price asked.
80. A gyroScOpe is an instrument com
posed Of Il heavy fly-whecl journaled on
ring which in turn is supported by means
OF Journals on IA second ring while the
second ring is supported by Journals on
stand. Thus supported the fly wheel can
be shifted into almost any position. If now
the ily-wheel be set revolving at a speed
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VyTANTED-Wil any officer soldier vino sspv
w knew benjamin Woche, First Sergeant. Bat
terry C.. 81 L. y l., at Fredericksburg. May s. 1868,
write TO Milo b. stevens & Co.. Washington, d. {.
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EDITORIAL NOTE-The next instalIment
will tell of the outcome of the Siege OF Chat
tanooga.
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PUZZLES IND QUERIES.
Some Problems Which are Really
Worth While Working Out.
Questions. tThird Series.)


I. How can construct short telephone
line (40 rods between two farm houses p
Geo. Grossly, Laconia, N. II.
=. What is meant by % penny" &c
penny" penny nails And what is
meant by "2 o.. 81 o., or tacks
Reader.
|, 3 What is the solar cycle" and what
is the 4" lunar cycle Reader.
a. Why are the lines called "Tropic OF
Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer - located
where they are Pr. II. Church.
5. Why is not the weather hottest i'm
mediate1y after June 20, in as much as we
receive the most vertical rays of the sun
June 20?-R. ii. Church
VIM. Haspham, Guthrie, Okla, sends in
answers to I'll to 20. Answers to 81, g. 63.
81, 81, and 10 are correct. but the answers
to sc and So are hardly full enough to be
deemed correct; while the answers to - and
60 are deemed wrong. +. l.. Burdick. Frank
lin Corners, Pa, sends answers to 81, 50, 66,
So, 10, II, u, i,76 IS and 70. all of which are
deemed correct. Mr. Burdick also sends
six questions. VIM II. Davis. Bourbon,
Ind, sends a novel answer to ST. which will
be inserted next week. Asa w Slayton,
Grand Rapids, Mich. sends answers to ~
to 80 inclusive, all of which except 81, which
through some inadvertence does not apply
10 the question asked are correct. BY some
inadvertence MIR, SlaytOns answers to 50,
81, 56, 80, and 90 did not come into the hands
for use Mr.. Slayton desires TO add to his
answer as to the RESULTS caused by sudden
stoppage OF the earth s rotation (query 56}
that:
The whole earth would be swept by a
hurricane toward the east with a velocity
CT | 600 miles an hour in tropical regions,
ten times more violent than any ever esti-
mated. The stars would no more rise and
set, but would maintain their fixed places
in the sky all OF the long six months night;
and half OF them we should never see
without travelling to the opposite side OF he
earth"
Harry T. Mathews, Kins man, o., sends
answers 10 II, Y. 81. and sail correct.
He also sends two questions. Mr. A. NJ.
Blaney, Deca tur. Ark, sends answers to
H. a. 7s, 70. and so, which are correct. 81
b." Fisher, Kan, sends question. Mr.
II. II. Church, Co. A, Slst H., Ashley, H.,
submits questions. Mr.. T. w. Adams pro-
pounds several questions. Mr.. George
Grossly, Lacona, n. H., asks question.
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dom came to this country and died here
Monuments to three of them, Thomas
Adds Emmett, DR.. MacNevn, and
Montgomery, stand in two old church
yards on Broadway in New York city.
The great leader of them all, Theo-
dore Wolfe Tone, came to this country
IN 1875, driven from home by the British
government. 1t was in Philadelphia
that he met the French minister, NJ.
Adet, and through the latter's aid put
into execution his great plan of secur-
ing aid from the French government
for the cause of Ireland.
But antedating this interesting Amer
lean incident was the dramatic begin
ming of the movement. In 1891 three
ardent patriots, Wolfe Tone, Nelson.
and McCracken, standing on Cave Hill
at Belfast, took on oath TO free the
land or die 1t was a North of Ire
land society at first, composed mostly
of ProteStants.
The British government quickly be-
gan to persecute the new society. 1t
then became secret society, and in
stead of working for parliamentary re-
form, in its first object, had recourse to
force and began to enroll a regular
army 1t at length numbered 100000
members.
The general government was kept
well Informed of the secret proceedings
of the revolutionists, and waited till
things We're ripe for a swoop. They
knew that the 23d of May had been
fixed as the day of rising. On the 18th
of March, 1898, Major Swan, q magis-
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the revolutionists waned The first at
tack on Ross, begun on the 29th of
May, the day after the capture of En-
niscarthy, was for some reason post
poned till June 5th. It then resulted
disastrously.
The other critical move at this time
was upon Arlllow in the North. After
| brilliant victory at Corey in which
both Gen. Lotus and Col. Walpoles
forces had been routed by the patriots.
came a fatal delay of four days. on
the 9TH the garrison had retreated in
a panic. The patriots halted at Corey
| till the 9th, and then advanced with
what seemed TO be an overwhelming
force of $1,000 men. But exactly at that
time the old garrison of Arklow re-
turned, reinforced by the Durham In
vincibles. The contest that followed
was fiercely fought by the patriots, but
resulted dsastrously.
This battle of Arklow, June 9th, was
the hinge on which. the revolution
turned. Nearly 10000 men, armed with
pixies, and 5000 with muskets and sup
ported by some artillery, advanced
against the British, but they We're de-
feated. The patriots then took up their
main military position at Vinegar Hill.
which lies Immediately above the town
of Enniscarthy. Here the royal army,
$4,000 strong. converged in four divi-
sions on the 20th of June. The great
blow was to be struck on the 2lst So
fierce was the attack beginning at
seven o'clock in the morning, that in
an hour and half the patriot forces
We're in full retreat. There was no re-
covery from this disaster, and the in
surgent army vanished
In County Down, the revolutionists
under Henry Munro captured Saint
field and encamped in Lord Moira's do
main near Ballinohinch. On the 14th
of June, they were attacked by Cen
erals Nugent and Barber and defeated
after an obstinate fight. Munro es-
capped, but was captured and hanged
at his own door.
BY some misunderstanding the rebel
lion in the North was delayed. The
Antrim revolutionists under Henry .Joy
McCracken a ttacked and took the town
of Antrim on the 7th of June. but th6
military returning with reinforcements
took the town after a stubborn fight
McCracken was taken, and was hanged
on the 18th of that month.
Lord CORVALLIS, who surrendered to
General Washington at Yorktown. en-
tered Dublin as Lord Lieutenant the
day before the final disaster at Vinegar
HILL He issued, early in July, a procla-
nation of general amnesty to all who
had shed no blood except on the field
of battle. But martial law was still
maintained, and it was several months
before all the Southern districts were
subdued.
The struggle lasted longest among
the valleys and hills of Wicklow, the
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fully, "and who in the world have but
Kenneth? 1t was not so bad until the
sickness came, but now 1 can't see how
we shall make out unless we have help.
| And, oh. to have Kenneth back once
more, after all these months OF wish
ing and wearying for him. He'll not
be angry; and, II he should guess how
love him-for perhaps 1 can't keep 1t
back any longer-why, 1t will only be
the truth, and I am not ashamed ut
all. BY this time he may be in Amer
lea. burt anyway. he said over and over
again. And mind you send for me,
Maggie. IL ever you need any one, or If
things 60 hard: for am I not your big
brother. and where should a brother be
but at home when had times come p"
She folded her letter and placed 1t in
1T envelope. Out of the dusk ahead
she saw a child come tumbling through
the bushes with something white in his
outstretched hand.
For you, Maggie" he cried, 'and
may have the stamp? IT'S an Amer
lean stamp, Donald was telling me-"
Margaret flushed as she recognized
the bold. regular writing 1t must mean
that Kenneth was coming anyway, and
she need not send. A glance through
the letter, and the color left her face;
the closing paragraph seemed to glow
in letters of flame.
And this new, beautiful Margaret
that's made me the proudest man in
the world. wants so much to know my
little sister. the other Margaret as
we call you,--and we talk of you very
often. you may be sure. You must be
ready to greet her soon. for we shall
be coming home shortly after this
reaches you. Donald will have out the
pipes to play the welcome, and you will
tell every one that we are coming"
The girl crushed the letter with the
one she had written and thrust the two
in her bosom. Then she threw herself
face downward upon the ground, a lit
tie. suffering, silent figure. Long after
it was quite dark, a tired voice called
family from distant house,
Margaret. Margaret"
And the girl. stumbling to her feet,
CROPPED her way down the hill through
the purple gloom.
Copyright, 1898, by Bacheller Syndicate.
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THEOTHER MARGHRET.
BY SYDNEY FROST.

duce a young friend OF mine.-Fair.
bairn of Airlieford? Awfully good stock
I know his people, and he's a capital
, sort Of chap. Do you mind? He rs SO
keen about it,"
Margaret could not refuse, though, as
she said, 1t was hardly worth While.
since they were soon leaving for Flor
ence.
But Mr.. Hyde had disappeared at her
first word of assent, and now ap'
preached with the young man. who was
in no wise disconnected at the introduce
tion, which consisted of numerous
calculations, at the end of which Mr..
Hyde bolted for the smoking-room with
an air of evident relief.
An hour later the readlng-room was
still almost empty and from the parlors
beyond came the snatches OF waltz mu-
sic and the gay voices of dancers, but
Margaret and the gray-eyed young
man were still talking. He was lean
ing forward, holding her attention
quietly and without an effort, and she
had so far forgotten her professed in
difference as to be laughing merrily
over his descriptions and readily an
swering his questions about herself.
OFF for a two years trip over the Con-
tinent and in America, Kenneth Fair
bairn had come to Rome for the holi-
days. and in the course of conversation
he adroitly obtained from the girl suf-
flcient information to determine his
next move or two. Frankly and nat
The herald., 1898-02-20

writing of this revolution. "Fugitives
crowding in from Terms announced the
rapid advance of the patriots, now at
least 1000 strong, elated with victory
and maddened with fury. Soon after
noon their advance guard, armed with
muskets, commenced tumultuous as
sault. Less than 300 militia and yeo-
manry formed the garrison of the place.
Now came a scene hardly matched
for dts variety of horrors, except In
September, 1912, upon the line of the
French advance to Moscow through the
blazing villages of Russia. All the 10y
alists of Enniscarthy were summoned
to instant flight. At one end of the
street were seen the rebel rifles and
bayonets, and fierce faces already
cleaning through the smoke. At the
other end volumes of fire surging and
believing from the thatched roofs COM
mon in that country and blazing raft
ers were beginning to block UP the
avenues of escape.
Then was TO be seen the delirlum of
fear and vindictive hatred; on the pa
triots the tiger glare of just vengeance
fresh from i1tolerable -'rongs and the
never to be forgotten ignominy of
strifes and personal degradations;
panic self-palsied by it's own excess,
flight eager or stealthy, volleying pur-
suit. the very frenzy of agitation under
every mode of excitement"
The revolutionists followed up this
victory by marching on Wexford and
capturing it.
After these victories the fortune of
The herald., 1898-02-20
California and Oreson,

The name of California originated In
the imagination of the author of a
Spanish romance. Les Sergus de Es-
plandian." Here the "Isband Of Cali
fornia, where abundance of gold and
precious stones are found" was de-
scribed. The name was probably given
to the territory now embraced in Cali
fornia by some of the Spaniards with
Cortez, who,. no doubt, had read this
sensational romance.
Oregon was a name formerly given to
an imaginary river of the West. Carver
an American traveller mentions it in
1853 In describing it he evidently con-
founded it with the Missouri, but the
name was finally applied to the present
State of that name
The herald., 1898-02-20
Want a Circus in Your Yard7

If you want a regular circus in the
back yard next summer invest a dime
in package Of mixed gourd seeds and
plant by picket fence. Train them
along, and IL you pour dish water
around the roots every day the first
surprise will come in seeing the things
grow. perhaps shutting out an ugly
back yard next door, and also being
a pretty background for rnarIgolds.
asters or zinndas planted in the front.
Some sunny morning take a view Of
your fence covered with prettily
shaped leaves and the nest egg gourds
so white hanging all over 1t, mixed
with the large yellow flowers, ana
however blue you will take a mora
cheerful view of things. Furthermore
the vine has something for every meW
ber of the family. Grandma can daH
her stockings on q small gourd;
mother can use them for nest eggs; the
artistic daughter can carve pretty
boxes and CUPS, and paint pictures on
the hard, smooth surface; the little
rirls can make "a whole yard of animals
out OF the small ones, using matches
or toothpic11s for legs; the boy can
make q curiosity for his cabinet by
putting bottle over the bud: 1t will
expand and fill the space, and the other
boys win wonder how such a big thing
could be put into such small quarters.
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trate acting on the information of
Thomas Reynolds, arrested Oliver
Bond and fourteen other delegates
assembled in committee in Bonds
house, in Bridge street, Dublin. |
and seized all their papers. on the
same day, Thomas Adds Emmett. |
DR.. MacNevin, and others We're ar
| rested in their homes. A fortnight n
before, Arthur O'Conner and a
priest named Quigley had been ar
rested at Margate on their way to
France. OConnor was sent to a K
Dublin prison, but Father Quigley u
was hanged at Maidstone. +
A reward was offered of e1 900 for II
the apprehension of Lord Fitzger- lk
aid, the moving spirit of the revolu-
tlon. He was arrested on the 10Th of
may in No 153 Thomas street. Dublin.
He was lying i'll in bed when the Off
GERS entered the room, but he drew a
dagger and struggled desperately,
Wounding two officers. A file of SOL
dlers was called in, Lord Edward was
shot in the shoulder and overpowered.
He died of his wound on the 4tb of
June.
on the 21st of May two brothers,
Henry and John Shears, barristers,
members of the Dublin Directory of
the United 1rishmen, We're arrested
They were convicted on the 18th of Julv
and hanged two days later A reprieve
for Henry came too late-fve minutes
after the execution
The stopping of the mail coaches
from Dublin on the night of the 23d of
May was to be the signal for simulta
neous rising. This was done at two
O'Clock on the morning of the 24th. and
the people rose in rebellion. But Dub
lin did not rise. as had been planned
for 1t had been placed under martial
law and its leaders arrested. The r;s
ing was only partial. confined to the
counties of kildare, Wicklow. and Wex-
ford; though there We're some slight
attempts a Carlow and Meath. II wa $
premature. The people We're almost
without arms. discipline, plan, or lead
ers.
On the 26th of May a body of 1000
revolutionists We're defeated on the hin
of Tara. On the next day, Whitsun-
day, the rising broke out in Wexford
Here the revolution assumed religious
character which it had not shown else
where. Here the revolutionists were
nearly all Catholics, although many of
the leaders We're Protestants.
This Wexford rising was not the re-
suit of any concert with the Dublin
Directory, for the society of United
Irishmen had not made much head
way among the quiet peasants of that
county The Wexford people were
driven to rebellion simply by the ter
rible barbarities of the government and
forces. They rose in despera-
tion, without any plan or idea of what
they We're to do.
Father John Murphy, parish priest
of Kilcormick, finding his little chanel
Of Boleyvogue burned by the gov
militia took the lead of
the reVolutionists, together with
another priest. Father Michael Muir
ply. whose chapel had also been
burned. On the 27th of May they
defeated and annihilated a party
Of militia on the Hill of Oulart. six
miles east of Enniscarthy. Having cap
tured 800 stand of arms, they then
on Enniscarthy. BY the
strategem Of driving a herd of bull
ocks before them they broke the ranks
Of the towns defenders, and captured
The place after four hours fighting.
What a picture was Enniscarthy on
the oath of May" says De Quincy in
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she was very weak and nervous, and
Mrs. Ives was grave and anxious. At
last, one evening. she was able To he
dressed and to sit for a while at the
window to get a glimpse OF the sunset
sky, and they began to talk hopefuilv
of getting to the Lakes ana Switxe,,-
land within a fortnight.
"Mr. Fafrbairn has been almost tn
sane, Margaret" suddenly renarkaf
the little woman. IT think he fancled
you at deaths door, and how he rlared
and gIowered at me for keeping him
from you! l have not dared let vol,
have half the flowers he has brought
while as for fruit--well, his donations
would have amply sufficed for an or
pilan asylum. He is the most gener-
Gus creature I ever saw"
After little. Margaret said, ct could
see him tonight, Anne, dear. What do
you think?"
Just the thing" responded Mrs.
Ives, going to the bell. "It will cheer
you up, and you need to see some one
besides stupid me after all these days"
Kenneth was not long on the way,
and after his breathless greeting, one
look told Margaret that she could not
much longer put off the inevitable. His
heart was in his honest eyes. and Anne.
plying his impatience, made some ex-
cuse to leave the room for a few min
utes. Kenneth quickly crossed to the
girls chair, and knelt beside her. Hold
in both her hands in his. he looked in
to the brown eyes. my. ain Margaret"
was all that he said, as he took her in
his arms.
A long, low cliff juts out into the
sea just north of Airlieford, and
among the heather, inthe lingering twi-
light of June evening, girl was
reading letter. 1t was one she had
just written. very important. evidently,
for she weighed every sentence and
considered each phrase.
"He told me to send IL ever things
got worse" she said to herself, hope
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businesses of the Celtic mountaineers
But even there II was PRACTICAL,
crushed out by the end of the year o.
1898.
On the 29th of July Cornwallis en-
tered into an arrangement with somt
of the leaders imprisoned in Dublin
over seventy in all, to tell all they knew
about the United Irishmen's Associa-
tion without duplicating individuals
after which they were to be permitted
to leave Ireland. Accordingly Arthur
| O'Connor, Thomas Adds Emmet, DR.
MacNevin, Samuel Nelson. and sew
eral others were examined on oath
After all they We're not allowed to &c
free. for twenty of the principal men
were sent to Fort George in Scotland,
where they were kept confined till 1902
The most romantic phases of this
revolution were the two expeditions
from France that set out to aid the
Irish revolutionists. The first. which
Wolfe Tone had gone from America to
Paris to organize, sailed from Brest
Harbor France, Dec. 16. 1876. 1t was
under the command of the French
General. Hoche. 1t had forty-three sail
and $1,000 veteran soldiers. But a gale
came up and separated Hoche's ship.
the Fraternite, from the rest of the
leet. Grouchy. the unfortunate
Grouchy, who by his tardiness lost Wa
terloo for Napoleon, was second In COM
mand. He reached Bantry Bay with a
portion of the fleet. but hesitated TO
disembark without the presence of his
commanding general. Another gale
came up and the remainder of the fleet
was scattered and driven far out to
sea. The remnants of the expedition
put back to France.
The next ill-starred French naval ex-
pedftion was got together by the in
efatigable Wolfe Tone two years later.
This was known as Humbert's eXpedi-
tion. 1t sailed from La Rochelle. Aug.
4th There were three frigates with a
f1ghting force of only 1.100 men. But a
large stand of arms was taken in an
ticipation of arming the Irish peas
antry. landing was made at KillaIa.
and for three weeks the invader h.,d
his own against every difficulty, defeat
ed several forces in the field, one at the
lowest calculation being seven or eight
times his superior in size, captured an
entire province, and only surrendered
to overwhelming odds after out
the British during
weeks march. The French had by that
time penetrated $50 miles into the in
terror of the country. An unfortunate
delay Of few hours prevented their
junction with large body of Irish in
surgents. Had this been accomplished.
the road to Dublin would have been
thrown open to him and the history of
Ireland might have been changed
One of the saddest incidents of the
war occurred at the surrender of the
French. Wolfe Tone. who was among
the officers taken. was apprehended
as a traitor. He was tried by court
martial and condemned to death by
han nging. being refused a soldiers more
honorable death by being shot He
however. to open a vein in
his neck, and before the ignominious
death of the gibbet could be inflicted /
he had found death in his cell. He was |,
buried at Bordenstown, near Dublin. |
and to that place, as to a Shrine. thou
sands upon thousands of devoted Irish |
patriots will go next year as the Mo- |
hammedans do to Mecca.
Copyright, 1898, by Bacheller Syndicate |
The herald., 1898-02-20
A CENTURY RUN.
That Is the Remarkable Record
Made by the Quaint Old
Watch Here Pictured.

The only watch in existence known
to have actually run for one hundred
years with occasional intervals of rest,
is in the possession of Paul H. Kraniss,
of A East Washington street, Indian
apolis, Ind. 1t still keeps good time
Its case bears the name of Rose & Son,
Makers, London, 1898 The first watoh
made at the famous old town of Nuredn-
berg had exactly the same kind of es-
capement.
The watch was brought from Eng
land to America by Mr.. Kraniss' grand
father in 1880, and has been in the pos
session of its present owner for about
twenty years. The accompanying il
lustration is from a photograph taken