The times., 1898-04-17
NOTES AND QUERIES.


Did the battleship Maine ever touch the spaa-
ish coast? II 50, when2 VII Il.
No; she had never been attached TO
the European squadron.
OF whom was it said: ''when the srmine Of the
Official robe fell on him it touched nothing less
or John Jay. the first Chief Justice Of
the United States.
Did the ancestors Of Seth Low. Of New York,
come from Germany; il so. when? Did they
come to Essex. Mass b. +. W.
The ancestors OF Seth Low did not
come from Germany: they came from
England, and settled at Salem. Essex
County. Mass. They came over about
200 years ago.
sLi Is nickel; nickel money legal tender1 When was 10
nj, eolhedf c. c. @.
Nickel coins of the United States ara
legal tender to the amount OF % cents.
The nickel coin now in use IL the 5-eene
piece The hfst nickel coin was the cent:
trst coined in 1851 and not coined after
1864.
What is the population Of Greater New York;
100000. estimated. as there has hse,
no census since it's incorporation. New
Jersey suburbs of 10000 population are
outside these figures. as well as out
side the city limits. but for purposes
OF comparison with some cities. should
be taken into consideration.
Please give the date (year. month and dav, -
in 1S5S-Iss02 NJ -
The exact date OF his birth is not
known. He was born in Ebert County.
Ga about 1850, and he died in Raleigh.
n. g. October 1S. 1861. He had lived
IN Texas from 1896 to his death.
What are the respective strengths Of the psv;e4
o. o. the worid. and what place does the United
States Occupy now? W. NJ
The order is: England. France. Italy.
Russia, America, Germany. Japan and
SPAIN
k.Bt aog soaPy aFs Calling aHd other quiearqs guns
Gatling guns. which have ten barrels.
90 not require any particular means OF
keeping the barrels cool But Maxim
guns and those which have only one
barrel are kept from getting too hot by
water-jackets. which surround the bar
rel Even then they sometimes get too
hot. and have TO go out of action to get
cool
have book Of short stories By Henry s.
Brooks called "A Tragedy in Bohemia Who il
Mr. Brooks. NP.o.
The only H. s Brooks that we have auv
record of is newspaper man. He was
born in New York. at Elmira. on August
z, 1852. In May, 1873. he founded the FL
mira Telegram Whether he is the au-
thor OF "A Catastrophe in Bohemia" wa
do not know.
In what direction is the force of an explosion
OF dynamite exerted? E. IT.
In the direction of resistance That is,
if it be exploded while lying on a rock,
the effect is down8ards: if while fastened
to the side of a wall. the effect is against
that wall; If fastened under an object, the
force is upwards. This is so because OF
the instantaneous character OF the ex-
plosion. which is vastly more rapid than
that Of gunpowder.
What was the first message sent by cable2
The first message by submarine cabIs
was sent on August %. 1850. between Do
yer and Calais; no record Of it has been
kept. The first message over the Atlantic
cable was sent on August is, 1S5S. and was
from Queen Victoria to President Buch-
anan- 1t extended congratulations ex-
pressed the hope that the new cOnnec-
ton would bind the two countries closer
together President Buchanan's reply
was cordial
What height and weight are required of appli-
cants for enlistment in the United States Army
and Marine Corps? SUBSCRIBER.
For the infantry and artillery the height
must not be less than FIVE feet. four inch
es. and the weight not less than 12S
pounds. or more than 100 For the caval-
~ and light artillery. the height must not
be less than five feet. four inches or more
than five feet. ten inches. and the weight
not more than 1s5 pounds. The Gualifiea-
tions in the Marine Corps. as TO height
and weight, are the same as in the in
fantry.
What is a ram and how does it work?
A boat with a bow so constructed that
she can run straight into an opposing
boat, knock a hole in her below the water
line. and sink her. The hatahdin, the
ram of our Navy. is very low in the wa
ter offering a very poor target TO the
enemy's guns. which her designers be-
lieve cannot disable her before she has
crushed her opponents hull This sug-
gests how il should work; whether she viii
do lust this no one knows. And there
is the same uncertainty about other war
ships They are the best that theoretical
science can devise. but naval combat
may upset the theories.
How is tellurium extracted irom gold or sil-
yer, telluric acidG j. W. b.
The extraction of teIIurium is COM
plicated process. From bismuth telluride,
it is procured by heating the ore with a
of potassium carbonate and char
coal when potassium telluride is formed;
this dissolves in water to a purple red So
luton, from which tel1urium is deposited
on exposure to the air. From gold ore.
it is procured BY oxidizing the ore by hot
nitric acid and hydrochIoric acid. then
mixing with sulphuric acid and tartaric
acid. filtering off the gold and treating
the filtrate with sulphurOus acid. which
reduces the tellurious acid 70 tsllurium.
When was the latest total eclipse OF the sun
visible in New York State2 When viii the next
two total eelipses fthe sun occur that viii be
visible in that State? When viii the next comet
be visible TO the naked eyer H. E B.
The last total eclipse of the sun visible
in New York State-and it was visible
only in parts OF the State-was on jan
uary 1, 1889 The next two total eclipseS
of the sun visible in that State viii proba-
bly, be on January q. 1925. and October
26, 214i. The next comet should be Tenn
pies, in September next.
When did the Hampton Road Convention con-
VeneI DID Abraham Lincoln SlF- III YOU VIII
allow me to write Union you may write the rcst?''
And what did Stephens say2 FIW.
The Hampton Roads convention took
place on February g.. 1865 President Lin
coin did not say anything of the kind.
MIR. Stephens. in his book. published af-
ter the war. says that after the first
greetings. he (Stephens) asked il there
was no way TO restore the harmony and
happiness OF former days. The President
said that there was but one way that he
knew of, and that was for those who
were resisting the laws of the Union to