The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-27
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Please let nc know what are the tallest Of
/ Nee buildings In New York. N,o'b.
The American surety company. Broadway.
corner Pine street. twonty-thrce stories, so6
fcc. inch high; American Tract society.
! Nassau, cornor Spruce street twenty-thrce
stories. 3os feet: Bank Of Commerce, corner
Nassau and Cedar streets. go feet, twenty
storics; Commercial Cable, 20-22 Broad street.
twenty one stories. 223 feet; Offender, cor
ner Wall and Nassau streets, sixteen storics
height to roof top 219 feet TO tower 2Is feet.
Homo Life Insurance company, 256 broadway,
sixteen stories, to roof top 219 feet, to top OF
spiro ESQ feet; Hotel New Netherland, corner
Fifty. ninth street and Firth avenue. seven-
teon stories 900 feet; Hudson Realty company,
32-3i Broadway, sixteen stories 200 fect D
inches; WINS Syndicate, 1921 Park row.
twenty-nine stories, to roof top 1903 rect. 10
tower $50 feet; Manhattan Life insurance
Germany, GAGS Broadway. seventeen stories'
to rcoi top 2i6 feet, to top of tower S4s iee.'
O r.. Potter trust, Broadway and rector
street. twenty stories, 269 feet inches; Puiit-
ger building, Park row, twenty-five stories.
/ would like to know II eggs are manuiae-
tured anywhere In this country. Ill.
You mean artificial eggs, of course! Some
years ago man applied for patent to make
such eggs. He exhibited samples in WASH
,neton. and is said to have had some cooked
in various ways at fashionable clubs In the
capital city. Externally, the artificial egg
Cornmeal was said to be the basis of their
material The white was pure albumen. while
the yolk was n mixture of several elements.
including albumen. The shell was made In
two halves, artiGciaily stuck together. There
were certain points. however, by which the
artificial egg could be distinguished from the
genuine For instance. tho lining of the
former was evidently made from some sort
of silk like tissue. The shell was cast in two
halves out of n lime composition, the lining
being put in and filled and the two halves
thereupon Joined together. We have been
unable to learn if a patent was granted the
inventor; neither can we say where you
could procure specimens.
To decide bet, please publish for us
whether there is any one cow that gives eight |
gallons of milk in one day.
There are q great many more lldn ouc. |
The Advanced Registry contains names Of Il |
number of animals that have records of over |
1000 pounds a year. and one COW is reported |
to have produced 3O,3lSis pounds in 365 days, |
an average for the whole year Of over eighty |
three pounds per day. her maximum yield |
was 1l2 pounds ounces in one day. The COW |
weighed 1865 pounds; the average weight of |
milk would therefore, equal her own weight |
every 16l@ days. The animal was Holstein, |
the breed which leads all others in quantity |
OF milk produced. The Ayrshires are all |
heavy mixers, but not remarkable as the
Holsteins. The average yield of dairy ami
mails throughout the United States, including
all breeds and all conditions of treatment, is
between 5000 and 1000 pounds per year. These
statistics are given in pounds, but the figures
may easily be reduced to approximate
equivalent in gallons; there are about eight
pounds to gallon.
a Russian subject deserts the Russian army
after serving twelve months comes To this
country and becomes citizen. After remain
ing in the United States about twenty years
he desires to return to Russia. Is the United
States government supposed to uphold him
in case the Russian government claims him, |
as far as making him his time in the
military service is conceraed or punishes him
under their laws? A. St.-l0 |
We have been unable to discover anything
In the existing treaties between the United
States and Russia-or, for that matter, any
other foreign country-which protects nat,i-
ralizea American citizens against punishment
for deserving foreign army. Treaties hagig
a general bearing on the subject of the natl-
ralt2ed citizen have been consummated with
Austria, Belgium. Denmark, Great Britain,
Sw eGen and Norway, the North German Con-
federation and some other countries, bit,
even with these governments, the provisions
do not seem to permit deserving soldier shell
tcrng himself under United States citizen
ship
II n man born in Germany comes to the
United States, tpkcs out his papers as citi-
zen, can his son become president of this
country? C.C.C.
Only American born citizens are now eligi-
bic to the presidency and vice presidency.
The son of naturalized citizen, IL the boy
Is horn in this country, is as eligible to tho
of tho United States as though
MS parents had lived here since the founda-
ion of the government naturalized cti-
zen is not eligible and the minor son of a
oregncr, who becomes an American citi-
zen by virtue of his fathers naturalization.
s not regarded in the eye of the law us on
he same footing q native born citizen. !
Sot being born in this country he is not
Eligible.
Who introduced the civil service reform q
movement? J.Rp /
Tho civil service reform movement began |
n 1861 On February 9 of that year Mr..
'enckes of Rhode Island submitted a bill in !
'onliess calling for an investigation ana re- :
'rsepiSation of the public service The bin
WIS referred to committee aud that was
he last heard of it. Mr.. Jenckes tried again | q
n lS7o, with the same result. 1t was only | /,
When General Grant took UP the matter hat | !,
esisiation became possible. The new system | {
inhliy became law and went into operation a
1883. during President Arthurs admins t
ration, o
~ TOW many OF the counties in this country u
re named after presidents? NAN h
There are over 200 counties in the United p
tates, and of these about 10 per cent are ?