The times., 1898-05-01
NOTES AND QUERIES.

NOTES AND QUERIES.
| OF North Carulinag TaRfTFEI
Cyrus Thompson. He took office IN
| September. 1897
y Did Olive Sehreiner, the South African author
-, marry nesrot A. L.
She did not She married in lSqg a Mr.
Cronwright, an Englishman recently set
tied in the colony.
k0wsh? ~
We do not know.
What was the ancestry Of Hannibal HamIin.
vice President under Lincoln? NANELESS.
lie was the son of Cyrus Hamlin and
the grandson of Captain Elijah HamIin.
VINO had served in the Revolution. on
ms mothers side he was descended from
| Elijah Livermore. one of the original
owners OF Livermore township. Maine
Both families came originally from Eng
| land.
To whom should one apply for information
about Revolutionary soldiers. il one wishes to
/ "A---'NN-
c. Nee.
| No general answer can be given to this
| question. You will have TO apply to some
| one in the State from which your ances-
| tor came when he entered the ReyOIu-
| tiOnary army. Some States have COM
| piled the records Of the soldiers who en-
| tered the Revolutionary army and OF their
| services; other States have taken no ac-
ton in the way of preserving those rec
| ords.
| Please give the population and number of SOL
| diers for both the British empire and Russia2
! TEXAS SOLDIER.
| The population of the British Empire
| is 3Sl 100000, and its army numbers 20
600. Russias population is 129O 600. and
| her army is 1,743.0O0. These figures as to
soldiers are on the basis Of the peace
establishment. but the prepOnderance in
| Russias favor is quite as great in re-
| serve forces. Man for man, the Russian
forces are superior. so you see how COM
pletely England's power rests in her
enormous naval force.
have several thousand postage stamps Can
you tell me where can dispose Of them?
G.. II. NJ
To business men. If they are uncan-
| celed; to dealers in stamps or to junk
men, If Cancelled. Stamp dealers will pay
AOF CdUCtIeQ current issues, IN utlDhl4-
nations that are seldom used, from three
to twenty per cent of their face value.
making 100 stamps the unit OF such
/ transactions. Cancelled twO-cent stamps
| of current issues, are, so far as We know,
unmarketabIe. When you write TO
| dealer be more explicit in your query
| than you were to US.
Please tell me how to put an electric bell in
| house? G. ". p
You will need a battery-a single bat
| terry will be large enough-some insulated
wire. the bell and the push button Put
the battery out of the way, wherever il
can be got at easily, run one wire from
| the battery to the place for the bell to be
fasten to the bell. then from there to the
pl.-ce for the push button The second
wire is run from the button to the bat
terry. The ends of the wires do not touch
at the button. The current of electricity
which makes the bell ring is thus inter
Tupted at the button. but when the but
ton is pushed. the current runs right
along and reaches the bell. making it
ring. There is book on the subject.
which you can get at any dealer IN
scientific books; il you are going into
business. you had better get it.
Were there horses in America when Columbus
came here; did the Indians ride them2 How did
OF Texas? No NAME
There had been horses in this country
before Columbus came, but they had all
disappeared in some way. Their fossil
bones have been discovered, so that We
know that in prehistoric times there had
been horses here. But the first horses
in the actual history Of the country
were those brought by COrtez when he
came to conquer Mexico. They We're
strange and alarming animals to the
Mexicans > What firearms the Indians
had. they got from the whites either by
purchase or conquest
How many sugar-beet factories VIII there be in
operation this season. In what states VII they
be- and how many in each State2 What Is the
least number Of acres needed to support -Ic7Cryt
Y. y.
This wear il is reasonably certain tnat
| there will be some fifteen beet sugar fac
tories in operation. or these there VIII
| be seven in California; two in Nebraska;
| two in Utah; two in New York; one IN
New Mexico. and one in Wisconsin. PROB
| ably other factories Will De brlIIt- t'ac-
| tories are not built on the plan suggest
| ed in the third question, but We do not
/ believe that a factory could be operated
/ on the average product of fewer tuan
| 5,00O acres.
Is there any pretender to the British throne?
Ii so, what are the facts, concerning the ease2
! INQUIRER.
There is no actual pretender, but there
| is person who, if the British Parliament
| had declared differently in I5U2 would now
| be Queen Mary. Sne is the Archducness
| Maria Theresa, of Austria-Este. Duchess
| of MOdena. and wife of Prince Louis OF
| Bavaria. She was born in 1873: was mar
| Tied in 1868. and has three sons and seven
| daughters. She is descended from Hen
vfa r.Fg gE-Fs.
ter of Charles I. There are some harm
less persons in England who call them
selves 'Legitimists, who nave memo
rial services for Saint Charles the Mar
tyr, and prefer to speak OF this lady as
Queen Mary, and or Queen Victoria as
Princess Victoria of Hanover. We DO
not know whether the Bavarian lady
knows that they do. At all events,
neither she nor Queen Victoria seems to
be troubled by the dOings OF the -'Leg1t-
imists."
Please give me some instructions for con-
Quoting a May-pole dance and for crowning 4
May queent CARR
4 May-pOle dance is for children. They
should be dressed in white. and should
be invited for the middle Of the after
noon. The May pole is pole set in
the ground or in a stand; It is wreathed
with flowers. On the top is fixed ring
say foot or more in diameter; from
the sides of this fall differently cOIored
ribbons, long enough nearly TO touch
| the ground. The May-pole dance is