The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-13
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

they ought pest TO Do READ. H. W.
Cooper's novels appeared in this order Precau.
ton, The Spy 1921: Tho Pioneers The Pilot. Lionel
Lincoln, Last OF the Mohicans 1920; The Prairie.
Tho Red Rover The wopt OF Wish ton Wish. The
Water witch. The Bravo, Heidcnmauer, The Heads
man. The Manikins, 1898: Homeward Bound Homo
as Found. The Pathfinder, 1910; Mercedes OF Cas-
tile. The Deenslayer The Two Admrals, Wing and
Wing. wyandotte. Anoat and Ashore, and its second
part. Miles wallingford. satanstoe. The Chain
Bearer. The Redskins. the Crater, Jack Tier. Oak
Openings, The Sea Lions and Ways of the Hour.
The Leather Stocking" stories go in this order:
Desrslayer. Last OF tho Mohicans. Pathfinder. The
Pioneers and The Prairie. The Sea stories run thus
The Pilot Water witch. Wing and Wing, Rod Rover.
The Two Admirals. Anoat and Ashore and Miles
wallingrord make series. Jack Tier, The Crater
The Sea Lions, Homeward Bound and Home "a
Found make series. The other books need not be
read in any particular order.
Lewis Carroll in his Alice in WONDERLAND" uses
the v ord "chor,le,, will you inform ne: i WHAT
the word .. II not. who used tho word prior to
HIM II. A. y.
Carroll used the word In Through the Looking
Glass" 1t means to make a Joyous inarticulatc
sound, such as Jabbcrwock might properly make
in its glee. 2. Iiois 8. No one.
An overnight accounts for a wrong answer to P.'s
problem " the man who sold 800 shares in rattle
for horse and buggy; the answer should have been
e4515o.
and having iesire 70 know Why Tie as',l, nins
being arrived at in that simple way. ask rnr sTN
for imagination, Also why is the nine the only
when written? y. A. y.
Astory which may DO a tradition is that the ten
Arabic figures are derived from the seal OF solo.
mons ring. That showed a diamond divided into
trianges by lines connecting the corners the carly
forms OF the figures can he found in this seal with
little care. As a fact, the Arabic figures orig
mated in India; We borrowed them from the Arabs.
VIII" had borrowed them first. The figure nine es
written by som" persons. approaches very closely
| to- the printed form.
| What IL the width Of the North River at near
Cortlandt street a, it, narrowest point between New
a aofE a I nna S
From picrhead to pierhcad the shortest distance ia
about .23o feet; from bulkhead to bulkhcad about
300.
What code Of signals is used by the United States
cost? r. II. X.
The private code OF the navy is the United States
Naval Code You cannot get copy of it. The navy
alao the International Code.
we should be greatly obliged by your publishing
list of cities operating their own lighting plants;
ownership and the former cost under ''q H. st. r.
The Cycopndia of Social Reform gives list Of
twelve tltGS Wnlcn. IN 1SD, owned tnclr plants
and supplied gas to themselves and private con.
sumers. These were: Philadelphia. Richmond
Alexandria Danvilla. Charlottesville and Fredcr-
icksburg. Va: Henderson, Ky; Wheeling. W. Va:
Belefontane and Hamilton. o; and Mddleboro
| and Wakefield. Mass. The results seem to he
cheaper Eas t. private persons more Of whom use
it; cheaper to the cities themselves. ana slight
| profit. There upward of 100 cities owning their
electric light plants their experience is cheaper
street lighting. and profit on the light sold to
private consumers. Sec the cycloprdia and its ref
erencrs.
!. Did George Washington ever hold the once of
| Grand Master of tao Grand Lodge OF Virginia Ma
| sons. or in fact any Office in Freemasouryr ?. Is
there in existence any picture of the burial of wash
inEton? T.
| ]. Washington was initiated in 1859. became
| Master in 1888, hut never Grand Master OF vir-
| guia. .. We do not know.
the Old police force " New York city during the
time they were called "Lcltherhcads'? &C. II.
There were none; the "Leathcrhcads" tho
night watchmen previous to 1870 they had no or
ganizatiOn.
Kindly inform me what historic novels have been
| Roman histories. NEW YORKER.
Kingsley's "Hypatia." Ebcrs's cleopatra" and
1.-THE Emperor" Whyte Mclville'S "Gladiator'
waace's " Ben Hur," Haggard's Cleopatra" Wise
| mans "Fahiola." Newman's "Callista." Church's
Burning of Rome. 1.-TWO Thousand Years Ago"
"A Young Macedonian" ITO the Lions" and
"Callas. Tale of the Fall of Athens" Sicnkeviczs
| "Qup Nadis.' Church and Putnam's Count of the
| Saxon Shore" Bulwers Last Days of Pompeii."
Hcnty's Berc the Briton. Young Cartha ginian"
| and For the Temple" Flauherts "Salamnb6,"
| Miss Yongos II Hebrew Heroes " and many Others
| How long at the time of the Reformation. did it
take town in England Of say. 5000 inhabitants to
6Hc"mS rresi%mt Let me- assume that the t2Tn
population in the M st Catholic portion Of Ireland
describe tho course OF the change. Did the people
| 60 over in one body. in several bodies, or in
the new rel 'gon which they embraced as Inherent
IN IT, formulas and rcr"monics as the Protestant re
simply ,weane Nwav from tho Old faith by giving
as noo to frhe "m t now m am" r r' tie
shock their conSCi"nrcS too much, by too sudden
| revolution in their religious beliefs In word.
how long was it from tn" time tn" town almost
wholly Catholic until it hecam" wholly Prote:tant'
| Probably no English town ever became 50 over.
wheln,ingly Protestant as. before the Reformation.
| 1t had been Catholic in its religion. The change
from Roman Catholicism to Professionalism grad,
| ual. prepared by many events surh a. the inter.
diets in King Johns time. tn" translation Of the
Bible by wvclif the growth of Lollariry. the re.
fusal in 1856 TO allow tho claim Of Urban v TO he
| suzrrain of England. The suppression Of the mon
| asteri"s by Henry VIII weakened the hold Of the
Papacy upon the people but the Reformation hardly
| affected them really until Mary's time. Then
|
| the Catholic laty sympathize with the Prot
| estants. Sull. when Elizabeth became Queen
| in 1863, Green says that at least twOthrds
of the people Catholics. Until the Pope issued
his Bull NJ Deposition. purpor'ing to depuse Eliza.
| beth in 1870, the Queen had not given mp hope Of
| uniting the English and the Roman churches. Then
she began TO prosecute the Catholic priests and 10
| insist on the REORGANIZATION Of the country. As
Green says; " Silently, almost unconsrIuusly Eng.
land became Protestant III" traditional Catholic.
| ism which formed the religion of thrcc-quartcrs OF
| the people at the Queens accession died quietly
| away" England was alone against Europe and the
idea Of loyalty 10 the Queen led the people become
| Protestants, because all things Catholic her
| enemies, The formulas and ceremonies of the
Anglican Church Of that time first greatly
different from those Of the Roman Church; late in
| EhAabeths reign Purtanlsm became powerful. (See
| Green's History Of the English PcoplcJ
| Please name three importlnt male and three i'm
| pOTtant female saints Of England, aud three male
saints " Wales, of Poland and of Russia. AUTHOR.
| Perhaps these may suit: Male English saints st.
Alban st, Hugh, 81. Cuthbcr, female English slut-
St, Edith, ST. Ethcldred, ST. Hilla; Welsh saints ST.