The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-30

Please publish the names OF the various city de-
partments such Health. Fire. &C.. and IL not too
much trouble the number of employees in each
The Executive Dcpartment-the Mayor and Bor-
ough Presidents the Legslative-the Council and
the Board of Aldermen; the Judicial-Civil Justices
City Magistrates and Coroners; tho Departments Of
Finance, of Police. of Health. of Law. of Fire. of
Parks, of buildings. of Taxes and Assessments, of
Charities of Correction, OF Docks and Ferries OF
Jurors OF Accounts of Civil Service. of Municipal
Statistics of Education. We do not know how many
employees each department has; the number is
larger than ever before.
viii you kindly add to the information given in
Attorney OF New York the Following! L. Is he the
same Asa Bird Gardner whose name changed to
Gardiner by order OF Larremorc. H. July II 1884,
s SnS How did h s %
the Cincinnati? 3. How did he get into the order Of
OF I'll" War Of is12 j. What was tho name me and oc
cupation of his father? g. What was the name Of his
after him. W T.
I. Heis 2 1t was said publicly during the cam.
paiRn of 1897 that he aided the Rhode Island Chap.
ter regain its forfeited charter on condition that
he was made a member by that chapter 3. He
doesn't belong to this. 4. He founded" this order
using old General" Daily as stalking horse. g.
His father was Asa Gardner; he kept " Frances
Tavern" in Broad street where Major Gardiner was
born. q. We do not know. 7. 1t wasn't.
Why lie there no lynching in England? Why ia
there ynchng in the Southern States OF the Amerl-
can Union? AMERICAN.
The conditions in the two countries are wholly
different
A friend writes from Gloucester. Mass. about the
word How" used often " hen men drink togetheri
80, The word in question is not an Authorization Of
How do You do. nor variant Of our word Ho'
ind it in the works of early travellers. In Rigrs's
Grammar and D!ction9rv o. the Dakota lAnsuase
Philoloey OF the Hidatsa Indians it is also spelled
'hao, and is defined. If remember correctly. de.
and greeting The army learned the word from the
Indians. A. 4. L.
sv william m Rsi w",ee wa, the sphGr Of Th;
the ocean was compo cd by Thomas A. Beckett for
beneht night for David F. Shaw. while acting in
Philadelphia theatre. T. A. IL.
900 tickets or cards running from the first, cent.
to the Ia last and highest s. Al The tickets or cards
his horse and buggy 7.
This is problem in arithmeticsl progression. The
man realized f4545O.
Please explain how it is that We on the earth see
only one side of the moon? r. &. G.
Because only one side OF the moon is turned
toward MS.
Why is railing considered questionable practice1
IL any p'"''pie moral OF rehs'o"'' 'hNo4yed In ~
Railing is a game OF chance. a species of gam.
bling; the world looks at gambling differently TO
what IL used to- and so has made rafting and other
games Of chance Illegal. Gambling ia not in itself
immoral 1t is suppressed chiefly because its results
are evil and against public policy.
Two friends say that the Oceanic OF the white Star
line now completing at Belfast. is longer than tho
Great Eastern being 7o+ feet in length. whilo the
older vessel $50 feet long. The tonnage Of the
Great Eastern was 80. 5oo that of the Oceanic is
1000
The Sound. according to Timothy Dwight first Of
that name to become President OF Yale University
(see his book Travels in New England and New
York;. was frozen entirely across at Fairfield in
| 1884. The Sound at this point 10 eighteen miles
wide In 1892 quoting same authority right
through the Sound WAS frozen over at Fairfield
about hve weeks. clipping from the Hartford
| Courant. dated 1892. states that the Sound was
| frozen over in the winter of 1929. X.Y.Z.
n. Htrmann.-James G. Blaine did not die . Ro-
man Catholic.
Eliot" Corona veniat deleotis " means, Let tho
crown como to the chosen ones"
J. DNGs,-rhe Rams Horn is published in New
York and in Chicago. II is weekly.
JET.-The native born son OF English parents
| does not need to be naturali2ed before voting.
| c. c. Hd6.-The Commissioner OF the United States
4.
he.has ONCE at 20 Broadway. this city.
| T. II. Rvan.-You could have enrolled to vote at
the primaries at any time during the month OF June
it is too late to enroll for the primaries this year
| J. Hr. W.-According to tho latest authorities,
there were Ss4 railroad locomotives in the United
States on Jan. l. 1898. There are. say. 10000 now
| H.-The population OF the city OF New York Is
about g. 90 600 Of these. about $50 900 foreign
born Jews and about 600 900 natives OF Ireland
! Raider" Automobile" lisa French invention; It
is compounded Of the Greek word autos self. used
in many words Of the day. and the French mobile
| movable.
1tdkehoider.-At the beginning Of the Spanish war
| the United States Navy ranked nth among the ma
ves OF the world; the Spanish Navy ranked seventh
| or lower.
| G. K-"Fractional currency" OF the denominat on
| OF Is cents issued during the war. The denom.
nations were cents. cents 10 cents 10 cents, 70
| cents and 20 cents.
| d. Pa-You can learn tho elements Of telegraphy
from a book with the aid OF sounder and trans
mitter; to get q working knowledge. you will have
| 10 study It practically.
C.F LII has been said that a person should
| sleep on tho right side. 40 that there may be no
pressure on the heart. there would DO In theory
/ II he slept on the left side.
| =. '. Van D,-There 10 no historical record Of
| England having recognized the Southern Confed-
eracy." owing tho fact that England never recog.
| nized it except as belligerenL
W. II. Ady.-We do not know how many com.
| mercAi travellers there were in the United States
| six months ago. or how many have been thrown out
| of employment within that time
| F. AtIler.-IARer beer waH mada In this coun inv
| hrst between 1888 and 1889; It brewed hrst In
Germany during the thirteenth century; there was
| famous big brewery In Zittau in 1870.
| N. H. H.-Fleas have been made 10 do certain
feats such drawing tiny cart. sitting in chairs
&c. There 10 training. however; the insects are
SO bound that they can DO nothing but what the ex.
| hbitor wishes them to do.
| J. B.-A candidate for the Presidency may get .
majority plurality Of tho popular vote and still
be defeated In tn Electoral College. This seemingly
anomalous result is caused by his carrying small