The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-12
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Dy the tiger. W.. o. '
The tiger, as an attribute Of Tammany dates from
the time of Twced's downfall. He had been fore.
man of Engine No. g of the old Volunteer Fire De-
partment. which engine company carried n stuffed
tiger on its engine. Mast, in his cartoons against the
ring, probably had the engine compsny's tiger In
mind, and because OF Tweed's prominence in the
engine company and in Tammany symbolized the
latter as Il tiger.
When was the law framed madnS election day the
hrst Tuesday after the FIRST Mo aday in November
and why the first Tuesday after Monday Is there
any meaning to it? jim.
For many years the election in this State was held
on the FIRST Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of
November. In 1912 the first Tuesday after the FIRST
Monday in November hs present election day was
appointed by law. This was the middle OF the
original three days. Monday wasn't chosen. proba-
bly, because IL it had been. voters IN the large country
townships would have had to travel on Sunday to
reach the polls on Monday: Tuesday was taken
because its average of convenience to voters was
greater than that Of either Monday or Wednesday.
Please state when the new Court House was built
in New York; whether it was nSoS under n e9,t T ann @hSt H Va.
spent for furniture. fixtures. &c. j. d.
The County Court House was begun in 1881 on the
plans of John Kellum. In 1864 Tweed and the
inner ring of Tammany took It in hand and keptit
until their fall. The building cost $4,000 300. of
which at least 9 7.ooo.ooO was stolen; the carpets.
safes. &c. cost the city about as much again. Tweed
ana HE OClht
When and under what condition were postage
stamps used as currency during the civil war;
At the beginning of the war. after specie nay
ments had been suspended. as there was no small
change. postage stamps, either singly or pasted on
paper, passed as change for q time. The first
paper " fractional currency."a ten-cent paper piece.
bore on it's face the representation OF 6ve two-cent
stamps, and that fractional currency was called
stamps" colloquially.
Did the Pope OF Rome. during the civil war Of
1851, issue a statement that he was in favor Of the
Southern cause and thereby cause about one-half OF
'ne JAMES CoSNoI1I.
Tho Pope did nothing of the sort. Half of tho
si1ty.ninth did not desert. More than a thousand
of it's men were killed. wounded and taken prisoners,
and the Sixty ninth lost moro men in action than
any other New York regiment.
the General Sessions? .. Who was the prosecuting
%oficerf !. Did Horati" Seymour ever run for As
he then defeated and. i so. by whom =; What
yW We T Sid F Fislds leave :; e! Sew York sG city y' fos c csTSt1 : o
~ R. R. R.
/. In November, 1873: the trial, however. was in
Oyer and Terminer. not General Sessions. 2, Ben
jamin X. Phelps. the District Attorney. 3. Yes. In
1871, against Thomas Craig Fields; he ran on the
reform ticket, but was defeated. 4. Fields was in
the Senate in 1854 and 1865. 8. In October. 1872.
Just before his trial was to oome on.
would suggest to "a F, g." plausible interpre-
tation Of the lines Of Mrs. Howo's Battle HYMN OF
the Republic, (which can only refer to Christ,s
% %boTns' for n born! I : thus:
I'm the beauty of the lilies Christ was borne across
with a glory in his bosom that transhsureH You
FIN. R.
"Born" Is the way Mrs. Howe wrote 1t.
l. How many regiments Of United States regulars
want TO Cuba in the Fifth Army COrDs? 2, What
losses in killed and wounded did tho Spanish ARMY
sn;tain during the hshtInG on the LIST and N 20 of
1. First Division: First BriRade-sixth Infantry.
Sixteenth Infantry; second Brigsde-second Tenth
and Twenty-hrst Infantry; Third Brigade-Ninth.
Thirteenth and Twenty-fourth Infantry. Second
Division; First Bri~gAde-Eighth and Twenty-second
Infantry; Second Brigade First, Fourth and
Twenty. fourth Infantry; Third Brigade-Twelfth.
Seventh and Seventeenth Infantry. Cavalry Dlvi-
sion: First Brigade Third, Sixth and Ninth Cavalry:
Second Brigade-First and Tenth Cavalry: Artillery
BriRade-Light Batteries e and X. First Artillery; A
and F. Second Artillery: F. Third Artillery; B and
F. Fourth Artillery; d and F. Fifth Artillery; Foot
Batteries G and H. Fourth Artillery; X and NJ. Fifth
Artillery. 2. There are no official figures.
G. o. P.-The Philippines made no direct pecunlary
returns TO Spain.
C. NJ. Weu..-The French Navy is the second
strongest In the world.
Al Bil,on.-Robert r. Pattison was Governor of
Pennsylvania in lsS3-s7 and in 1s9i-95.
L. R.-Thomas Moore graduated from Trinity Col
lege in 1898; he was a Roman Catholic.
Republcan.-The debt Of New York whom Mr..
Flowers term as Governor ended was practically
nothing.
Mrs. L. Ahe-Paul Leicester Ford Is q Brooklyn
ite; John Fox is a Kentuckian. and Benjamin Swift
10 an Englishman.
r. A. Fisher.-The British oourt is called the court
OF st. James because st. James's Palace. London. is
its ofacial headquarters.
". A. DOran.-The Post once Department has not
paid expenses since 1883, when the rates of postage
were reduced.
middle of the day or the middle of the night. The
expression is wrong; M" OF IL O'Clock" is better.
A. D. Cook.-The Hon. David Leventrttt was not
and is not q member Of the Association OF the Bar of
the City Of New York.
4. r. G.-Can you tell me tho name OF the author
and where I can purchase tho poem tho hrt verso OF
which Isl "old Ripton Ia a Yankee town. Among the
fair green mountainsf'
p. Y. r. Dod1e.-The United States has never used
explosive projectiles in its small arms no country
but Great Britain has done so. and Great Britain only
used them against savage tribes.
NJ. Mel Smih.-Thoro is no medical school that is
an +" evening school, in the same sense that a law
school or a high school is. Medical schools as a rule
have their lectures IN the morning and afternoon.
and between whites and in the evening the students
study chemistry and dissection and attend clinics
and quizzcs. and while they're resting study their
text books.
Charles Knd1er. Til expression that a State can
didato would CONT" or had come to the Harlem 4"
with a certain vote meant at first that the counties OF
the State north OF the Haelem River had given him 4
certain vote. Later the term was limited - the fifty
six counties of the State excepting New York. Kings.
Queens and Richmond. although half Of New York
county was north of the Harlem