The times., 1899-02-12

NOTES AND QUERIES.
How should pronounce .'Iloiior'' SAN MAR
| Ee-lo-ee-lo, accent on the third syllable.
| Which is correct. incloscd enclosed?
Either is correct, but enclosed is much to
be preferred.
Is the United States to make an exhibi, at
the next Paris Exposition' II. g. h
| Most certainly.
| What is the Yearly salary OF General Wheeler?
p What is the salary Of Admiral Deweys
Seventy FIVE hundred dollars. ?. $4,000.
Please give the origin OF the expression 80.
1t is an abbreviation of Artemus Wards
humorous 'Oil Korrect.'
When can a man be said 10 he Of middle age?
c L.
When he has reached forty and hasn't
| passed fifty-fve.
What day of the week was the 5th Of De-
eember, lsi5? . Also the I2th Of September,
1867 \ SUBSCRIBER.
Friday. 2. Tuesday.
| How many were killed in tho battle OF
| Getty sbuFg on each side3 IGNORANCE
| The Union loss in killed was 3.072: the
| Confederate 1852. The Union report of
wounded was 14,i97; missing. 5.434 Con-
federate, 1900 wounded ard $50 missing
| Who was Horace Who was Nlecenas? What
| friendly relations did they bear toward each
| other? INOI-IRER
Horace was a famous Latin poet and
satirist He lived 65-S b. C. Maecenas was
statesman and patron of literature who
befriended Horace, giving him, among
other aids, country seat and a compe
tency.
When and under what circumstances did the
political term, "a dark horse" originate?
The political use of this expression is
| iigurative, as it originally was a racing
| term, signifying a horse whose hackers
were uncertain as to its speed. 1t did not
arise in an occasion OF record. but, like
Topsy, lest growed." Disraeli used 1t in
the political sense as early as 1881.
Did the writer of Uncle Toms Cabin ever
visit the South before writing the bookG l. W.
We think not. Harriet Beeeher Stowe
was born at Litehfield, Conn. and moved
| to Cincinnati when twenty-one years old.
! There for eighteen years she was on the
boundary between the slave and the free
States. 1t was while she was living at
| Brunswick. Me-, that her famous book was
| brought out.
What is the penalty for not putting stamps
| on notes! .. When did the law go into effect?
,. When should the stamp be canceled-when
| first put on, when paid? l. Who should fur-
| nish IT; the one who makes the note or the
| one who loans the money? SUB.
Evasion of the law with respect to
stamps on promissory notes is punishable
by fine not to exceed $500. .. July /.
1888. 3. When put on. 4. The law does
not decide.
Is there such thing in existence in the
\ United States as wool trust? ,. What is the
| tariff on wool! and (3) what is wool now worth
| per pOund2 j. \. ID.
There are doubtless combinations of
wool buyers, but none that has complete
control of the market. 2. First-class wool,
| II cents a pound; second-class, L cents,
and third-class. I cents. 3. Prices vary
greatly. according to grade. raw wool at
II cents a pound bringing 40 cents when
secured. Current prices in the Boston
| market range from 13 cents to ~ cents.
Which has the stronger navy in number of
| ships, tonnage. armament, etc, Germany
the United States? g. \ B.
The United States. though our confidence
| must be based chiefly on the men behind
our guns, for considering the specifications
you mention, it is a very close thing. This
you can see from a very recent and care
ful estimate, which credited the United
States with tonnage of 305, $40 and Ger
many with 299,6 In some grades Of ves-
sells, Germany has the greater number, in
others this country leads Germany. As TO
guns, ours are surely the best in the world.
| Those and the men should settle the mat
ter.
What is the fastest time ever made by
| railroad train in the United States. \. B. {.
The list of records at different distances
would fill this column Here are few:
One mile, 80 seconds, engine 999 and four
cars of the New York Central, May 10,
1893. This is at the rate of 112 12 miles
an hour. The same train made ten miles
in six minutes. One hundred miles, 80
| minutes, engine and two mail cars, Union
Pacific, November 20. 1897; 80 miles. 4sl
| minutes and I seconds. Lake Shore Road.
October "a, 1895; 1916 miles. days. II
hours, 81 minutes, San Francisco to New
York city, october. 1891.
How does Russia compute calendar timer
Why are her dates twelve days different from
those of America? . ON what day of the
| month was Alexander Ill crowned in Moscow!
Z. ~
BY the Greek Church calendar whose
year is 365 IA days long. This is IL min
utes and 1885 seconds longer than the
true solar year. In consequence of this
difference the equinox fell back sensibly
and il was to correct this that Pope Greg
ory NH. in 1852, reformed the calendar.
| His mean year was 365 days, > hours, 10
minutes. and IL seconds, which is so near
| the solar year that the error amounts to
| only a day in 1925 years. On promulga-
| tion of this calendar. Roman Catholic
| countries at once accepted it. Germany
| and Denmark took it up in 100 England
| in I152 Russia and the countries in COM
munion with the Greek Church still ad-
| here to the old method. In the change by
| Gregory ten days were dropped, but the
difference now amounts to two days more.
| 2. The 9th of May. 1888.
| OF what age must a person he to take IN L
| piece Of public land? y y
| To come in under the homestead laws.
| he must be twenty-One years of age or q
head of a family. and a citizen or one
| who has declared his intention to become
| citizen There are five ways OF acquir-
| ing Government land. One pre-empts, set
| ties on the land, improves it, lives there
| continuously six months. and then on
proving such residence and improvement,
gets full title on payment of Sis an acre.
| 4 homesteader lives on the land five years
and makes improvements. On proving
| this. he has nothing to pay beyond the
| land agents fees. y third method is by
| public auction and private sale. In the
auction $l.25 per acre is upset price, and
| all that is not auctiOned may later be
| sold at private sale at SI.25 per acre. Sol