The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-17
oUEsTI0Ns AND ANSWERS

Witnesses. and Others were not named Amoss
: English Con stitution 81 names tho Witnesses thus:
stephen. Archbishop Of Canterbury. rrmsse OF
All England and Cardinal Of the Holy
Roman Church; Henry. Archbishop Of Dublin;
william Of London. Peter Of Winchester. Jocelin
Of Bath and Glastonbury. Hugh Of Lincoln. Walter
OF Worcester. william Of Coventry. Benedict OF
Rochester, Bishops; Master Pandulph Sub Deacon aud
amiliar Of the Pope; Brother Aymeric, Master OF
the knights Templsr In England; william Maris-
call. Earl OF Pembroke; william, Earl Of Salisbury;
william. Earl Of Warren; william, Earl Of Arundel;
Alan de Galloway. Constable OF Scotland WARM
FitlG erald. Peter FitEHerbert and Hubert de Burgh.
Seneschal OF Potion; Hugh de Neville. Matthew fitE'
Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset. Philip Of
Albiney. Robert de Roppell, John Mareschal and
John FiuHugh. Stubs, In his Select Charters"
quoting Matthew Of Paris. names the following per
sons as the XIV baroness elect." the Earls OF Clare.
OF Aibemarle, ''Glovernie.' Of Winchester and OF
Hereford; Earl Roger tB'goO. Earl Robert tde Vere);
william Marescal the Younger, Robert FfzWalter
ue Elder, Gilbert OF Clare. Eustace de Nesci. Hugo
Bigod, william OF Mowbray, Major de Lundoniis.
mayor OF London. william de Lanyalay, Robert
de RIOS. the Constable Of Chester: Richard Percy.
John FitzRobert, william Malet, Godfrey de say
Roger de Mumbczon. william OF Huntin gheld, Rich
ard OF Montfchet and william OF Alblnclo. The
names are spelled as In the books referred TO.
Please tell me something oil the the history oil Prln-
cess Walewsky, one OF the favorites OF Napoleon Bona
parte, who her parents were. and the position held by
her husband. Also, as 70 whether she was a Jewess.
OF OF Jewish origin. AJACClo.
We do not know who the Countess walewska was
before her marriage. She became Napoeon's mis-
tress about 1909. She was not a JeyesS Her hus-
band was an old %courtier. much older than she was
Of the present Army Building In whitehall street,
New York. previous 10 the occupancy Of NE United
States Army. Also what streets bound the Army
Inc Produce Exchange stood where the Army
Building Is now. The block Is bounded BY White
hall, Moore, Water and Pearl streets.
Kindly tell me the amount Of graphite imported.
and from what countries; also II there are any mines
In this country and tho amount Of their production. II.
In the hscal year 1905 lending June 80, 1890 we
imported i5,SoS tons Of plumbago or graphite
Eleven Thousand tons came from the British East
Indies, Ceylodr mostly; Mexico provided 1900 tons.
Canada nearly 1000 tons. Italy 100 tons. Graphite
Is found In many places in the United States the
purrst In the world comes from Tconderoga, n. Y.
In 1888. 1908 toIs OF graphite were mined In New
York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Michigan and
Wyoming.
have In my possession. dug ont Of old ground
a brass button, evidently from a soldiers coat, bear
ing on the face an eagle ,rampsnt |itn ne Prince
under his feet. Lttteret Princes Dvn Irish 81"
The o9yersc bears Ne imprint Of !Ge raksts pol'.r e
I. Is. BLOOMFIELD.
The old Eighty see~lth Foot Is noE the First Bat
talon OF tie Royal Irish Fuslicrs, the princess Vic
%toria's." Potter & Fox were button makers in Ion
don In the last century. The button Is probably OF
colonial date. The regiment. however, did not serve
here during the Revolution.
lam an Italian by birth. age II have lived in Amer.
lea ten years; have MY citizen papers "a voter should
] 60 home 10 Italy on a visit can be held by it"iy to
serve In the army y. y.
We think that you are liable to be held Tor service.
but We doubt II you are likely to be.
Please tell me what Is meant by the fourth dtmen-
sion" h. +.
The Canhritge Entyelorsdii for June explains
the fourth dinension thus: \ point Is the limit to
which a solid approaches when all It's dimension,
are decreased indefinitely. Because a solid can be
moved. we know that a point can be moved; Its path
Is called a line. By moving a line We obtain a sur
face. When a surface Is moved, II usually traces a
solid. A point can move IN a line. a line In u surface
and a surface in a solid: In what does a solid move'
In a fourth dimension. Thus the fourth dimension
Is the path described by a solid.
What Is the London cab fare tarin' j..
One shilling for two miles or any fraction OF two
miles. 6 pence per mile thereafter. Packages car
ried outside 2 pence each. This Is for the Metropoli-
tan district OF twelve miles radius from the General
Post once.
esoia with whom there was tro4ble a year or so ago.
What was the cause VI the uprising ; Il n.
The tribe was that OF the PIllagers, The Indians
had been treated ~uniustly in a sale Of land to the Gov
eminent some ten years ago. and had t~respassed on
she land. They rose against the Sheriff sent TO arrest
the offenders. and had to be suppressed by force,
This was In october. 1898.
In N, Rob,r, Cur,on : Ancient Monastcrirs Of
She Fast is an account Of a terrible accident that
occurred In his presence In the Church OF the Holy
Sspulchre in Jerusalem on Easter OF some unstatcd
year. Can YOU tell me II there was an accident az
which 200 persons were crushed TO death, and II so,
when I, was md nothing about 1t In !hG "rnrtrr'
ence books. NJ i" d.
ar. Curzon carefully avoids dates; but his book
covers several journeys made In different, years He
certainly says, however. that he attended one ceic-
bration at the Church OF the Holy Sepuchre on
-Friday. May 3" he says. and the accident occurred
on "the next day" II could not have been on
Easter, therefore. May 4 came on a Saturday In 1859,
and again In 1899. The (Englishl Annual Register
for 1874 describes the accident as occurring on May I
OF that year. a Sunday. and We think that the Regis.
ser Is right
I. Is fhere anv doubt as 70 whether the assassin
Of President Lincoln was eycr, captured or killed.
fate' 5. | claim that Lincoln was planning TO give
every freeman a ertsin number Of acres Of land and
law Of foreigners who CONF 10 America 10 live before
they can land s.. What "a the aggregate number OF
i immiisrsns SLOWED 10 land every day IN the week,
and. II not. Why 7 From what country comes the
buried al sea and under what conditions, II any, is a
captain allowed 70 bring u body OF one who dies on the
yoys Ysr to }D DGE', c,, .. S Ws'' !, is s !hs negro iS. p %Ssi Is t St
cause OF the famine in India, and why does the British
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