The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-28
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OF personal interest only will not be
answered. No business or personal adj
dresses win he given. Questions as to the
value. etc, of old coins and stamps will
not be answered, All correspondence
should be addressed to The Letter Box
care Houston Post. Owing TO the large
number OF questions received, answers can
not always be given promptyJ
Inquirer-Q @. VIII you please inform me
whore and to whom should address letters
10 obtain information concerning the state
Rangers?
A. Address the adjutant general. Austin
Texas.
suhscrlber-o. Is there any susarbeet
mills In Texas. and where nre they locatedf
Where could | get Information regarding
sugarhect culture?
A, No. there are no snch mills In Texas.
You can get all the data desired by adj
dressing the secretary of agriculture, Wash
ington, D. c.
"oll"-o Please inform me what is the
capital stock Of the Standard Oil company
and the Havemeyer sugar trust, and ohlige.
A. II is commonly understood that the
figures for Standard oil are SlOooo,OOo pre-
ferred. and S10o.oo0o0o common. Some Of
this $40 100000 preferred has been called IN.
For the American Sugar refinery S36,96sWo
preferred and SSs,6s,ooo common.
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S. T. Do. What races are most sus-
ceptible to consumption in this countryE
A. Statistics for fifteen years from 1884
TO 1900 lead to the conclusion that among
every 100000 Of the population, there oc-
CURED annually in New York among white
natives 2ss deaths from this cause, 4S3
deaths among white foreigners, IA deaths
among colorel persons Hebrews appear
to be remarkably exempt from this disease.
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c. N. 90. Who are the Officers Of the
house of representatives Mt Washington?
A. rhey and their addresses as officers
of the house of representatives are: Rev.
Henry n. Clouden, chaplain, 3i3 East Cap
'tol street: Alexander Mcdowell, clerk, the
Dewey: w. ]. Browning, chief clerk, ll6
East Capitol street: Henry Casson, ser
Geant.at-arms, the Congressional; William
]. Glenn. doorkeeper, the Dewey: Joseph
c. McElroy, postmaster. pa A street South
east.
Teacher-Q learn that the United
states are going to employ 1000 American
teachers for the Philippine schools. VIII
you please give me full particulars con
corning the methods Of appointment. term
OF service, snlary, etc. Also to whom
must one apply 10 secure an appointment
as teacher; VIII a knowledge Of Spanish
be OF advantage in securing a position?
A. A letter addressed to the war depart
ment Washington, would doubtless secure
you the information you desire on these
questions. 1t is absolutely necessary that
a teacher in the Philippines should under
stand the Spanish language.
Gr ran WIN g %, kindly tell in answer
which answer Is dramatically correct: ~
nm doing nothing" or II am not doing any
can Can an Object be he Spg nothing
lawfully pretty
A, Both answers are dramatically cor
rect and the former is preferable because
1t is shorter aud tells the whole story. The
! substitution % "awfuliy" for very is
not correct use OF the word. One might
be awfully dangerous, hut not lawfully
good, pretty or nice However, the word
awfully IL sometimes used this way in
sarcasm or to belltt!e.
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| Shlpper.A Can you tell me about the
quantity of iron ore shipped annually on
| the Great lakes?
A. The receipts of iron ore by water al
the l,ureau Of statistics reached Il total OF
16,26s,027 tons In 1900. and this may he ac
cepted as about 81 per cent of the entire
movement OF iron ore. both ny rail and
water. All the principal ore receiving and
shipping ports are covered by the burea,
of statistics or the l6,26S027 tons han
died. 15,Si3,6Sl tons from the six ports
Two Harbors, Duuth, Escanaba, Ashland
Marquette and West Superior, aud - Or,
500 tons were received at the six ports OF
Ashtabua Cleveland, Conneaut, South Oh,
cago, Buffalo and Erica remarkable exem
plihcation Of the extent to which the Irol
ore traffic is concentrated.
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C. L.-o. How much has been done ant
how much expended in building the Nil
dam?
A. The Nile dam has been completed anr
some 100000 acres OF arid land will b.
made fertlc--an area three-quarters a
large as the State Of Rhode Island. 1hl
is the great engineering feat that greet
the Twentieth century, dam more than
mile across one of the largest rivers IN tn
world. The Nile was always wastefu o
its waters in times of flood, and thi
enormous dam, AT Assouan on the FIRST cat
aract. will hold back the food and ALLOW
! the water 10 ne nSci Tor irrigation. 1 w
years have been spent In building IT, re
markahly quick time for work Of suc
magnitude. and it Is estimated tn have COS
some 100000. Egypt has always de
pended on the overflow Of the Nile for tn
: success of her crops failure to Hood wa
! famine for her people, and 1t Is now hope
that famine has been banshed
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library. %. How large is the library o
hthe British museumi
t A. The British museum has completed
z nrinted index TO It's library, after invent
years OF labor. There are over coo volume
of the index, which contains the titles Q
eco Ooo books. When this great labor wa
undertaken, there was manuscript cati
Z logus of the 1,5oo,ooo hooks then in the |
brary. 1t contained 100000 references
half Of them cross titles. When the iss'i
= OF the printed catalogue began, plan wa
adopted OF Issuing II TO subscribers at 1
los. year. At first the publication was q
+ the rate Of fifteen volumes a year. but la
terly thirty volumes year have been 4
; sued Only $50 copies Of the catalogu