The times., 1901-05-05

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| United States? 2. What proportion Of the rail-
roads OF the world located in the United
States? 3. How many persons are employed by the
| railroads in the United States7 j. S.
About 195.coo. . About 40 per cent 3.
Very nearly one million
Was ever man known to have been attacked
| or eaten by shark? j. c. C.
Yes. though such a thing may never
| have occurred In temperate waters. In
| attack man. the most formidable being
the white shark. which sometimes attains
| a length Of forty feet.
! Is Memphis chartered city, or is il still the
county seat of Shelby county, N. +.
1t is a chartered city. having been re-
| incorporated in 1891. after having over
come the financial difficulties that led to
| the surrender, in 1879 of the original char
| ter, and is the county seat OF Shelby
What FIVE States have the lowest percentages
| OF illiteracy2 J. n. p.
Returns of this character from last
| years census are not yet available The
five lowest States in 1890 were Nebraska
3.0 per cent, Wyoming 3.41; Iowa, 3.61 I;
| Kansas, 399. and South Dakota, AZ
These percentages are based on the total
population Of those ten years old or older.
How can l write my name on a saw with acid?
WM. f. B.
| Coat the steel surface with a wax made
| Of equal parts of beeswax, Burgundy
| pitch, and asphaltum. scratch the name
| in the wax coating and apply nitric acid
! to which about four parts of water have
| been added. In a few minutes wash on
! the acid and clean the steel within ben
| zine.
! Why was William H. Seward appalled, at the
/ momentous consequences OF President Lincoln :
action in issuing the Emancipation Proclamation!
| NJ. +. ".
| 1t was the most important document
| ever written by a President, was fraught
with momentOus consequences, and all
| that, yet we think that William H Sc
ward was not appalled,.
Can you give me anything concerning the dates
| OF the birth and death OF a certain Hall, whose
| initials | do not know and cannot ascertain who
was a distinguished mechanic at the Harper's
Ferry Arsenal for many years and invented. il Is
| believed a breeeh-loading caFbine and also was
the suggester OF interchangeable parts, the hrst
| one in the United States, and in fact N the
| world7 j. s
We cannot supply this information
viii the railroad from Moscow to Port Arthur
| run through any territory other than what be-
longs to Russia? l. }.
Yes: unless before the road is finished
Russia seizes the territory through which
il passes. This is hardly likely, because
she has the right by treaty with China TO
carry a railroad into Central Manchuria
and TO build from the latter point to Port
Arthur unless China herself decides to
construct the latter line And China VIII
not soon be prepared for railroad building
How old is General De Wet? 9 What IS the
best and newest edition Of the Encyclopedias
Britannica and how many editions have been
given out in this countryI 3. Is the American
Navy superior to the German. and II 50 IN What
prOportlonG n L
-, o IT,, ,,;~+t 4; sra
last edition. and presumably all the edt-
tions have been circulated in America
g. The American Navy is at present su-
periOr to that Of Germany, but it will not
be long. if present plans are carried out,
| before the two navies Will be about equal
Why are Presidents Of the United States inau-
| gurated on the 4th Of March instead OF on the
! Goth of April. as George Washington was! 2
What mart OF the Scripture atirms the belief that
| if a person commits suicide ne viii not be savedf
| (. L. j.
/ 1t was originally provided that the
| American Constitution should go INTO et-
| feet as soon as nine States had ratlned II.
| and as soon as the ninth State had taken
! this action the Congress OF the Conted-
] Grafton named March 1. llS9, as the DAY
when the new Government should begin
| Ii was necessary, Of course, first TO hOid
| elections for President, Vice President,
and members of both Houses of Con-
| gress This took time. and It was not ln-
! tiI the Roth day of April. 1873, that General
| WASHINGTON. who had been unanimously
| elected President, could come to New
| York city (Which was then the CapitaD
| nd be inaugurated. But his first term of
office expired on the 4th OF March, It95-
| 2 we do not know
What was the original package decision, and
what was the outcome Of it! H.
A decision of the United States Supreme
Court i'm Nav 1893, which held that liquor
might be carried into any State and sold
in the original packages without regard
TO local Dr0hlbitOTy or restrictive laws
The result was the establishment in
States that had prohibition laws of many
original package liquor shops In July.
1890. Congress passed a law that made all
such beverages brought into a State or
Territory Immediately subject to its laws.
as if they had been introduced within its
borders. without exemption, because they
had been introduced in theirOriginal pack
age.
Who we're the Labadists. and what were the
doctrines OF their belief? , Did they prosper
in this country < u
Converts of Jean I.abadie. who was born
at Bordeaux in 1910 and who left the Ies-
uits to preach doctrines of his own. By
1850 he had publicly embraced the Reform
ed faith and for the next nineteen years
preached in Germany and Holland. max
ing eminent converts and strenuous an
tagonists. In 1868 he formed, IN Amstsr-
dam the body that took his name, and a
-Four years afterward he died. Ills doc
trines were a combination OF Calvtuism
and mysticism. He rejected infant pap
tisu and observance Of the SabDath ana
advocated communism in property and
osr.tic pr4etices . Early III the eight
eenth century Labadist missionaries set
tIed in New York. but did not found
churches.
L the order known in which Shakespeare plays
and poems were written? j. ID. p
Not entirely. and it was much disputed.
but 1t is believed that If he wrote Titus
Andromeus" il was his first play. and
tbat ir was brought out before 1890.
- ,ove's Labor Lost Q59W is generally
n,,t as his first original play. followed by
-CoInedv of Errors. Two Gentlemen of
Verona. and ~ Midsummer Nights
Dream Here, too. come Henry VT
and ..Richard Ill " Romeo and Juliet IS
put next by some writer's, later by others
/ iYhen come Richard H. King John,
..-Tht Merchant Of Venice" Henry w.
Ado About Nothing. Twelfth Night,
Julius Caesar" The Merry Wivcs,'
..-ramins of the Shrew." Hamlet 'Ali's
Well Measure for Measure, Henry
VII" z" .''rroiius and Cressida." "Otheiio.'
King Lear Macbeth Antony and
| Cleopatra" ''CoTiolanus." "Cymbeiine.
The Tempest, and Winters Tale" the
last at about i6lI "TimOn of Athens.
| ..Psricles," and Henry VIZ are not
wholly Shakespeare's, and their history IS
dim Venus and AdOniS' was an early
work: 'I4ucrece" came not long after IT.
| The "Sonnets' are placed at from lS9S 10