The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-20
NOTES AND QUERIES.

NOTES AND QUERIES.
-sn-what year were cable cars FIRST run on
! Broadway, New York cityf n
| In 1898.
Did Bryan's plurality in Texas exceed NcKin-
| ley's in New York; Aw.
Yes, by 1855 votes.
What was Bryan's majority in Missouri in 1901
W. G. H.
His plurality was 1881.
What population did the last census give
to Atlanta and to Memphis7 WI W.
Atlanta, s9,s72; Memphis-1o2. 800.
Did Garibaldi fight in the French army in the
Franco Prussan war? p.
He did. taking his sons with him
Who wrote the poem Ruins OF Timer 2 Who
wrote ben Boltf'' BEN.
Edmund spenser. 2. Thomas Dunn En-
glish.
What is 'Finnan haddieY' DIS
Haddock. The name comes from the
Scotch town, where the fish was thought
to take on an especially fine flavor from
being smoked over peat fires.
What are our six largest railroad lines ac-
corning TO mieasef p. RI.
Pennsylvania Railroad. mileage. s5s2;
Northwestern, S.52S; Southern Pacific. s.
zoe; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, s.
G6S; Atchlson. Topeka and Santa Fe, 1871,
and Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul, g.
49,
How long and of what height is the Clifton
Suspension Bridge at Bristol, England7 q Ho.
many pe.ss'is have jumped from it, and are
any of them alive? C.B.
Its simple span is 702 IA feet, measured
from the centres OF its piers, and its road
way is 245 feet above high water 2. We
do not know.
how long ago? L
1t is said that the guitar was put for
ward in Germany in 17SS as new Italian
instrument, that the Italians had It from
the Spaniards, that the latter took IL
from the Moors. and that the Moors
brought it from the Far East, where the
instrument, or something closely like it,
had been known from remote antiquity.
Is there to be a total eclipse of the sun this
year? q What is the bicycl record for one
mile and who holds it2 g. Has it been beatea
by such machines tandems and triplets?
EW.
Yes. but it will not be visible from the
American continents. 2 One minute % 20
seconds, by Major Taylor. 3. No. but bet
ter time has been made by riders who
had windshield protection of one form
another.
Why is it that incoming waves are always
parallel to the shore, or nearly se2 ?. Have in
vestigatoTs al the force waves exert measured
1t IN poundsf If so, what is the pressure2
MOTION.
Because waves are retarded by shallow
water, so when they start in otherwise
than parallel to the shore the end first
reaching the shadows is held back until
the other end nearly or quite catches up
with it. 9 Many such measurements
have been taken. A pressure OF over 5000
pounds to the square foot has been re-
corded.
In the disturbance knosn as the Toledo
war did Michigan back DOWN. 2 Who
President at the time? ALA.
Yes. though she was well paid for re-
ceding. While the dispute was at its
height. with Toledo in the possession of
Michigan. Congress passed law admit
ting Michigan to Statehood on condition
that she accept the disputed survey and
giving to her the northern peninsula
which logicallSsSas part OF the Territory
of Wisconsin IN this peninsula are Mich
igan's wonderful copper and iron mines.
2. Andrew Jackson.
Will you give short sketch Of Ward Neal
iisterl W.N
He was born in Savannah, Ca, Decem-
Der 2S 1927 was admitted 20 the bar in
1850; praeticed in San Francisco for
short time, but came to New York city
shortly before the civil war There he
became society leader. making hobby
of the direction of balls and dinners, and
eventually assuming direction OF the up
per crust of society itself. He was made
public character by forming New York
fashionable society into a coterie of 400.
He died January 81. 1895.
What IS the history of the Hawaiians? v.
There are two theories as to their or
igin One holds that they sprang from the
Toitecs OF Mexico. 1t is backed up by GER
tain physiological similarities and would
make the Haw-aii....iii, the oldest of Polynes-
ian colonies from which the others or
iginate. The other theory traces their
source, in common with the islanders OF
Oceanica, to Southern Asia. Hawaiian
tradition and features in manners, Gus
toms, race, and language support this, and
the prevailing winds and currents of the
Pacific make it seem reasonable. So the
latter theory seems to have the prepon-
derance of evidence.
Has the rate OF movement OF glaciers Oeen
measured accurately? II so, what is the rate?
2. Why does not the movement in comparatively
short time level the surface Of the earth beneath7
HOWARD.
The movements of many have been de-
termined accurately. but no rate is COM
mon to all. The ordinary rate for Alpine
glaciers is from four to sixteen inches in
twenty-four hours. In Greenland move
ments OF seventy feet a day have been
observed, this near the glaciers end. 2.
1t has the tendency to break down OBJ
structions in the rock beneath, but this is
a slow process because the glacier is Of
granular construction, not solid mass.
To this is due the fact that the middle
of the glacier moves faster than its edges.
Who was the founder of the Aston Library OF
New York city, and who have been its prin-
cipal cndowers? 2. When was the Constitution
of the United States ratified2 g. When was the
1-cent postal card first used in this country?
4. When was 2-eent postage established
A. d. s.
John Jacob Aston, who died in 1913, left
$500, 600 to found it. His eldest son, Will
liam B. Aston, and his grandson, John
Jacob Aston, gave largely 10 it. 2. By
Delaware, December T. 1871; by Pennsyl-