The times., 1901-05-12
NOTES AND QUERIES.

NOTES AND QUERIES.
Whore is Mount NeEmisyi 2. What is the
altitude OF Pixies Peaka H. W.
In Alaska. p r.1F feet.
What is the record for horses in running. Pae-
| ing. and trotting? T. VI. )
adsa' ESann'ns' i''''' pA'"S' '''''' ''''"s'
Who is president Of the Philippine commis-
sios? 2 Where was General Corbin boru2 S. A.
William H. Taft. :. In ClermOnt coun-
! ~, Ohio.
In what year did the Johnstown hood oecura
?. On what day in the week did June !, 1851.
Gomez oBLIGE.
In 1889. on May 81. . Wednesday.
TsE P. Roe iiving9 . What is Bill APPS
true name. and what IS his address, J. 5. ".
He died July 20. 1883. 2. Charles Henry
Smith, Cartersville, Ca.
What vessels compose the North Atlantic
squadrons c. L
Kearsarge nagship,. Alabama. Ban
croft, Massachusetts,, and Scorpion
Which has the largest membership in the
United States, the Odd Fellows or the knights
| OF Pythias7 H. $ A.
The odd Fellows, by over sooeoo.
" What & is the population Of Greater New York
Last years census gave New York g.
4SI, ,202; by the census Of 1891 London had
ALL, ,056.
What is the source Of these lines:
| BLOW, bugle, blow. set the wild echoes ayingi
And answer, echoes, answer' dying, dying, dy-
ingl" c. L. ID.
Tennyson's poem THE Princess"
Where can find this quotation:
'Who gives himself with his aims, feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and meT'
B. c.
In James Russell Loweirs poem The
Vision of Sir Launfai."
What Is the price Of a ss gold piece Of 1ss92
. Can you tell me how many were coined in that
year? T. "
Coin dealers offer from 10 to 80 cents,
according 10 the condition of the coin.
beyond the face value. , Fifty-five were
coined.
Who were the authors Of the following: l.
''And thereby hangs taleP' 2 ''Sin has many
tools, but a lie is a handle that fits them ali
8. Beauty is truth, truth beauty2' l. B.
Francois Rabelais; after him Shakes
peare used the expression several times.
2. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 3. John Keats.
VIII you give the name and place and date oi
birth Of each Of ex-President Clevelaud's chill
dren? QJIX
Ruth. born at SIC Madison Avenue. New
York city. October g. 1891: Esther, Execu-
tive Mansion, September .. 1893; Marion,
Gray Gables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass, July
4 1885, Richard Folsom, Princeton, ". j.,
October Is 1897.
When fish come up to the top of the water and
make a continued bubblng sound what are they
doing? 2. Where is the home Of the gold Ash?
E
Trying to get more oxygen than the
water furnishes. In aquariums this be-
havicr is usually a sign of too many fish
for th@ amount of water. 2. China; it is
the Chinese carp.
Is there snake that rolls like a hoopq
T. II. T.
No: the hoop snake who takes his tail
in his mouth and rolls is a mythical
creature. The hoop snake Of our South
ern States is the Abastor erythrogrann-
mus. is blue-black, with three red lines
on his sides, is harmless, and not eccen-
trio in getting about.
Was there a regular engagement fought in
Texas after Lees surrenders II 50, please give
a brief account Of It? X H.
Yes. On May IL, 1865. Colonel Barrett
set out from Brazos Santiago, to surprise
a Confederate camp at Palmetto Beach.
He took and burned the camp. but two
DAYS later was overtaken on his return
by a force under Gen. J. y. Slaughter
and was hunted back to BRACES with a
loss of eighty. The Confederate loss was
very slight
What is the fastest schedule time made by any
railroad train in the United States? " c.
These regular runs bid for the distinc-
ton: The Empire State Express Of the
New York Central Railroad between
nd n
minutes: between Washington and Balti-
more. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 10
miles in - minutes; and the -C0ngres-
siOnal Limited OF the PennsylVania
Road, Jersey City to Washington, 2zI
miles, in 2S6 minutes.
we have silent letters2 l. NJ
That part of the public lands in Ohio
which was claimed by Connecticut under
her charter Of 1867, and which was re-
served TO her by compromise under the
Articles of Confederation. 1t extended III
miles west of the Pennsylvania boundary,
and included 3.667,900 acres jurisdiction
was surrendered to Ohio II lstJ- Z MOST
Of them are relics of sounds once heard
in words of other languages from which
our English words We're derived.
Are the xhfp-poor-wiH and bull-bat the same
bird? Ii not viii you describe each? NJ NJ y
No. though the two often are confOund-
ed The chief difference lies IN prlstleS
extending out beyond the Dill, WniCn tue
whfp-poor-wil has and the other hasn [,
and in the tail, which is broad and round
ed in the whip-pOOT-will and Torked IN the
bull-bat. The whip-poor-will IS named IN
imitation of its cry, while the hua-bat IS
so called because of the loud booming
sound made by its rapid rush through the
air which is heard usually about twilight
What does the Treaty Of Paris that closed the
Spauish-American war say IN regard % the re-
lations Of the United states 20 Cuba! B. B.
Article I. after stating that Spain relin-
Cuishes sovereignty, concludes: And as
the island is TO be occupied by the United
States the United States viii. 50 long as
such occupation shall last, assume and
discharge the obligations that may under
international law result from the fact OF
its occupation for the protection OF life
and property BY Articles Y and NJ it is
agreed that the inhabitants Of Cuba shall
be secured in the free exercise of their
religion and that Spauiards residing in
Cuba shall be subject to its criminal and
civil courts. Article XVI reads: 1t is
understood that any obligations assumed
in this treaty by the United States with
its occupancy thereof; bat il viii upon
the termination OF such occupancy advise
any government established in the Islands
TO assume the same obligations"
Were the Five Nations of Indians a combiua-
ton of all the small tribes that east Of the
Mississippi River2 2. II so, OF what family are
the Choctaws? g What became OF the Tuscaroras
OF North Carolina. j. " &.
No; they were the five tribes of the IrO-
crroic corFatIarapx- the MQhay 0uafffaz