The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-07

Docs not Alix hold the worlds record for
trotting, and what is her recordl ?. What is
the record Of The Abbott? W. O. c.
No. though she holds the record for
mares. 2:o3s4. q The worlds trotting rec
ord, 2:oSh.
When is the earliest and latest day that Easter
Z Sunday may come? 2. How is the date deter
minedl G. Oh.
March % and April Is. 2. 1t falls on tho
! first Sunday after the first full moon that
| follows March q.
/ On what date was Thanksgiving in the year
! 1873? 2. Which is the higher mountain-Aoune
/ st. Elias Mount Mckinley. NJ A. A.
November q. . Mount Mckinley. the
height of which is put at 2O,isi feet. to
1s.IO1 feet for st. Elias.
What were the entire receipts Of the United
| States Government for the quarters ending Sep
was the population of the Dominion Of Canada
by the last census, and also by that before the
last? A. B.
s144.i4s.242 and s147,393.sis respectively.
2. By the census of 1891. 1888 .2S9; by the
preceding one of 1881, 4.32i,s10.
What IS meant by the pitch Of a roof and
! how is it determined2 Say. for instance. ! am
| required TO give roof one-haf or one-quarter
pitch. what is the significance Of these fraetionsf
W. H.
The pitch of a roof Is its inclination, and
to express it numerically divide the span
by the height. Quarter pitch is slope
of 2s degrees IS seconds; half pitch is IS
degrees.
Who are the present United States Senator's
from Rhode Island (2) West Virginia, CD North
Carolina, 80 Georgia, (5) Wyoming, (6) Wash
! ington, % Utah, and (s) rennessee3 N. y. ID.
Nelson W. Aldrich and George p. Wet
more q Nathan b. Scott. Stephen B. FL
kins g. Jeter c. Pritchard, F. NJ. Sim
mons. T. Alexander S. Clay. Augustus o.
Bacon. 5. Clarence d. Clark, Francis E.
| Warren. 6. George Turner. Addison g.
Foster. T. Joseph r. Rawiins. Thomas
Kearns g. William B. Bate, E. N. Car
mack.
What is meant by the bred Scott decisioni
| KS
The decision rendered in the United
| States Supreme Court. in 1856, in the
| case of a slave named bred Scott. who
had brought suit to assert his title to
| freedom. 1t was to the effect that If the
negro were assumed to be free he was
| not a citizen of State" so as to bring
action; and further that he was a slave
| So his suit was dismissed for want of
Jurisdiction on the part of the circuit
court, in which action had been brought
When and why was King Christian TX made
King Of Denmark? 9. Will you name his chill
dren and tell whom they married? j. b.
He became King November Is. 1868. His
accession was in accordance with the right
! of succession arranged by the London
protocol of 1852. the OldenbuTg dynasty
/ having become extinct. 2. In the order
/ of their birth they were: Frederick, who
| married Princess Louise of Sweden; Alex
/ andra, who married the Prince OF Wales
and now is Queen of England; George /,
| King of Greece. who married the Grand
Duchess Olga of Russia; Dagmar. now
! Dowager Empress of Russia, having mar
ried Alexander III; Thyra, who married
the Duke of Cumberland, and Waldemar,
who married the Princess Marie of Or
leans.
What was the earliest railroad in the United
States and when and where was it buiitY what
was the name OF the engine and engineer OF us
| first run? = H. L.
The first railroad ran from granite
auarries at Quincy, Mass. to the Nepon-
set River, and was built in 1876, to carry
granite for the Bunker Hill Monument. 1t
had wooden rails, laid on granite sills,
and topped by a strap-rail of rolled iron
Horses supplied its motive power. The
first trip of locomotive in this country
/ was made August 9. 1923. on the Homes
dale and Carbonate Railroad. which was
hIiIt by the Delaware and Hudson Canal
i Company The name of the engine, which
was built in England, was THE Stour-
bridge Lion" and it was run by Horatio
Allen. Though it weighed but six tons,
it proved too heavy for the rails
viii va, give. me short history of the
| American flag, 4 to arrangement OF stripes
| nd sta-s9 CLAYTON.
! ITp to June II, III. the Colonists had
/ used flags of various devices, but on that
day Congress provided that the flag
| should have thirteen stripes, alternately
| red and white, and thirteen white stars
| in a blue field. This held until May l,
I 1875, when by an act passed. January IL,
/ 1874 change was had to fifteen stripes
| and fifteen stars. Then on April 4. 1878,
the flag was re-es ablished as thirteen
horizontal stripes, alternately red and
white, the union to consist of twenty
white stars in blue field. one star to be
added for each new State admitted. the
addition to be made the Fourth of
July succeeding such admission On July
4, 1915 this flag was first used, and is to-
day the national emblem.
Did Grover Cleveland attend graduate from
college? 2. Was Martin Van Buren, college
graduate? g. Were Franklin Pierce and Willard
Fillmore college graduates? 4. What college did
| President Mckinley graduate from? j. X j.
No; he attended school at Fayetteville
and at Clinton New York. but at the age
when many young men nowadays attend
college he was teaching school and study
ing law . No: he went so far in the
| academy ut Undertook, N. Y, as to ac-
ouire a little Latin, and then began the
study of law. 5. Franklin Pierce was
| graduated from Bowdoin. Fillmore's school
/ education was scanty, and had between
whiles of farming and apprenticeship to
the wooI-carding business Yet he was
| teaching school and studying for the bar
/ when nineteen years DID, and was admit
| ted to practice at the age of twenty
three J. He is not a college graduate;
wien eighteen he enlisted in an Ohio
volunteer regiment, and was in active
service for four years
Is there such thing biblical History
of a Pack OF Cardsf'' H. j. b.
A similar question was recently answer
ed in the New York Sun as follows:
According to the story. which appeared
at least as early lI7S. Richard Lane,
a private in the Forty-second Foot the
Black Watch of the British Army, was
brought before the Mayor Uord ProvosD
of Glasgow, charged with playing cards
during divine service. He said that he had
no Bible or prayer book, and was using
his pack of cards instead of the more
regular book. He was directed to explain
what he meant, and answered: When I