The Washington times., 1901-11-17

We had Thought it was Care killed the
cat despite the fact that the animal had
nine lives
In his famous voyage did Magellan go through
the straits named after him double Cape Horni
=. AND I.
He went through the straits believing
them to be just what he was In search Of
a direct western route to Asia. He took
a month In getting through them. enc of
his vessels being started back 10 Spain
meanwhile by mutineers.
To what class does the bean commonly called
the "sea bean" belong? Z. NJ.
The name is popularity applied to- vari-
| GUS bean-like seeds that may be washed
up by the sea after being brought from
! their rative country by ocean currents.
! The list of such seeds includes those of
| the seimitar-pod plant (lntada scandeusl;
! of the West Indian necklace tree t9rTno-
| sia dasycarpa): Of Florida bean. (Aiucuna
| urenS) ard of several related plants.
|
Who and what were the ''Troubadoursf''
| ". P. W.
They were eourtIy lyric poets. first ap-
! pearing in Provence. France, at the close
| Of the eleventh century, and nourishing
| in Spain. Italy, and southern France in
1 the twelfth and thirteenth centuIp4s. They
wrote chiefly OF lcve, war and $ -1fre, and
/ should not be confOunded with the popu-
( Ear poets, the .j1nsleurs.'
1 What Is the population of Barbados ?. Does
: Great Britain maintain troops there 3. Was
4 there real john Gilpin? ". A. ~
The figures for 1896 were $4,000. Since
7 then there has net been any great change.
2 Yes; the present garrison consists of
/ y officers and St5 men, 3. 1t is said that
/ Cheapside, London. whose name was
! Bayer.
Can you tell me the origin and meaning Of tbs
4 term e ass-y7idow? N
Recent dictionaries admit that the al
Iusion to grass" in this humorous term
is not clear declare that il is not a cor
ruption of grace-widOw. and note Ger
man word. the English equivalent Of
whose parts is straw-widoyS-,w with the
meaning. m9ck-widow. By widow
is commonly meant woman temporarily
separated from her husband. a divorced
woman or an abandoned wife.
| Why does lime get hot when water Is added9
5. b.
From the heat Of the chemical action.
caused. as the chemist puts it, by the
rushing together of atoms OF the sub
stances and constituting one OF the
characteristics of chemical action. In case
OF lime and water. the action is espt ciaiiy
energetic, and the heat intense. amount
ing, according to BerthelOt. IL 1s units
per unit weight OF lime Hydraulic lime
stones. however. yield a yellow or brown
lime that does not slake or heat much on
Can you trace the history Of screws to their
first use? ?. When the pointed screw hrst
used? g. What is meant by the Franklin Insti-
tute standard applied to scrswsi W. G. T.
No; the screw was known long before
the Christian era, and at the beginning
of the latter was used in the countries
along the Mediterranean Sea ? About
1850; with the machinery for making II,
il was the invention of Thomas j. Sloan.
Previous to that holes had to be bored
to admit the screws. 3. The american
standard of thread it is so-called because
based on a paper read before the institute
by William Sellers. this in 1861 Screw
bolts in England have what IS called the
Whitworth standard thread, after Sir
Joseph Whitworth. from whose investiga-
tio4s the standard resulted.
VIII you tell me something of Ms Elizabeth
MRS. j. A.
The first named was born at Andover,
Mass, August 1S 1874 and was daugh-
ter OF Prof. Austin Phelps. of the An
dover Theological Seminary; She. began
writing for I7tthlica ton thirteen
years old, and until 1855 she resided mostly
in Andover, writing and leetH:!zS and
working In behalf of reform and philan-
Herbert D. Ward In 1883. since when she
has written much in collaboration with
him. Octave Thanet is the pen name OF
Miss Alice French, another native OF An
dover She was born March 10. 1850. was
educated at Abbott Academy. ard since
then has lived in the South and West,
her home now being in Davenport Iowa
Her output of stories has been STEADY
since 1887.
VIII YOU give an idea Of wnat goes into ordinary
fireworks. especially as 10 what produces the
different colors? b l. l.
Two sorts OF substances are employed;
one that VIII burn, and one rich lncXysen-
Among the former are sulphur, sheiiac,
charcoal. pitch, and resin. Ot the othsrs
are cLloratc of potash ana Sdltis tre- 10
selections from these substances there
are added for yellow magnesium niiuss
and sodium oxaiatc; for red, the nlnss
and strOntium nitrate; for white hlEss,
potassium nitrate ana antimouy sIipiii9S'
FOR blue, filings and copper oNychlorlde'
and for green, filings and baTlulh chlo-
rate Brilliant sCintiilauOns are due 10
the presence OF coarse iron hilnSs. ROCK
ct and candle stars are compressed pow
der composed like sunpoWer, o9t @ @Inat
there is less Of charcoal AromdIc sums
added at times to subdue unpleasant odofs
OF combustion.
What factions composed the Free Soil party,
what brought them tosether anu no" tiI II
figure in the voting: l. t. N
The RarnburHer Democrats Ct New
York the Liberty party of lSl6' ana ntt
Il few Northern W nigs, VINO iaNottu tlle
Niimot ProvISU, formed the L trcc-Scl.SlS
The PrOvisO was Onered by DdF III VII
mot q Pennsylvania Democrat, as ar
am, ndrnent TO the bill appropr atinS
money to conclude peace with AeAlco.
II provided that slaves should not DC
held in any territory secured by means OF
the bills approprla lion. This was reject
ed hy Congress. after passing the House
at one session. and like sentiment I'tl,
ed of endorsement in the Denocr4tle anu
WhiE Couve ntious of 1876 Secession and
union by these factions followed. In lNto
they pollCd 291.CG1 votes for an Bureh'
and in 1Sj2, 15i goo for John 2. Hale touT
wears later the ErCe-Soilers were nA4FSed
into the Republican party.
VIII You tell something Of the Trojan .'-i1y1l 3ni
the causes leading UP TO itf Also scnis Fis-S
about Paris and the god Jupiter3 h
Paris. q son of Priam. King II Troy.
c;r1.riCd Oft Helen. wife of MeneiaIs. King
Of Sparta and war resulted. Troy was
besieged for ten years and finally Destroy
ed though the Trojan Kingdom seems to
have continued for several cyrturtts
thereafter PARIS was described By h9-
ner as shrewd and cowardly- In art. re
is shown as youthful handsome. ana 81,
Terminate. In the 81 s.e he was weundtd
by a poisoned arrow, and dieu Aet9-
Troy was taken. II Roman myth ifosS
Jlpiter was the supreme god OF heaven;
ard he was Etorshiped under seNerdi
names that placed him as the goo oA
thunder raj. and other natural phe
nomena Then he was taken as the
pecial protector OF the laws OF hospitti-
ity and of good faith between indIvlduaIs
and nations To these various Juplteis
was credited the manifestation OF iiiss;'
nou-er aud in time this god was cOnSlu-