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Neither was Mrs Adam l.
SRR1if % s's s. Eye sas sad Il ASs@ is.@ s.Gs ssss
There ends all simle.
For, tho I've tongue and often talk
And tho I've feet, yet when walk
risa. :sss 3 :$sS II sis ssS; ~ a:ss ss;s'
have ou, small objection.
hDs yhs s' IqIs csi,.ssy %sy ys, Be |ss s. ,ru,
die by resurrection' NJ A. r.
Where did Ellis Island get rs nsme' II from
sn individual. who was he. wAere did he ,y', &c.
The Indian name was Kioshk or Gull Island.
Then |, became Oyster Island. then Ellis Island.
Who Ellis was. or where he lived. does not appear
from the histories.
bins" And tw.niy Ave cen, bills" to,h"rwiss,
ts,.d to BE s,sssS Ky the
During the seventies: gold and silver came
back oficially in 1879. but the smaller coins had
come back TO some extent before that
A. I understand It the word billion" is used in
France snt America 10 express ono thousand
million-will you explain the derivation as uSef
in said eountrleS' had thought that quadra,ic
quAdrilli,n mean one million squared Nut'alls
dictionary says quadratlc In algebra means an
sau.ihlon with an s,,, unknown ouan'y--' ms not
Billion is formed arbitrarily from the Latin b,
twice, on the pan Of million, formed from the
Latin mile, thousand. A quadrih'or BY English
notation, Is 1000 ooo raised 20 the fourth power
and Is Represented by unit followed by -
ciphsrS' In French and American notation. It Is
oo0 900 mutt piled four times ny 1000 and Is repre-
sented by unit and 10 cphers. The root quad"
represents the number of the power In the Eng.
lSh notation, and 10 the French the fact that the
result is the fourth ncriod from the million. Nut.
tails denni;ion Is Incomplete.
George Washnr'on' ? Docs Mocre's poem "She
Is fAr from the ana where her young hero sleeps.
sT tho 70 ov.rnor Sfn % a WHOM oST RoSn
son refused T. vote md what was the date OF his
cI.c,lo1, = where can hni brief sketch Of John
p. Robinsonl j. l.. 7.
1. There Is none. p It refers to MISS Curran.
the hancee NJ Robert EmmeI 3. Probably George
y. Briggs, @ v"v-Nr % Massachusetts from isii
20 1881. g. The Rev. Hosea Wilbur says something
about him, We link.
a claims that n h. had 500 United state, gold
he would get about iao pesos In Argentine money.
gold, and In paDer money about sDo pesos also
Arrentina. SAYS IL wrong. That could not
sod and that neither p,per nor eold /, eonsi aim ,n'
side OF Argentina. Who Is rfcht' Mp. J.
Argentina is a gold standard country. its gold
peso Is worth eel1 cents, that 8 man would get
about ioea pesos for 500 gold. The paper peso,
the only money actually current In Argentina. Is
worth ~ per cent of the peso: so 500 gold would
bring about 9?7 Argentina paper pesos. is rsht.
What determines a persons nationality, The
country In which he was born, orthe nationality Of
his parents' J. II
Legally. a man may follow the nationality Of
the country In which he born. or that OF his
parents or he may choose nationality by naturalI-
sstlon Thus he has choice Of three na,lonalites
what Is the ancestral lineage of the Arthurs
and OF the o'Dells' They were my parents names
] heard them often relate pleasant stories Of Ire.
hAl Mo- glaNl.
contend we arc of Scotch and English descent.
The Arthurs are an Irish family: we do no, know
the name o'Dell unless as a corruption OF oden or
odle, which Is an English name.
How many years does copyright protect
novel without the suthor's consent
I. Twenty eight years. with an extension OF four.
teen years, a total OF forty years. p No: ho
Tor she) may dramatlse only uncopyrighted
story without getting the authors consent,
v. Z. 1.-The Board Of Inquiry presided over
by Capt. Sampson. obtained testimony which
proved conelusvely that the Maine was destroyed
by submarine mine, therefore was blown up from
the outside.
The cohens-A -wesher" Is a person who re.
fuses to pay a bet which be has lost. Mr. Felix
Agnus, proprietor OF the Baltimore American
whose home is called Nacirema CAmerican back.
ward challenged an assertion made BY THE SUN
regarding the Schley HodgSon colloquy, and of-
fered 10 give 5000 to charity II we would
prove II, We proved IL az once: ond the Court OF
Inquiry proved II: but Mr. Agnus has not yet paid
bis bet. Hence he becomes a "welShor"
Painful R,odo-Mme. Eames has no children.
70. CA woman becomes Of age the day be.
fore her tventy-nrst birthday.
D. Emery-Great Britain may have used her
good ofNces In ending the Franco .Prlsslan War.
but is not known TO have called To Prussia TO stop
the war.
II. Rueolsi i-The Jesults' Church OF the Cam
panla In Santiago de Chile was burned on Dec. s.
1888 the feast OF the Immaculate Conception.
More than 1000 persons principally women.
burned to death. sufocated and crushed. The
mains OF the building were torn down on Dec. ~.
BY order OF the Government.
III. C. THE lines on the guide boards in Ar.
lington Cemetery are from Theodore O'Haras
poem. The Blvouac OF the Dead" The poem
written In February. Isi7, for the renterment In
their native State OF the remains OF the Kentucky
soldiers who fell at Monterey the preceding year.
Bernardo CGsiuo-Probsby the best history OF
Poland IN English is that In The stony OF the
Nations series: It can Ge obtained from any oook.
seller for $50.
d. n. H.-"In Spending OF 10 morrow" II Is
quite as correct TO say TO mo rrow will be Monday"
as 10 say -to-morrow is Monday"
W P NJ D.-There is no commercial or other
authority that permits person who has accepted a
note IN payment OF a bill and had II discounted
10 charge the discount 10 the drawer In subse.
euent bill.
G. n. IA transaction "on memorandum" Is
not recognized By law We think. you will have to
proceed against your client FOR wrongful conversion
or something OF that sort.
A. .s-'rhc nickel coin without any value En-
pressed on II vas struck In 1855, and corrected
al once.
Ms W-The modern form Of the Imperfect
OF drink Is -drank"the past partieiple IS drunk
s. C. q CA widow receives her dover Ar'i;
after tna. the estate {, ciNidcd,
q. &. l.. There was no Trunk line bet~ceh al
bAny and New NorA before the Hudson RIVER
Railroad was buu, The railroad uaro vas car
t,ed on the Boston anu Albany road between Al
pany and Chatham: and on the Harlem rosd De
tween New york and Chatham I