The sun., 1903-10-18
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

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Yes. On the msning Of July H. ,s7s, tho Lon.
900 I'mss published the preamble and sixty
our articles OF the treaty. with an English trans.
i.uon appended. The treaty was signed In Berlin
several hours later on the same day.
In Answor 70 v. A. X. several friends write 70
place the lines he quoted They occur In Harry
Loisequef. Chapter XII. and are from . song
stansa Il:
"a. Dublin sure there Ia no doubt,n'
n, sae5e your So Sa coaneu sae 'ss spsou,,n..
rcS " Ss esp. Sieaa 81 sss a4ssses, ms.'ns n.o.
r,rh.,ns ,n 1nHst ns psesantry on Q fruitful sod.
And hating each other for the love Of God.
rnh Which IN IL your opinion. is the very best German
Irrespective of sse and cost There are asverai
SSSa SoSs onos' out do not know which Is the very
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In our opinion tho Muret Sander, Encyclopnd,o
German English and English German Dictionary.
Lafge Edition. vols. large svo, 1900 Price s2S.
ruousncd ny Lsngenschedt. Berlin, Is the very
BEST Therc is Q smaller abridged vol. edition,
vo. 1909. Price Is.
Apropos Of the name Of the horse .R.v.,,,.
s pets that II u pronounced with three syiabies:
2 oeH that II Ia pronounced with two syilablcs.
decide. ~ -'''a' '''' Inc nna O. w plsase W
Ah right. It Is correctly pronounced with three
syIlsbies.
q, Kindly tell me Who have been Governors of New
JAMES D. HAsr,oAs.
Frank s. Black. elected Nov. s. 1895: Theodore
Roosevelt. Nov. Q. 1905: BENJAMIN B. odelI, Jr.,
Nov. Q. 1900.
" pssS: y give I'm me some details Of the early life of
W.. d. Yeas. the Irish poet. A. r. W.
ne the SON Of John B. Yeats, . painter. He
was born In Dublin. June IL. 1885. The family be-
longs to the County Sligo. He was educated at the
Godolphln School. Hammersmlth. and the school
OF Erasmus Smith, Dublin. His habits Of desultory
reading led the head master Of the latter institution
(Wikins) to predict that Yeats would mover amount
TO anything. He WAS an ART student for three
years. but abandoned art for literature at II. He
published The Wsnderngs of Olsin" In 1880. His
nrst play was -Mosads." He was ono of the found
ora OF the Irish Literary Society and has been as
sociatedwth what IA known as the Celtic revival"
but, as Is the case with his colleague. George
Moore there Is no Feason to believe that he under
stands the Celtic language.
II friend OF mine contends that Gladstone had
the fnest intellect Of any Englishman Of his zen
Grafton and says that had no not been an
no might have been poot. Is my friend right!
H. - II.
We should say that he had ono Of the finest
intellects and the most forceful personality of
any Englishman Of his generation. Moreover, he
not only might have been. but was. poet. In
proof whereof we quote q stanza from his English
rendering of ManZ0nis noble ode on the death OF
Napoleon:
How often as the llstless day
In silence died away
He stood with lightning eye depress,
And bygone years. In rushing train
Smote on his soul aman
The breezy tents he seemed to Sc"
And the flashing Of the Infantry,
And the torrent of the horse
And obeyed as soon as heard.
Th' ccstatic word"
"The MIstietoe Bough" was q sone O, our rr,nd. .
ana % Ss m ny oms assn
v,I:s. Of an oil old l,h ballad relating TO .he andas
.To dry her royal peit she walked along the Strand.
Then, discovering tho baby in the basket. she
And then she cried, in accents wild.
'Tare an ages! which o. ye owns the chidf'"
Tho foregoing Is all can remember JB.
In an answer in THR SUN of Oct. II you speak OF
the power Of the Shek ul Islam TO issue feirzh,
or order sentencing the Sultan to deposition or
death Has this power ever been exercised and. II
so. when! HBToRICUs
Prior to the deposition of the Sultan Abdul Azls
the leaders Of the Young Turkey Party addressed a
letter 10 Hairouilah Erendl. tho Sheik u Islam
asking II Sultan who had dlssipatcd the finances
ruined his people 70 provide for his own amuse-
rnents. and become incapable of guiding his king
dom, by reason Of deficient intellectual capacity
couId be deposed. This was the answer.
With the help Of Allah, 20 May, 1898 of the
HeE.ra- s,,., ~, ,. ....., :.
country by his obStinacy and his foolish cxpendi-
for n Sultan he the faf fher ~
alone is great and merclfui. tsignedj HAIaoULLAH
local contemporary some three or four weeks
ago, stated. in answer to correspondent that the
venl vldl vici was As that pronuneia,ion ae Ms =
new 10 me should like to know if there IS any
standard or accepted authority r.sos tSs !, g n.,,1
The authority is the consensus OF opinion Of
modern scholars. All the recent Latin grammars
give the pronunciation as above.
What is the difference between the Mohnmm edan
and the Christian systems Of computing dates and
how may one transpose Mohanlmedan date into
the corresponding year Of the Christian era,
All Mohammedan dating. practically. Is from
tho Hegira. day about two months earlier than
Mohammeds flight" from Mecca Is the beginning
OF that Arabian year. AccCSdlng to the best mod
ern authorities that day probably corresponds with
July 10. e22. rough formula for transposinz q
A.
sion date is this: Subtract from the given Mo-
hAnmedan year one thirty third part OF itself
and add TO the remainder s22 Thus A. H. Il9s-
A. d. Il08--9e+ GA. d. 1872. This Is accurate
enough for all practical purposes The Moslcm
year is lunar. and thus a little more than eleven
days shorter than our solar year Their reckon
ing therefore gains ono year In every thirty three
of our computation.
What Is the most northeriy railroad In the world
TO day and what Is the chief traric on Il,
A continuation Of the line running from S,ock
holm 10 Lulea, on the east coast Of the Gulf of
Bothuls, has recently been opened from Lulca 10
Narvik at the head Of the ofoton Flord. on the
northwest coast of Norway. The new line is meant
not so much for passenger traffc as to enable the
mineral wealth OF Lapland to be brought to the
coast.
() Witch is the largest yacht club In the world,
~ Which country owns the greater number Of
yachts United States or United Kingdom,
!. H. STAcKHoUsR.
az The Royal Yacht Squadron Of Great Britain.
t0 The United Kingdom. Lloyds Reyist-r. 1903 "a.
shows Ss5 steam yachts with total tonnage OF
100 O02 and sO64 sailing yachts with total tonn
OF 50. 800 According to Loyds Anne rfcan Register
t,.re ahout En- yachfs reviStercd in