The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-31

Roseberry preached his funeral SER
mon.
Iron is grown in large quantities
for manufacturing purposes in South
ern France.
THE sun never sets on British pos
sessions because the sun sets in the
west, and our colonies are in the north,
south, and east.
1.-THE diminutive of man is mankind.
Question-Define the first person.
Answer-Aadm.
BY the Statute of Mortmain clergy
men were not allowed to receive land
from people who died without the
Kings consent or paying tax.
Wycliffe's great work was the trans
lation of the Bible into Middle Eng
lish, because he though the people
would be most likely to understand
the English spoken in the Midlands.
Ouestion-Why does true English
history begin with the reign of Henry
Kill? Answer-Because up to this
time it was all lies.
Mathematical and scientific genius
is also revealed in a strong light;
A parallel straight line is one that
when produced to meet itself does not
meet.
To remove air from flask fill the
flask with water, tip the water out,
and put the cork in quick.
The probable cause of earthquakes
NAV be attributed to bad drainage and
neglect of sewage.
Question-Define a circle. Answer
Take your center and take your dis
lance, and draw a straight curved line.
This is a circle, and all lines drawn
to it are equal.
Blood consists of two sorts of cork
screws-red cork-screws and white
corkscrews.
Question: Define a point. Answer:
| point is that which has no magni-
tude, but only length and breadth; and
there is a point in a circle where all
straight lines are equal.
The ends of the parabola will never
meet, though, of course, this could be
! done by making one small enough.
/ Questions on miscellaneous objects
of general knowledge elected some
gems:
| Asked to explain what buttress Is,
one boy replied, "a woman who makes
! butter" and another, "a female butch
er''
Teachers dictation: His cholel
rose to such a hight that passion well
nigh choked him." Pupils reproduc-
| ton: His collar rose to such hight
! that fashion we'll nigh choked him.
One lad defined Primate, las the wife
i of a Prime Minister"
A Jobs comforter is thing you
give babies to sooth them.
"A skyscraper is an over trimmed
hat.
political economy is the science
which teaches us to get the greatest
benefit with the least possible amount
| of honest labor.
An emolument is a soothing medi-
cine.
In the United States people are put
to death by elocution.
"The Golden Horn" and THE Gold
en- Fleece" are the names of public
| houses.
Gravity was discovered by Isaac
| Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the
| Autumn, when the apples are falling
| from the trees.
One boy was told to state and prove
the relation between the squares on
the three sides CT a right-angled tri-
angle. He answered thus: "A square
/ is erected on Be, AC, and BA, and the
| lines drawn to certain eXtremities OF
the squares formed, then with the
help of the fourteenth proposition, the
| fourth, and a few other propositions OF
the first book, it is shown that Be
BA2- -AC2." Having completed the
task to his satisfaction, he added IN
BIT would have been far easier ia
make the construction and prove the
proposition as is done in any book OF
Euclid, but since you only wish it
stated and shown, l have done So"