Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03

1 X. Y. z.-Can you tell me how the word Yankee originated? 2. From what country are those people who are called Dagoes?
 Alt is generally supposed to be a corrupt pronunciation of the word English. 2. The word "Dago' was originally applied to spanfards. but has come to be applied to all dark skinned foreigners,
 ] D. E. S.--What English general was killed in the Soudan? ?. What are the | names of the books in which the fol lowing heroes and herolnes appear. la) Sancho Panza, Gb) Dick SwivelIer l (c) Hester Prynne, (O Amy Robsart, (e) Jean Valjean, and (n Elizabeth Bonnet?
 A. Chinese Gordon by Moha1n- med Ali. 2. (a) Don Quixote, Gb) Old Curiosity Shop, (c) Scarlet Letter, (d, Wentworth, (e) Les Miserables, @ Pride and Prejudice.
 1 V. M. V.-Please print recipe for making grape wine.
 A. Put twenty pounds of freshly picked ripe grapes into a stone jar and pour over them six quarts of boiling soft water; when cool enough squeeze them thoroughly with the hand and let them stand three days with q cloth thrown over the jar. Then squeeze out the juice and add ten pounds of crushed sugar and let it re- main a week or longer in the Jar. Then take off the scum, strain and bottle, leaving vent until done fer menting; strain again and bottle tight and lay the bottles on the side in a cool place.
 l Casey at the Bat-To settle a dis pute between couple of t.lmow-it- allS'' please tell in your Inquiries and Answers" column if the Democrat is member of any press association and if 1t uses the Associated Press dis patches.
 A. Yes. The Democrat is a mem Der in good standing of the Associated Press, and has been for years. 1t is l entitled to all the news from every quarter of the globe The Hknow 1t alls" are not very observing or they would see at the head of our editorial columns the words, Member of Asso- cfated Press The Democrat would not print that in a conspicuous place l if it were not so.
 I Inquirer.-The Russians. I under stand, are Orthodox to the core-the most religious people on the face of the earth, except, it may be, the ne groes. The Japanese, I suppose, are atheists. Tn view of these facts how does 1t come about that the sympathies Iof America are almost entirely with the Japs?
 A. It is sometimes difficult to ac- Icount for public sentiment. The sym pathy with the Japanese cause is nat ural. however, because of the wonder full progress of that nation during the Ipast few years in civilization and the adoption of the Christian religion while Russia remains in its old condi- I tion of illiteracy and fanaticiSnl.
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 Dixie.-WilI you be so kind as to an Swer in the column devoted to an swers in next Saturdays paper the following: 1. What is Blanche Walsh ] address? ?. When and where does she play for the first time this season? 5 Has any one of the stars a private secretary? If so, their names
 A. Do not know. She is under the
 management of Wagenhals & Rem Iper, and letter addressed to then lat New York would prob ably reacl 4
 ange, N. J., Monday night, and it is, think, her first performance this sea
 son outside of New York Stars arc
 not known to have private secretaries
 Managers generally attend to cor respondence.
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 D. L.-In what year were Potomsllf mills 1 and 2 at Fall River built?
 Tn what year was Fort Phenix, Fall
 Haven, Mass, built? 8. What nations
 were on the earth when the tower o.
 Babel was built? 4. How many wars
 have the United States won?
 A. No 1 was built in 1871. No ? il 1S77-S. 2. It is stated in one record which may not be reliable, that worl
 upon it was commenced just previous
 to the battle of Bunker Hill, June r 1775, and was about two years il ibuilding. B. Not very many. Tn,
 tower is supposed to have been bull
 B. 0. 2247. 100 years after the dfsper sion of the descendants of Noah
 China, the oldest nation of which W, have tradition, was founded abou
 2207, and Noah (Fohi) may have beer the first monarch. 4. Eighteen, inciud ing the Indian wars and the Aroostool disturbance of 1886.