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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

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DR.. CAROLS Interesting letter breaches q topic
OF which more will be heard before the Fulton
centennial. The popular mind is long since MADE
up that Fulton Is the father OF the steamboat. The
Stevens boat. to whose priority on the Delaware
| Dr. Carroll objects with proofs adduccd. was un
| doubtedly q better craft than the Clermont. yet
II does not dislodge Fulton from his pedestal Fitch
was ono Of several investigators who preceded
Fulton. Others being the Marquis dc Jounroy. James
! Rumsey and oliver Evans. One Of the Fitch steam
boats used wheel paddles u7SS YET afterward Fitch
essayed long paddles actuated by the same sort OF
! motion as used by the Indians in padding their
canoes. He even built a screw steamboat u7oe)
| Yet the popular judgment is worthy TO stand
Others experimented. but It Is Fulton and his Cler
mont from which the Art Of steam navigation Is
deduced In an unbroken chain.
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sS:A words 'ialk "a and nd %spesE The question was
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Justify the use Of this expression. but y seems
only " should fVs be- used % in ks manner % ' H W.
| Tho dictionaries cannot of themselves Justify.
but they do record conveniently the fact that very
| respectable authorities have used the word
| talk" While in broad sense speak" Is general
| and talk" particular. while the utterance OF
single word speech and talking does not begin until
| words of some sense are uttered consecutivcly.
| yet between the phrases TO speak English" and
ito talk English" the distinction. II any there be.
| Is far too f1ne to command observance. Addison
and Macauay are suficlent to cite on the side OF
| talking language. Minor distinctions develop In
| particular instances. Thus, ITO talk Greek" con-
| notes certain incomprehcnslbity TO the nearer.
| yet TO speak Greek" merely records a fact OF
| linguistic nuency: TO talk like a Dutch uncle"
cannot nnd satisfactory substitute In ITO speak
| like Dutch uncle" As between the locutlons
| proposed for criticism there Is nothing to choose
| except as the sense or sound Of the context may
avail 10 incline the choice.
bottom' LUBBKR.
For the reason that sailors legs are larger at the
top or inboard end than at the ankles. 1t Is part
of the sailors duty TO go ashore and In landing
parties on PEERLESS beaches he must be prepared
10 hop overheard and light the boat through the
surf Hence the peculinrty Of the cut Of his sacks.
not style. but utility. With ono pull the sailor
double the lower half Of a trouser leg up over the
thigh as far as the legs are divided thus leaving
the fold above the knee: second pull will roll up
the remainder Of the trousers almost as far Thus
the disen,barking jackey In landing party 90
overheard with little danger of wetne his brceches.
yet once ashore he can appear In two shakes as
fully equipped In neither hablmcnts is pie
scribed by tho articles OF war.
At second hand book shop ncked up vol. ?.
shakespears works. printed in In London TOR :;
BY y"i The Booksellers ~ Of London and Westminsser.
& 7M THIS youme contain; H. aus c&sa .
Merfs 1"es and ~. pred
gal. a Comedy by Mr.. William Shakespcar." Can
You give any information as to the last namsd'
1t is one OF the contemporary dramas which
sought preservation under the Shakespeare name.
the whole being known as the seven doubtful plays.
These plays are "Percles. 1.-The London Prodigal."
"The History Of Thomas Lord Cromwell" sir
John oldcas,e," THE Puritan Widow" "A York
shire Tragedy" and "Locrine" They first
found In the 1894 reissue Of the third folio OF 1868.
They appear also In the fourth folio ucsJ. In
modern texts they have been thrown out entirely.
william Gilmore Simms edited the doubtful plays.
with notes and Introductory matter New York.
lsis,. since which they have received little or no
attention.
e.p,ed dessnA,ion of certain .srr!sory either IN
Casually otn and someWRas ireanentiy in diaries Of
the period before the Revolution. E.G.H.W.
The Hon. Hugh Hastings, State Historian. sup.
piles the Information that the oblong Is tract
$50 rods wide iu the eastern part OF Putnam and
Dutchess counties. most Of which was patented by
Thomas Hawley and others in 1891. The tract repre-
sents compromise In settlement OF the old bound.
ary dispute between tho colonies Of New York and
Connecticut, tho former claiming territory. under
the grant to the Duke of York. as far east as the
Connecticut River. The settlement made In 1883.
confirmed by King William In 100 and established
by a survey In 1881. gave TO New York this
strip In return for tract along the Sound II Is In
cluded In Sauthiers map OF Revolutionary New
York.
What was the religion Of the original Japanese.
thavt tr0 d.r eft rNrehl ef,f IlaS
FRED HILL.
The aboriginal cult was that o: Shnto an ancestor
worship OF simple and non idolatrous type taking
reverent cognizance Of some 1900 gods. OF whom
the chief Is Amaterasu. the sun goddess. from
whom the Mikados derive their descent Buddhism.
In $50. entered Japan from Corea with the Chinese
influence at Its back and In 62l 1t was proclaimed
the national religion. 1t having already become
the religion Of the court This position It still
holds. although disestablished in 1871 and Olsen
dowed In 1874, Shinto has ialas2 temples and
shrines and dozen sects; Buddhism In Japan has
10, ,2l3 temples and seventy sects
Is marriage civil or religious ceremony, Does
or Is II conferred upon him by the State' Is
and as binding as that by Clergyman f. W. B.
II Is both. and thence arises the confusion which
prompts the succeeding questions. So far as
the State and the organization Of society are con-
cerned. marriage is purely civil. The State con-
tain individuals who therein act officers Of tho
State: that they are ministers OF the Christian
religion does not alter their status as ofices Of
the State. The marriage before the notary Is
absolutely legal when the State has conferred
upon such offcers the right to perform marriages.
Isu a felony to strike man who wears glassesi
E. H. j.
There is widespread belief that such is the fact,
that the Legislature had erected this into special
crime and worthy Of the most severe punishment,
but there Is nothing in the Penal Code to Justify
such a belief. In dealing with an assault case
complicated by spectacles the Magistrate would
certainly take into consideration the gravity Of the
damage which might be done, but II would still
remain assault.
Who hrst Invented applied the twist"
or rotary motion given to a rife ball In the old
time smooth bore Queens arm, A dilieent
search fails TO locate the party. the time. DC Family
tradition gives the credit 70 an ancestor Of the
undersigned. but fact is wanted by f.. N.
we judge that this does not relate to the rife II.
SELF for that was first used at Leipzig In l4as but
TO some device In the old smooth bore which would
producc~he same eject as rillng. Perhaps some
amateur of the gun may be familiar enough with
the Brown hess to supply the information.