The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-26
QUESTIONS AND ANSwERs.

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lin who rejected little credit on the philosopher
for when they went together TO London he Dor
| roWcd Ftanklns name. Ideas and money return
| Ing none and placing his more sober minded fellow
| Voyhgcr In some embarrassing phghiS. Ralph
would appear 70 have been Pcnnsylvanian by ma
uNty, but all facts OF his origin OF set pur
| pose TO have been hidden in obscunty when he set
up for himself In London as poet. dramstisi, his
toriAn. pamphleteer. In fact a shabby knavo OF a
| literary hack and scamp In ordinary 10 whomso
| ever he might be employed by. BY such ignoble
| courses he pension from George Ill. but
| before no had had moro than half year Of It's
! enjoyment he died In iT62 OF al apopexy. Poor
! Richard gtavely assured his rascal friend shat
! be could not write poetry and reports tho outcome
OF this sage advice b. saying. -hc continued serb
| bling verses I'LL Pope cured him. Ralph was
| nsught In himself. but he served peg which
| Pope, in tho third book OF the -Duncind,- might
hang sentiment that has since become q stock
quotation. IL is
Silence. ye wolves while Ralph to Cynthia bowls.
And makes night hideous Answer him. yo owls.
Among his poems arc 10 be found The MUSES.
Address 10 the King The Tempest. or the Ter
rors OF Death" Night" -Zeunia" and "Clarfnda s.
/, will save stupid worrmcnt accept the charac-
tcrEation OF these drcary efforts upon which Franz
lin and Pope unite.
asst ever been proved tha, the disposal OF bodies
by burial is In any 1ray Injurious to public hcal,h'
What arc the advantages. II any. OF cremation
crcnsing In civilized countriesi DO the churches
tolerate cremation and allow their clefgymen 70
perform services OF themi How many and where
arc the creinAtories near New York city, II II. c.
All these questions YOU will IND exhaustvciy dis
oussed In Cobb's Quarter Century OF nation In
North America boston 1900: with somo vaiu-
able Information coucisely put In Bakers ~Munic-
ipAl Engineering and Sanitation (Sew York lp0O.
Several park areas In the city owe their present
existence 10 former history burial grounds
gone Into disuse because OF lncompa'lbility with
residential surroundings: Washington Square. for
example, having been a pottcr's ned. More than
hundred grayeyarts In New York have been de-
atroyed or abandoned because the living fear tho
dead And the old burial spaces have not all be-
come parks. for at leAs In instance chat Of
Mlneita lane ancestors as eat-grnnd-
parents OF men yet young lie beneath the pave
men, OF the street. Although this country Jagged
behind Europe in taking up cremation II has In the
end outstupped all other countries In lsS, the
cremstions In all Europe numbered &C. In the United
States, 49, In 1900 ihcro 2.us cromations In
tho United States and .ss7 In Europe Tho nearest
cIemaory 10 this city is that at Fresh Pond l.. l.
What rational grounds. not merely arbitrary
assertion. does English law adduce for forbiddlng
marriage with deceased wifos sisteri or what
attempt at apology fortI W. c.
The law is based on the Mosaic law as laid down
In Leviticus. XVIII. From the earliest days OF
courts In Great Britain the ecclesiastical authori-
ties dealt with all questions OF marriage and divorce.
mass OF contradictory rulings In courts OF arches
until at last II seemed that the ecclesiastical power
had authority to declare marriages within this
artificial degree of kinihip void within tho lifetime
OF both parties but until declared they remained
voidable. This left questions OF succession open
TO sudden catastrophe and great injustice was at
times wrought, could at all times DO wrought
/, TO remedy this condition that Lord Lynd-
bursts act Is VIII. ". c. so passed
In 1885 to mako all such marriages null and void.
to aNr
colonies.
/. who was tho designer OF the Angel fountain
former Park Commissioner but forget the name,
2 What has become OF the san Jose scale that
was going 10 devastate the orchards OF New Eng
landi 3 What has become OF the Russian thistle
that 70 ruin the farms OF tho West, We do
that The state OF Massachusetts spen, many thou.
sands OF dollars to catch and extermlnate. What
0' ~ D'' '4'' ''''N D 80 01 - G sF SG
The Bethesda Fountain In Central Park was
designed by Miss Emma Stebbins. And these
varied pests that interest you-they all alive
and thriving al the las accounts The san Joss
scale manages to keep few laps ahead of Vcd1h1
cardinals. the Australian ladybug that is the only
palliative The Russian thistle has Accounted for
tho unanimous sympathy OF prairie farmers with
the Japanese. The gypsy moth is still In Massa-
chusotts and parts adjacent hungenng for yet
greater appropriations
Where can buy a book or magazine on pheasant
or fridge or quail breeding or raslng7 J. II. ".
The standard authority is Tcgctmeler: -Phcasants:
Their Natural History and Practical Manage
mrnt- which has passed Into second edition
london. 1851. Before engaging upon the breed
ing OF pheAsAnts or quail for commercial purposes
II would be well 10 examine into the restrictions
the sale OF tho produc, as Imposed by the New York
law chapior 1914. LAWS OF 1902, and the act OF Con
yress of May IS. 1900 known the Lacey act Under
nd No intrrUretatiOn plared
by judicial dctc rmnatlon the Forest. Fish and Game
Commission OF this State holds that these birds
cannot be sold possessed legally during the close
season and that as there is open season for the
taking OF pheasants except In the county OF Suffolk
4, is not lawful to possess or sell said birds.
maintains that the proper functions OF this
Government are 70 give equal rignis and liberties
Government are legislative. judicial and executive
accurate II. v BRADT
An authority. with all due respect, higher than
A or p or any letter OF the alphabet down to and
Including Ampersand recites the purpose of this
Government In these words In order TO form
A more perfect union, establish Justice. insure do
nestle tranquility, provide for tho common de-
,.ncr nrou,ote the general welfare. and secure tho
blessings OF liberty TO ourselves and our posierty.
This authority is the people OF the United States
In tho preamble 70 that Constitution which i and
p and all the rest OF Va arc born or sworn 10 sup-
port.
have found behind an old mirror the picture OF
an did .tye cottage. rustic fence with trees and
shrlhbery marked "Crkyon Studies No 464, Iith
4 pub ny y. Curricr. 1852 Nassau ST, n. Y. View
on Fulton Ave- brooklyn, i. l. Can you give
me any Information regarding the pcture'
II. l.. DoRRAScE.
n Currier we judge to be the predecessor OF
Currier Ives who ned the land In the days shortly
after the war with WILDLY oolorci portraits OF
Flora Temple and her compecrs on, for the record
OF = 40 on the plank road We have no means OF
pl.riny this picture. for IT'S far cry TO the days
when village Brooklyn out Fulton avenue could
1--we In cottages with shribbery and rustic fences
ThA, former brooklyn has been mansfield out OF
all existence. but some old Brooklynie may chance
TO recall this crayon study Of bygone day
Tell me when and where President Lincoln used
his famous phrase. You fool some OF people
ali of the time and all OF the people some OF the
time, but you can't fool all Of the people al OF the
time" T. D. H.
This Is but OF many. most OF the Inquiries
coming from northern OAlo. where II appears that
this was ono OF the hard questions in some prize
contest. Now that the contcs, is over and the
question may fairly be put 1t will he Interesting
20 know lust what has been learned to this say
ing. John G. Nlcolay is reported to have pro-
nounoed It spurious In the Attrbution 20 Lincoln.
Others have laid It at ;he door OF p. T. Barnum.
yet the ultimate sentiment, seems somewhat foreign