The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07
OUEsrIoNs AND ANsWERA


T. The question IL one which has always proved
ve1AtlOus 10 every consular o1icer He always
has 70 pay postage. and almost entirely II has 70
come out OF hls own pocket On 81 letters Nheh
he sends. ofnclhL semi ofncih and pHvaie' nc mus
pay postage, It's oHela mail consists Plely OF
ha despitcAes 10 the Department OF state once
10 every three months he puts an item IN Dis "a
pense voucher for this postage, necessarily with.
out voucher But the Treasury Department
I gets bis empty envelopes from the SAe Depart
nent. and In tho process Of audit these ncTlminat
Ing document covers arc carefully checked "
ne Il found 10 have charged more postage than can
be found on the empty envelopes. his whole GUAR
| lery account IL held up, payment Ia stopped on
his draft, and he Is lucky 10 get things straghtened
out within year. On all other mail be pays MS
oWn postage. Yet because be IL public ohleial
he Is deluEed with mail from his follow oiuLens
| making all sorts Of demands for Information;
| seldom suggesting the enclosure Of stamps for
| postage, and, even when doing, only about once
/ In any ConSui's term sending q stamp which VIII
carry letter through the post once at his oncial
/ post. ,. on personal effects he pays duty every
where. but IN practise he commonly receives
| though he may not demand. the courtesy OF the
| port
! Please give short history Of the Indian tribes
o. Brooklyn or state where a record OF them nay
For anything like detailed Information the
subject II would be necessary 10 examine host OF
scattered authorities and original documents,
/ nowhere In such volume preserved a. In the col
/ leotlons OF the Long Island Historical Society
/ The MAreckAwieck (MeryckawieO Indians were
settled In the tract between Gowanus and the Wal
| lAbout. They were q group Of the Canarsie Cam
| Srsee tribe. who owned all Of Kings county and
| part Of jamaica. Their nearest neighbors were
| the RookawSys, In Jamaica. the southern part OF
| Hampstead and all OF Newtown. Beyond them
| the MeTikokes were found from Near Rockaway
| 10 Oyster Bay. The Massapequas, MStlnecOcks,
NeseQuakes lay further out on the island and prob
ably had little influence on the Dutch towns within
| the present borough of Brooklyn. - Fort Hamil-
| ton the Nyacks were settled. That very scAnty
traces OF the Indian pOsscssor OF the soil have been
preserved In Brooklyn place names Is not 70 be
wondered at: witness the following CAnarse names
| which have been preserved in FlatlAnds deeds:
! Tenkirauw Keiamiau, ATaDkau, Aswackhou.
! SuArlnkekinkh, Wappettaioackenls, Ehetyl and
| PenhAwiiz. hpetonga wa the name under which
the MareckaWecks sold the cedar crested Heights
Kindly tell US what became Of Mrs. Gen. Eaton
! after President JacksOn's Cabinet was broken
! up where she went where and when she died and
! The wife Of Gen John Henry Eaton will be better
recalled as a maker Of history under the name
Peggy o'Nen full story Of her life will be found
! In the eighth volume OF the International Rerieu.
AFTER the dlsru ption Of the Cabinet brought about
%. ouRh the hostility expressed toward her by
L the wives OF other Secretaries she attained great
popularity in Paris and London, and particularly
In Madrid. 10 which her husband was commissioned
Minister Returning to Washington In 1870, she
Buchignani, from whom she was divorced after
losing much Of her properly. She died Nov. S,
! 1919. In Washington and was buried In George
town, d. c.
What Is The adage referred to In Macbeth act
1, scene 7, "hke the poor cat In the Adage'%
The reference has been Identified IN one OF John
Hoywood's proverbs, source from which Is de-
rived much OF what Is best in gnomc liter
allure. Heywoods proverb reads The cat would
Nak nA uunH FoHvr afh pF feafa Hanna
+ a satisfactory source Of Shskespeares
Letting dAre not wait upon / would
Like the poor cat IN the adage.
Early as Haywood Is he borrowed the adage from
yet earlier sources for II is found In manuscript
Of the middle thirteenth century preserved IN
Trinity College, Cambridge, In the rude version.
-Cat luiat ylsch, &C he nele his 'eth wete."
Where can be found a painting or photograph
OF the milan chief Tecumseh' also his biogmphE
We know OF but one picture Of Tecumseh or
TocumthA. This is 10 be found in AppletOns
"Cyclopedia OF American Biography slightly
different sketch from the same original Is In Los
slng's -Cyclopedia Of United States History
! The source Of the original is not mentioned. In
this picture the war chief Is portrayed with the
eagle plume OF his Indian rank ana the epaulets OF
q general ofhcer. The most recent biography is
Fggleston's "Tecumseh anil the Shawnee Prophet
New York, 1873.
Please say how the Presidential electors are
and salary II any. are. T. II. J.
This concerns such fundamental matter In
the national system OF Government that It may
make q more lasting impression TO refer the in
qulrer the nfst section OF the second article OF
the Constitution and TO the Twelfth Amendment |
which is supplementary thereto. An allen apply.
ing for naturalization Is required TO prove his ac
quAntance with the Constitution; much more then
is Il expected OF one who has his citizenship By
birth that he should know these things.
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NAVIGATOR.
The subject is abundantly dealt with In the text
books OF astronomy. The neap tides are the lowest
Of the fluctuations OF the tidal waves In their cir
cling about the globe. They arise when the at.
traction OF the and the moon arc eIeued at |
hight angles. This Is the simplest possible state.
ment OF the subject and takes no thought Of the /
Infinitely complicated dynAmcs OF tide now which /
make the problem so knotty.
IL Il ever permissible to accent wrongly word /
for purposes OF comparison or emphasis: as. for /
Instance, 1t Is the ertenal and not the Internal /
Certainly Who shall say you nayt The Ian.
guage Is your own. you may do with II what you |
will. and as long as you do but make your meaning |
clear 70 your hearers you have accomplished the
end OF speaking at all. But under ordinary circum,
stances the difference In Is clear as scarcely
TO need the device Of misplacing the accent Stul,
accents are not sacred.
Please LEI me know which is the largest com.
mercial city Of Italy. OREsrEs GUIFFnIDU.
Milan which ranks well up with Antwerp In the
business world. In shipping Genoa and Naples
are about even and rather more than twice as
busy as the ports OF Leghorn, Messlna Palermo,
Venice and Cbtanc. Ia 1902 the total tonnage of
shIps moved In Genoa amounted TO $500 Ci2. repre-.
sentlng oSs bottoms. and In Naples II was So $50
In 0.t2i bottoms.
In the case Of an allen depoued as suffering
from a contag lous disease, Is there any law h1ilg
the time which must eiapse before he can lawOIIly
return and n side In the United States s. X
In the very nature Of the case no time limit Is
necessary. A. each attempt OF the immigrant TO
enter this port be pass the rigid Inspection O
the medical stan At Ellis Island. II he be free from
disease they let him pass and the question Of any
former rejection on TIE sc)rs OF contagious disease
docs not arise.
What number Il II whose eighth exceeds Its /
tenn by fourteen less han Its tive nm
ARTHUR +. TOD.
2tO. rs as simple as the multiplication table !
Common sense and arithmetic will give the answer
Algebra without even common sense would scarcely |
deign 70 call II a problem 10 be solved. Yet for
some reason Il seems 20 have engaged the attention
OF number Of inquircrs over widely scattered
territory, whose doubts may now be resolved
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