Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-28


 Worlds Almanac for 1905.
 G. X. S.-What was the official vote cast in the third voting district of Waterbury for the socialist candidates for representatives at the last election? :? Q, How many. and what corporations does Attorney" John P. Kellogg rep resent?
 A. In the third ward the socialist candidates for representatives re ceived no votes. @ Perhaps you had better ask Mir Kellogg about that; he probably would refuse the information to the writer of this column o. DeB.-To give you the names of best paper and magazine in list of cities would b" impracticable. since do not know what purpose you have m view. For example. if you wanted to advertise am article 10 get into we'll to-do families ill a city. one paper would be best adapted to that, while if you wanted to advertise somet.Ll 2 else the paper named might be least profitable on the list. Best" you see. is merely comparative, and everything depends on the point of view Jewell.-How many United States marshals are there. and what are their addresses? @ What was the first book ever printed
 A. There are 172 marshals; you can find their addresses in the World al manac @ The first printed books were trifling hymns and psalters, print ed on one side of the paper and then pasted together. The first real book was the book of Psalms, printed in 1457. Works printed before that time were sold as manuscripts, the printing process being kept secret. Dan Patch.-Is there any reward for preventing railroad collisions, and if so, how much? @ How is electricity made? (1 What is the value of d dime of 1S4S? (D How many indepen, dent railroads are there in the United States?
 A. Nobody has authority to offer rewards for such thing. If you pre-, vent collision yevy likely the road for which you do the favor will make you some recOmpense (2) It is gen erated by dynamos running at high speed. (3) Ten cents. (D Probably l.2OO or perhaps 1,5OO, not counting l electric roads.
 Observer-Were there any million aires in the United States previous tC the civil war?
 cording to my recollection Vanderbilt and Astor may have been in the cata logue and doubtless there were som, newly rich in California. It is only within the last decade that the mil liOnaire family has grown to great proportions in this country. Neverthe less, the accumulation of great wealth is not so modern an idea as many sup pose. When Cecilius lsidOrus died ir Rome, eight years B. C.. he was pos sessed of 4.116 slaves, 3.6O0 oxen, 900 900 head of other cattle, and three millions of money in coin. 1 -p-
 NJ. l.. C.-When did Cadwalladar the last of the old British kings. reign What can you tell me of his ancestor. OF descendants! t2D Did anyone named Roster discover the art of printing (3l What day of the week was July F 1860?
 | X. Cadwalladar. the last of th' Britons, began his reign in the yea 6IS. There are numerous histories GOV J ering the period between this date an, S2S. when the Saxon heptarchy ended hut I find little relating to Cadwal lader. @ the art of printing is credit cd to three men-Laurenzen John Cos ter of Haerlem. ..who printed witt blocks. book of images and letters Speculum Humanae Salvatonis, an, compounded an ink more viscuous an, tenacious than common ink. whicl plotted" This was about 143S. JOhl Guttenburg invented cut types, an' Peter Schaeffer east the first meta types in matrices. ,5) Thursday.