Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-28
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 Fireman-Any intelligent locomotive engineer should be able to answer your questions.
 , c. Ills the white house built of white marble, or is 1t painted ?
 A. It is built of freestone and is painted.
 I. R. Els there any premium on coppers coined in the years 1892 or 1902
 A. There is not. Nor were there any copper cents coined in those years. The government discontinued the coinage of copper in 1857. From that time till 1864 nickel cents were coined and since that time they have been made of bronze. There is no premium on coins of recent date which are in general circulation.
 H. c. C.-When and by whom was the incandescent lamp invented ? @ Who was the most noted woman painter {? (3) What is considered the most perfect paragraph in English ?
 A. Like other electrical appliances of to-day, the incandescent lamp is not the invention of any individual. but it is the result of numerous dis coveries one after another (2) Rosa Bonheur, probably. C3) I am not aware that there is any "most perfect paragraph.
 s. P. B.-Have rural mail carriers the right to all the public road under any and all circumstances ? When the road is narrow between trees or ditches, with just room for two ve- hicles to pass, has the mail carrier the right to keep the middle of the road and compel the other man to un- hitch and back and push his buggy half. over the bank or out between trees to let the mail have the whole road A
 A. The mail carrier has no such right.
 Y DIV uO Lu6 pTcS6uL bers of the presidents cabinet?
 A. Secretary of State, Elihu Root of New York; Secretary of the Treas ury, Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa: Secre- tary of War, William H. Taft of Ohio; Attorney General, William H. Moody of Massachusetts; Postmaster Gener- al, George B. Cortelyou of New York: Secretary of the Navy, Charles J. Bonaparte of Maryland; Secretary of the Interior, Ethan A. Hitchcock of Missouri: Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson of Iowa: Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Victor B. Met calf of California. For names of of- ficers that participated in the Russo Japanese war, consult the files of a daily paper during it's progress.
 Clenup.-Please reprint the recipe for making government whitewash?
 A. Nice unslaked lime, one-half bushel, slake 1t with boiling water, covering during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine strainer and add to it peck of salt previously we'll dis solved in water, three pounds rice boiled to thin paste and stirred in boiling hot, half pound of Spanish whiting, one pound nice glue which has been previously dissolved by soaking 1t we'll. Then hang over a slow fire, in a small kettle immersed in a larger one, filled with water. Now add five gallons of hot water to the mixture, stir it we'll and let it stand few days covered from the dirt. It should be applied hot.
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 c. w. C.-How far is 1t across the Isthmus of Panama, where the canal | is to be built? Please describe the canal and state how far the work | has progressed? s-...'
 A. The length is 46h miles, and | is practically finished from Colon to | Dujeo, fourteen miles. This, how ever, is the least expensive part. The | great trouble is in passing the Cule- bra ridge. The width of the canal | will be 160 feet at the top and 72 | feet at the bottom, except through | the ridge, where it will be 7S feet at | the top and 29 feet at the bottom. It is expected to cost about $142,-I 900, ,000, and to require ten years to | build. As yet little work has been done in the line of construction since | It's purchase by our government.
 I. M. (Which of our presidents | revised and compiled a bible? (2) What was the most famous speech | made by Abraham Lincoln? (3) Who invented the telephone? (4) When did the postal service of the United States pass out of :rivate hands into the hands of the govern ment?
 A. See answer to Pearl D. above. (2) The Lincoln-Douglas debates were famous and Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg will ever be quoted. (3) The perfected telephone is not the result of one invention, but many. The transmitter in common use was perfected by Blake, the receiver by Bell. t4) The government postal de- partment was organized as early as he government itself, but owing to he sparse population its growth was Tery gradual.
 Pearl D.-Who was Jeff Ericson? (2) Which one of our presidents re- Tised and compiled a bible? (3) Why did Napoleon divorce Joseph ne?
 A. A Morse adyenturer, son of Eric the Red. According to the Ice andic sages he sailed from Green and with thirty-five companions bout 900 years ago in quest of a strange land to the west. He discov- red a country which he named Vim and from the grapevines he found growing on 1t. and spent a winter An~o ThEc lo.A k.u haau |