The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-17

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tree, peeled OF the bark, and made 4
tent-like covering for the General Tho
next morning drunken citizen came
into camp. saw the bark tent, and kicked
1T over AS Jackson crawled out tho &c
topper cried: Hello, old Hickory; come
out Of your bark and jne US in a
drink !"
Query-Whcn was the game Of billiards
first played and who introduced It?
-G P. T.. !
Answer-It was invented about the mid
die OF the sixteenth century by a Ion- Il
don pawnbroker, named William Kew. a
A black letter manuscript says: Master
William Kew did make one board, where /.
by game is played With three balls:
all the young men We're greatly recreated
thereat. chiefly the young clergymen
from ST. PaTles; hence one ofBye strokes
was named a canon having been by
one of We said clergymen invented The
game is now known by the name Of bill
yard because William. or Bill, Kew
did first play with the yard measure
The stick is now called kew, or cue.''
1t Is easy to understand how bill-yard
has been modernizcd into billiard.
Query-Who was Betsy Ross" the /
5fag-maker OF the American Revolution.
and where did she live? y. z. p. s.4
Answer--Shc was Mrs. John Ross, OF
No. $50 Arch Street. Philadelphia, whose
husband was n nephew of Colonel George
Ross, one OF the slGners OF the Decara-
ton OF Independence Mrs. Ross was an
5upholsterer,s and during June Of 1916 was
called upon by a congressional committee,
accompanied by General Washington, and
engaged to make the first United States
flag used from q rough sketch redrawn
In her parlor by General Washington.
i A rtcvcp uncff Or. fl,o Sfo i
in with five, instead of six. points.
Query-What is the origin of the
phrase, II am my own ancestor?
r. H. NJ.
+ Answer-It has been traced to Andoche
Junot. When Junot, soldier who had
risen from the ranks was created Duke
of Abantes, a French nobleman OF the
old regime. sreerngly asked him what
was his ancestry. Junot replied: Faith,
] know nothing about it;@I am my own X
ancestor" The Emperor Tlberius do
scribed Curtius Rufus as man sprung
from himself and the great Napoleon
Is said to have told the Emperor of AUS I
.tria: Sire, am my own Rudolph OF
iHapsburg,'
,auery-Where may the lines, THE &
shadows murmur while the deeps are
dumb" be found? 2. N. G.
il {AnsWer-In THE Silent Lover" poem
usually attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh
and containing the following couplet:
Passions are likened hest to fouds
"a and streames; IS
The shallow tmurmur, but the deepe are
dumb S 8Si hi 9
In a translation Of schiller's "Fanle,'s
the following stanZa occurs. y
Remember, aye, the ocean deeps are
mute.
The shadows roar.
Worth Is the ocean--Fame is but the
As5f Along the shore y.
Query-Is there any well-founded and
correct rule transmitted for the pronun-
ciation of Latin? Il. y, G.
z AnsWer-a French scholar, NJ. Garaud, RI
in 9 recently published book says that
the patois of Painters, in the Departs
ment of Ariege, Is nothing else than
Latin cxied on the borders Of the Ariege. a
II has been brought there with Its ORIG
inal recommendations and accentuation.
Without the aid of any book, the ear has
Isuftlced to preserve Its first form and In
5tonationS after eighteen centuries use.
The most delicate infections az the syoiae q
have .bsen kept, and the Latin pronun-
citation has tla been given to poster!.y un-.
approved, {3 Al e II