Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-24
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not balance. Among the innumer- able forms of leverage the steelyard is the simplest example. Experiment with these and the principle will be plain.
 l F. J. D.--What color Is cobalt, and is 1t valuable? (2) Can a women prevent her husband from cutting or selling timber on land which is deed ed to herself?
 A. Cobalt is steel gray, and closely resembles nickel. It's principal value, is due to :he fact that its protoxide furnishes in intense and beautiful blue color, useful in paints and glass and porcelain decorations. (2) Prop erty rights growing out of the marital relations differ in all the states. Your letter does not indicate where you reside. Any lawyer can answer your question. D. M.-Please print the verse de- scribing the nine parts of speech in verse?
 A. Three little words you often see. Are articles ., an and the.
 A nouns the name of anything, A school or garden or hoop or swing. Adjectiyes tell of the kind Of noun, As great, small, pretty, white or
 brown.
 Instead of nouns the pronouns stand; Her head, his face, your arm, his
 hand.
 Verbs tell of something to be done To read, laugh. count, sing, jump or
 run.
 How things are done the adverbs
 tell,
 As slowly, quickly, i'll or well. Conjunctions join the words togeth-
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 As man and woman, wind or wealth
 CT.
 The proposition stands before A noun. as in or through the door, The interjection shows surprise. As oh! how pretty! ah! how wise. The whole gre called the parts of
 speech,
 Which reading. writing. speaking.
 teach.
 J. c. P.-i have heard old people talk of a dark day when candles were lighted at noon time. When did this occur. what were the par ticulars, and was any cause assigned for it? (2J They tell, too, of night when the stars seemed to fall from the heavens like showe-. Did astronomers assign any cause for this, and when did 1t happen? (3) In what part of the country were the clih dwellers located. and why did they inhabit such dwellings? (4) Are the principal mounds located m Ohio, and want were they probably built for?
 A. That which is known as the wonderful dark day occurred May IS, 1780, when the northern United States were wrapped in dense black atmosphere for fifteen hours. The occurrence brought intense alarm and distress to multitudes of minds, as well as dismay to the brute c-s- ation. Many conjectures were in- auisSu III dS to tH6 cause, put no satisfactory conclusion was ever reached. t2) Probably you refer to the evening of November l5, 1883, when occurred the most extensive and magnificent shower of shooting stars which has occurred in modern times. Over all the United States the whole Armament was for several hours in fiery commotion. Stsrtljng displays of the kind have occurred at various places, and are no more to be explained than other phenom- ena of the heavens. (3) American cliff dwellers were aboriginal trii.es in the southwestern United States, who built their homes in natural re- cesses in cliffs. Naturally they did so because it was the best method they knew. t4) Indian mounds are numerous in that part of the coun- try lying between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, and extend ing as far east as New York and to the Mississippi river So far as is known some of these mounds were used as burial places. others for pur- !, poses of defence, and others may have been connected in some way with religious rites and ceremonies.