Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-06

l -1- .. s.u. | Can a person be a teacher in tho public schools without being prop erty holder?
 A. Yes.
 Do agents have to obtain a license to canvass an article from house tc house? If so, where should one | apply, and what is the costs? J. c M.
 | A. Yes. The city clerk. Resi- dent of Waterbury $1 for license good for four weeks, nonresident | $1 a week.
 Will you please tell me in the Democrats query column the United States consul to Cuba, his address and how to address him 1T writing him letter. H. L. A. Edwin V. Morgan, of New York, is minister to Cuba. A letter addressed to New York or to Ha vana will reach him. l -?- Oakville-Will you kindly in. 1 form me if Captain Webb, who swan the English channel, was an Amer. ican or an Englishman. A. Captain Matthew Webb was born in Shropshire, England, ir lS40, and was drowned in 1888 while attempting to swim the Mag. ara whirlpool rapids. -?- | J. T. D.-How many years is a land mortgage good, it having been | recorded, iii North Carolina? A. Inquire at the registry where the deed is recorded, or ask law. yer who can consult the document Ordinarily mortgage deed is valid until the terms have been complied with, but all things earthly have an end.
 Please publish address of any specialist in the removal of moles and blemishes of the skin with offices at present in Waterbury c. J. A. This column is not for tha! | purpose. If We publish all such reques.s there would be no room for anything else. Specialists should pay for their advertising the same as other lines of business. -?- F. E. C.-What is the object of | discovering the north pole. and of , what benefit would it's discovery be to commerce or science?
 A. The quest satisfies adventur- ous spirits, and perhaps restrains them from occupations more mis- chievous. Commerce cannot be ben e1ted, it is sure, and there is grave doubt whether science would gain anything by the discovery. But that cannot be surely told in ad- vance. There is, too, much doubt whether the pole will ever be located by man.
 G. A. W.-Your Spanish coin is worth only what 1t will bring as bullion, about half it's face value. F. K. C.-In what part of the Bible is it recorded that a man had to work seven years extra to marry young woman?
 A. Joseph served Laban seven years in exchange for his daughter. Rachel. and was then cheated into espousing Leah, her sister He then served another seven years to ob- tain the woman he loved. Read the story of Genesis, chapter xxix and following.
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 Clover-Is there any way I can obtain the names of officers that were killed in the revolutionary war, the war of 1912 and the civil war. and also the regiments they belong ed to?
 A. In the archives division of the office of the Massachusetts secretary of state, Boston, is a card catalogue giving the names of soldiers in the American revolution. and under the name Is given all the information about him that is obiainable. The records of the war department at Washington could supply at least some of the information you desire.
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 R. c. H.-Please advise me how
 
 to get rid of fieas In and under the house. keep weassls out of corn. and how to keep bud worms from killing corn?
 A. My experience does not in- elude the weasel and bud worm. Pleas can be driven out with sul- phur. Shut out all life. close the house tight. and burn sulphur can dles in it three successive days. The candles must be placed in lin buck cts. SO there vill be no danger from fire. They burn with a low flame. The house must he closed as tight as possible. so that the sulphur fumes will permeafe every crack and eranny Do not open the building till the candies are burned out. and then open the doors Co let in the air before breathing the fumes. which are dangerous. sui- phnr fumes destroy all insect life.
 D. M.-where can get a copy of the Teachers worid7 t21 What five books should a teacher read aloud to his pupils every morning. Gsl Name the Eve largest cities In the world. with their popula.fonr tGB Where fs the heat heit of the United Ssatess
 A The Tescher's World is pub N-A