Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-21

water are below sea level, and namo
 them? (3) What is meant by the
 phrase Common carrier"2 (4)
 What states permit woman suffrage
 (5) What are the two territories in
 the United States?
 A. Thomas Estrada Palma re-
 signed the presidency year and a
 half ago, since which this govern
 ment has been in charge of affairs
 (2) l am unable to say. (3) Cor
 porations or persons whose business
 it Is to transport passengers or
 freight for consideration. 4) Wy
 oming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho. | (5) Arizona and New Mexico. Alas
 ka, Hawaii and Porto Rico are also
 territories. Your other inquiries
 were answered in this column a
 week or two ago.
 M. M.-Why are nails known by
 the penny? CD Are there any toll
 gates at the present time, and
 where? (3) Is there land where ! the sun does not shine for six months, and if so what is the req son?
 A. If nails weigh four pounds to the thousand they are know as four penny nails, if six pounds, six-penny, 1 etc. Once the expression would have been four-pound nails, etc, which was shortened to four-pun', and this in some way seems to have been con- founded with penny till now the size is everywhere indicated by penny. (2) Undoubtedly there are great many of them, for this is big coun- try. It merely indicates road owned and kept in repair by pri- vate corporation or company. (3) | If you will look in geography you | will see why it is that during the winter in this latitude the sun is so far to the south that it cannot shine on the territory around the north pole. In summer the sun is north of the equator, and near the pole it is visible all the time. -?-
 M. B.-Inquiries cannot be an- swered by mail, and many of your questions are not clear. New York has large share of foreign trade because there are more ships arriv- ing and departing, induced by her vast population and shipping facili- ties. But if produce could be more cheaply shipped from Boston or Philadelphia somebody would find ships for the work. The percentage of freights transported in American bottoms is too small to talk about. American goods are not sent to Bo- livia and Switzerland because our merchants do not sell their goods there largely. Turkeys large debt is due to expensive government and poor management. A trade balance against a nation does not imply great poverty; in Switzerland espe- cially American and other tourists leave great sums of money every year, and the Swiss are frugal. Great Britain has large foreign trade because her merchants and manufacturers sell the goods abroad, while those of America do not, owing to the difference in home demands, There are about 62,000 postoffices in the United States.
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 l.. H. What are the birth stones of the months? (2) Where can I subscribe for Good Literature? .(3) How can 1 clean a straw hat, and also white velvet? (4) Is there any way to go from New York to Paris by land? (5) How many dis tinct languages are there, and name them? (6) What is the language of flowers?
 A. Beginning with January the birthstones are these: Garnet, ann ethyst, bloodstone, diamond, emer- aid. moss agate, ruby, sardonyx, sap- phire, opal, topaz, turquoise. (2) At news stand or book store. (3l Place hat upon flat board or table. Dip a stiff brush in water and shake off all you can; then dip in corn meal and rub small section of the hat. Continue till the spot Is clean and dry, then take another spot. Do not dip brush in water till you go to the next spot, but dip in the meal often as you like. This method leaves the hat dry and 1t needs no pressing. To clean velvet, place it in a fruit jar If the piece is small. cover with gasoline and let stand two or three hours, shaking often. Then squeeze out the gasoline with the hands, rubbing the places most soiled. Then place hot sadiron up- side down, dampen wrong side of velvet and draw back and forth across the Iron. Keep gasoline away from fire. t4) The strait of Behring has to be crossed. some fifty miles. (5) Baldi enumerates S6O distinct languages and about l. 900 dialects. l6) White camelia. l loveliness; candytuft. indifference: | white carnation. disdain: china aster. variety; four leaf clover. be 1 mine: white clover. think of me: red clover, industry: columbine. folly; white daisy. innocence: col { bred daisy. beauty: dead leaves. sad ness; fern. fascination: deadly night shade, falsehood: scarlet geranium. rose geranium, prefer snce: goldenrod. be cautious: helio- trope. devotion: white hyaeinth. Ioveliness; purple hyacinth, sorrow: Ivy, friendship; day lily, coquetry: white lily. sweetness: yellow lily. sayety: water lily. purity: lily of the valley. unconscious sweetness: your qualities surpass four charms; monkshead. danger is