The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-29
QUESTIONS AND ANgwERS.

Case Of ireland Stated" by william Molly
neux. printed by Patrick Dugan, Dublin,
l7as. Who was william Moiyneux.
P.C.w.
This II . late edition Of Q WY famous
book really . text book Of the Irish side
Tho original title was The Case Of Ire
lands Being Bound by Acts Of Pariis-
mont in England Stated" the FIRST edition
published IN Dublin. 1898; . second in
i7os. and Il was republished - late ~
ITO. Or. Moiyneux was . native Of
Dublin. . barrister Of the Middle Temple
. member Of the Irish Parliament in
1872 ~ one Of the university members.
In 1888 he WA one Of the founders Of the
Dublin Philosophical Society. which later
became the Royal Irish Academy. He at
tanned distinction - an astronomer and
mathematician.
In the early sos there was q very thrill
ing song called THE Grave OF Bonaparte"
II had a wide vogue and was found In
various small singing books: but though
the words still ring In my memory the
name Of tho composer of the music Ia for
gotten uf ever known. In my vain
endeavor to recall II I will have to con-
suit your encyclopaedia for information.
RICHMOND.
The song win be found In the Franklin
Square Song Collection No. s. page 1ol.
The words were written by Henry s.
Washburn Of Plymouth. Mass. the music
was composed by Lyman Heath Of
Nashua, N. II. There has been consid-
cradle dispute as to these facts, but the
foregoing determination was established
by several correspondents In October,
1908. when the query was first proposed.
About twenty five years ago I read an
article by Frances Power Cobb giving an
account Of the finding of live frog ein-
bedded in block OF Quarried stone. The
articls stated that the frog had become
OF white or grayish-white hue. that IL
was totally blind and that It's lips had
grown together. After few days some
one. with tho intention OF doing this an
Client frog a service, slit the lips apart.
Whereupon the creature died 1t was
stated that II had probably been living for
tens of thousands OF years In its rocky
sepulchre In the course OF n sermon in
Scotland In 1904 referred to this story.
Later. talking with some coal miners who
had been In the congregation. was
told that live beetles had occasionally
been found embedded IN the coal or rock
Of the mines In which they worked. Can
you throw any light on the natter It
seems sufficiently extraordinary to inter
est your many readers, who would no
doubt he obliged II YOU would naine the
magazine IN which the article appeared
think II was the Popular Science
Monthly. o H.
Tho story has not como forward for
several years. but formerly tho incident
was frequently reported as In conditions
which precluded investigation by skilled
observers. The impossibility OF estab-
In formations closed In . remote geologic
ago should Be apparent
an compelled 70 contradict C. J.
Lane; the Reuben. Reuben" song was
not used In Tho Midnight Bell" as
also was At the mrs, Boston production.
which had dainty Maude Adams ~ the
school teacher. when Pop Was . Little
Boy Like Me" vas sung. however. The
Reuben" song came later in Tho Trip
TO Chinatown" Being . professional
musician ] naturally paid particular at.
tention to the music.
J. MAHLoS DUoANNl
Kindly print the reason why all coun-
tries In South and Central America ex-
cept Brazil use the Spanish language.
have never seen or heard the reason why
Brazil alone should have stayed Por-
tusuese NO long. Could the papal "l,ne OF
demarcatlon" Of Columbus's time have en-
dured all this time? q. VS..
Tho reason lies in the fact that Brazil
was discovered and colonized by Portu-
gal In accordance with tho terms OF the
treaty Of Tordesillas, signed In 1874 by
Portugal and Spain. In succeeding years
Spanish expeditions visited the region.
ana tho first permanent settlement of
Portuguese was effected In 1901 on the
island Of Sac Vicente For the sixty
years 1880 to 1910 Brazil was under
Spanish rule but followed its metropolis
when Portugal recovered Its status In
the peninsula. In 1907. during the PEN
insular war, Brazi, gave refuge to the
royal family OF Portugal. and for the
next fourteen years was practically the
capital OF the kingdom OF Portugal Fric-
ton arose with Spain In carrying on.
the provisions Of the Tordesillas agree
ment and this friction was one Of tho
moving causes In securing the decision OF
the Holy Fec apportioning the New World
between the two great maritime nations
OF the lberian peninsula The settlement
OF Brazil was predominantly Portuguese
and the language has always followed
that idiom.
Kindly give the name and date OF "a
paper published In London giving names
or unclaimed estates. CARL REpENsrRo
Rather than give the Information IL ,s
pr9erable to record the action of the
State Department In the premises. I'm
srrupuous claim agents have misled 40
many OF the unwary with the prospect of
Inheritance that tho embassy in London
has been empowered to reply in a cir
ular letter setting forth the facts in the
case. The stst OF tho circular Is that the
British Government Is not tho custodian
OF unclaimed estates awaiting the discoy-
cry OF missing heirs. In England. as hero
very few owners OF large properties die in
testate. and still fewer die without known
heirs. After the distribution Of an estate,
or after II has escheated to the Crown,
L. lAs.-