The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-30

5 the slovenes, serbo.Croats and Bul- garians. The Bulgarians hold the eastern half of the Balkan peninsula and they number 5.0OO,0O0. The west 5ern haIf is held by the Serbo-Croats, numbering 5000, GOO. In the extreme northwest, in Carniola, in the southern parts Of Styria and Corintha and in the italian province of Udine and the Vale of Resia there are almost 100000 Slays.
 When, is foreigner eligible to vote in this country, and how long does he have to De ir this country before al- lowed to voter
 The matter is entirely within the control of the states, and their laws sdiffer Some of them require a for seigner to be a naturalized citizen, which requires five years residence, and others reqnire shorter residence Indiana allows an alien to vote if he has taken out his first papers, lived in the United States one year and in the state six months.
 Are steel ties used by American rail-. roads2
 The use of steel railroad ties in America is largely experimental and limited to a few of the larger roads. Outside of first cost they are objected to as being too rigid which Is hard on the rolling stock, precisely as s'dead' track uses up a horses legs. About 65 per cent of the federal railways of Switzerland rest on steel ties and 35 per cent on wooden tiess according to a recent consular report. The steel ties are in the form of inverted troughs with the ends bent down to close the troughs. The tie complete weighs about 1eo pounds.
 When was the Young Womens Chris- tian association forF1ed2
 The first was formed in London in | 1855, the first American city associa- l tion in Boston in 1866, and the first student association in the Illinois Nor nal college in 1873.
 What would be the names Of the various rulers in Europe should they retire to private life2
 Victim is the name of family from 1 which several of the royal houses of I Europe have sprung, including the pres 1 ent reign1ng family of Great Britain. If King George V. should assume 8 I family name it would be Wettin. The kaiser would be William Hohenzollern; the czar of Russia, Nicholas Romanoff; l the emperor of Austria, Francis flaps burg; the king of Servia, Peter Kara georgevttch.
 Please explain the silver standard anc the gold standard? Have we ever hac a siIVer standard in the United Statesi I A standard of value is the commodity -... GTL United States and most other nations gold is the standard. In this country the hints will coin gold without charge. the law providing that dollar shall consist of 25.8 grains of gold
 nine-tenths fine. Therefore when on. says thing is worth dollar he mean: it will exchange for 25.S grains of gold nine-tenthS fine In the early years o1
 this country's history both gold anC
 silver were coined free and silver wa.
 recognized well as gold as stand
 ard of value. For few years tn,
 quantity of silver (37114 grains, witt
 44z grains of alloy added) required t,
 make dollar was worth less than tn,
 quantity of gold in a dollar and, there
 fore, practically no gold was used ant
 silver was actually the standard. Late
 and up to about 1870 silver was wortl
 relatively a little more than gold, an,
 therefore practically no silver wa
 brought to the hints or used as stand
 ard money.
 Are Panama hats made in Panama
 ff not, why ara they so called?
 They are made in Ecuador, a republi
 which lies on the Pacific ocean, soutl
 of Colombia. They are made of
 native grass or species of cane Swhic
 is cultivated for the purpose. and GU
 just before it ripens when four or fiv
 feet high: The hats are largely CT
 ported, and got their name from Pan
 anna many years ago, when that plac
 was distributing center.