The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.


town? HENRY I,KGER
This seems to be an lnfreuuent ex-
preston. but It has been heard in designa-
ton OF Adelaide. the capital OF the State
OF South Australia. When that colony
was projected It was established to the
utmost detail on paper before the colonlsts
set sail from England. The capital was
laid out upon a surveyors drawing board
and all that remained to do on landing
was to find fiat piece OF ground on which
to drive the stakes. Adelaide IL composed
OF four areas, a mile in each dimension,
these areas being parted by two streets
OF noble width. Quite around the city
extends a parkland a mile in width and
this is maintained az a perpetual reserve
upon which the only encroacnments are
such wholly public establishments as Gov
eminent House. Parliament House and
Botanic Gardens on the North Terrace.
the remainder being maintained as park
and recreation grounds. It may be men
toned that the oldest newspaper, long
enjoying a Government subvention, began
across the sea, the first number of the
first volume bearing a London date line.
the second number. after many months at
sea. appearing WITH the Adelaide date.
Why should the name of Peter Funk be
used to designate a petty swindler?
HENRY LAWRENCE CASE.
1t is so long since Peter Funk became
the eponymic hero OF the bogus auctions
that his trivial origin has been forgotten.
In the newspaper files OF the civil war
period the term was freely applied to the
auction swindles which then existed with
no pretence OF regulation. When the un-
wary citizen found the bidding cannily
contrived to lead him on and the article
was knocked down to his rival, II was
found that Peter Funk was the opposing
bidder. In like manner when a house
holder consigned his goods to auction they
were soll for song to the same Peter
Funk. In more recent plague of auction
swindlers in this city the cappers who
played the part Of the bygone Peter were
known as shillabers and from their ac-
tivity derived the verb to chill.
What are the highest tides in the Bay
OF Fundy? T. DELANEY.
At the head of the bay sixty-two feet
has been reached. the tide coming In with
a bore whose crest sometimes has six feet
OF height. The phenomenon Is due to the
construction exerted upon the mass Of the
tidal wave as 1t is diverted into the funnel
formed by the adjacent land waves
Three factors function conJolntly in this
rise. the two banks converging and the
sea bottom gradually shoalinG. In Pas.
Y,anpnN1Ns is I'll ~
twenty-five feet The refiux IL similarly
great at Amherst and at Moncton the bay
is nothing but continuous stretch OF red
mud
The story Of the prisoner and the raj
was in the third or fourth reader used
In the Canadian schools thirty-fve years
ago It was called the story of Fine Ear.
SIDNEY SMITH.
With the same title, as some learned
| friends point out. the story gained pub.
LEFTY in the middle OF the last century
through the Society FOR the Promotion OF
Christian knowledge. whence 1t readily
passed into school readers and such lik,
compendla of literature which rarely ar
rive at library preservation. The misus,
Of the title Fine-Ear must lie regretted
by folklorists, for that belongs to one OF
the most ancient OF myths and Is founC
in the complete circuit of the globe.
IL there any record OF the creates
depth reached by drilling? 7. +. II. :.
! An arteslan we'll at 81. Louis. Mo. wa.
drilled to a depth OF 3.Si3 feet a
Wheeling a bore of about 1000 feet ant
at Pittsburg one of j.532 feet were SUM
I for the purpose OF exploring the under
| lying coal ana petroleum formations Fo
more general purposes OF geological eN
\ ploration Germany has sunk the tw,
deepest bores In the world. at Leipzl,
To the depth OF 6.265 feet and al Paru.
! schowitz in silesia 600 feet. In the gold
reached $500 to 5000 feet The tw,
German bores alone have been sunk ap
probably below the mile limit
What authority is there for creditlnl
to Ireland the famous chapter There ar,
no snakes in Ireland? l.. J. l..
No less than the authority of DR.. John
son and Bozzy. They gave circulation t,
the fact that In the 1858 translation o
Nicholas Harrebows Natural History o
Ireland" Chapter lxxi.. "Concernln,
Snakes" is complete in the words: ~,
snakes OF any kind are to be met will
throughout the whole of the island
Chapter Kill, Concerning Owls" is nv
words briefer: There are no owls OF an!
kind in the whole island" Without de
tracing NJ all from St. Patrick's NOR
popular miracle. it is clear that III,
ascription to Ireland of this famous chap
ter has arisen through a facile typo
graphical error.
Who was IL who took the first picture
OF the horse in motion?
CARL WINTERS.
Eadward Muybridge. at senator Stan
ford's stock farm, Palo Alto. Cal. in 1885
His photographs were taken by a row o
equldistant cameras spread along a tent
OF a mile OF track and the shutters wer
snapped by the breaking of threads by tn
horse In Ais stride. The horse was Occl
dent, the first trotter west OF the Rookie
TO hang up a record OF 20. This sue
cess with the cameras combined with IN
persistence of images upon the retina lon
familiar In the device of the zoetrope, le
to the invention OF the moving picture.