The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-06
Who invented the asroplane and

Who invented the aeropIane ana wI1en7
 The first aeroplane to fly by mechan- ical means was invented by an Eng Ifshman, who in 1S43 flew uNder pow CT of a twenty horsepower steam en- zine.
 The automobiie7
 The first automobile was invented by 9 Frenchman, Cugnot, in TITO.
 The wireless telegraph?
 The principle was discovered in 1888 by Heinrich Hertz of Karlsruhe, Ger many.
 The wireless teIephone2
 In 1893 Alexander Graham Bell first succeeded in transmitting the voice across space by means of beam of light
 The electric heht2
 In 1908 the first extended, continu- ous flame from an electrical source was produced by Sir Humphrey Davy, an Englishman.
 The typewriter?
 The first patent on a typewriter was issued in 1714 to an EngIshman whose name has been forgotten.
 Gan you inform me what is the lon gest word in the English Ianguage2 If not, could you please tell me word of twenty one or noresIetters7
 The longest word in the language is meaningless word which Shakespeare puts in the mouth of one of his ehar2e- ters. In Loves Labor's Lost Cos tard the clown says, q marvel that thy master hath not eaten thee for q word, for thou art not so long by the head as cabilitudinitatibus,t tWenty-seven letters strung together without meaning. There are many words in the language of sixteen 10 nineteen letters and a few of twenty, as sibleness and incontro- vertib1eness.
 Some writer stated that Grant 50 bit- feriy opposed the terms of surrender that Sherman was willing to accept from General Joe Johnston that Sher- man never spoke to Grant after that. Please state whether that is reliable history.
 There is no confirmation of such a statement either in contemp or later history. When General Sherman sent the terms of Johnston's surrender to Washington they were disapproved by President Andrew Johnson, and General Grant was immediately sent to Sherman's headquarters in North Carolina to conduct the proceedings of surrender. This order was carried out, and new terms of surrender were ar ranged, practically the same that Grant had given Lee. There was no evidence of friction between Grant and Sher- man then or afterward, and Sherman knew that the disapproval of the terms of surrender which he had granted came from President Johnson and cab met and not primarily from General Grant. There was no rupture between Grant and Sherman. States ever sell for less than S1.25 an acre2
 Yes. Tn July, 1787, after the Revo- lutionary war, but before the constitu- ton was adopted. the price of public land was 6t 2-3 cents an acre, and large tracts in what was called the north west territory is, northwest of the Ohio river-were sold at that price.
 What is the average height. of waves at sea7
 An authority says the height of the 1 waves in a-storm rarely exceeds twelve | feet, and in very bad disturbances on the high sea they may reach a height | of fifty feet. Their length is never over GOO feet. In the southern parts | of the Pacific waves forty-three feet In height have been measured, in the | southern parts of the Atlantic thirty | nine feet and in the Mediterranean 1 twelve feet. At places where the waves strike at an object, such as lighthouse, they rise, of course, much 100 to 200 feet. On the open sea. however. they never rise over fifty feet.