The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

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 what was t1e erisaa of cremation and when Wsas # fFst Praetiesd in Anasrioa2
 The first seientt0e c1ema4ien in tha United Statea toek place st Washing- ton, Pa, in December 1876 The pio- neer creraator. was Dr. Julius Le A9oyne, and the subject was the body of Baron dc Palm, Russian theosO- plaist. The 8oIlowins spring tae body of Mrs. Benjamin sF1Enaan of GinetnuRti was cemated But the American precedent had beea set eighty-threa years before, when under penalty oa losing legacy ef f60O9O if he refused the son Of Henry IlaUEens, South Caro- nna's ReveKutie tienary patriot, coRGigned his fathers bedy to q funeral pyEs. Sir Henry Thempson introducsd cr8- n1ation into Great Britain shortly after the closing of the Amer3ean civil war Using reverbeFa1ng furnace, hs re- duced a body weighing IA pounds tU four pounds of lime dust within fifty minutes. Encouraged by ThompsOn'E success, Dr. Le Moyne installed an inn proved mcfnerator In small, ono story brick structure on 8 hill overlooking the town of Washington Three years after his pioneer cFemat1Gn he died and was cremated in his own institutiOn- Today about per cent Of the SO0.OOO individuals who die in the United States annually are 1ncinenosd in the thirty or more cremaboriums located lu more than half of the states
 When was ~Sheridan's Rfde'' iuEro- duced to tl1e public as a recitation?
 Reads war lyric 'ssheridah's R3de.' was first recfted in Cineinnah bR IIurs dock, the actor. for whom 1t was Wrib7 ten, on Oct 81, 1864. A few days lats CT it was printed tn the New York Tribune
 When were. .sheIla fret used in Vgar- fare2 Do those now used in large euun or nlortars explode when they striles their ohject7
 Explosive shells, of crude conaIuc- tion at first, date from about the mid de of the sixteenth century. when h0E- low balls of stone or cast iron nearly filled with gunpOwder began Co ba used. Those now used are a result Os slow evcludon, most of them haVlng been perfected within che last forty OF fifty years Cast iron spberical shells were in use up to 1871. but they ara now made of cast or forged steel They are provided with a fuse. wl1ich on striking ignates what iE called tho exploder. which in turn lEnites Ehe main conSen6s Of che shell. The ez- pEos1oa is not instantaneous on stTilz- ing the objective point, bus 9ollOw8 quickly aeter the Eime depending on tbe kind of fuse used.
 Kindly give 41,e population of s1e Fol- lowing cities in GaIicias'' -eEnl7srsu Craco~, 9rzenysl, TarnOvss Meu- San. dec and Gorlioe.
 Lemberg. 190,ooo. Cracows 1BOoO0, PHemysI, 55.oO0; TarmOx, 36.000s Neu- sapdec. 16,OOes Gorlice, e,50o.
 How many muses were there in aF- cfent mythology Please give thair names and ti1e depatseuleuts or fields 60 which they belonged.
 They were nine in number. daugbters of Jupiter and therefore sisters, They were Clio, who presided over history Euterpe, who presided over music; Thalia. over festivals and eOmetlys Melpomene. over tragedy; TerpsichOre.i over dancing, over amorous poetry and love songs; Polyhymnias over singing and harmony; Calliope, over eloquence and heroic poetry; Urania, over asron- omy- Each one Of the nuses received different form of worship and fesdVi- ties.