The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-12
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 When and where was coal first dis covered in the United States?
 An authority says it was discovered by Father Hennepin, a French mis- sionary and explorer, in 1869 in what is now Ottawa, III. That was soft coal. Anthracite was discovered in Pennsylvania early in the nineteenth century, and the first shipment from the mines was in 1913, when i've Boat loads were foated down the hehigh7 river and sold at Philadelphia for $21 a ton.
 Please tell what is meant by the term A-The Great Divide"
 IA divide when used as noun means a dividing ridge or section of high land between two areas of drainage-a wa I tershed. The term has been applied locally to other divides, but the Great. Divide is a meandering line following the crest of the Rocky mountains on the eastern side of which the waters flow to the gulf of Mexico and on the west to the Pacific. There is town In Teller county Colo, called Divide, another in Laramie county, Wyo.. and third in Silverbow county, Mont, each of which is situated near the crest of the great watershed. The term Great Divide was used and it's mean ing established by early United States geological surveys.
 Piease give correct pronunciation Of antipodes, cornetist, vaudeville, ceram- ics, monolosist7
 In the order named, an-tip-o- -deez, ac- cent on second syllable; cor-net-ist, ac- cent on first syllable; vod-veel, accent on first syllable and long 0; se-ram -iks, accent on the second syllable. not ke- ram-ics unless spelled with k. as 1t sometimes is; mo-nol-o-jist, accent on second syllable
 Where did she Irish potato originate7
 Tn South America, and there is no particular propriety in calling it Irish. !
 Where Is the largest gun in the United States ioeated7 What are the measurements of the largest gun on the neasurements of the largest gun in use at present in the United States navy? Also what is the difference be- tween the "bore" of a gun and "eaIi- ber7n
 Sixteen inch rife guns and twenty inch smooth bore shell guns have been built by the United States, but never successfully used. The army has at Sandy Hook some fifteen inch rife guns; range about twelve miles.
 The largest gun on the United States ship Delaware is a twelve inch bFeech loading rifle There are ten of these.
 The principal guns in use now in the United States navy are twelve inch and thirteen inch; the twelve inch in the older battleships, Fourteen inch now building.
 The bore of a gun is the cylindrical cavity extending the length of the gun.
 The calfber is the diameter of the bore or inner tube of the gun. In rifed guns it is the distance from the raised rif1ing or band on one side to the cor-N responding point on the other side of this interior cavity or tube.
 Why is tho article "The" always a prefix of Hague?
 The city owes it's origin to hunting seat of the early counts of Holland, which was designated in Dutch s Ora venhage. the counts wood or forest, and this was abbreviated to den Haag. the wood, and translated The Hague. In European maps both names are given, The Hague and Gravenhage.
 My present husband has an income of $2,o0o from his business. ! receive $2,ooo year aiimony from my divorced husband for the support of my three children. No amount is paid to me since my remarriaue, Dc rnv nreeAn% husband and myself have to pay tax on our joint income or is my income to be regarded as the property of my chiI- dren2
 This is question of fact as to whether the money is paid specifically for the support of the children or whether it is paid to you as alimony and by you devoted to that purpose It is question of the legal construc- tion of the agreement or decree under which you receive the money