The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-18
QUESTIONS AND w

In the street when derived from an over
head wire? A friend insists that It does.
saying that he has known horses to be
killed by stepping on a trolley track.
r. W. NJ.
Yes. the rails in the street are the
return circuit. But there liz no posi-
bility Of being hurt by stepping on a
rail in the street unless. while a mans
foot Is on a rail. he is able In some
way TO make a contact with the over
head wire. In the accidents your friend
made In some fashion a broken over
head wire may ia struck a horse
whose DOT was on the trolley track.
Please tell me something about Luther
Burbank and his work. A. =.
Born in 1sis, Mr.. Burbank's greatest
success Is generally considered to he the
arousing Of a widespread Interest In
plant breeding. His " experiments
along this line have been N the thou
sands. Details regarding them may be
found in New Creations in Plant Life {;
Life and Work Of L. Burbank by
W. s. Harwood (New York. 1900. and
Jordan and Kellogs's The Scientific
Aspects Of Luther Burbank's Work.
(San Francisco. 1900. The Burbank
potato and many Japanese forms Il
plums are two Of Mr.. Burbank's discov-
cries which have proved Of great com
~ari,ai puortapcs
/. wa. Worth street formerly An.
ihouv street? :. In what ward was II!
. When was the name changed?
r.. *. e.
/. Yes. 2 West OF Broadway In the
old Firth ward. east OF Broadway ~ the
sixth. 3. In 1850. A memorandum
prepared ny Joseph o. B Webster Of the
Department Of Public Works. Manhattan.
is appended:
1904 cession OF and for Catherine
street Ito rum from Byron's lane to
! Hudson street. 40 fee, wide. March 20,
1890,
lsoi-Legally known as Catherine
street.
IslS-Name changed to Anthony
street. August. 1918. from Hudson street
| to Collect Pohd. now Centre street.
lssO-Known as Worth street. Was
wldened on the southerly side from Hud'
son stree, to Baxter street. formerly
| called Orang. street. Proceedings con-
/ hrmed September %. 1860.
lsTA-By Chapter go. Iaws Of New
| York, 1874. extended to Chatham Square,
September 81. 1874
Where can I obtain an exposition OF
the origin and purpose of the SIM Fer
party" w " n.
Here are three articles ~ importance
that are accessible at the New York
Public Library on Fifth avenue
SIM F'ein Its Genesis and Purpose
hy Seumax MacManus. in the No1'
.tmerirnm Rertew Toy August. lso'
tvolume 1856. pages s?5-sSs).
"A Note on Sim Fein in Ireland" b,
r. N. Kettle NJ. r.. in the North Amer
con Revte.c for January. 1908 tvolum'
1877. pages $3.50.
"Sinn Fein.' by the Rev. james O
Hsnnay tthe novels, George A. Biz
mingham). in the Albany Review lion
dom for March 1905 tvolums 2, pa se'
6io-s2s).
Where can | &c, kiplins's poem. "Ad
vice to a Raw Recruit i. 7. IA.
Doubleday. Page and COMPANY. pub
rshers II kipling's works. inform US
We believe the kiplIng poem referred
To is The Young British Soldier whicl
is contained in departmental Ditties
and COLLECTED Verse
The writer and n friend agree tina
content" and satisfy aye synony ms
but the writer insists hat there is
d .stinction between tho TWO, though h
cannnt make this distinction clear {
his friend. G. \. II.
You will fnd the distinction clearl
drawn n Crpbb's English synonyms
DHarpers, under the heading "Conten,
ment. Satisfaction" Part Of 1t runs:
"Conter'meut les iu ourselves salts
faction is derived from external object,
I'm. is Contentei when one vishes n
no more one is satisfied when one ha
obtained all one wishes, The contente
man has always enough The Statistic
man hHs onlN enough fol he time he M
The cnntcn,cd man will not be dissatis
fled but he who looks for satisfactio
VIII ne'e; hc contentei" .Nnd go on.
From which We may conclude tina
We may satisfy many a man whom "
cannot make %conten,ed. for content, mer
depends upon something in III. ma
himself.
note our answer To W. u. " 5 ~
puiry when is n child In his ieensr" I
he From the day when he become
- To the day when he cea ses to he 10.
That Is. from his thirteenth birthda
10 his twentieth.
Aren't YOU In error? Is II not a faC
that a child enters his teens az soon a
he passes his twelfth wear and begir
To count on the thirteenth, and isn't
"A fact that he passes out of his teen
when he arrives at the age Of 10 an
begins to accumulate his twentiet
year" W NJ. NJ.
The answer VAS founded on the defn
ton in the Century Dictionary Teen
The numbers whose names have Il
. termination teen especially the yea
Of ones age included within these nun
= bers. These years begin with thrice
and end with nineteen, and during Tn
, period a person X said II I've in his
l-. ~~.=