The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-16

In 6reAL bTICdn the C1C4O aOnOT- able is borne by the house of com. mons as a body, by the members sep arately wl5an referred to in debate, by judges of the high court of justice, when not peers, and by all the chill dren of dukes, marquises, earls (except the eldest son, who bears courtesy title), viscounts and barons-
 Valley Forge, it's location, the battle at, etc.
 Valley Forge is a village situated about twenty miles northwest of Phila- delphia, famous as the scene of Wash ngton's encampment during the winter of TITS. There his army, reduced to II 900 men, suffered every conceivable hardship with Spartan heroism-
 At Valley Forge the soldiers slept without blankets, and many had to sit up all night by their fires. At one time there were more than 1000 with out shoes, and you might track them in the snow by their bleeding feet Even the sick often had to lie on the ground for want of straw They had scarcely any horses, and the soldiers made little carts to draw their wood and provisions to their hutS- Officers on parade sometimes wore old blan- kets or faded bedquilts to cover them The troops were hardly ever paid, and the money in which they were paid had almost lost it's value Food was scarce, and the gloomy saying was .FNo bread, no soldiers!' = HIgginson's Young Folks History of the United States.
 What became of the man who wounded Colonel Roosevelt?
 The man. John Schrank, was de clared insane by. experts and sent to the hospital for insane at Oshkosh, Wis
 (a) What is the meaning of the ex- pression Latin America7 (b) Also pam American2 (e) What does the word Balkan mean when referring to the na- tions that fought Turkey recently ? (d) How many ministers are there, and what is their average saIary7
 Gal Latin America refers to the ma tions south of the United States whose dominant class come from the Latin group of Europeans, Spanish or Portu- guese. Cb) Pan-American means Gall American" (c) The Balkan states are those in the Balkan peninsula, Bull
 
 and Albania. Greece was member of the Balkan alliance. (d) pr. H. K. Carroll, late Of the census bureau. gives the number of ministers in the United States at 1T4, ,731. The average saIary Is not given.
 Kindly tell me # the poem ~casabi. anca," "The boy stood the Burning deck," was founded on any real naval | incident.
 The poem commentaries a historic | incident. Louis Casabianca, a French man of noble birth, served in the French navy and was in the fleet that came to assist the Americans in the Revolutionary war. He commanded a 1 ship at the battle of the Nile in 179S ] and rather than surrender to the Eng fish blew her up after the crew had 1 been saved. His little son, Giacomo | Casabianca, ten years old, refused to leave the ship and died with his father The incident was the theme of poems by two French writers, as well as of the well known poem of Mrs. Felicia Hemans. the English poetess. Please give context and where found of
 Vice is g. monster of such frizhtfu1 rnien | As to be hated needs but to be seen. Lines are from Pope's Essay on | Man"
 1 Vice is a monster of so frightfuI rnien | AS to be hated needs but to be seen l Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace Observe that the author says SC frightful, not such frightful.
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