The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-07

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 Only two were professional soldiers in the sense of long expeEience in the regular army-vix 0snsEsi Zachary Taylor and General U. S. Grant-and only Grant was educated at West Point. Taylor was appointed lieuten- ant in the regular army from civil life b 1908 and ssw forty years of miIi- taYy service before he was elected pres ident. Of the other presidents. Wash ington. Monroe and Jackson were sol dien in the Revolutionary war; Jack son, Wiilism H. Harrison, Tyler and Buchanan b tho vag of 1912; Lincoln served in the Black Hawk war; Frank lin Pierce in the Msxicau war; Hayes. GarAeld. Arthur. Bsnjamin Harrison and Mckinley in the civil war ana Roosevelt in tho war with Spain. James Monroe, author of the Monroe 'doctzine. does not figure in history as military hero, but he served with credit in . Virginia regiment during the Revolutionary war and received . wound which scared him for life. Anlret Jackson was . lawyer and had been judge of the supreme court Of Tennessee befccs he began the milf tary career that made him president and famous. From major general sf the Tennessee militia at the beginning of the war of lsi2 he became major general of the United States army, but resigned his commission several years before hs was esectsd president.
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 Flying squirrels are provided with . lateral membrane attached to the body and the wrists, which they spread when they wish to make . leap. This they can do for the distance of ten or eleven yards. Strictly speaking, they do not ny.
 How many men were employed and how long h collecting nsatsrisi fer eeionseW's tsmpls7 Now many men wers st wsrk and how Isnp ID building the tsmpIsf Whit wss fhs sixs of it, and what did it eestf
 Some of the materials for the temple were collected by Solomon's father, David, but the completion of the work was left to the son. Solomon began to build 1t in tho fourth year of his reign, fixed by biblical critics as l011 B. C., and completed 1t in seven years. Au- thorities say there were 4SS.000 Jews and strangers employed on 1t. not all at once, but by large relays at regular intervals It also 10 stated that the parts of the temple were all prepared at a distance from the site of the building, and when they were collected the whole structure was erected with out tho sound of hammer, ax or any tool of iron, According to the ground plan as worked out by biblical critics. the extreme dimensions of the temple were i50 feet long by 90 feet wide and Ss feet high. It's cost is purely mat. ter of conjecture.
 How many aeropIanss does the unitsd etatss gevsrnmsnt own and what sssms Co bs the trouble with them that they arc useless whom they are most needsd7
 Tho latest report is to tho effect that Uncle Sam holds title to ifty-nine ma. chimes, many of which are decropit and out of date. According to secro- tsry of War Baker. the principal trou- ble with the machines is that thsy are ''underpowered" and ipcapabts of standing such usage as they would set in the mountains of Mexico. whsss . good. strong engine is Absolutely nscsu-