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QUESTIONS AND "

his combat with Peter Brown are called
"Magdalena or The Spanish Duel" The
poem IL by J. +. Waller and MAJ be
found In the following volumes How
to Speak In Public" By Grenville Kleiser
Leadership Library. Funk & wag-
nalls) "The World Of wit and Humor."
~"Burbank's Recitations and Readings"
tDick 4 Fitzgerald. New York. 1879 (:
"Choice Readings" ~(Jansen. Mcclure 4
Co. Chicago. 1879. by Robert Mc1Iain
Cummock; Advanced Readings and
~Recitations." by Austin B. Fletcher (1ee
4 Shepard. Boston. and Charles T. Dill
iingham. New York. 1881. pages 2s1 to
e29). The poem Ia too long for reprint
according to Changers Index to Poetry
and R~ecitations' the verses are included
In six or seven different collections.
Please give the dAtes on which the
different nations declared war. COM
mencing with Austria against Serbia
on July 2s. 1914.
RICHARD HicKsoN.
The following list 10 offered without
confidence in It's completeness:
July 2s. 1s14-Austria declares Wal
on Serbia.
August Germany declares war or
Russia
August s-rrance in . aate Of war
With Germany.
August 4--Great Britain declares wAY
on Germany. Germany declares war on
Belgium and france.
August 6-Austria declares ~~~ on
Russia.
Angus, s-Monteneero deciares war
or Austria.
August Torrance In Q state Of war
With Austria
August i2-Mcnteneero declares war
on Germany. Great Britain in a state
Of war with Austria
August 23-Japan declares war on
Germany.
Angus, cs-Artrta declares war with
Japan.
August 2s-Avstrta declares war on
Belgium.
November turkey at war with Rus
sia. France ana Grea. Britain.
May %, 19I6-1taly declares war on
Austria.
October I&--Bulgaria declares war or
Serbia.
October lb-Grea, Britain declares
war on Bulgaria.
October is-Buleara IN q state Of Wal
with Russia
October is-Russa and italy declare
war on Bulgaria
Can you tell me where We can send
things that will reach the Belgian SOL
diers? We do not wish to .
through the Red Cross. O..
Their delivery can IN no case be GER
tain. but, they should be sent to the War
Relief Clearing House for france and
Her Allies. Is Broad street. New York.
Which Of the beliigerent nations
started The aerial warfare on cities?
!. y.
Gernan officials announced OF August
., 1914. that a French aviator had been
dropping bombs on Nuremberg. ina
was the first word OF such warfare. Ger
many and France were not then at war.
think George L. Rockwell IL mistaken
In the year that Gen. Jackson rode up
Broadway. My father told me tha, he
saw the General ride up broadway In
the fall ca Of 1882. Old Hickory, who
was mounte on a white horse. was in
uniform and carried his chapeau In his
hand. His siN gray hair was conbe
straight up. as II Is seen in his portraits,
One feature OF the procession wildly
recalled by my father was a number OF
pretty llttl. children. mostly girls. car
rying a banner. on which was Inscribed
we have no votes. hut W have voices.
Turrah for jackson ." W. NJ. s.
Speaking OF Spooner,sms. ] dimly re-
call an anecdo,e OF an audience electri-
fed by the loudly uttered announcement
OF a nervous h.strionic %neophyte
MY lord. the Buck of birmingham is
taken 80
Possibly YOU recall the circumstance
n. r.. W.
In regard to the discussion OF indian
jugglers and the rope trick ] have
toured India and have seen Indian
fakirs perform time and again not only
IN India but elsewhere indeed, the
finest exhibition of East Indian leger-
demain that | have ever witnessed was
given on the famous terrace OF Shep-
heard's Hotel at cairo. But I have
never seen attempted anything nearly
so elaborate as the description OF the
s~o-called rope trick.
as a sort OF hypnotic spell thrown
over the audience 49, asks your cor
respondent $. II. I used 70 believe that
such must he the case. When I wit
messed the mango trick in Benare ! was
fairly prepared to he placed under a
hypnotic influence.
The trick was dependent entirely or
"cheap deception" There was not a
suspicion Of illusion. The whole &C,