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 rIeass aIve me some information about the United States army and navy. ] should like to know how much money is expended annually to main. our naval and military ferees.
 At present the United States army consists of 4,S23 oficess and S5.96J men, exclusive of the provisional force and the hospital corps. The navy con. sists of eighteen modern battleships, twentyStwosolder battleships, five first class cruisers, four second class cruis. CTS, fifteen third class cruisers, thirty. one gunboats, nine monitors, sixty. eight destroyers, twenty-cpe torpedo boats and fifty-eight submarines. Con- gress appropriated in 1915 for the SUD. port of the army $101, ,O19,212, for forts and fortifLations $5.627, 700 and for the navy $144,sGe,716.
 How long has the province of Buko- wina been Austrian? When, how ard why did the above province become Austrian? Was it ever under Russian or Polish rule?
 BukOwina was severed from Mol davia-that is, Turkey-in 17S6 and united with Austria. It has never been under either Russian or Polish rule.
 Please tell US why the law establish ing national banka did not permit them to lend money on real estate.
 National banks were not permitted to lend on real estate because it is a fixed form of investment, and con- mercial banks loans should be for short time and for such purposes as will return the money to the bank in limited period. Nearly all a banks liabilities tits deposits) are payable on demand, and therefore its assets should be as nearly as possible payable on de- mand, or within short time. Country banks can loan on real estate to limited extent under the new law.
 Of what nations is it true that the sun never sets on their dorini9ns7 Does it include the United States?
 It is not true of the United States, our possessions, widely extended as they are, occupying such positions that some portion of them is always below the horizon aEds therefore in darkness. The only nations on some part of whose possessions the sun is always shiningjare Great Britain, France and Holland. British possessions are scat tered far and wide over both hem ispheres, So that while the sun may be setting on one it is rising on an other The French possessions consist for the most part of numerous small islands in the Atlantic, Indian and Pn- cific oceans, with continental territo- ries in South America, Africa and Asia, and accordingly are so distributed that the sun is always above the horizon of some of them. The foreign posses sions of Holland are far more exten- sive than most people imagine. With the exception of Dutch Guiana, in South America, they consist of two groups of islands, one on the coast of Venezuela and the other embracing Sumatra, Java, Celebes, portions of Borneo and New Guinea and a host of smaller islands scattered through out the East Indian archipelago, ex- tending over forty-six degrees of longi- tude. These, with Holland itself. are so situated as to their difference of longitude that the sun is always shin ing on some of them. Daniel Web ster once made use of the fact when he referred to Great Britain as ga pow CT which has dotted the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drim- beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and un- broken strain of the martial airs of England.''
 | When Texas was an independent na- ton, where and what was it's capitaI7 Some argue that it was Houston, others San Antonio, while others say it was a city now obsolete.
 San Antonio was the capital of the old state or province of Texas while 1t belonged to Mexico, but not after it was annexed to the United States. Its two capitals have been Houston, 1886 to 1889, and Austin since 1889.