The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-15

federal casualties were 500 or over, as
follows: 1861, s; 1862, 81; 1868, %;
1864, g.; 1865, %. These are properly
called battles while the others are
variously classed as engagements, &C
tons, encounters, skirmishes, etc.
When did Colonel Michael corcoran
meet his death and how7 Can you give
me q sketch Of his earesr7 ~
Colonel Corceran met his death near
Fairfax Court House, Va, Dec. ~, 1853,
by the fall Of his horse upon him while
riding with General Thomas Francis
Meagher.
He was born in CarrowkeeL County
Sligo, ireland, Sept. q, 1927, the son Of
a captain In the British army. Ap-
pointed to the irish constabulary when
eighteen, he resigned In 1919 from mo-
tives Of patriotism and came to. New
York, where he became clerk in the
postofflce and later held a clerkship
under the city register. Entering the
Sixty-ninth regiment as a private, he
rose from grade to grade and became
its colonel in August, 1859. II
On the first call for troops the Sixty
ninth went to the front. At Bull Run
Colonel Corcoran was captured, and to
add to the discomforts of prison life he
was one Of the officers reserved for ex-
ecution in case the federal government
should carry out it's announced pur-
pose Of executing the crews OF priva-
teers. Released on exchange Aug. Is,
1852, he was commissioned brigadier
general of volunteers and organized
the COrcoran legion. After checking
the advance Of the enemy upon Nor
folk In the spring Of 1853 the legion
was assigned to the Army Of the Pc
tomac in August OF the same year and
was portion thereof at the time Gen
eral Corcoran met his death.
What is tho proper way to salute the
hag7 What 10 the significance Of the
coIors, the red, the white and the blue?
Strike the attitude Of attention, raise
the right hand to level with the eyes,
palm down, with the hat removed. The
colors OF the flag are significant, the
red, Of the life Of the nation, typifying
blood; the white stands for purity and
Is significant of the honor of the ma
ton, while the blue stands for loyalty,
true blue" SO 1t means patriotism"
What Iibrariss in America contain
over a million books?
The largest is the Library Of Con-
gress at Washington. At the beginning
Of 1916 it listed In all 1888, 1878
books and pamphlets and an immense
number of manuscripts and maps.
Other large libraries are: Harvard uni
versity, 1,665, 600 volumes; New York
Public library, 100000; Boston Pub
lie library, 100000; Yale university,
100000; Brooklyn Public library, 1885,
OO0 The World Almanac for 1915
gives the five largest libraries In the
world in this order: Paris, London,
Petrograd, Library of Congress, New
York Public library
the gIobe7
Ferdinand Magellan, though he did
not survive to return home with his
ship, well deserves the title OF the
First circumnavigator." He discovered
the strait which now bears his name
Oct. 20, 1920, the day dedicated in the
Catholic calendar to st. Ursula and her
1900 virgins; hence he called it ''the
Strait of the Eleven Thousand Vir
gins"
The strait was passed Nov. 28, and,
though he had not quite reached the
Spice islands when he fell in conflict
with the people Of the isle of Matan
April p, 1921, his task was virtually
accomplished, as he had before been as
far east as the Spice islands. The ex-
petition, reduced from FIVE ships and
236 men to one vessel and eighteen
men, reached San Lucar, Spain, Sept
6. 1922, after an absence Of three years.
lacking fourteen days, under the guild
ance of Juan Sebastian del Cano. This
vessel, the Vittoria. was the first to