The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-02
Will you please inform me tho date Of
the adoption Of the Plat amendment
March 81, 1901.
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~ VIII you Pi0AS0 tNIoFW mo In0 0ASo OF
the adoption Of the Platt arnendment7
March FL. 1901.
Who was Il that said, "if any mar
attempts TO haul down the American
Nag shoot him on the spot7"
Former Captain John "A. Dix, u. 8.
A., secretary OF the treasury under
Buchanan. The sentence quoted was
part OF dispatch which Secretary Dix
sent to q special agent of the treasury
department at New Orleans Jan. %,
1861, about month before Abraham
Lineoln's Inauguration as president. A
few months later Lincoln made Dix a
major general in the army.
Will you kindly publish the stone 70,
each calendar month Of the year, ~
havs had an argument as,t 10 them7
January, garnet; February, anne
thyst; March, bloodstone; April, dia-
mond;f May. emerald: June, agate; July,
ruby; August, sardonyx; September.
sapphire; October, opal or aquamarine;
November. topaz, and December, tur-
quoise.
All lists found In print do not agree
as to every month; hence there Is room
for argument and also for choice.
Please name ths presidents Of The
United States who were college eradu-
ates and thsir colleges.
John Adams was graduated at Har-
ward university; Thomas Jefferson at
William and Mary college, Virginia;
James Madison at Princeton; John @.
, Adams at, Harvard; William Henry
/ Harrison ut Hampden Sidney college,
Virginia; John Tyler at William and
Mary college, Virginia; Franklin
Pierce at Bowdoin college; James Blu
chanan at Dickinson college, Pennsyl-
vania; u. s. Grant at West Point; Ruth
erford b. Huyes at Kenyon college,
Ohio; James A. Garfield at williams
college, Massachusetts; Chester A. Ar
thur ut Union college, New York; Ben.
jamin Harrison at Miami university,
Ohio; William Mckinley studied at Al
legheny college, Pennsylvania, but did
not complete course; Theodore Roose-
welt at Harvard; William II. Taft at
Yale; Woodrow Wilson at Princeton.
The following never attended college:
George Washington, James Monroe,
Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren,,
James X. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Mil
lard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, An
drew johnson and Grover Cleveland.
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How does the pay Of United States
army and navy officers compare, rank
by rank7
The yearly pay Of army officers iii
active service is: Lieutenant general,
$1,000; major general, 5000; briga-
der general, $4,000; colonel, $4,000;
lieutenant colonel, So, 500; major, So, 600;
captain, S2,4OO; first lieutenant, $1,000;
second lieutenant, $1,7OO. Officers be-
low the rank Of brigadier general re.
ceive 10 per cent on the yearly pay for
each term OF Ave years service. The
yearly pay Of navy officers is: Admi-
raj, $13,50O; rear Iadmirals, first nine,
$1,000; second nine, $1,000; captains,
$4,000; commanders, $500; lieutenant
commanders, $1,000; lieutenants, ST.
400; nidshipmen at Naval academy,
5000. All navy officers receive 10 per
cent additional to regular pay for sea
duty or shore duty beyond the CONT
mental limits OF the United States, ex-
cept Porto Rico and Hawaii.
|. How many pensioners are there now
on the United States pension rolls and
the fetal amount paid7 How many
row living In foreign countries and
total amounts paid7
During the year ending June 20,
1915, the number Of persons on the
pension rolls In the United States was
743.327, and the total amount paid
them was $164, 537 ,404. The total num-
Der OF pensioners living u all foreign
countries was 1890, and the total
amount paid them was 1915, 100.