The mirror., 1921-02-17
QUERIES
NOTICE TO INMATES

NOTICE TO INMATES
For the benefit Of any inmates who appre-
hours give toward means of self education
through correspondent school courses, study OF
good literature, acquiring an education IN our
tion in connection with their work in our var.
ious departments, will herewith be privileged
to use the Query column. You are wei.
to yourself, THE MIRROR with the kind col
Iaboration Of Miss Miriam E. Carey, Super.
visor of Institutional Libraries, will gladly
ondeavor to supply the requested information.
NOTICE-In order to regulate the conduct
Of this column inmates must sign their name,
register number and lock number to all queries
submitted for publication. Inmates names, of
course, will not be published, only the initials
of each querist being used.-Edtor.
OIL have been told that Washington
was born prior to Feb. %, and that the
time has been changed since his birth. Is
this true ?-H. c.
A:-The Gregorian calendar now used
was not adopted in England until 1852,
and at the time of its adoption there was
a difference of II days between it and the
old Julian calendar. Computing by the
old calendar Washington's birthday
would be the 11th
Q:-What writings of Christ are avail
able today?-C. T.
Awe have no authentic information
of our Saviour Christ's ever writing any
thing excepting once in the sand. One
tradition asserts that he wrote letter to
an African monarch, but there is no proof
of it. None of the New Testament books
claim to have been written by Him. The
Oldect ey;ctipr Mopuccr;D%c &c %ho Nv,
Testament date from the third century A.
D. There are four of these which are
known as uncial as Capital letter MSS and
umns, generally four to the parchment
width. One is or was, at Petrograd, one
in Oxford University, one in Paris, and
one in Rome. There are many later cur
sive (or small letter) manuscripts. But
much of the New Testament and more of
the Old Testament may be gathered from
early Christian writings dating from the
Apostolic ages. Our English Bibles, Old
and Revised Versions, are translated from
the original languages. The Old Testa-
ment was most scrupulously preserved by
the Jews down to the Christian era, and
is translated directly from the original
Hebrew and Chaldaic in our English YER
SAoHo' "A VdludDiC tIdHSldtlOH OI OlQ
Testament into Greek made at Alexandria
by seventy Jewish scholars, known as the
Septuagint is Of great value to translators.
O:-Will you inform me if the finger
print system of Identification is considered
infallible I'M. K.
A:-This system is now usually con-
sidered to be the most accurate means of
Identification known. There is said to be
about one chance in 64,OOO,000 of any two
peoples finger prints being exactly alike.
OILS there any scripture which refers
to the oath taken in court or other legal
business affairs Pr. G.
A:-The passage of scripture "But l
say unto you swear not all" is taken by
Quakers and other religious bodies as
authority for refusing to take oath in a
court of law.
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umn and desiring more detailed information to
their queries are invited to use the splendid
reference books in our library to be had ON
request. The International Text Books are
especially complete in their information on
techinal subjects. Consult the Reference, Use
full Arts, Literature, Chemistry, Biography and
Science divisions of our library catalogue for
diversifiod suhiacts