The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-26

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Q. In what baseball park are the
fences the closest for the batters to
shoot at? IT. D. w.
A. The Polo Grounds in New York
City takes first place. Its left field
fence is 2SS.S feet away, and right
field fence 1868 feet
@. What is the origin of the ex-
preston clothed and in his right
mind? p. H.
A. 1t is found in the Bible. the fiji
teenth verse in the fifth chapter of
Mark
O. How long did it take the author
to write Ben Hun? &C. A.
A. General Lew Wallace made a
statement to the effect that the writ
ing of this book extended over a pc
Rod of seven years.
Q. Where was the first glass fac
tory in the United States? M. j. b.
A. The earliest record of such a
plant is the glass house erected at
Salem, Mass, in 1889
O. What was the trotting record
made by Goldsmith Maid? E. A.
A. Goldsmith Maid the famous bay
trotting mare, held the one mile trot-
ting record from 1871 to 1874, taking
it from Dexter in 217 and losing it
TO Rarue in 2:134 She lowered the
record to 2:14 before losing it.
Q. Is Sam Gompers machinist?
Fl D.
A Samuel Gompers president of
the American Federation of Labor, is
a cigarmaker by trade
O. When was the English Labor par
ty formed? NJ. II. A.
A. The Independent Labor party
was organized in England in 1898
There have been labor Members of
Parliament, however, continuously
since 1874. when Thomas Burt, the
Northumberland miner, was elected
@ What were the Mississippi. dra-
CONS? p. c..
y Two devil-like monsters painted
and carved on the face of cliff so
feet above the Mississippi River near
Alton Illinois, were discovered by the
French explorers Marquette and Joliet
in June, 1863, They We're known as
the "Piasa petroglyph" to Psychologists
and were commonly called the Miss
issippe dragons They were ranked as
the finest example of early Indiana art
and many legends were told to account
for them. Marquette described them
as being as large as a calf, with horns
on the head like a deer a fearful look.
red eyes, bearded like a tiger the face
somewhat like a mans, the body COW
cred with scales. and the tail so long
that ii twice makes a turn of the body,
passing over the head and down be-
tween the legs. and ending at last in
fish's tail The painting was in an
almost inaccessible place on the cliff
and remained there until 1856 or 81
when limestone makers Quarried back
into the bluff and destroyed it.
Q. What was the Grand Remon-
STRANGE" &C. p.
4. The Grand Remonstrance was a
document Of protest against misgovern-
nlent drawn up by the House of Com
mons on November -. 1871, and pre-
scented To Charles | of England on De-
cember / 164i. 1t was in effect an in
dictment of the whole governmental
policy of the king, and its presentation
and adoption was fastened by the out
break of rebellion in Ireland King
Charles ridiculed the Grand Remon-
STRANGE at first and then answered it
in an extremely evasiye manner La
ter he impeached in the House of
Lords the leaders in the Commons who
were opposed to him and subsequently
he invaded the House with a company
of armed men in an effort to arrest
five OF the members.
A, army of 40 600 German laborers