Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-08

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@. What minor base ball leagues
were operating during the 1882 sea-
son?-C. D. E.
A. The Sporting News says that the
followings minor leagues completed
their 1882 schedules: American Asso-
citation, International League, Pacific
Coast League, Southern Association,
Texas League, Western League, New
York-Pennsylvania League, Piedmont
League, Central League, Middle Atlantic
League, Western Association, Mississippi
Valley League, Nebraska State League.
@. How many races did Phar Lap
run?-A. E.
A. He ran 48, and placed in all but
nine. During October and November,
1881, he won eight races out of nine
| starts.
@. What part of New York City was
called Hell's Kitchen?-E. NICK.
A. In the middle of the last century
the name was applied to that section of
| the city lying west of Ninth avenue.
@. Is there any record showing what
American newspaper printed the first
cartoon?-M. B.
A. Benjamin Franklin published it
in the Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9,
1854. 1t represents a snake cut into
eight parts, the head being New Eng
| land, and the other parts New York.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia. North Carolina and South
Carolina. 1t was Immediately copied
by the editors Of other Colonial papers.
The popularity of this cartoon was so
great that 1t was revived twice during
critical periods in American history
once when the British Stamp Act was
proposed, and again at the outbreak of
the Revolution. Franklin gave this ia
nous cartoon the name-"Join or Die"
O. What is meant by game fish?"-
V.B.
A. 1t is fish which, because of its
cunning or warinesS, or the violence of
its struggles when hooked, affords
sport to anglers.
O. Please suggest some Bible passages
to read when one is blue and discour-
aged and lonely.-W. S.
A. When things look blue. read
Isaiah 40; facing a crisis, Psalms 46
and 1879; discouraged, Psalms % and
"a; lonely or fearful, Psalms 81 and AZ;
when things seem going from bad to
worse, Second Timothy, 3; when friends
seem to fail, First Corinthians, 10.
O. Where was the Negro poet, Paul
Lawrence Dunbar, born?-D. r.
A. He was born in Dayton, Ohio. June
n, 1872. He died February 9, 1906, in
Dayton.
Q. Where was the National Capital
before 1t was moved to Washington?-
j. c.
A. New York was the Capital of the
United States for one year. The Capital
was then moved to PHILADELPHIA where
it remained from 1890 to 1900. 1t was
then moved to Washington, D. c.
@. What are the principal items of
export and import in the island of
Jamaica?-K. L.
A. American vice consul at Kingston,
Castor A. Cournoyer, says that during
1882, bananas were the leading article
Of export to the amount of S6,467,124
Inc purchases OF the United Kingdom