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Show QUESTIBUS AUD AHSWEBS DRAGON. Utah. Feb 3 -Would you please tell me who Is considered the most famous grnnd opera singer today, both man and woman? Reader. Caruso Is regarded as the greatest lvrlc tenor; Nordlca tho greatest Wagnerian prima donna: Sembrich the greatest representative rep-resentative of the Italian school. OGDEN. Utah, Feb. C.-Pardon me, but I wish to establish, If I can. tho ago of an old family Bible that Is In my possession. It was printed by subscription when the United States was very small. What yoar did Joseph Bloomflcld, Esq . serve as At-tornoy-Goncrnl for the State of New Jersey? Jer-sey? What yoar did Hon. Thomas Fltz-slmmons Fltz-slmmons serve as member of the House of Representatives of tho United States. Philadelphia? If you can give mo the desired Information, please do so, and oblige John Payne. (1) Mr Bloomfield served as Attorncy-Gonoral Attorncy-Gonoral of New Jersey from 17S3 to 1792 (2) Mr. Fitzslmmons served In tho First Second and Third Congresses, from March -I, 17S9, to March 3. 17S3. EUREKA, Utah, Fob. 2. Was thero at any time in the history of the mine an opportunity op-portunity to purchase stock In tho Daly West mine at Park City at Jl por share, or If employees of tho company at any tinio could take stock at that figure as wages In exchango for labor performed for said company? A Subscriber. Thero may have been such an opportunity, opportu-nity, but if so we do not recall It, So far as we remember, that stock was always held far above a dollar a share HOOPER, Utah, Feb. 5. Under tho Territorial Ter-ritorial law of Utah. If a man sold property prop-erty without his wife's signature to the deeds, and tho wife was afterwards granted grant-ed a divorce, the question of the above properly not being mentioned at tho timo of the divorce settlement, can either she or her children claim her share of the property now? Subscriber. If "tho children" aro his. thov are no doubt legal heirs to Ills property," Whethor tho wife has any claim or not would probably prob-ably depend on the wording of the decree rendered at tho lima of the divorce, and whether or not he had the property at the time tho dlvorco was granted. EPI1RAIM. Utah, Fob. ). PIcaso answer In your Sunday's paper the following questions: (I) Are the Tesore mines worked now? (2) Arc thero any that travel from Utah to California by team, and which way do they go to strike tho uilddlo of California? An Old Subscriber. (1) Wo shall bo pleased to publish tho fact If nny ono knowing it will lot us know. (2) Wo do not know of any such travel, but no doubt tho trip could be made with no great trouble, and If tho ono making it should go lo Deep Crock, Austin and thence to Mono pass, he would probably make no miss. OGDEN, Fob. 7. Will you kindly answer the following In your nnxt Sunday's Issues If a man standing on a railroad track w;is to fire n pistol at an engine coming toward him at a opeed of sixty miles an hour, does tho bullet stop whnn It hits tho front of tho engine? Could the hullel start going In the opposite direction without with-out stopping? How could tho bullet stop without tho train Btopplng? Two Readers. Better try It and see which stops the bullet or the train. When a hound starts after a rabbit ho must catch up half tho dlstanco before he catcher the rabbit; then again, ho must gain half of the remaining re-maining distance; and so on, tho hound always having half the remaining distance to gain. I low does he ever catch tho rabbit? OGDEN, Utah. Feb. S.-WI1I you kindly tell mo in Sunday's Tribune In questions and answers: What Is the Salton sea? Whoro is It and Is It something new? Is It salt like our lake' Tell us something about It. Reader. It Is tho filling up of tho sink In southern California by tho waters of the Colorado river, which cut a passago through when a small ditch was dug. The depression was a sea ages ago and is now filling up again. OGDEN, Utah, Fob. 6- Please glvo tho correct answer In your queries column to tho following controversy: A says that a Josephlto and a Brlghamlte, or L,atter-day ont specie. IJ says that a Josephlto Isn't Saint, are both Mormons, only of a dlffer-a dlffer-a Mormon. Who Is right' An Unenlightened Unenlight-ened Reader. Tho term "Josephlto" Is one applied to the membors of the ' Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Lattor-dav Saints,'' with headquarters at Lamonl. Iowa, and whoso president Is Joseph Smith, eldest son of the "Prophet" Joseph Smith The term "Brlghamlto"- applies to a communicant communi-cant In Brlgham Young's church, or tho Mormon church, officially called the "Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints." Both churches believe In the divinity di-vinity of the Book of Mormon, whonce the nleknamo "Mormon," which has been applied ap-plied to hoth churches. Tho nickname has been accepted by the dominant church of ' Utah, the "Brlghamites," as the signs on their publishing olllce and other building show; but the nume "Mormon" has always al-ways been repudiated by the "JoBophltes," who claim to be (and tho courts have so declared tho true "Latter-day Saints," tho name by which thov are known. - MONTPELIGR, Ida.. Feb. S.-Klndly let me know through your Question and Answer An-swer column how many silver dollars were coined in 1WM. A Subscriber. S.SH'.CO). STOCKTON. Utah. Feb. S.-Plcase answer an-swer In next Sunday's Tribune the following follow-ing questions: I. To receive a Tribune talking mnchlne must tho twelve (12) dollars dol-lars be paid In one pnymont or can It be paid In moro than one payment? 2. When docs this offer expire? A Reader 1. Payment for The Tribune may be mado monthly nt $1.00 a month Better write the ofllco for particulars. 2. The proposition will soon be withdrawn. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. C Would vou kindly Inform me In your next Sunday's edition what tho following described mineral min-eral Is called; whether or not It Is indication indi-cation of oil or not: A yellow substance oozes out of the yellow powder, and gradually a It Is stanco on top of It. The yellow sub-stnnce sub-stnnce looks like billposters' paste; tho water below Is covered with ollv-llkc substance, which is the color of castor oil. When this yellow substance is put In n botlle it settles In the bottom of the bottle, bot-tle, and a substance like oil raises and floats on top. When this yellow substance Ib put on a stove and heated It forms a banks of the springs; It has an oily sub-heated sub-heated looks like blistered paint SUBSCRIBER NO. 20. If oil Is present. May be a hydrocarbon. hydrocar-bon. Would advlso to have samples analyzed ana-lyzed by competent chemist. INFORMATION. A boot-blacking machlno has been Invented. In-vented. It Is said that In Australia thero Is a regular traffic in lending engagement rings. In most Japanese mills tho hours are from fi a. m. to S p. m., and there Is rib Supday off. When tho lofty palm tree of Tellan puts forth Its flowers the sheath bursts with a report like a pltol. The natives In China cat very little butchers' meat, except pork. Poultry is abundant; also game. There are more accidental deaths from drowning every year In most countries than from any other .cause. An elephant has so delicate' a. sense of smell that when In a wild stale It can scout an enemy at a distance of 10C0 yards. . , London's Lord Mayors have, during, the past decade, collected more than $100,001,-000 $100,001,-000 for charitable and benevolent purposes. pur-poses. It costs London 20 a year to educato a child In school, in Germany the average cost Is about m, in Now York about $31. Cork, though the most buoyant substance, sub-stance, will not rise to the surraco again If sunk 100 feet below the ocean's surface, owing to the great pressure of the water. A homing pigeon, five months old at tho time, was released on the Isle of Man In August. 1903. It wns long ago given up for lost. At last it has returned to Its loft in Liverpool. Tho British naval officers who helped entertain the French fleet recently at Portsmouth expected to receive crosses from the French Government, but they received only souvenir paper knives. After thirteen years spent In its construction, con-struction, the new Croton dam Is completed. com-pleted. It will hold 30.000.000,000 gallons. This Is enough to supply New York city for 100 days without drawing on any other supply. It Is believed that a pleco of wood unearthed un-earthed In excavating for tho foundation cf a big office building, near the lower ond of Manhattan Island, muet havo come from a treo which stood where New York is now, before the glacial period In North America, In' the unending controversy as to tho reasoning powers of animals, tho weight of numbers Inclines, moro and more, against tho eminent naturalists who hold with John Burroughs, that Instinct Is nearly tho solo guide and reason plays an extromejy small part. Mohammed Ben Tema, a young Moorish Moor-ish grandee, has gone mad from unavailing unavail-ing offorts to keep three wives together In peace and seclusion in a flat In Farls. Mohammed goes to an asylum and his wives co back to Tangier. It Is truo that iX) per cent of tho deathB among the Sioux and Yankton Indiana now are from tuberculosis, and It Is also true that fifty years ago tuberculosis was unknown among the Indians, and has fastened upon them only since tho coming com-ing of tho white man to Dakota. Tho longest brldgo in the world Is that crossing the Danube at Czcrnavoda, with a length of 12.705 feet; followed noxt by tho Galveston bay bridge, In Texas, with 11,191 feet The Firth of Forth bridge, near Quecnsprlng, In Scotland, ranks eighth, and the Brooklyn bridge ninth Henry Hearth fold of Cardiff, Wales, was accused of stealing lead from a roof, and broke Jail and lied. After he had traveled 20.000 miles he surrendered and was tried on tho charge of theft and acquitted. ac-quitted. But he was hold for trial for escaping from prison A Viennese, whose larynx was cut out for cancer, has Invented a opcaking pipe with artificial vocal chords, which ho Inserts In-serts in his throat when he wishes to speak. He spoko before the Vlcnneso Medical society at Its last meeting. Tho voice Is a high falsetto, but what ho said wns easily understood. In on attempt to liquefy helium." Prof. Olszewski recently produced tho remark- ably low temperature of 455 degrees below be-low F-ihrenhelt "-lr was donr bv suddenly sud-denly expanding -a mass of the gas ho-llum ho-llum which had been subjected Ho a pressure of about 2700 pounds to the square Inch In a temperature to low that It nearly solidified hydrogen. Tho helium showed no elgn of liquefying. |
