Show ANSWERS TO CORRESPGN < S S DENTS J Counry correspondence while al ways welcome is sometimes peculiar pe-culiar in that it requires more thought to digest than to compile it Several have been submitted to me of which I wish to refer as briefly as possible to a few samples J WJ > writing from the Third ward of Chicken Creek wants to know why more space is not devoted to his town The reason is doubtless doubt-less that the town already oceupies more space than it can fill HUSTLER Nineteenth WardnIB it against the law to shoot snipe now rYes r-Yes there is not only a Hw against but an objection to it also The snipe themselves are the authors au-thors cf both I J JONES of Mill Cre k wanta to know the meaning of the word Semiramide which figured in the programme of the P tU concert here Semi means half it therefore follows that Ssmrainide means half of a ramide W W WIs there a comet vjsibls now There isA If W do dOJ will select 1 quiet cloudless cloud-less evcning and point a powerful power-ful telescope ac that place in the firmament where the planet Venus cuts the ecliptic diverging angularly angu-larly towards the ssdiac some 32 aegrees frjrn the node of line 15 of the radius Vector and almost immediately imme-diately abreast of the planoconvex point of the eatba elliptical ellip-tical orbit direc ly under the s gu of Teuru by Gena e be will sap a comet when I hut took an observation ob-servation I saw two comets but did not get the Wanner prize S for even en > ALEXANDER In what year dd George Washington aie and are any of his known relatives alive T G W departed in the year 1799 and all his relatives he hsd no children chil-dren neither had hia wife have departed de-parted to diamond tipped hence several l hndred of his ody servants still live however SLUGGER Will Sullivan aver i enter the ring again Not if there is any fighting going on STATESMAN What is the salary of a member of Congress That depends largely on the size of the prevailing job A member wba understands his business ana can control one or more votes is regarded at tbe capital as a povertystricken wretch if his income falls short of 100000 a year Active competition competi-tion at times reduces the figure somewhat but if it is a gocd year for busines the total receipts of an ablebodied congressman will not fall much below the above figure ADELE Beaver Please inform me where or in what the words Too beautiful to last occur They were written by a hoosier named Balfe and can be found in a composition known sa the Bohemian Bohe-mian Girt which I have been to see very often It or she or that or whatever you call it is an ope a a very gooJ opera indeed If it baa not been presented in Beaver your I town is behind the times The plot la brieflyA man infant daughter by his first wife is abducted by Ku Klux and becomes a female moon shiner A promising youth with J James proclivities wins her heart and some other valuables while a somewhat ancient damsel belonging to the gang has a mortgage on him which she desires to foreclose the 1 law provides He however prefers the foundling and discards tbe a d who In despair perforates herself her-self with a dagger and dies clcee to the foo iighls It 1is then disclosed tht lLe abducted girl is the daughter of a Governor aLa aL-a loyal State while the youth was a colonel in the Confederate army He gets there all the Bame and it is during the time that she 13 serving her apprenticeship with the moon shiners that her fatherejaculates the worth you quote ANDREW JWhst fs > tbepress ent population of the globe 1500000000 If you had deferred this question a few weeks I am tolerably tol-erably safe in saying the figure would be IjSOOjOjOjOOl EDITlluWhn was he author of Enoch Ardent 11 While there may se3 as there Eometimea is in such matters some little doubt in relation the subject there is a general LeiefthRt Mr and Mrs Ardon had something to 5 > 3 do with it S XENOPHO Who is your personal per-sonal preferenca for President S ESSAY CAIGH S 5 L |