Show What 13 the size of China In square miles and population Clcmson The area Is 1218JOi square miles the Copulation 402650030 What are the height and full spread pf wins of the South American condor J K 1 It is about three and a half feet Mgh and the spread of wing Is about pine feet v Is there ouch a book as a collection I bf words that rhyme for the use of versewriters If so where can I get ne1J B H Rhyming dictionaries are to be had 3f booksellers What Is the record for fast locomotives locomo-tives 2 What did the New York Central engine 999 make Two and fourtenths miles at the rate of 130 miles an hour 2 Ono mile In 32 seconds or 1126 miles an hour It drew four heavy cars When where and by whom were the Cremona violins mndeG Cremona is an Italian city Its famous fa-mous violin makers were the Amatls 3500 to 1C20 and the Guarnerls and the Stradivari 1C70172S All these makes of violins the third and first especially have been counterfeited widely Salt Lake July 24 Editor Tribune Will you kindly tell me who won the championship for cakewalk at Saltalr Kings Carnival day last summer 2 Why are valuables valua-bles placed under a cornerstone 3 What Is the proper pronunciation of Tien TIn Reader 1 No ruch clay as Kings Carnival day Is shown on the companys books for last year At the brokers midsummer midsum-mer mask carnival July 21 1S99 a cakewalk prize of S20 was awarded to Miss Condlc and Mr Burn and at the merchants carnival August ICth the first prize was given to Miss Condle and Mr SImpkns 2 Valuables are not placed under cornerstones but ar ticles that will have a historic value If uncovered by future generations Teen Tseen Are men being enlisted to go to China as soldiers If so what place Sumter Recruiting Is going on at all regular army recruiting stations When a re cruit expresses a wish for service in China or the Philippines a ncte Is made of the fact and wherever practicable which at present Is usually he is so I assigned as to meet the wish o Who was MomusA B According to Greek mythology he was a son of Night and the personification personifica-tion of mockery and censure The only being he found blameless was Aphrodite I Aphro-dite and the discovery so angered him that he burst Tbe date of the paper you describe we cannot tell Jt Is suggestive I I sug-gestive of sovereigns with assumed names and other foolery of the carnival carni-val I Ogden Aug 1 1900 Editor Tribune Will iou please tell me In your Question and Answer column col-umn what Is good for destroying roachcsAS Williams Sprinkle boracic acid in the cracks and crevices where the insects are t o Salt Lake City Aug 3 1900 Editor Tribune Please state in Sundays paper If Chinese children born In this country are citizens and votersH They are citizens and voters when they become of age the laws against Chinamen In this matter arc against their naturalization s e t Can you give an example of a noted person who was precociously learned as a child Disputant I Take John Stuart Mill his education was directed by his father with a view I to precocious development The child began to study Greek when three years I old at S was reading Xenophon and Herodotus and when 12 had read the loading Latin and Greek poets essayIsts I essay-Ists orators and dramatists These courses had been mixed too with higher mathematics history and ex perimental science How long have Inventors been ex perimenting In submarine boats S If y Over 300 years William Bourne of London England had a plan for submarine sub-marine navigation In 1578 Following him were several men with complex schemes and in 1771 Capt David Bush nell an Arneilcan engineer ofllcer devised de-vised a submarine torpedo craft Five years later It nearly destroyed Lord Howes flagship in New York harbor What Is the origin of the tIts name Quaker = R HIlls H-Ills often explained on the basis of physical excitement during worship but George Fox whose biography lathe la-the history of early Quakciism states that Justice Bennett was the first that called us Quakers because I bade him tremble at the word of the Lord The sect first called themselves the Friends of Truth and later the Society I of Friends What Is meant In shipping news by LloydsG F F Reference had usually to the first floor of the Royalj Exchange London where is a center of maritime insurance Insur-ance and where shipping intelligence from all parts of the world Is posted The name comes from a coffeehouse kept In the seventh century by Edward Ed-ward Lloyd which became a headquarters headquar-ters for marine underwriters but Is applied also to Insurance headquarters in continental cities of Europe 4 What of Waldteufel the musician What quality in Carols paintings was most potent In bringing him fame Inquirer Emil Waldteufel is a remarkably prolific composer of dance music In ten years he composed over 200 waltzes polkas and the like 2 Their truth to nature Critics who deem his pictures slight and his drawings vague credit them with being always highly poetical and full of the freshness and calm of nature at the time he chose to represent It I How was It that Commodore Dewey I happened to be In the Eaat Just prior to the Spanish war and how long had he been there 2 What do the initials g i H M S mean 3 What does the abbreviation l ab-breviation Mgr signify 1V A SHe S-He was assigned to command of the Asiatic squadron November 30 1897 resuming sea service at his own request re-quest 2 2 Ills or her Majestys ship or service Monsignor Italian for I my lord a title given to prelates In the Roman Catholic church and to priests connected with tho pontifical court 8 Ogden Aug 2Edltor Tribune Please give some of the most Important Impor-tant assassinations in recent tlmesB The following list is fairly complete for the present century Abraham Lincoln President of the United States shot by J Wilkes Booth at Ford theater Washington April 11 ISC5 Michael Prince of Scrvla June 10 1SCSCount Count Rossi the Papal Minister of Justice assassinated November 15 1SJS Charles IlL of Parma assassinated March 27 1S51 Juan Prim Marshal of Spain shot In streets of Madrid at night December Decem-ber 28 1870 Abdul Aziz Sultan of Turkey assassinated assas-sinated June 4 1S7C His assassins were convicted sentenced and afterward after-ward reprieved Alexander JI Czar of Russia assassinated as-sassinated March 13 1881 James A Garfield President of the United States shot by Charles J Gullcau in the Pennsylvania depot at Washington July 2 1SS1 Paul Czar of Russia March 24 1801 Carter Harrison of Chicago father of present Mayor assassinated October Octo-ber 28 3S93 aged 68 by Prendergast Sadl Cannot President of France assassinated as-sassinated June 21 1894 while visiting Lyons exhibition by a young Italian anarchist named Santo Caaerio NaslrEdDln Shah of Persia May 1 1S9G e Bordn J Idlarte President of Uruguay Uru-guay August 1897 Canovas Del Castillo Premier of Spain 1898 Elizabeth Empress of Austria In Switzerland 1S98 President Hcureus of San Domingo assassinated July 26 1S99 King Humbert of Italy July 29 1900 G Will you give information about Robert Louis Stevenson L D I He was born In Scotland November 13 1850 His ancestors had for three generations been conspicuous civil engineers = en-gineers and he was intended for the I same profession but after graduating at the University of Edinburgh was admitted to the Scottish bar He did 1 no practice and as early as 1878 attracted I at-tracted attention with sketchy writings I writ-Ings Then came romances essays I verses and sketches He traveled much in search of health and often wrote from a sick bed on cars or at sea For 1 everal years he lived In the South Sea is ands dying at Valllma Samoan Islands December 3189i IS I A F EThe Tower qf London England was originally a palace next was a fortress and afterward was a prison It Isa group of Irregular buildings of many dates and stands on the bank of the Thames a little below Lond bridge It Is quite out of the leaning tower class An Observer Ob-server Of Jupiters five moons one can only I be seen with very powerful telescopes The other four may be studied with telescopes of moderate size and may be seen through an average aver-age operaglass Ignorance Following the battle of Monmouth Gen Charles Lee made a disrespectful reference to Washington Thereupon Col John Laurens challenged him to a duel fought and wounded him 4 Salt Lake July 31 Editor Tribune Can an alien be compelled to pay poll taxQuerulous Yes Where Is the Garden of the Gods 2 To what depth does a mans farm extend 7J M GIn G-In Colorado near Colorado Springs and Manitou 2 The right of property prop-erty In land Is unlimited In extent reaching to an Indefinite distance above and below the surface yet this Is qualified by the principle that a man make only such use of his land as will permit a neighbor due and reasonable rea-sonable enjoyment of the hitters land Thus a landowner not excavate I so far as withdraw the natural support sup-port of a neighbors premises nor Interfere In-terfere unreasonably with a watercourse water-course that passes over anothers land How and when did the United States get possession of the statue of Liberty I 2 In a game of chess may a white I pawn be promoted to a queen when there Is a white queen on the boardS board-S J W I The statue was paid for by a popular subscription in France and was given to this country as a memorial to the fraternal feeling existing between the two nations On July 4 1SSO It was formally delivered to the American Minister at Paris By popular subscription subscrip-tion and other methods SSOOOflO were raised here for Its pedestal the Government Gov-ernment setting edlocS island New York harbor apart for It It was unveiled un-veiled October 281886 2 Yes a player may have two or more queens f S Will you explain the difference between be-tween a pound net and a gill netSV C F The flrst consists of a net extending I from bottom to surface usually and j running at right angles from the shore into deeper water At the outer end 1 which may be from 600 to 2500 feet from shore Is a square Inclosure Fish strike the first net and follow It to the pound where they remain alive till taken out The gill net has a mesh Into which the desired size of fish can stick his head but whl h will not admit of the passage of his body After striking It a fish struggles tp get through until caught by the gills Such nets usually are buoyed at the top weighted at the bottomand are left upright in water much deeper than their width 1 How Is the velocity of a rifle ball ascertained 2 Who Invented1 smoke less powder 3 Is 111cra such a thing as noiseless powder If so Is It a succes9A R S By measuring the time required for It to pass over a short measured space As near to the gun as practicable prac-ticable Is one screen and a I known distance away is another Both are electrically connected with an apparatus appa-ratus that records to the smallest fraction of a second the moment when the electric connection Is I cut Aa tho ball cuts both connections the time It takes In traversing the distance is shown Usually the time measurement measure-ment Is taken by noting how far a weight relensed by cutting the flrst screen drops before the second screen Is struck 2 Many men have announced an-nounced formulas or1 it and those that proved practicable are not a few 3 One has been advanced recently but It has not had thorough olllclu1 tests |