Show t j I How old was CNA Culbcrson when 1 first elected Governor of TCXaSD Thirtynine S When did the resumption of specie payments go into effect Inquirer i January 1 1879 S S i What la the age of James Lane AlIenB P C Fiftytwo he was born March 3 1 1S4S r S S i How many Manchurlan Emperors L has China hadTac The present Emperor is the ninth of the Maiichu dynasty o l Who at present ranks the other In our navy Schlcy or Sampson E C V Schley of our eighteen HoarAd mirals he IE eighth Sampson Is tenth What is the onemile pacing record and what horse made it1Italy One minute G9i seconds by Star Pointer at Terre Haute Ind September L Septem-ber 28 1S97 A running horse accompanied ac-companied the pacerS Mammoth August 30th I Editor Tribune Which has the c greatest number of square miles within it Its boundaries the United States including in-cluding Alaska or Canada Of coursu 1L United States means the admitted I States and Territories the continent of North America and Canada means I the Dominion of Canada on the continent con-tinent of North America Subscriber ii The official area of the United States and Territories given In tho census 2 reports of 1890 3025600 square miles but this did not Include Alaska which has never been surveyed except small bits here and there but whose area Is 1 2 variously estimated at 577390 to 5S0 I t1 000 square miles putting it at the lat the of this coun tel figure gross area I I Ii try as per the terms of the question is 3605600 square miles The area of the II Dominion of Canada Is given In the n Statesmans Year Book at 3G5301G Ii square miles So Canada Is the larger u a c l Salt Lake City Utah August 29th z Editor Tribune Does the hair from n horses mane or tall when placed in water turn Into a hair snake and If i not what is a hair snalceC A D X It docs ndta hair snake Webster defines the hair snakesee Gordfus asa L as-a germ of long slender nematold body like a thread or cord worms parasitic in insects until near maturity when they leave the Insect and live in water In which they deposit their eggs Called also hair eel hair worm and hair snake from the absurd but common and widely diffused notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs I bi u u U L What were the date and place of the birth and the death of Justus H I Hathhone founder of the Knights of Pythias D SHe S-He was born In Deerfleld N Y October 1839anddlcd at Lima O December 9 I860 I What is meant by filled cheese and What is Its quautYJ W A cheese made from skimmilk with E beef or hog fat added When carefully made such cheese has an excellent j flavor for a time but it soon spoils badly I it S S SHow S-How fast can an electric car be made to goC M I Undoubtedly as fast as a car can jr be drawn by a locomotive and faster According to the claims of electrical I engineers A rate of 130 miles an hour has been attained experimentally I go Where can I enlist in the navy as a 11 marine What pay do marines receive re-ceive Reader c At any navy yard The pay is 13 iii a month for the first two years 11 i for the third 15 for the fourth and 16 for the fifth year I o o U LS Pocatello Ida August 26th Editor Tribune Will you please answer r an-swer In next Sundays paper to decide a wager was It In A Trip to Africa L presented by the Home Opera company or In Frank Daniels Wizard of the Nile that the scene of The overflow of the Nile was produced S P W 711 Authorities say uATrlp to Africa has never been produced hero without a scene showing The overflow of the t 1 Nile lii A subscriber at Alt Pleasant Utah Inquired some time since about the average dally wages of the wage < arn l em of the United States It has taken j Borne time to trace the matter and no i compact statement that could be made in reasonable space for newspaper use has yet been found Nor would a throwing throw-ing together of general averages he o C any special value In the way of infor c iriatlon Tho Department of Labors Annual Report the eleventh for 1S95 9 tabulates the earnings labor In the various occupations In the aevern I States nnd classifies comparatively by occupation but does not make occu1lton malte a compact com-pact general average for the country A copy of this report could no doub be obtained by addressing Hon Carroll Car-roll D Wright Commissioner oC Labor Washington D CHow o 5 C j How much duly wouldthere be on about fec yards of silk Imported from G ermanytrs C II Probably about 60 per cent at Ito value The silk schedules 6f the Ding I ley tariff are cohiplcx the rate do i pending In most cases on weave 4 weight and color S i S il s What is the cause of quicksands d S A L Water more commonly water with an upward current Dry or moist I f sand will become compact under pressure j press-ure but when there is BO much o C 1 water as to hold the grains apart pressure creates but little friction and the mass yields S S What grease Is i used In socallcc d castle soap 2 And what la used < I to color the red kindsL B OUvc oil and to render It soft enough so it will not crumble some rapeseed oil Is added 2 Sulphide of iron which turns red from oridization on exposure I ex-posure to the air n S i How Is quicksilver used in the g separation of goldD L H In vlfiles or grooves and on amalgamated 4 amalga-mated metal plates I arrests the finest particles of gold by unltin g them in an amalgam From this the quicksilver Is expelled by heat leaving C leav-ing the gold In a spongy form that is i 1 melted and cast Into Ingots j How many available vessels has the United States navyT Y B 1 The latest issue of tho navy re riialer gives J of the first rate 19 sec cond rate 17 third rate 7C fourth rate 21 torpedo boats 10 tugs G wooden sailing I ti sail-ing vessels and G receiving ships Ten unserviceable wooden vessels and G3 ii craft now building b e are listed Will Iron beams or plllarn break A under oftrepeated strains no one of ti which by itself would teat the iron r severelyt t Yes though the strain must exce edits what Is called the elastic limit Th ed-its i la I much less than the breaking strain Tho effect of repetitions Is to change the grain of the Iron rendering it fi cranular and brittle brtte v Was Justice Bradley of the Electoral commission considered independent in politics 2 Did Chief Justice Fifllcr vote against tho Income tax IawT W P No before the Civil war he was a Whig during It he was 0 supporter of the Union and in 1868 he headed the electoral tlokct for Grant He Is classed by some of his biographers asa as-a moderate Republican 2 He did delivering the opinion for theinajorlly of the court Q Boise Idn Aug 25 1 What Is tho best way to takeout take-out siccd warts 2 When was the fijst Idaho Legislature held 7 1 Some people 1 burn them out with lunar caustic and then apply collodion This Is not always n cure and Is painful pain-ful BcttCi scu a physician 2 Met In i December 1890 1890a Bingham Utah Aug 2Sth Editor Tribune To decide a bet p lease stale In your Questions and Answers An-swers column of Sunday the dale of St the FHzsImmonJefirlcs fight Subscriber Sub-scriber I occurred at Coney Island June 9 1S99 S S Provo Aug 30th Editor Tribune To settle a dispute will you please answer the following In i next Sundays Tribune 1 Did tho Mormon pioneers plant and mature either wheat oats or barley acer their arrival In the Salt Lake valley the season of 1S17 2 When and wbcra was the Hist white settlement made In Utah Constant Reader 1 No By the middle of Septem ber 1817 the pioneers had built twen I tyseven 10S houses and planted I elght four acres with corn beans potatoes po-tatoes buckwheat turnips etc Much of these matured but little of It was used n food I being considered advisable ad-visable to save as much as possible for seed No wheat oats or barley were sown that year 2 Provo Utah valley was settled a It I was then termed according to Jensens Church Chronology which I Is i deemed authentic on loS IS 1819 I was known as Fort Utah for a time that prefix being usually applied to all the Mormon settlements a s Who were the Senators who voted against conviction in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson A 0 R James A Bayard Charles R Buck alcw Garrett Davis James DIxon James R Doollttle William Pitt Fes sendcn Joseph Smith Fowler James W Grimes John Henderson Thomas Thom-as A HendrIcks Reverdy Johnson Thomas C McCrecry Daniel S Nor ton David T Patterson Edmund G Ross Wlllard Saulsbury Lyman mal Trumbull Peter Gf Van Winkle and George VIckers S OS In England Is Queens counsel the same ourprosecutors for the State Chamberlain No he may be employed by anyone but must secure an especial license to I act against the crown Unless associated asso-ciated In a case with t Queenscoun I sel of higher standing he Is considered senior counsel In that case and he Is entitled to larger fees than Is an or dinary barrister 01 I q S SPark I S-Park City Aug 31 1900 Editor Tribune Has there ever been a murder case that Judgment has been I passed on in the Supreme court of the State carried to the S r Supreme court of the United States or can such a case I i be carried I so please state n par I ticularp A Read r lcuJa11 There was a number of them from Utah while this State was a Territory unden a law of Congress establishing such direct appeal in capital cases from the Territorial Supreme court But such appeal docs not lie from the State Supreme court the only way to get suchn case before the United States Supreme court now would be through a writ of error S S S Mercur Aug 31 1900 Editor Tribune m your answers to I correspondents will you please answer the following 1 Who I the highest officer outside of President In the United Slates army and what is his title 2 How many Generals ha the United L States had and who were theyW S S The grade of General was established for Gon Washington then revived for Gen Grant who held J when elected L President then he resigned It and Gen Sherman was appointed General and Gen Sheridan was appointed to that rank before he died S c 5 p Bingham Junction Aug 31 1900 Editor Tribune What Is the average time Ogden for and h San passenger Francisco train between 2 How long does It take to go by steamer from San Francisco to Cape N meH G 0 Thirty hours 2 Nine days 5 S S Is a settler on United States homestead S home-stead claim who served in the Spanish war entitled to reductlpn of the time during which the claim must he lived upon and Improved ExSoldier Yes the act of Juno 1C 1898 provided pro-vided for him His term oC actual service ser-vice Is construed as the qulvalent of I actual 1 residence and cull alon of the claim and If he was discharged for wounds or disability received In actual service his entire term of enlistment Is deducted but he mustn i any cane live upon and cultivate his clalrn for one year before patent will Issuel C W Will you print a sketch of Alphonso o de Nouvllle Studious Yes lie was bprn at St Omcr PiTh deCalals France May 31 183C and began life as n lawyer but gave up law for the study of art chiefly under Francois Edouaid PIcot He received inedalB at tho Salons of 1859 and 1SG1 and with pictures of scenes from the FrancoGerman war took highest rank t aa painter of battle scenes In 1SS1 ho was made an officer of the Legion of Honor He died at Paris May 20 1SS5 One of his finest paintings The Defense of Lo Bourget is In the W H VanderbIlt collection at New York S S SIs S-Is It true that railroad rails laid on a bridge arc moved by the parsing of trains In the direction of the trains B A TRails T-Rails supported only under the lower flange will creep sometimes on Sand S-and bridges b lt n remedy has been found In supporting them from the head Until this point was discovered creeping was a serious mater in some places At the St Louis bridge It atone at-one tlnjOv amounted to n foot n day In I a track length of 4100 feet and necessitated necessi-tated the employment of workmen to put In short longthsof rail at one end and to take them out at the other What was me Mississippi banking j schemcG M M A French banking and commercial commercal scheme that ended In wild speculation and failure I was organized by John Law at Paris in 1717 Its object was to relieve the disordered French llnanpes Beginning as a private bank It j became a royal bank and was linked to a commercial company lo which the entire American province of Louisiana was granted I Issued paper pa-per money with extraordinary liberality liberal-ity and at the height of Its success Its shares sold for thirty to forty times their ace Early In 1720 the bubble burst and general distress and bankruptcy bank-ruptcy followed Is there a dovlce by which the speed of a vessel at sea can be determined without taklnff observations or making soundings I BO is It absolutely accurate ac-curate H W O i The log docs thin with fairly satis factory but not absolute accuracy I consists of a float and a line wound on an easily runnjng reel The line Is marked In divisions equal to one one hundred and twentieth of a nautical mile Line and lloat are thrown over board and the number of divisiOns unwound un-wound while the snnd In a halfcmlnute glass runs Indicates the speed In nautical nau-tical miles per hour Socalled patent logs are an Improvement on this device I clple but work on the same gencrniyprln j I |