Show Vimt Is meant by the open door f tls L 1 Equal facilities for all countries to trftflu S S 5 s Why Is China called the CelestIal Kingdom J W M Because of the Chinamans belief that his omplrt was established by the au S r ihority of heaven u Salt Lake Clty March IGth f Editor Tribune Who was the au thor of the olfl English song The IXT j Grccn Subscriber J Dickens 11 Is 1 In chapter 6 t of the Plclcwlck Papers Salt Lake March llth t Please answer through Questions and I Answers column what rights c gardener has against chlckuis Can Ihe owner of chickens be compelled to house his I Ip S chickens In order to protect your garden against chickens what la ncc Gftuiry to do Stranger Owners of fowls are required by city S ordinance to kcop said fowls from running run-ning at large during the I months from March 1st to October Jlat of each year Violators of the ordinance arc suhjccc to a line in a sum not exceeding 510 S Ogden March 15th I Editor Tribune Please give the origin I or-igin of socalled Irish potato and oblige subscribers SIt I S S-It was native to Chile and Peru andS and-S Is generally thought to have been taken ta-ken to England first by Sir JohnS liaw John-S klns In 1CG5 though others give this S credit to Sir Francis Drake In 15SC Sir Walter Raleigh llrsi Introduced Its S culture In Ireland on his estates neap S Cork S f Who were the parents of Winston Churchill the South African correspondent corre-spondent Pro S The late fltghut lion Lord Randolph I Churchill and Lady Randolph ChurchIll S Church-Ill q B A Aluminum Is an element and l occurs abundantly In many forms the moat abundant of all being clay In L which It Is present as silicate > I Grand Junction Cojo March lOih Editor Tribune Does a person sell lug an article he manufactures himself have to pay a license In canvassing Was not the tax on agents declared Illegal by some Justice of the Suprcmu I court Please answer in your Sundays S Sun-days edition G ItS It-S By statute the County Commission 5 era of every county In Utah arc empowered em-powered to exact a license for the carrying S car-rying on of any lawful business The Commissioners may enact an ordinance I requiring parlies who canvass and sell their own products or manufactured S article If they choose and it would be legal The Supreme court has not declared I de-clared that a lax so levied on canvassers can-vassers Is Illegal It did however decide 1 de-cide that the County Commissioners k of Summit county had enacted a license S li-cense ordinance which was illegal on account of some technicality not having I hav-ing been compiled with and that the lax could not be collected in that county coun-ty until a legal ordinance was enacted I I I The United States Supreme court tieS tie-S cision In the noled Slaushterhouse case from New Orleans was not held to apply 10 this point lv Tucker Utah county March 11 Hi I Editor Tribune Who is Frances E L Wlllard What has she done to become be-come so distinguished Where can IIi l Ii procure her history also her photo I large size An Old Subscriber t She was one of the great women of S America Her fame rests in her Christian I Chris-tian temperance work and her elllclcni presidency of the Christian Temperance union You can getbooks about her at l any general bookstore i What are the origin and value of 1 palmistry Ignorance I The origin is unknown but the so called science was much cultivated In I times of great antiquity Its valueas I a diversion is unquestionable a 1 4 When and whore was the play of Uncle Toms Cabin Urst produced J T L The first performance of which we find record was on August 24 1852 at the Chatham theater New York city 5 o S S l Wlllard March 9lh S Editor Tribune Was the ship that was sunk In Santiago harbor the same ono that had a fight with the MonitorS Monitor-S In the Civil war 2 Who would be V called heroes in our late war with I Spain 3 How can 1 get Into the 2 navy I am now 21 years old 4 1 Will I I T have a chance to register to vote for Hammond In the coming election three iI cheers for Hammond If so where 5 I How many warships of all kinds has t the United Stales Spain Germany England France and Russia 7Robert Punch No 2 Any who rendered dlstln gulshort service at special risk of death 3 Write to Commandant of Mare Island 1 Isl-and naval station Yallejo Cal who J will furnish you with the Information 4 No way of now registration for the I special election has yet been pointed S out not even for the transfer of voters name to another district with which he has moved 3 The aggregate of all vessels of the United States navy in service and under construction Is 312 S S Spain has 103 excluding tralnlngshlps transports and noneffective vessels I Germany 173 excluding old and non effcctivo vessels and Iransports l British Empire 110 excluding InelTec live vessels France 259 Russia 13S besides 51 buildIngS building-S S S I Albany Ida March lotlu I Editor Tribune Please inform me In your next what Is meant by the Tundra as spoken of In regard lo the Capo Nome placer diggings 11 J1L A It Is a Russian word originally ap plied to the rolling plains of Siberia that arc covered with moss and arc marshy It has now come to bo applied ap-plied to the frozpn mossy plains of the theS north generally that lie low and contiguous S con-tiguous to the sea coast What Is ginseng and what is it used for F St S I It Is the root of a plant that Is valued highly as a medicine In China Aralla I Qulnqucfolia Is the name of the Amor lean variety 4I I S I What Is the present duly on dia 5 monds Aberdeen S Uncut diamonds are free cut but not set they pay 10 per cent ad valorem I and LMII and sot the rate is CO nor cent I ad valorem S I Twin Bridges Mont March IVth I Editor Tribune I wee In your Ques I tions and Answers February IHh was S asked by a Brlgham man Docs the top of n wagon wheel when rolling on uu I ground run faster than the bottom you answer No February 27th F w S J nicks It upand asks will you pleasu L explain why the top does not move faster fast-er than the bottom and oblige several I of your subscribers Your explanation ex-planation does not agree with my un derstanding from the fact that the u center of gravity Is the center of the u Journal or arm of the axletrce and as t the bearing of same In the wheels la on the bottom side of Journal or arm which moves the center of gravity just I half the thickness of the size of journal jour-nal or arm hence the top of the wheel St moves or goes faster than the hot S torn in traveling the circumference If 1 you will observe the top of a wagon wheel always slings or throws tin mud and dust for the simple reason the instant It turns lo go down It i S plagkena Its spccd4 I have never con LL sulted any Htandaid authority upon 1hln hut bclns an old stager since 1832 commentIng with omc of the old National Pike from Philadelphia to PltLiburg peopleor stages I have always al-ways understood as above statort Plojjse look the mailer up carefully ana oblige a constant reader of The Tribune Trib-une K M PAs S S S As showing the great interest taken In this department we have a dozen corrections of he cribbage count erroneously er-roneously answered herein last week The query wan If a player hold two sixes and two treys and a trey is turned up how many can he count Wo answered fourteen But our crlUcs show that this was wrong hus C 5 plums C phiK 1 equal 151 C plus C I pluB 1 equal lrr2 I G 4 plus ft pin 3 equal 1o2 R I plus 3 plus 3 plus 0 equal lc2 r hIlls 3 i plus 3 plus 3 equal 102 A pair Threo of n kind U i Total 1 S SS Who was the author of the song Annie LaurIe and what was his na tlonalily II L W Brewer places the authorship with Vllliam Douglas of Flugland Kirk udbrlght a Scotchman and stales that Lady John Scott wisite the tnOfllc o o SIS S-Is there any duty on I H or coflVt Imported into the United States1 STet S-Tet and coffee were kpt on tlio free list by the DingUy tariff bill bUt the war revenue bill nut a lax of 1T > cents a yound on tea imported from foreign countries S S r Editor Trlhuim1 How many inhabitants in-habitants docs a lown require to be entitled lo a poatoinpc J2 What i necessary to establish tt ostnflnv i In si small place 3 l What profoiiur would out have to follow lo I gef a paymasters pay-masters appointment 1 What salary sal-ary do postmasters get In very small cttlcniLnls and about uhat would the commission be IK It necessary for a new appoIuUre to enter an cufliie to learn tho rules or arc thiro writ if n Instructions furnished him G Ones the Liovorninent furnish any part oi pnslofllee furniture Know Nothing 5 H 1 There Is no fixed number 121 In 1 quiry of the PostmasterJon will bring a suitable answer < J Iinpnss I Ihe PoqtnuiHterGiMieral with the llt ness of applicant for tht position f I lie receives a commission on Uu sale of stamps mi HIP flrsl 0 worth lot per cent per quarter on the next 5100 or less CO per cent per quarler on Ihc noxl 200 or leas CO per cent per quarter quar-ter on tim balance 10 per edit per quarter 5 Full Instructions I arc giv un G Not In small offices S o S Park City March loih Editor Tribune Pleane till me how many Inhabitants I is required i i lo iave a free delivery and how to jjiotctd to S get samcj Answer In Sundays Tribune Trib-une I and Kindly oblige Constant Reader Read-er erS Permissible where the population Is not less than 10000 or where the S-pos postal revenue for Ihe proccdlng fiscal year was nol less Hum SIWO tal-manda mandatory where the populallon Iu 1 00000 01 jvver As to procedure apply to the PostnmslcrOeneral S S S What Is the cost of one each of the first Class battleships and iliat class cruisers now under construction W J The protected cruicrs of the Gal vcston Cleveland Chattanooga Des Mollies and Denver type are lo cost ML0000 each The cost of the batlleshlps now building runs from 2 250000 to 2859000 4 S S Where was John Paul Jones born S where did he die and where was he burled And what were the dales W B lie was born al Arblgkuid on the Klrlh of Solxvay in Scotland July 1 tj 1711 Ho died nl Paris July IS 170 and xvas burled In ilml city V VS flow many foreigners immigrated to the United States from 1870 to 1PSO from 1S80 to 1S90Aiso since 18007 L T From 1S70 to 3S60 they numbered 2 712137 for the next ten years they xverc 52JSuGS and aincc then up lo June 30lh of last year there have been 3 L 51150 9f them S S S Salt Lake City March 13th Editor Tribune A lady citizen who Is entitled to vole and who was reg istered and voted In the last election here has since married and moved out of the precinct In xvhich she lived al that lime She wishes lo vole on the coming election Shall she vote m the precinct In whIch she last voted and under her maiden mime or In her present pres-ent precinct and under her present name which Is unregistered Judy The question as to whether or not persons xvho have removed from the precinct xvherc they last voted arc en tltlcd lo vote at the crisulhg election Is being looked Into by attorneys Jf i you arc allowed lo vote you should use your present nameS name-S S S Editor Tribune In playing pitch If the dealer bids four does not the dealer Imve the opllon of refusing lie bid and If he does not make four points tile only penalty is losing fotuuThue Antlers Hoyle says the eldest hand sells and musi ellhrM accept hue number bid or pitch the minin himself and mako ns many polnta as the highest bidder of I feted him e A s says giant poxvder or dynamite exploding ex-ploding xvlll xxotU doxvnxvard with moat of Itii force B that the power Is equal on all sides Which is rlghtC A II 5 B Is right uut owing to the Instan 5 lancousncss of such an explosion Its effect Is apparent In the direction of greatest resistance Thus dynamite exploded on top tit the ground Is described de-scribed as xvorklmj downxvnrd < l O a Salt Lake City March Mth Editor Tribune How far Is It from Salt Lakfe to Portland Or by xvagon road What In the general route and through what cities does It pass Reader It Is a llttlo over 000 miles by the ivaponroad which follojVB the railroad lo a Inrge extentS therailroad takln the route of the beat Oregon road of older daya The Oregon Trull of sixty yours ago Thin route would mean a trip through the settlements hctwoou her and Poeaiello and near Porl Hall Is i where ihe old Oregon trail xvould bo S Btnicle Nowadays there are many county roads from Place lo place xvhleh could be used The route would bo along lie Snake river via Boac Uakei Oily Pcndleion and down the S Columbia 5 S LyngdulNorxvay Feb 2lst Editor Tribune am a cltian of the UnIted States ui present heVe In Norway having bccridetained here about two yumit und xxlll probably be detained a year longer Is them tiny danger of lowing my cllWnshlp not S having a i passport 2 If It Is neces fury lo have u pabsport how can 1 go about getting one yiir you kindly ansxver this in The Tribune Questions and Anaxxors and oblige an old sub scliicrr O 1 No l Communicate with thai United Stales Consul S ii i S S S i What kind of shells are pearls found m and whure ir In xvlmt part of the I shellVrprospootqc IS Pearls come chiefly from hue large S S such huh known as Ito pcarloyiur but some are found In pink ronehcI I and frish xxal r muasois Tlsoao ut tnbd iu ihc rhithI are of litlK xjlnr I rounded or Tl5 r t ibamd on Unit t are separate from the sheila being the prize ft f O Al xxhal age should a calf be dehorned de-horned and what preparation is best lo slop their horns from coming isM is-M M Just before the horns break through the skin Is ihclime lo attend lo them Dampen H stick of caustic potash and I apply over the I coming horn in u spot I an Inch In diameter One application I Is usually enough A second may follow fol-low if needed Care should be taken I that Ihe caustic dos nol louch any I spot it is not Intend 10 reach Who xx as the first man to take a thorough course In college In thin country coun-try M S I The first class to graduate a I Harvard consisted of Benjamin Woodbrldge George Duxvfng John Bulklcy William Ilubhard Sliniuel nelllnghuin John Wilson Henry Saltonslnll Tobias Bar nard and Nathaniel Brevster This was In August 164 These men were the fhtst lo graduate In this country S S o Please give me a brief sketch of Jerome Jer-ome K Jerome C B U He was born at Wnlaall England May 2 18C1 wits educated at the Philological Philo-logical school Marylcbone and has yppul most nf his life In London as cleric schoolmasicr shorthand writer actor and journalist Ills xxrlllngJ Include In-clude sketches notes und plays The ptonunciiillon of his first and last names la Jerruni and the InKLil stands for Klapka 0 S When XVHB the list United Stales nag Hindu Meddler The first legally established national emblem ivuis that adopted by I Congivss June 11 1777 Il had thirteen stripes allcrnately red and xvhile with thirteen white stars in u blue field Two stripes xx ere added by a laxv passed In 1791 and In lidS a reluin vas had lo the original number Prior lo 1777 the 4 cnlonlsis had flags of various devices a a When xx an hue first ncxxspaper published pub-lished in the United Siaien ntul what xxas thr name of Ihe papci K D I K fn lt0 Sn Seplember of thut year Benjamin Harris of Boston published S Iubllck Occurrences both Foreign and Ponustick Jl had thnt pag si each sex en Inches by eleven lie planned lo Issue II monthly bul the uiilliorill suppressed il after hue I first Issue One copy of It Is preserved in the London state paper ofllce S S 1 What xx as the strength of Ihc British Brit-ish al hue battle 1 of Waterloo Who were the allies and what was their number 2 What wanthe I strength of Napoleons army and how many were loi on each side J J Tho British troups al Waterloo stun bued u lilt It over 3100i > Of tIle alli < > s llKr were 121OOU Prussians ICOOO han ovesja hut 0000 DutchBelgians 6SOO Hrunsw Ickcrs and smaller onlingents wIth a total of about 1000J 2 Napoleons Na-poleons lighting forte was 121500 Tin loss of the allies was 2212S thai of tho French Is estimated al from iooo to 32000 S S 4 What was be I Joint high commission 2 What was the Qsleiul manifestoS manifesto-S It A body composed of commibsluiiors representing this t country on one hand and Great i3ti alit and Canada s on the I other It xvas organized lo adjust qins louts between us and the Dominion of Canada has effected an agreement upon up-on a provisional boundary belxveon Canada and Alaska and Us I duties I continue con-tinue but no meetings are held 2 Il wan a meinorandum drawn up by our Ministers to Spain France and Eng land They met al Oslcnd In Oclobir 18G1 and in the cocalled manltVslo sot forlh Ihc I value of Cuba lo thIs couniry the dllTlcuHtcs Spain would meet In ro tubIng It and the advantages Spain would gain by selling the Island to us at a fair price S S S L E C Admiral Heweys presentation presen-tation sword cost 10000 a Header Important dates of Queen Victorias life were birth May 21 1 1R19 taking Iho crown June 2S isiS marriage mar-riage February 10 1S10 death of nor husband Deoember 11 I I ISCI The mal din name of Abraham Lincolns mother was Nancy flanks She came of an undistinguished family of Virginia to quote Lincolns dssrljthn S S S Salt Lake City March 16th Editor Tribune About two weeks ago an artlcl In the editorial columns of The Tribune gave hue net profii of the Pennsylvania railroad 1000000 over und above ihe prottl for the corresponding correspond-ing month of lust year Whal was the profit last year for both the month and enllre year C 2 Whal Is hue average railroad I I profu in I his country as nearly as you can give It l 3 What paper magazine or book xxould you recommend recom-mend one to get for this t Information Please answer In Sundays paper Try lug to Learn a Thing or Two The Pennsylvania railroad Is but a portion of the Pennsylxanla system so the ligurcs for both are herewith given The Pennsylvania railroad for the year 1SUU had gross receipts amounting lo S729229S4 and in 18J the amount wits G5G03737 Alter paying all expenses fixed charges dIvidends and laying aside sinkIng funds there xxras a balance bal-ance of S10S705H Feu the whole Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania system in 1S99 the gross receipts re-ceipts were 1521 WI01 against 12til3 > 271 in 1SDS The surplus over all expense ex-pense and charges vas 1101120 last year and 327C581 In 1S98 As duil I dends sinking funds and other similar charges ate really luUen out of lie prollis ihe profit to the Pennsylvania j railroad oxvncrs lasi year ean be plaerd at S10187171 for 180S It vas 1022S7JK l For ihe whole system over 9000 miles Ihw profit hats nol been made public I but the total income afler paying operating ope-rating expenses was 5ll3S 65 lust year out of which dividend and other charges xvere paid amounting to 50 3a2UJC 2 The profii of eaeb railroad Is bailed on the cost of operation mainly main-ly and the amount of outstanding securities se-curities Here are a few figures on profit given per mile of road and computed on the report for the last six months of 1899 The figures arc on the preferred aeeurllles and the surplus In each case per mile of road above all expenses and fixed charges Santa Fe 767 B O SG27 Denver Rio Grande 171 Norfolk Wesiern S107G Northern Pacific S08C Rio Grande Western 911 Souther 427 3 Buy Poors Manual or send for Henry Clexvas liivosimcnl guide < J H N and IT G FTakIutg the census xvlll begin on the 1st of nest June S vt E J Washngton was born Feb ruary 22 3732 > fcr i 55 o S Wajcahache4Flut money Is lyre deemable paper mojucy made legal ten der by law S v T S 445 Campbcllite Crcusot gun Is otis I made atCrousot In Franru by the I Schncldei1 company LongTom used Ito I-to mean a pivot gun am Utah I p of a manofwar AH applied at Lndysmilh it was a soldiers nickname for a large cannon of the Boers I S S Salt LnUe City March 17 1 1300 IMItorlTrlbunp Will you kliilly fjlvc an addrcsB to one who is dealer in old postage tampa anti oblige u end cr1l t Certainly not we do not in S Oils de partment advertise any linn or bus l S ness S S S Salt Lake CIty March 17 1004 l Editor Tribune Will you pletwe tall I mu Inyour next Sundays paper the correct way to pronounce acoustics Sitbrierlhcr S Consult some Kood dictionary out inichlnes do nol have the accented lot tent ncceshary fnr thIs sort of thing KutTtas March ii IQQO I Editor Tribune Plcayc ansxvcr In your question iolurnns the followIng iluestissnut 1 What will be the far from Seattle to Cnj Nome Also hue fare from Seattle to Dawson 2 When will Ihe t nial vcescl leave Seattle for I ape Nome and about how long tlus It take lo make the trip Joseph Nel bnur 1 To Nome fare first class 100 second sec-ond class 75 2 To Dawson tfy fare firi t class J2CO second iloKs li > 0 3 First steamer schedukd to leave bt teen May 15th and rth the voyage to Nom requiring nlxnit fifteen days o Phllo Fllibuslerlng larlk8 In Ihw national Legislature Include motions speeches ci made for delay wIth a view lo obstructing legislation nnd defeating S feating the alms e of the majorIty F R 1C A package of perfumery thai retails for 10 etnts needs a cjuarier cent stump o It Our commissioner to the Paris cxpcwlllon is Ferdinand W Peck of Chicago I S 0 S J S D Salt grass and weeds are all the Vfgvtatlon supported by hue soil I 5 bctxvenn high Uric and low tide and the i fpac S vheme all vgetallon Is lacking I are extensive 5 |