Show i I 1 I Vhat was the date of tho plJefight between Jack Dempsey and Robert Fitzslmmons K I January 14 1891 1991r r It ii How much nearer the sun are we In 1 winter than In summerJ D W A maximum difference of about 3200 000 miles 0 0 1 How many domestic animals In the i United StatesJ H OH j v Horses 15537000 mules 2000000 cattle 2800000 mUch cows 10200000 t and sheep S1SS3000 0 0 e I How is aluminum soldered B r With a solder composed of from SO i 1 I to S5 parts of zinc to 20 to 15 parts I aluminum ii 4 O How many including officers are In the United States 2 And how many are our postofllces I NTh N-Th sc In file UnitedStates number I 33871 IthO entire army establishment taking in 81613 2 Seventysix thousand J thou-sand six hundred and eightyeight r A V M 0Salt Salt Lake Dec 2nd Editor Tribune Did John L Sullivan Sulli-van ever draw the color lIne before he was challenged Peter Jackson 1 Bettor Yes he did a 0 Co I 1 Park City Dec 5th r Editor Tribune DOQS the rim of a pulley wheel travel faster than the hubIf so whrA Subsqrlber Yes because having a greater circumference cir-cumference it has a greater distance to travel in the same length of time I 0 i Who was Captain on the Portland when it went down 1 2 What was the year 3 How many lives werelost Type Hollis N Blanchard 2 1S9S 3 Over a hundred the exact number was not known 00 A says that a billion is correctly I written thus 1000000000000 B that It should 1000000000 which is right j C W D B is right because we follow the t French system of numeration The English system authorizes As writing 0 no What color above and below the water line was the Columbia painted In how many places where and in what color was her name Ln A W White above the water line unpaInted bronze below The name ingilt letters appeared at the stern a I i Ogden Utah Dec 1th I Editor Tribune Will you kindly answer an-swer the following questions In playing casino 1 If partner has built and opponent taken the build can I then build for partner same as If build had not been taken not having the card in my own hand 2 Can you enlarge build of opponent by taking from the board and hand also If I build onboard on-board and it comes my turn to play and I I there are sufilcent to form another of I that build can I do so and then take J another card having both in my hand 1 A A V 6 You must Invariably build to the card in your hand 2 If the spots on > I the board do not number over ten you may build from your hand but not r from the board providing the man who 1 did the building in the first place docs or = za not distinguish the pile by saying twos or threes etc 3 Yes c Will you give the birthplace of the following authors and say If dead or living 1 Mrs Henry Wood 2 Capt Mayne Reid 3 Georges Ohnet4 1 OCtave Feulllet N E C 1 England died February 10 1857 2 North of Ireland October 22 1SS3 3 Paris France living I France died December 28 1800 4 I Will you print the Presidents oath on taking oluce EYes E-Yes Jt Is I do solemnly wear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States O Eureka Utah Dec 6th Editor Tribune Will you kindly inform In-form us through your paper which Is right and who wins the following bet In a game of casino A has 11 and B has i IS A gets cards spades big casino I and two aces B has little casino and two aces Who wins Twentyone is the game Eureka A wins The count being made big casino little casIno cards and spades and aces a J r Salt Lake City Dec 6th Editor Tribune In case of a lodge or societynotbolng Incorporated could the bonds be compelled to pay In case of the tieasuvcirs death If they are not I willing to do so Please answer In next SulidaVs Questions and Aii m ers I nnn u I A Subscriber t The question Is too general Pay whom and what and what for What kind of trees arc celandines where do they grow and arc their roots and leaves used for removing superfluous super-fluous halrsA E P The greater celandine is a perennial herb of the poppy family a native of Europe only partially naturalized hero Its acrid poisonous Juice possibly might serve as a depilatory The lesser celandine Is the European pllcwort U 0 What is the numerical strength of the I following denominations in the United States Methodist Baptist Presby terian Lutheran and Congregational J C D It Is Impossible to give or get accurate figures but the following were reached carefully Methodist Including all I branches 5846132 Baptists 4575392 Presbyterians 1575698 Lutherans 1CG5S7S Congregationalists 629871 These figures take In actual church members only u Salt Lake City Nov 23rd Editor Tribune I have three patented patent-ed mining claims there arc some dry trees lying on top of the ground can I stop people from taking them away or notA Subscriber The trees are yours no one can take them without your consent f V O Silver City Utah Nov 26th Editor TrlbuneI read in the Even ing News about three weeks ago that Senator Clark of Montana could lose as much aa five of the richest men in the world and then still he would be the richest man in the world If Senator Clark Is not the richest man in the world who Is What is his income I from the Verde mines Please answer lIt Sundays TrlbuneTrlbune Reader We have no means of stating Senator Clarks wealth nor of comparing it with the wealth of others But one of the men connected with the diamond mines of South Africa la reputed to be worth a billion dollars and a few men In other parts of the world Jarc worth hundreds of millions each If Mr Clarks wealth la so great tho he could lose as much as live of the richest men In the world and still be the richest man In the world he la I far richer than we had supposed but as We sayhe has not honored us with his confidence In this and we cannot say neither can we tell what his Income from the Verde Ver-de mine Is nor who Is the richest man in the world If Senator Clark Is not or Where Is the Twentythird Infantry and where do they receive mail1 B B I Companies A B C D E F G and II left Manila on the transport Bu I ford September 29th for New York address care of Quartermasters department I de-partment 35 Whitehall street New York city Companies I and M arc at j I Fort Logan Colo K nt Fort Russell Wyo L at Fort Douglas Utah 0 Will you glvo a formula for removing printers Ink from papelB Often such Ink cannot be removed One method Is to put a thick pad of white blotting paper beneath the soiled sheet and to apply sulphuric ether with cotton wool rubbing gently Apply I Ap-ply blotting paper to absorb the color and repeat both applications until the stains disappear Dont do this near alight a-light or fire q Hjrrum Utah Dec 3rd Editor Tribune Would you please answer this I question in your Sundays paper If A locales a mining claim on tho 1st of January 1901 and does not do any assessment work that year and B locates the same claim on January 1 1902 and does his assessment work which Is entitled to theclaim A Sub sci iber < The claim is not open to relocation until January 1 1903 CM Salt l keD ec 5th Editor Tribune Please tell me in II your Questions and Answers on Sunday next if there Is anyijjasy way to tell I 11IU UISL UUIUUIIS 1 JL UU1 UUOKb 1 mean anything in the book itself that an ordinary leader can easily find and understand F KNot K-Not always one of the most troublesome trouble-some things In the trade Is the close imitation of rare old volumes In some cases however the first editions arc easily identified 000 Will you print a short sketch of Frances Hopkinson SmithH B He was born in Baltimore Md October Oc-tober 23 1833 early in life was clerk In an Iron works and then was educated edu-cated as a mechanical engineer Becoming Be-coming engineer and contractor he did much Government work Race Rock lighthouse and the foundations of Bar tholdls Statue of Liberty as parts of it He has done charcoal work and Illustrations and much landscape wOI kIn k-In water colors Since 1SS5 too the output of his published writings has I been steady Were 3cent nickels or 1cent nickels issued by the United States Government Govern-ment Is so at what time 2 Were halfcents issued and at what time J H C Nickel 3cent pieces were authorized by a law passed in 1S65 and were abolished abol-ished together with 3 and Sl gold pieces in 1890 A nickel cent t was substituted I stituted for the copper cent In 1S57 and gave way to the bronze cent In 1861 2 Yes they were authorized in 1792 and their coinage did not cease entirely until 1S57 r Salt Lake City Dec 5th Editor Tribune Has the population of Canada been officially confirmed What was the combined total vote cast for Governor in the States of Ohio Iowa and Massachusetts at the last 5th of November electionG W BYes B-Yes 5400000 2 Massachusetts 324 526 Ohio and Iowa printed In Tribune of November 24th It 1 Eureka Utah Dec 3rd Editor Tribune Will you please tell = I t me where I can send and got any song 1 I that 1 might auk for that we dont llnd In the small song bookGA Reader I To some book dealer I r o t i How Is the depth of a deep place In the ocean ascertained F A Steel piano wire to which is attached at-tached a heavy weight Is paid out from a reel an attachment called the friction fric-tion line being so annnged as to maintain main-tain a balance between the friction and the weight of wire run out at any onetime one-time When the weight strikes the bottom bot-tom the reel stops revolving and the depth Id ascertained by multiplying I the circumference of the reel by the number of revolutions The wire Is I reeled in by steam power ill I Where and under what circumstances did the expression Gictmi Green originate I IglnateV D B Gretna Green was a Scotch village at one time famous for Its numerous runaway marriages The English law then recognized as valid any marriage I contracted In accordance with the laws of IMP country in which It took place and the Scotch law required simply a mutual declaration l df marriage before a witness So young English couples who lacked the consent of parents or who did not wish to await publication I publica-tion of the banns hurried to Gretna Green and declared their marriage before be-fore the first convenient witness 9 r Salt Lake City Nov 29th I Editor Tribune Why does not the signal service office In this city post 1ft flags any more Also what part of tho Pacific coast supplles the San Francisco market with socalled California Cali-fornia oysters Subscriber 1 The display of lags by the weather bureau has been discontinued in all the largo cities of the United States Printed notices are posted inconspicuous in-conspicuous places In the city and the weather forecast is also printed In tho morning papers The printed notices no-tices arc more explicit than the flag signals could be and arc therefore more satisfactory to a majority the people 2 California oysters are grown In tho Bay of San Francisco They are very small = Oysters transplanted from Eastern beds arc also grown In San Francisco bay and reach a much larger size than the native oyster of the Pacific Pa-cific coast i I Why Is bicarbonate of ammonia considered con-sidered injurious to health If as chemistry chem-istry says1t leaves no residue when used in baking powder 2 Will you describe the contrivance used to ascertain ascer-tain tho number of miles traveled by a vchlcler H K The argument advanced against it Is to the effect that It is a product of the decomposition of animal matter The reasoning is unsound 2 An automatic auto-matic registering device Is fixed to the vehicle in such way that a striker attached at-tached to a wheel gives It a blow at each evolution of the wheel The rotations ro-tations are thus registered and with the circumference of the wheal the distance may be computed readily or as In the cyclometer this is done automatically au-tomatically by a graduated series of gear wheels and recorded by dials a a s sSalt Salt Lake City Editor Tribune Was Jean B Russell Rus-sell the queen the carnival of 1897 or of the pioneer Jubilee If not who was queen of the latter Subscriber I The carnival of 1897 and the Jubilee were the same Miss Lunt was the i queen Miss Russell was queen of the midsummer carnival of 18S6 Ii Lehl h Utah Dec 2nd Editor Tribune If a man homesteads a piece of ground 160 acres and then relinquishes his right by turning the same over to the State and buys it for I 125 per acre and makes first payment on ten years time and fails to meet the other payments does he lose his homestead right anfl what money he has paid theStateW II BYes B-Yes b 4 Who were the original authors of I the British Constitution 2 Who are the Lake poets 3 Who was the I I Mahdl Query Various sovereigns members of Parliament I i Par-lIament and very many others The word constitution hns in England avery I a-very different moaning to that given to It here There It signifies the whole body of public law in England written and unwritten This has been a matter of growth during centuries and inrlucles Parliamentary enactments enact-ments judicial decisions settled precedents pre-cedents and Immemorial customs 2 Poets of the lake region Westmore land and Cumberland England Cole ridge Wordsworth and Southoy were the more Important ones The name originally was given In contempt 3 This word signifies the Mohammedan Messiah who the Mohammedans believe be-lieve will reign spiritually and temporally tempo-rally In the last days and convert the world to Islam Many have claimed to be the Mahdl notably Mohammed Ahmed who In 1SS3 > started an Insurrection I Insur-rection In the Egyptian Soudan 9 0 Park City Utah Dec 1th Editor Tribune Will you kindly Inform In-form me through Sundays Issue Can a Chinaman own property in the United States Chinese Exclusionist Yes A La Grande Ave Nov 22nd 1 Does burning of fence posts keep them from rotting and If so why 2 Give me directions how to patent things and how much It coslsV H C 1 Yes because burning envelopes the posts in a coating of charcoal which Is almost pyre carbonand will not decay I de-cay tn Address the Commissioner of Patents Washington D C who will furnish the necessary information 0 I Cokevillo Wyo Nov 25th I Editor TribuneOn open account running since 1899 payments being made regularly during this time to this date can Interest be charged or collected col-lected by law as long as an understanding understand-ing was not had or asked or7 A Subscriber Sub-scriber Under the laws of yyoming an account ac-count draws Interest beginning thirty days after the last purchase Ob What Is the origin of the bakers dozen 2 When and where was the I first newspaper in the United States published > What is the origin of the sayIng alA little bird told me so Eden The oldtime custom of bakers of giving thirteen for a dozen Brewer states that this began at a time when a very heavy penalty was Inflicted for shortheight bread and was meant to avoid Infliction of the penalty The surplusage was styled Inbread the thirteenth loaf the vantage loaf 2 In 1617 the first steps were taken toward to-ward establishing William and Mary which later was erected at WIHIams burg Va a charter coming in 1693 3 I I At Boston 1 Ecclesiastes x 20 perhaps per-haps Curse not the king for a bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter |