Show Who is president of the Southern Pa jlfio railroad W C C P Huntington S Was cxGov Hogg of Texas born In that StateN P H Yes his birthplace was near Rusk f I Is shindy an Jrlsh wordG W No Itls slang and supposed to have been taken from the gypsy word chin ill meaning a quarrel Or It may ben be-n variant of shinny a I What year marked the close of Hon IT J Ingallss term in the United States SenateO C L Ills defeat for reelection by the Farmers Alliance came in 1S9L What are the Ingredients of copal furniture fur-niture varnish 2 What does it cost per galion7H B C Copal clarified oil and turpentine I Dealers in paints sell it at about 150 W M > Where can I get a copy of the Dingley Wilson and McKlnley tarlfC billsJ RM You can purchase them of the Superintendent Super-intendent of Public Documents at Washington 60 cents o S SS II iii S I S Salt Lake June 30 1000 Editor Tribune Will you kindly an BTer in Sundays Issue the following Is there any difference between benzine and gasoline If so what is it Snowsldc Gasoline is lighter than benzine boils nt a lower temperature and is more explosive ex-plosive Benzine Is usually deodorized S a Salt Lake City July 4 1900 Editor Tribune What Is the com inercial value of asphaltum We suppose you mean the Utah product Crude asphalt mixed with sand and lime Is worth 10 per ton elaterlte gllsonlte is worth from 25 Jo 10 per tonS ton-S 4 How much rainfall must there be in a district to permit of successful agriculture agri-culture A P Unless Irrigation arranged 18 inches of rain annually are needed though less would suffice could a fair degree of regularity assured I 1 SIs S-Is Emerson Bennettthe novelist now living Where was he born 1 3 How many novels has he writenJ L IT He is living fn Philadelphia we think C At Monson Iass3 His novels and serials are put at over fifty his short Btorics at several hundred S g S J When a critic writes of a picture that the varnish has chilled Just what Is meantV H That a cloudiness or dimness appears on the paintings surface This is tailed blooming and the fault is due to dampness on the surface or in the brush or varnish S ft a Ephraim July 2 1900 Editor Tribune What causes big 5iead among sheep and Is there any preventive or cure for it Jacob Thompson No one knows the cause of bighead 5n sheep and no cure for it has been Discovered < n How old is kindergarten system p I instruction W R i Sixty years Friedrich Froebel founded found-ed his first kindergarten In 1840 at Elankenburg Germany From 1816 to 182G he had maintained in a chronic state of bankruptcy a school where his ideas had been put In practice and f Jjenc developed S S S Pocatello July 5 1000 Editor Tribune Please answer in your next Sunday issue what method to pursue in disbarment proceedings to get in evidence of unprofessional conduct con-duct before the Utah Supreme court 2 Has there ever been any lawyer disbarred l dis-barred in Utah for stealing a clients A xnoncy or being on both sides of a case I tor for perjuryG R C Make charges supported by affidavit and get a member of the bar to file I them in the Supreme court It then becomes I be-comes tho duty of thecourt to order an I Investigation and If the charges are in the opinion of the court sustained r disbarment will follow 2 Yes for all three 11I To bring a discussion to an end will you say which command is taken as the unit of an army a regiment or a I ompanyOne Right Side A regiment Is the administrative unit battalion the tactical unitand a co many m-any the unit of organization S o Is there an organization of negro frce Masons in America If so how < crmny do they number H There are thirtyone grand lodges Ins 1 In-s many States The oldest grand lodge that of Massachusetts dates from 1808 and was the outgrowth of a lodge formed In 1781 1 The members 1 number about 70000 I Wnat are tho limits of dog days and Why are they so caiedE BT I They are the four days Irom July 8th to August 11th The ancients gave the name because they believed that the great heat of summer was caused by a combination with the suns rays of those ot Sirius the dog star o a 1 Salt Lake City July 6 1900 fj Editor Tribune To whom would a person have to write to In order to secure h se-cure the position of a machinist or a I carpentcr n the United States naVy yard at LOTfe inland San Francisco r i 51 F Y You could write to the superintendent t jbf Mare Island navy yard San FranCisco l Fran-Cisco giving your qualifications age f nnd residence 1 a S S 1 Salt Lake City July G Editor Tribune Will you please an c b pwer In Sundays Tribune whether v Rudyard Kipling Is conslderad an i I3 American or English writer A Read I i pr 1b > English most decidedly S S I I How can I prepare a stain for a fine i1ohnG W F t Boll an ounce of logwood extract inC In-C one pint of soft water and adO onefifth ounce of cream of tartar Use hot And give several coats if 1 necessary c j drying between coats Use a saw edged graining brush and thinned as < phalLum 1 varnish to produce the proper 1 r markings 1 S S S What was the population of the I ir 4 i flJhited States In 18SO Also In 1890 Is c f the Influx of foreign population on the 1 5ncrcas or decrease G fL DIn 1 D-In 1880 50155783 In 1SOO 02622260 Immigration Is less than it was for the Aj tfrst four years of this decade hut it Ii I Irf much greater than it was In 1S97 and > 0 1S3S 10 h 0 lP What Is the total population of the r earth 1 2 What Is the volume of the L I t earth in cubic miles 3 What is I the 3 f surface ot the earth In square miles I 5 LflJ how much of It Is IandJ S I 4 I About l187t00000 2 26995 035515 JCj cubic miles 3 19097198i square miles C f of which the land makes 51238800 square miles E to f How much has the population of the United States increased In fifty years 2 How many members has the Salvation I Salva-tion Army in this country 3 How many the Womans Christian Temper I mIce UnionJ A I I It has trebled 2 h About 10000 Its offshoot the Volunteers of America I numbers 2000 3 Its officers put its membership at half a million this includes 1 in-cludes tho childrens societies I Provo City July 3 Editor Tribune Is ginseng found in I Utah 2 What It is used for 3 Is I it found In the valley or in the mountains moun-tains Republican s We do not find ginseng auratia I qulnquc Celia in the list of native to Utah medicinal and other useful plants prepared by Prof Marcus E Jones the most competent practical man we know of here in thIs line I o a Salt Lake City July 6 Editor Tribune Was tho Oregon I ever Admiral Dcweys flagship Xo he stuck to the Olympia I S O I Editor Tribune Please answer in your Sunday paper what day the 11 th I of December 1SSS came on also the 14th of August 1SD2 came on and f oblige A Subscriber Get a copy of The Salt Lake Tribune I Almanac for 1899 and figure ou these I dates for yourself the guide Is there a M o Mrs N JThe moths that attack I clothing and furs lay their eggs chiefly i I in May and June The larvae that hatch from these they are to the mqth I what the caterpillar is to the butterfly are the destroyers a a SIs S-Is there an owl that lives In holes he digs in the ground rather than In a nest on the ground or Ina lreeB S Yes and he is very plentiful west of the Mississippi but he prefers to let a prairie J dog do the burrowing even I though living in the dogs hole involves companionship with the dogs family and rattlesnakes This burrowing owl is further unusual from his practice of hunting his prey by daylight b N a Salt Lake July 5 1000 Editor TrlbuncHow can I obtain date of enlistment and discharge of a soldier in Civil war Discharge papers lost This for purpose of pension for orphansJ T R Consult a pension attorney oe S When was there a civil war In Rhode IslandW E In 1813 It Is usually called Dorrs Rebellion Re-bellion and was due to strife over changes In the Constitution of the State It was civil war on a very small 1 scale but Federal troops were sent toke to-ke p the peace and T W Dorr the leading offender was convicted of high treason ITe was sentenced to prison for life but was released two years later and in 1853 citizens civil rights were restored to him o a Pleasant Grove July 4 Editor Tribune Have the Utah volunteers vol-unteers the sfrme Tights In taking upland up-land as a soldier of the Civil war and what are their rightsA EYes E-Yes Their only right above other citizens Is that in taking up land the time of their service In the army counts as residence on tho landS land-S S Just what Is the harvest moon and how did it get the name Stein The name Is given in northern latitudes lati-tudes to the full moon of the lunation I that comes about the time of the autumnal au-tumnal equinox Take the year through the risinG of the moon Is retarded re-tarded about 50 minutes every day but with the harvest moon the rising is at about the same hour for several days before and after the full The help it may give farmers in gathering crops is tho reason for the name m it Is It not true in every case of Insects and other creatures whose life is made up of several stages with a distinct form of body for each stage that each new1 stage shows a higher development Follow ILls not several forms of life show degeneration in these processes Noticeable No-ticeable in this respect are parasitic creatures They start independently and as soon as they attach themselves to some other creature sink to little more than an apparatus for obtaining food butretain of course means of reproducing re-producing their kind I a Silver City Utah July 5 1900 Editor Tribune To settle an argument argu-ment will you kindly answer the following fol-lowing question Did McKlnlcy or Bryan receive the popular vote In 1896 rA Reader The popular vote was McKlnlcy 7 111607 Bryan 7509052 S S SIn S-In a hop step and Jump does one haye the right to start from both feet 2 What Is the record for the pole vault 3 What Is the Scotch record for the pole YlLultC1f T No and the hopper must land on the foot with which he takes off 2 Eleven Elev-en feet ten and a half inches by R G Clapp an amateur at Chicago June 18 1S9S 3 We do not know The record rec-ord for England Is listed at 11 feet 7 inches and for Ireland 11 feet 9 J Inches both by R 33 Dickinson so likely the Scotch record is below these H u S I Do the rifling grooves of modern cannon can-non twist uniformly from breech to muzzle 2 How deep and wide are they and how many are allowed to a barrelL R The twist is uniform In all but the guns of large caliber In these the grooves start almost parallel to the axis of the bore and increase to a maximum twist a short distance from the muzzle From this point on the twist Is uniform so 1 as to steady the projectile 2 The grooves are about onetwentieth an inch deep and from threetenths to fourtenths of an Inch wide Their number varies with the caliber a 32lnch field gun takes twentyfour a 12Inch gun has seven tytwo S S Safe Lake City July 5th Editor Tribune The assertion has been repeatedly made that the difficulty diffi-culty which stood In the way of sound lug the greatest depths of water on this globe I rests in the fact that lead will only sink to a certain depth because be-cause of the great weight of water Increasing In-creasing its specific gravity from the surface to the bottom Please give your readers briefly the whys and wherefores of sounding Brevity The pressure In ocean dopths Is very great but it Is exerted equally in all directions There Is no difficulty In the lead sinking to the bottom the former trouble wan In handling the weight and line but deepsea soundinG apparatus la now provided to reach any depth FiIflco Utah July 5 1000 Editor Tribune When was the John stown FloodIfl II McLeod May 31 18S9 a Will you Rlvo a biographical sketch of the late Bud Williams United Statcti Senator from Maine from 1837 to 1843713 F He was born In Ilallowell now Augusta Au-gusta Mf June 2 17S3 TIe was educated edu-cated Hallowell academy and was admitted to the bar In 1802 From 1822 to 1832 lu served In the Maine Lpgishi ture In 1836 was an elector on tho Van Buren ticket and In the following year I was made United States Senator as a Democrat to fill a vacancy In the Senate he opposed the Ashburton treaty which adjusted our norlhlmNt ern boundary and February of 1812 because of a resolution passed by the Legislature which had come under Whig control ho resigned his ofllce Afterward he was engaged in building and constructing railroads dying at Augusta July 25 1SG2 |