Show I Q t 1n H IE Has the dirtdauber a stlnbP M 1YC5 Yes It the ivnsp often called mud dauber which makes clay neatJi In barns and carrots la what you refer to To whom can I write for Information Informa-tion as to the English and Mayflower Ion r A G To this department stale what Information In-formation you want The Mayflowers log was turned over to the State 1 flirarian of Massachusetts five years ago K Did tbfc United Stalca Senate and House of Representative have a mu Jorlty of Democrat nt any time In Cleveland admtnl LInlonA BYes i B-Yes from the elections of 1SJ2 I the House became overwhelmingly Democratic Demo-cratic while there was n narrow Democratic Demo-cratic margin In the m Senate What are to be the displacement and armament of the new cruisers of the Charleston classY G C 13 Displacement OCOO tons armament fourteen sixInch eighteen threeInch and eight oncounilur rapidlire guns four onepounder and eight thirtycal I iber automatic guns two threeInch iApId fire field guns and two thirtycal iber machine gunu Illvcrton Utah June 25th Editor Tribune Would you pleaeo let me know in your next Issue of the Weekly Tribune containing the Question Ques-tion and Answer Column when the Ulntah reservation will be open and how soon can settler go there and oblige a subscriber D No date can yet be fixed the law fOI the opening haG been passed but the surveys and allotments are yet to bema be-ma c and first of all the consent of the Indians hastohe obtained In what year was the earthquake at New Madrid 2 2 What was the loss of life and damage P 11 In 1S11 and the two following years 2 We do not flwl estimates The effects ef-fects were felt over several hundred miles of the Mississippi vale but most of this territory then was very sparsely settled so loss o life and property was comparatively small Where Js Uadcllffc college 2 In what year did Prof S F H Morse graduate from Yale college 3 In what year did L he receive a gold medal from the Iloyal Academy for his sculpture The DIn D-In Hercules J When was he elected elect-ed president of the Academy of Design De-sign L MAt M-At Cambridge Inss I is the Harvard Har-vard annex or popular speech 2 In 310 3 In 1813 j 1 For many years following fol-lowing its start in 1S2G S S Salt Lake City Tune 27th r Editor Tribune An English girl aged S years came to this country and was adopted at the ago of 9 years bylaw by-law by a nILe horn male citizen Did the ace of adoption naturalize her or would she have to take out imlurullza tlon papers on her coming of age M B t The act of adoption made the girl 1 citizen of the United States i What power has England over Australia Aus-tralia J L H j That of a mother country over her Colonial possessions The Australian ederatlon of lx colonies drew up ihi own constitution subject to approval by tljc British Parliament and has its executive power vested In the British King whose representative t Is a gov ernorgeneral Kither house of the Australian Parliament may be dl yolvod by this governorgeneral who Is I commanderlnchieC of the armod forces on sea Jiiid land Local government govern-ment Is i left very largely to the federations federa-tions Parliament V What was the origin of the term shlnplaster as applied to paper money A Just after the Civil warG LIt < L-It Is said to have been first applied to sadly depreciated Continental currency cur-rency after the American Revolution and then to the plentiful Issue by private pri-vate parties In the panic of 1S37 of notes for fractional parts of n dollar to be used as money These with the small bills of Civil war times were by the nickname likened to the homemade plaster for bruises pf brown paper and vinegar or tar L Spanish Fork June 17th Editor Tribune Please answer In column of Questionslinrt An tnvers If Congress ever appropriate money to pay expenses of suppression j of Indian hostilities In Utah territory during the years of lSti5 1SGG and Sti7 and If BO who drew the money AWe A-We can find no record pf such appropriation ap-propriation and do not think there ever was any Senator Rnwllnss bill now pending provides for the payment of a million dollars on this account Will you print a sketch of the life of Thomas McDonough who won the naval battle of Plattsburg on Lake Champlain In 1S111rs V G DYes D-Yes He was born ln New Castle county Delaware December 23 17S3 and entered the I navy a a midshipman in 1800 He served In the fighting with nec frhlng Tripoli and the promotion that came for the PIll bu1S affair made him captain A medal of honor numerous acknowledgments from cities and towns and the gift of on estate from Vermont were other recognitions of his victory His last command in the navy was of the Mediterranean squadron squad-ron He died at sea November 10 1S25 on n trading brig sent by the Government Govern-ment to bring him home Newton Utah June 24th Editor Tribune Will you kindly give me some information about the ntiuturtlum Is It eatable I so what part and how prepared A Reader The genus cruclferac is an aquatic Dpcclcs of nasturtium cultivated as a salad in brooks In the United States and Europe commonly I known as watercress wa-tercress The genus tropacolum the Indiancress or nasturtium IH I n climbing climb-ing plant and was originally brought from Peru I is I extensively cultivated by llorlats There are about twenty seven species of this family and gardeners gard-eners have sniucccdod In obtaining endless end-less varieties of colors The garden nasturtium Is often used in salads the item and loaves being served with rtcm 113 any good salad dressing > Vo have had locusts In West Tennessee Ten-nessee every thirteen years since May IS 10 Were there any here in 18337G E I Yes yours are the thirteenyear variety va-riety Cicada eggs arc deposited by the adult In grooWs cut in the outermost twigs of trees Those hatch In about nix weeks when the young almost immediately Im-mediately jump to the ground ond burrow bur-row to 3 consldcruble depth them to remain for thirteen or seventeen years according an they arc thirteenyear or fecnt teenyea r locusts Finally they tunnel upward climb to the nearest tree aIled their coat for the last of o many times and as perfect insects begin the destructive satisfaction of their lively appetites ta What arc the twentyfive largest cities of the Unlled Slates and their population II Y P New York 31H7202 Chicago 1C9S fi7f Philadelphia JWniJJ7 St Louis D7523S Boston fiilO802 Baltimore 30S 957 Cleveland CS17US Vuffalo 2rS7 i San Francisco 342782 Cincinnati 325 J 02 Plttshurg SJliKi New Orleans 257101 Detroit 285701 Milwaukee 2S5 315 1ishlngton 27S71S Xcwark > 21C 070 Jersey City 20CJ3S Louisville 201 731 Minneapolis 20L71S Providence 17r ii07 Indianapolis IfilUGJ Kansas City 103702 St Paul 103005 Rochester Roches-ter 1G2C03 Denver 133550 Was Capt Hall poisoned 2 What happened to the Polaris and its crew A S I No the ramie of his death is put os apoplexy 2 Somo nine months after Halls death Capt Bliddlngton tried to return home but the Polaris bs came lodged In ice with which she drifted southward She was HO badly squeezed Inn gale that preparation wen made to abandon her Many storsn had been put on the Ice when her iceanchor slipped leaving nineteen nine-teen men on the Ice hoc They drifted 2000 miles subsisting ehlolly on sea Runic before they were rescued by a sealer Meanwhile the leaking Polaris had been benched and for another winter win-ter Bmldington and the others lived In her Having hull two boatu they setout set-out for Uppernavik and were picked up by a Scotch whaler after they had proceeded about 200 b mullen Provo June 23rd Editor Tribune Please answer thin question In next issue l If possible Abets A-bets there arc twentyfour hours in one day 13 bets thorp are not Who wins Reader of Tribune A mean solar day Is 21 I hours long A mean slderlal day In 23 hours fiG minutes min-utes and 1 seconds long Who and what was Hlldcbrand 2 Was bin life afnihmreG Pope Gregory VII living about 1020 to IY 25 10S5 Made Cardinal by Leo IX he took a commanding position posi-tion In church and Italian affairs pushing reforms actively and successfully suc-cessfully In 1073 he succeeded Alexander Alexan-der I and continuing his work of reform sought to free the church from domination by German emperors Soon henry IV declared him deposed and Gregory retaliated by excommunicating Henry The latter soon was humiliated and received papal absolution hut later resumed the contest laying siege to Rome Gregory excommunicated him Tor the fourth time and retired to Salerno where lie died 2 No his pontificate was notably Important he Is i looked on by Roman Catholic writers writ-ers as the liberator of ecclesiastical authority au-thority from usurped civil conrol and as a restorer of discipline within the church to its former efficiency Salt Lake City June 24th Editor Tribune How can the large black l bugs found around sinks bq ex terminated Questioner Strictly pure dalmatian Insect power pow-er is one of the best exterminators of the roaches S Will you print a short biographical sketch of Gen John C Bates of Sulu Treaty fameD C F He was born in Sl Charles county Mo August 2G IS 12 attended Wash rgton University and entered the army in 1SG1 as lieutenant of the Eleventh Infantry Prom Gettysburg to the end of the war he was on Gen Mcades staff Then for thirty years he was stationed In the West becoming colonel in 1SII2 He served on the board that devised the present drill and firing cgulations and on the board that adopted ad-opted the KragJorgcnsen rile In the war with Spain he was Jlrst brigadier general of volunteers then major general gen-eral 1 of that service In 1SID > he was military governor of Clenfucgos and In April of that year was ordered nnl the Philippines There he orcete command com-mand o Mindanao and Jolo and later of Southern Lnxoji He became briga dier In the regular service last hrlg has bcenTTToposcd as majorgeneral Bryan Wyo June 27thl Editor Trlbunor Will you please say when the trestle across Salt Lake will be started how long It will be and what wages will be paid to bridge what wi uldgc carpenters car-penters PEer M P-Eer thln Is In readiness to start construction at once The bridge will be eleven miles long and bridge carpenters car-penters will be paid from 3 to 4 a S S Will you print a sketch of Wagners opera Lohengrin especially as to who Elsa Is In the opera and what her dream was Vicksburg Early in the opera Elsa is charged with I her brother Gottfrieds death and when brought before the king to submit her case to the ordeal of trial by battle bat-tle describes n knight she has seen In a vision and nominates him as hoi champion When the arena is made ready 1 the knight t Lohengrin approaches ap-proaches In a boat drawn by swans Tie wins the contest and marries Elsa but In response to her questioning discloses that ho is the son of Parzlval Knight of the Holy Grail and since this is known must go back to his guardianship guardian-ship He bids Elsa an eternal farewell and his swan reappears Elsas accuser ac-cuser declares that the swan is the lost Gottfried so Lohengrin releases him from Ills enchantment a white dove replaces re-places the swan and Lohengrin departs de-parts leaving Elsa to die In Gottfrieds arms 0 Will you sketch the life of George Walton signer of the Declaration of Independence In-dependence from Georgia 2 Did hi leave children Was Madame Octavla Walton W Levert 3 descendant W W He was horn In Frederick county Virginia Vir-ginia In 1710 and as a boy was apprenticed ap-prenticed to a carpenter In his earb study he was entirely fcelftaught this under much discouragement At the end of his apprenticeship he studied laIn la-In Georgia with Henry Young and was admitted to the bar in 177i In that year he was one of four to call n meeting meet-ing for the consideration of public grievances nnd thereafter was a conspicuous con-spicuous promoter of the Amerlcai cause He was a delegate to the Continental Con-tinental Congrsss from 177G to 1781 and in 177S was n colonel of militia was wounded at Savannah and held a prls oner until the next year Twice he was chief Justice of Georgia twice her Gov crnor and several I times nerved in her Legislature He died In Augusta February 2nd 1S04 2 A soh George who was Secretary of State for West Florida In Jacksons administration and whose daughter was Octavla Val ton Le Vert |