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Show QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS i I . 1 Salt Lake City, A uc. 17. Is an honorably discharged soldier .roni the U. S. army exempt from poll tax in Salt Lakef A SUBSCRIBER, B. Yes; see section 1751A, which docs not appear to havo been repealed by chapter 73, laws of 1909, which repealed re-pealed so man3' sections relating to militia and army men. Bingham, Aug. IS. My son is now in third year of high school and wishes to study phnrmacy. Now. is it necessary for lam to graduate gradu-ate from high school, then a four year course at tho university, or is it possible pos-sible for him to attend a medical col-ledgo col-ledgo and by doing bo make the course shorter? Please give voiir best advice and oblige a 'SUBSCRIBER. It would be all the bettor for your son to take as full courses as possible, for a pharmacist has use for a wide and full educational training. Of course, ho might get on without much education, but his standinc amnne those pharmacists pharma-cists who had been fully educated and "trained would alwayB be inferior. Garfield, Aug. 17. Pleas answer in next Sunday's Tribune Trib-une the following questions, and oblige: I 1. What is the meaning of a stamp ? laced in different positions, viz., head owards right, left or upside down? 2. Which are the precious stones dedicated to each month? SUBSCRIBER. 1. We cannot find any authority for stamp flirtation, although for years such a method has beon known to exist, in uncertain and varying forms in various localities. One authority states that the stamp upside down means love and happiness, tilted to. the .right is a re-auest re-auest to be prompt in replies and to the left is jealousy. Howevor, theso, with any. other signs, should not bo taken seriously, as tho codo is usuallv made by tho person corresponding. 2. There are different schemes as to this. Ono is: January, garnet; February, amethyst; March, bloodstone; April, diamond; May emerald; .Tune, agate; July, cornelian: August, sardonyx; Sep-! toniber, chrysolite: October, opal; No-vomber. No-vomber. topaz: December, turquoiso4 Accordinc to G. F. Gunz, gem export with Messrs. Tiffanv & Co., there are very old Polish and Jewish traditions assigning various gems to tho months. Polish symbols: .Tnnuarv. garnet; Fcbruarv. ameth3st; March, bloodstone; April, diamond; Ma3', emerald; June, chalcedony or agate; July, ruby: August, Aug-ust, sardonyx: Sopt ember, sardonyx; Octobe.r, aquamarine or beryl; November, Novem-ber, topaz; December, turquoise. Jewish symbols: January, garnet; Fobniary, amethyst; March, jasper; April, sapphire; May, chalcedony- or agate or cornelian; June, emerald; July, onyx; August, cornelian; Septembor, chrysolite: October, aquamarine or. beryl; November, topaz; December, ruby. List according to "Lingua Gemmae":. January, jjarnet; Fobrunrv, amethyst; March, bloodstone: April, diamond; May, emerald; June, moss agate; Julj', rubr: August, sardonyx: September, sapphire: October, opal; November, to-naz: to-naz: Dernmhor. tnrnuoiso. |