818. Did Gen. Robert E. Lee surrender his sword to Gen. Grant.

819. Why did Hayes take the oath of office twice?

820. Who was the oldest elected president?

821. What caused James A. Garfield to abandon the work as a canal hand?

822. What president once held an interest in a distillery? 823. Which president served as a janitor as part pay for his tuition in college?

824. Who said, "Give 'em hail Columbia, boys!"?

825. Can you give a key to the names of the presidents in order?

826. How many and what chief-justices have we had?

827. How is the pay of generals in the United States army regulated?

828. How are generals in the army retired?

829. Does a commissioned army officer receive mileage for travel under orders?

830. What is the pay of a private in the army?

831. Does a private ever receive more than thirteen dollars per month?

832. Who have been generals of the army of the United States?

833. Who is general now?

834. Who introduced James A. Garfield when he took the oath of office?

835. Who was the first mother of a president to reside at the White House?

836. Does a president elect take the oath of office before or after reading his inaugural address?

837. How many and what navy yards in the United States? 838. Where is the United States Naval Academy? 839. How many generals may we have in our armies? 840. How many lieutenant-generals?

841. How many and what major-generals have we? 842. How many brigadier-generals?

843. What is meant by a popular vote?

844. How do you determine the year which a given Congress was in session?

845. How is the number of a Congress determined?

846. What was the effect of the invention of the cotton gin?

347. Who was the youngest president inaugurated?

ANSWERS TO QUEER QUERIES.

The numbers correspond to the number of the question in the text.

In most cases the teacher should not be content with the mere answer to a query but should read the history in its proper connection in order to have a full understanding of all its connections. Many of the queries are framed with this idea in view, viz.: that the pupil and teacher will read for themselves, and thus secure a greater fund of information than a mere answer would convey.

It is a good plan to attempt to find the answer to each question before looking for it in this book. If you are able to find it, the very search will more than repay you, in the information noted as well as to become familiar with your author.

Try this plan.

The

1. He purchased a mule and a suit of clothes with it. mule was needed to ride to court, and the clothes to be able to appear in court.

2. He visited Portugal, Italy and Spain.

3. He secretly sent out a ship to make discoveries.

4. In the Garden of Eden.

5. Four times. At Havana, Cuba.

6. He built a fort at Isabella, Hayti.

7. Two wild turkeys, the first ever seen in England.

8. It was called America in honor of Americus Vespucius who first wrote of it. This was not the fault of Americus

but rather of a German geographer who so named it.

9. Waldsee Muler.

10. Rodrigro Triana, from the sterr of the vessel,

11. Florida was so-called from its florid appearance. Because it appeared to the South. Because it was free from storms. From a character in an old Spanish romance. honor of Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen.

In

12. A fabled fountain of youth. No, because such a fount

ain never existed.

13. To escape the tyranny of his king.

14. In order to retaliate.

15. To take possession of it.

16. De Soto.

17. At Havana.

In order that the Indians might not find the body. At the root of a tree but finally in the Mississippi River.

18. He was killed by the natives of Mactan, one of the Philippine Islands, April 27, 1521. Drake died off the coast of Columbia, near Porto Bello (Puerto Bello, Puerto Velo), Dec. 27, 1595, and was buried at sea. Gosnold died at Jamestown, Va., in 1607 and was buried at that place.

19. See any good history for this. even mention of these numerous objects. Do you know of the opening of one?

Space will not admit of

Did you ever see one? What was found in it?

20. It should have been named for Columbus, Columbia. Because he discovered it.

21. It was a rude instrument for making reckonings at sea. Now disused.

22. He knelt, kissed the ground and returned thanks to God for his safe delivery.

23. They thought they were great birds floating on the water. (Another version says they supposed they were winged angels.)

24. Henry Hudson. (One account says six companions.) 25. The chicken is a native of Asia. The turkey is a native of America. The horse is a native of Arabia. The sheep is a native of Asia.

26. He believed it to be the land of Ophir.

27. The opossum is the only marsupial (having a pouch for carrying the young) of America.

28. Samuel Champlain lies under a stairway in a street of Quebec.

29. De Soto is buried in the Mississippi.

30. St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is the oldest town in the U.S.

31. They planted gunpowder as they had planted tobaccoseed and waited for it to appear in the shape of a plant. Why did it not grow?

32. Authorities differ. The number usually given is twenty. 33. Women were never sold in Virginia. The historical facts are simply these: When Sandys sent over the first load of women he charged the colonists for the price of passage as the company was almost bankrupt. An assessment was made and the rate of passage fixed at one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco. This was paid by the colony. Many marriages followed this and were celebrated in the usual manThe cost of the second shipload was estimated at onehundred and fifty pounds of tobacco, and was cheerfully paid.

ner.

34. On one occasion he tied his Indian guide to his left arm as a shield.

35. It is now not believed to be true.

36. He tapped the end containing the vacant space lightly on the table, slightly breaking the shell; of course it was made to stand before the court of wise men. (See any good history for this story.)

37. Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded at Old Palace Yard, Westminster, October, 1618.

38. A small portion of a wall is still visible, showing a part of the opening for a door-way of some building.

39. Sir Francis Drake.