Queer Questions And Ready Replies a Span Classsearchtermspan Classsear
Queer Questions And Ready Replies a Span Classsearchtermspan Classsear
Samuel Grant Oliphant
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The driving-wheels are thirty-five feet in diame- ter, and weigh forty tons each. The sweep-rod is forty feet long, the cylinder one hundred and ten inches in diameter, and the piston-rod eighteen inches in diameter, with a ten-foot stroke. 114. What was the origin of " pin-money" ? " Pin-money " is a term applied to a lady's allowance of money for her own personal expenditure. Long after the invention of pins, in the fourteenth century, they were very costly, and the maker was allowed to sell ...them in open shop only on the 1st and 2d of January. It was then that the ladies of the court and city dames flocked to the stores to buy them, having been first provided with the requisite money by their husbands. When pins became common and cheap, the ladies spent their allowance on other fan- cies, but the term " pin-money " remained in vogue. 115. Why are our Presidents inaugurated on the 4:th of March? The reason why the 4th of March is the day on which our Presidents are always inaugurated is that the Conti- nental Congress appointed the first Wednesday in January, 1789, for the people to choose electors; the first Wednes- day in February for those electors to choose a President; and the first Wednesday in March for the government to go into operation under thff new Constitution.
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