General Knowledge Questions OUR weekly prize of one guinea for
the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mrs. Moeller, Bernal-cue, Altos, Paraguay, S. America, for the following ;- Questions on Historical Characters
Of what historical characters did what authors write the follow. ing : - • 1. " He left a name at which the world grew pale To paint a moral or adorn a tale."
. 2. " As long as he lived he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the streets."
3. Who, born no king, made millions draw his car, Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth ; whose dice were human bones."
4. " The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind."
5. " Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ;
And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain." G. " A bad son and worse father, an unfaithful husband and an ungraceful lover."
• 7. " Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor palter'd with Eternal God for power." 8. " He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus."
9. " A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long."
10. " First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his pountrymen."
11. A splendid bridge from the old world to the new." 12. " Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way bast ploughed." 13. " A king every inch of him, though without the trappings of a king."
• Ansivers will be found on page 686.
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