But for all these questions of spelling your best plan
is to buy a copy of Our Standard Dictionary, published
in ten volumes, by this newspaper, at forty dollars.
Ignoramus asks:
Can you tell me how to spell "cat"?
Answer: Didn't you hear what we just said about how to
spell "dog"? Buy the Dictionary.
Careworn Mother asks:
I am most anxious to find out the relation of the earth's
diameter to its circumference. Can you, or any of your
readers, assist me in it?
Answer: The earth's circumference is estimated to be
three decimal one four one five nine of its diameter, a
fixed relation indicated by the Greek letter _pi_. If
you like we will tell you what _pi_ is. Shall we?
"Brink of Suicide" writes:
Can you, will you, tell me what is the Sanjak of
Novi Bazar?
Answer. The Sanjak of Novi Bazar is bounded on the north
by its northern frontier, cold and cheerless, and covered
during the winter with deep snow. The east of the Sanjak
occupies a more easterly position. Here the sun rises--at
first slowly, but gathering speed as it goes. After having
traversed the entire width of the whole Sanjak, the
magnificent orb, slowly and regretfully, sinks into the
west.
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