Queer questions and ready replies

AND
READY REPLIES.
A COLLECTION OF FOUR HUNDRED QUESTIONS IN HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, MYTHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, NATURAL HISTORY, SCIENCE, PHILOLOGY, ETC., ETC., WITH THEIR ANSWERS.
S. GRANT OLIPHANT.
Fourth Edition.
BOSTON: NEW ENGLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1888.
Copyright, 1886,
BY NEW ENGLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY.
CARRIE G. NORRIS
THIS WORK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED
BY THE AUTHOR.
The design of this little work is to offer, in a convenient form, to the reading public of the country, much quaint and curious as well as interesting and instructive information in history, geography, biography, philosophy, science, philology, etc., to correct several popular fallacies, to promote accurate scholarship, and to tender an explanation of many expressions which occur in daily conversation.