Q. What poet was born the same year as Napoleon Bonaparte?
A. There were three. Ernest Arndt, a German; Charles de Chenedolle, French; John Frere, an English diplomatist and poet.
Q. What authority is there for spelling the name “Shakespeare,” “Shakspere?”
A. Many of the best authorities consider this spelling preferable.
Q. Who is the author of the line, “It flies and swims a flower in liquid air!” referring to the butterfly?
A. P. Commire, a writer of Latin verse.
Q. What is the meaning of the Roman initials S. P. Q. R.?
A. Senatus Populusque Romanus (The Senate and the Roman people).
Q. Who fixed the date of the birth of Christ?
A. About the middle of the sixth century Dionysius Exigius, a Roman abbot, introduced the method of dating from the birth of Christ. It is conceded that he placed the date four years too late, a fact of no importance in chronology, as all that is necessary is to place the Savior’s birth 4 B. C.