HELEN AND THE TROJAN WAR.
Dana, Ill.
1. Will Our Curiosity Shop tell me how to pronounce the name of the President of France, and what his salary is? 2. Who was Helen? I heard a gentleman say that, when looking at a certain lady, he could easily believe in Helen’s smile and the siege of Troy. Please tell me about her.
Ignoramus.
Answer.—1. Gravy. His salary is 600,000 francs ($120,000), and an additional 300,000 francs for household expenses. 2. Helen, according to tradition, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, the wife of Tyndareus, King of Sparta, and was so extremely beautiful that at the age of 10 she was stolen by two mighty Greeks, from whom her brothers, Castor and Pollux, rescued her. Later Tyndareus bound her suitors to the number of about thirty to save her, in case of another abduction. She became the wife of Menelaus, King of Lacedæmon, but, during his absence from home, Paris, a prince from Troy, in Asia Minor, induced her to elope with him. Thereupon Menelaus called upon the thirty to fulfill their oath, and with a large army they sailed against Troy, laid siege to it, and were victorious after ten years. There are conflicting stories of her fate.
WHEAT IN OHIO AND NEBRASKA.
Triadelphia, Ohio.
Which years, the odd or even, have produced the most wheat in Ohio for the last ten years? State same for Nebraska.