The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-13

lRePE2a 2A DePs19menf How long is the Panama canal? Forty miles
 Is tEse-s sIch afhins As presidential fag7
 Yes The presidential flag has a blue ground, with the arms of the United States in the center. It was designed and first used by President Chester A. Arthur fin 1883 and is now hoisted at the main whenever the president is on board any government vessel
 Is Dr. Alsxandsr Graham Bell, inven- tor of the tslephens, Scotch, Canadian or American? If the former, when did he come to this oeuntry7
 Alexander G. Bell, inventor of the telephone, was Scotch before he was American and Canadian before he was Yankee Born in Edinburgh March 3, 1S47, and educated in that city and in London, he removed with his father to Canada in 1870. In 1872 he. became professor of vocal physiology in Boston university, and from voice culture he took up voice transmission- In 1878 he exhibited an apparatus embodying the results of his studies in the transmits sion of sound by electricity, and his in- vention, with improvements and modi- dcations, constitutes the modern com nercial telephone. Dr. Bell made orig final tnvest1gat1ons in other branches of science and has been honored by sci entiic, societies throughout the world. His home is fin Washington : Why arc tree branches often broken by Iiahtninef .a The lightning is so great that the wood, being an imperfect conductor, is broken by the. shock before the cur rent can pass on from the bough.
 Who is tbs author of tho words, These arc the times that try mems souIs71
 The words were written by Thomas Paine in his book, ~The American Crisis" better known pexhaps as A.The Crisis" It was written during the early years of the val of the Rsyoau- tior.
 Must president of the United sta.ss be born of American born parents or ia it sufficient if his parsn<s are natural ized Amerieans7
 To be president he must have been born in the United States and be an American citizen. It does not matter whether his parents are American born
 Which is right and why-12 m, 1z noon. f2 a. m.?
 It is correct to use either IF n. or F noon, but never IF a. m At F o'clock noon the sun is directly on the meridian, or noon line; hence the use of the abbrev1stion "m," standing for the Latin word for noon. But the ear. ly hours Of the day, up to noon, before the sun reaches the meridian line, are designated as such by the use o1 "a. m.," an abbreyihtion for 'anto me ridiahs" or before the midday. Yor could say 11159 q m, but never t a. m, for at 12 the sun would have reached the meridian, and a. m would not apply
 WiII boats bs lowed through ths ney Panazna canal by looomo4ives?
 Yes, but they will cross Ga4un lak. under their own steam
 Wac negro ever United State senator, and how many coIored cor, srsssmsn, have there been?
 Blanche E. Bruce, educated at ober lin college and a planter in Mississip p1 was United States senator iron that state from 1875 to 1879. P. B. s Pfnchback was elected senator iron Louisiana in 1873, but was never seat ed, though he received regular pa, and mileage. Altogether there hay, been nearly twenty negro representa- lives in the lower branch of congress since the civil war, though none re gently.
 Is le proper Co slt and eonssmpiat i, the fosd on your plate until your hos tess is serssd7
 Not every one does it, but it is , good rule and does no harm to observe -Whst ts . shoos<ahr7
 A large tobacco pipe much used fl Turkey, Persia and other eastern coun tries. It consdsts of two bowls, .ont placed over the other. The upper bow contains the tobacco and is connected by tube win the lower, which is par tialIy filled with wdter. The connect ing tnbe passes down into the water The stem, which is a long, nexibl, tube, fs connected with the air spac, above the watar, and thus the smek, must pass through the water befor, rsacsl1ng the smolksr. In passing through it- is cooled and deprived o most of 4ts harmfuz constituents.
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