Arizona republican., 1919-06-22
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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ism,' employed by the Parnellites at the time of the disestablishment of the Irish Church in 1871.
 Q. How many people were with President Wilson in Paris? H. J.
 A. The presidents immediate party consists of himself and Mrs. Wilson, Dr. Grayson, Miss Benham, three stenog- raphers, six secret service men and q messenger The entire American dele gation in Paris. including all attaches. experts and clerks, numbers 12S4.
 Q. What has become of the horses of St. Marks of Venice? A. M. N.
 A. The four bronze horses were re- moved during the war and hidden in the basement of the Castle of St. Angelo. beside the Tiber at Rome for fear of their falling into the hands of the Aus trians They have often been spells of war, having been brought to Rome from Chios about B. C. 400, and car ried by Constantine to Byzantium in A D. 345. They were taken by the Venetians in 1904. In 1797 Napoleon removed them to Paris but they were restored to Venice in 1915. They have recently been, again placed at the en- trance to St Marks, said by many to be the most beautiful church in the world.
 Q. How many libraries have been financed by Andrew Carnegie? H. s.
 A. Total library gifts to December 31, 1916, granted either by MT. Car negie personally or by the Carnegie Corporation, amounted to 2,749 public library buildings and 116 college lib raries, total of 2,S65.
 Q. What are the seven deadly sins? E. W. c.
 A. The seven deadly sins are: pride, lust, covetousness, gluttony, anger, envy and sloth.
 e. What is a palindrome? G. W. w.
 A. A palindrome is a word, phrase or clause that reads the same from right to left as from left to right. There are very few in the English language, the best known being:
 Madam I'm Adam
 'Lewd did I live and evil did dwell" e. What is white gold? E. R. V. A. White gold is an alloy of gold in which silver predominates. The ratio is about twenty parts of silver to four parts of gold. It is used great deal in jewelry manufacture as a substitute for platinum.
 Q. What is the origin of the terms "gob' as used in the American navy? F. R. G.
 A. The theory of the origin of this term which seems most probably cor 1 rect is that it comes from the Chinese word "gob" meaning sailor, and was introduced into the navy through the l far eastern fleet It has been used among the men in the navy for a long | time, but has found its way into print
 only during the present war. Q. What is chewing gum made 1 from? A. ELI.
 1 A. The best gum is made of the l juice of the chicleZapote tree which l grows in Mexico. The Mexicans used i it for many years, claiming it helped 1 fight thirst in marching through the l plains. Thomas Adams tried to use 1 the gum as a substitute for rubber but
 failed, and decided to experiment with
 it for chewing. Four years from that time he was employing over 2000 peo- 1 pie in it's manufacture.
 l o. What is the amount of money I spent by the consumer on intoxicating liquors, and how far would it gt toward paying tle interest on the na-
 tionaI debt? R N. O.
 A. President Emeritus Elliott O | Harvard states that the annual liquor bill to the consumer is $2,200. 900, 900 i The treasury department says that tn, interest on the national war debt i' 1 approximately s700,000, 900 a year, on {
 principal of about s16, 900, ,000, 900. Tn, 1 amount of money spent on liquor woul(
 not only pay the interest on the nation al debt but would reduce it more thar
 a billion dollars a year.
 Q. Please tell me how to display tn,
 American flag. A. G.
 A. If the flag is hung as a banner
 the union of field of stars should b,
 in the upper left corner; but whel
 hung with the stripes perpendicular
 the union should be in the upper righ
 corner. When hung from a rope iron
 building to building across the street
 on streets running east and west tn, union should fly to the north; ol streets running north and south tn union should fly to the east. Whel hung from a rope from the house to tree in the yard, the union should fl, toward the street
 Q. Who ranked the higher in tn American army, General Pershing O General March? E. $. A. General John Pershing, com mander in- chief of the American ex peditionary forces in France, and Gen eral Peyton March, chief of staff at tn war department, are both full general and of equal rank.
 Q. Who was the first newspape woman? G. N. L.
 A. Mrs. Anne Royall, born in Mary land in 1769, and was not only the frs woman journalist but the first of he sex to edit a newspaper. Q. What is the present populatio of the United States? R. G. N. A. The people of the United State have not been counted since 1910 br the bureau of the census estimate ( the population for the United State | T,yly 1Q1Q avclt, civa of tho in Ia