Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-10
New Questions

1. Q.-Why was Leigh Hunt put
in prison?
2 Q.-Is our foreign trade increas-
ing?
8. Q.-How many young people
graduate from our universities each
year?
4. Q.-When a word sounds the
same as another, but is spelled diff
ferently and has a different mean
ing, what is it called?
5. Q.-Should baby sleep with g
pillow under it's head? II
6. Q.-Why did Roscoe Conkling re-
sign from the senate shorty arter
Z. Q.-What man has been cand1-
date for president the oftenest,
8. Q.-What was the old-fash1oned
ceremony known as the "Stubole
$. o-How did the. American cast
his vote in his war council?
10. Q.-Who coined the expression,
"Blood is thicker than water?"
Questions Answered >
10. What was done about the
debt that Virginia tried to make
West Virginia pay after the states
IA. In 1907 suit was brought
by the state of Virginia against the
state of West Virginia in the United
States supreme court to compel the
latter state to assume its proportions
of the state debt created prior to
1881, when West Virginia separated
from the other state. The suit was
pending in the supreme court until
June, 1915, when that body handed
down a decision holding that West
Virginia should pay Virginia $12..
393,929 as it's net share or
was required to pay $S,178,o0o in in
terest. The court held, however,
that West Virginia was entitled to
share of the assets arising from the
original principsaal q g debt aoc and liked
20. Did an American ride the
winner in the English derby?
"A. Scion Kop," with Frank
O'Neill. of st. Louis, in the saddle,
won the English derby at EPSON
million people, including King
race. Scion Kop,"- who is owned by
Captain Giles, L6dger;J was quoted at
.16 to / in the betting; archaic"
who ran second, was 16 to ] shot,
quoted at so to l.
SO How was Benjamin Frank
Inns kite experiment conducted?
"A, In experimenting with cleo
tricity in the atmosphere with his
made Of silk, at the top of which
there was a free sharp-pointed wire
To the end of the Irvine next ITO his
hand he tied a silk ribbon and where
the silk and Irvine Joined, fastened
the key. The kite was raised during
a thunderstorm. and when. the clouds
came over the kite, the wire brought
the electric fire from them, and the
kite with all the twine became cleo
trified. When the rain wet the kite,
it conducted the electricity freely so
THAT it stfeamed out from the key.
90. Is it true that King George
of England of Revolutionary times
could speak no language but Ger
man?
"A. George II, who was king of
England at the time of the War of
| American independence, learned to
| speak German and French during his
youth, but also spoke English as his
native tongue, though he was con-
sidered poor In English conversation,
as his education as whole had been
neglected. 1t was George I of Eng
land who was unable to speak Eng
| lish
SO. Who said 'It takes a. sur
gical operation to make, a Scotchman
see joker"
5-A. The quotation is: at re-
quires a surgical operation to get a
| joke well into a Scotch understand
| ing" and is attributed to Sydney
Smith. an English humorist whose
writings appeared early in the
| Nineteenth century.
Go. What is the name of the