Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-29
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New Questions


1. Q.-Are packs of playing acrds
always the same?
2. Q@When were the Olympic
games first held?
preston stand pattern
4. Q.-Who was known as the
maiden queen?
erature?
6. o.-what is the difference be-
tween Paisley shawls and cameps
z. Q.-When was radium discov.
cred and what is it worth?
8. Q.-What is the origin of this
the teeth?'
name of the member of congress
who gained notoriety by remarking,
Mr.; Speaker where. am 1 at?'
10. Q.-Please give me informa-
tien on the building of the Statue of
Liberty?
Questiones Answered
@ What was Ouida's real name
A. This was the pen name of Lou
and her mother English. She ex-
panGed her surname Rarae into de la
Rance, and the pseudonym Ouida
was her own childish pronunciation
of Louise
9. How many rivers are there in
A. There are 2s5 navigable streams
IN the United States.
Q: When a gas well is on fire
how can the flame be put out?
A. A charge of dynamite is eX-
ploded in the air at the side of the
flame for this purpose.
Q. What was the quickest nina-
inning game ever played in major
league baseball?
A. The shortest game on record
was played in New York by the Ma
tional league teams on September
20. 1919. The game lasted fifty--one
minutes, and the score was New
York s, Philadelphia l..
@. Who was Blennerhasset?
A. Hartman Blennerhasset was
born in England the Sth of October,
1854. He married his own niece and
was socially ostracized. He came
river, where he developed a prince
ly estate. He was involved in the
scheme of Aaron Burr to form
southwestern empire and was ar
rested and tried on the charge of
conspiracy.
9. When did Jumbo die?
A. Jumbo, a famous African ele-
plant of gigantic size, attached to
Barnum's circus for three years, was
killed in 1885 when crossing a rail-
road track in Canada. Jumbo was
eleven and a half feet in height and
weighed six tons. His skeleton is
preserved in the Smithsonian institu-
tion in Washington and his skin
mounted and stands in the Barnum
museum at Tufts college.
Q. Who are the members of the
presidents cabinet and what are their
portfolios?
A. The presidents cabinet, in or
der of precedence, follows: Balm
bridge Colby. secretary of state;
David T. Houston, secretary Of the
treasury; Newton D: Baker, secre-
tary of war; A. Mitchell Palmer, at
torney general; Albert S. Burleson,
postmaster general; Josephus. Dan
iels, secretary of the navy; John
Barton Payne, secretary of the in
terror; Edwin T. Meredith, secretary
of agriculture; Joshua w Alexander,
secretary of commerce, and William
B. Wilson, secretary Of labor. .
Q. How is Japan governed?
A. Its government may be de-
scribed as a constitutional monarchy
with representative institutions SIM
liar to the German monarchy under
former Kaiser Wilhelm. Until the
present time about nine-tenths of
the. men and all women have been
excluded from suffrage There is a
widespread dissatisfaction with tins
state of affairs which is evinced by
parades, mass meetings and general
excitement.
Q. What is the meaning Of Bryn
A. Bryn Mawr, Pa, was named
after the town of the same name in
Becon county, Wales. The Welsh
word Byrns means hill, and Mawr
means big.
O. What metal is most useful to
man?
A. Iron is considered the most use
f3rl, on ACCOUNT of it's great strength,
durabiIty and tma1leability.