Arizona republican., 1921-02-08
QUESTIONS AND
 ANSWERS
d. bid pebs boil any Electoral votes2

0. Did Debs poll any electoral vOtes2 M. B.
 A. Eugene V Debs did not receive any electoral votes, these being divided between President elect Harding, who received 404, and ex- Governor Cox, who received 127 electoral votes
 o. Were the bodies of the Spanish American war dead left in other coun- tries? R. s. O.
 A. All the Spanish American sol- diers who died out of the country were returned.
 earth the same at the North Foie as is is here? M. M. M.
 A. The photographic office says no official data is available. The only authoritative records obtained or tnis region are the soundings taken by the late Rear Admiral Peary. O. Who was the expounder or the constitution? R. M. A. The title "Expounder Of the Con stitution'' was given to Chief Justice John Marshall, whose many valuable decisions on the constitution have neV- CT been contested.
 o. What should be done with a tat tered American flag when new ona is being put in its place? L. K
 A. The war department says that old and worn out American flags should be burned
 O. What is regarded as the life of an automobile? P. D. R. l A The average life of a car In this l country is estimated as being between 1 four and five years. 0. When was the Leaning Tower of l Pisa built and did 1t always have this slant? J. ]. McG.
 A. The Campanile at Pisa, Italy,
 was begun in the year 1f74. It's ob-i liquity is 13 feet in it's height of 179 feet. The prevailing opinion of arr chitects is that the slant of the tower
 is intentional
 c. To settle an argument, will you l tell me whether the red part of poin-
 setta is blossom or ieaf2 M- J. A. A. The department of agriculture 1 says that the poinsetta has a red leaf-
 It is due to the red color that people
 often confuse the leaf with the flower 1 The true} flower appears to take tho form of a group of flowers and has no l petals.
 c. Where are the oldest manuscript
 copies of the Bible kept? w. H. M.
 A. The manuscript copies of the ISi- ble to which you have reference and
 which are probably the oldest dated l manuscripts, are the Codex Vaucafis- the Vatican, 4th Century. the Codex
 Sinaiticus 4th Century, Imperial li- I brary, Petrograd, Russia; and the Coz
 dex Alexandrinus 9th Century, in the British museum, England.
 T O. How did Death Valley get it's name? H. P. G.
 A The valley received it's sinister
 name from the fact that in 1850 a party
 of gold seekers with their families made
 a one day camp in the valley and less :, than half of them survived, the remain : Ider being overcome with heat and thirst. , A few escaped over the Panamints to the bountiful California plains, and the
 others returned to the East Ten years
 later party Of prospectors cane , across the camp, with it's wagons and r chains, yolxes, camp equipments and
 childre.l's toys; even the tracks in the
 sand made by the little ones could i still be traced = Il o. Can you mix kerosene and erS t to make substitute for signal oil? .: W. s.
 P A The bureau of mines states that 5 1 it is not possible to make satisfac- tory signal oil by mixing kerosene and ! grease. The government specifications for signal oil are from g to 30 per cent prime winter strained lard oil or
 sperm oil with 300 degree mineral seal , oil.
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