Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-04
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New Questions
lis it true that any part of the
ocean is fresh water?e
2.-Please advise me the per, cent
of marriages that go on the rocks OF
the divorce court?
3.-What religion has the most fol-
lowers?
4.-Does the Hickory Horn Devil
turn into a butterfly, and If so, what
kind of a butterfly?
5.-How did camel coal get it's
name?
6.-What is known as the Darda-
nelles of America?
7.-Does the skull keep on grow
ing until a person is full-groWn.
Sis the fish whose eggs are
sold as caviar a large fish?
9.-Where do the martin birds win
ter? They are leaving Ohio already?
Hollow many persons were gull
lotined during the Reign of Terror
in the French revolution?
Questions Answered
o.-Do hummingbirds live on
A-Hummingbirds are supposed
to live on the nectar of flowers;
While this does form the principal
part of their food, they also eat in
sects and spiders.
3.-Was a baseball game ever post
poned because there was no one to
see it?
"A game between the Allentown
and Lancaster clubs, scheduled for
May 27 1885, was postponed be-
cause there were no spectators. A
large parade was the rival attrac-
ton.
3.-Which has the greater effect
on the rate at which sound travels:
wind, fog, or rain?
A.-Wind reduces the velocity OF
sound much more than fog or rain
does.
4.-Who invented dancing?
Anew savage tribes have been
discovered which did not dance. The
earliest civilization of the Egyptians
included dancing and it's invention
Thoth.
5.-Is Manuel Anaullo, the new
chief justice of the Philippine SUI
preme court, the first Filipino to
hold this position?
A. Judge Anaullo succeeds Victo-
rini Mapa as chief justice of the
Philippine supreme court. Judge
Mapa was the first Filipino to hold
the position.
6.-Please advise how ordinary
cotton can be made absorbent.
A.-Boil best quality of cotton
with per cent solution of caustic
soda or potash for one-half hour.
Wash thoroughly, press out water as
far as possible and immense in a 5
per cent solution of chloride of lime
(bleaching powder) for Is or 20 min
utes; wash with little water, then
with water aciduIated with hydro
chloric acid, then with water. Boil
once more for 5 minutes with caus-
tic soda solution, and wash with
calculated and plain water as be-
fore.
How much iron ore is mined
| in the United States?
An 1918 68,658,278 gross tons
of iron ore were mined in this
country.
s;-Do people always die if the
A.-Contrary to common belief it
| is possible for a person with a bro
ken neck or back to recover and live
| for many years.
Did John Galsworthy ever
write under a nom de plume?
A.-The early fiction written by
GalsWorthy was published under the
pen name, John Senjohn.
10. In what mine explosion were
most lives lost?
An the United States the great
est loss of life occurred in the ex-
plosion at Monongah, w. Va, De-
cember 6. 1907, when 358 men were
killed. This was exceeded at Uni
Tersal, Great Britain, in 1913, when
revier, Germany in 1908, when the
loss was $50, and at Courriers,
France, in 1906, when 1,O99 was the