Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-10

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O.. What effect would freezing
have on jelly? A. E. c..
A. The Department of Agriculture
says that freezing and thawing would
| be apt to break down and change
the texture of jelly. 1t would not be
likely to injure the jelly, however:
O. Are the red corpuscles really
| red when viewed singly? C. B.
A. So-called red" blood corpu-
| scles are in reality straw color when
seen singly but when seen in masses
they appear red and do give the
| blood its red color, bright red when
| full of oxygen, dark red. almost pur-
| pie, when deprived of their oxygen
through tissue absorption.
@. How many ex-service men are
| there in the United States?. l.. b. X.
A. The War Department a no
| figures compiled showing the total
| number of ~ex-service men in the
United States at this date, but there
were 4,SO0,000 in service at the time
| the armistice was signed, and as the
! forces have been cut in accordance
| with congressional legislation so
that there are only 10000 in The
Army and about 100000 in the Navy
| and Marine Corps, it is easy to esti-
| mate that there are over four ana q
| half million former service men who
are now civilians in the United
States.
@. Who said Of Burns. the poet,
that the people gave him a stones
| r. s. c.
A. 1t is related that Robert Burns
mother at the dedication of a monu'
ment to his memory said: 90. -.
when he was Twin they wud ma GID
| him brede but now that he is deds
| they gle him a stone" .
@. Why was the Great Wall OF
| China built? w. p.
A. This wall was built to check
| the invasions of the Huns.
@. What is the Rosetta Stone? N,
L. A..
A. The Rosetta Stone is a piece OF
| black basalt found in 1898 near the
| Rosetta Mouth of the Nile. bearing
a trilingual inscription Tin hierogly.
phics, denote characters and Creek
and famous as having given M.
| Champollion the first clew towards
deciphering the Egyptian hierogly.
| phics.
O. In the Russo-Japanese war,
| WHICH NAHUM ldu llio Aoii6OSb amp
guns? o. +. G..
A. The guns of the Japanese
Navy were superior in range to thoss
| of the Russian. The Japanese Navy
practiced at long range from 10000
to 1900 yards; generally opened
| fire on the Russian ships at 10000
yards. The Russian Army was equip.
ped with a standard field gun su.
| perior in range to the Arasaka gun
used by the japanese. 1t was capa'
BILE Of accuracy, at a range OF from
two 10 three miles, while the Japa-
nese were<forced to bring their field
pieces within two miles or less to
obtain an equal degree of accuracy,
@. What is a word or sentence
which reads the same back or for
ward? A. d. H..
A. Such a word, sentence or verse
is called a palindrome. Level is a
word which is a palindrome.
the Hellespont leads, is about 40
miles in length and forty miles wide
at it's greatest width. 1t is thus
somewhat smaller than Lake Ontario
the smallest of our Great Lakes. But
| though relatively small, the Mar
mora in it's time has been the center
of the world. Probably about no
other body of water OF such size have
so many important cities stood. or
these, Constantinople alone is OF m
portance today; but living and dead
cities cover the shores of practically
every harbor and headline of the lit
tie sea. The settlement that still ex-
lists are not even the heirs of the
great cities of yesterday but rather
ill-kempt interlopers that under
Turkish domain occupied their sites
Typical of the ancient Marmora
cities was Cyzicus on the peninsula
of that name on the southern shore
of the sea. 1t was founded earlier
than Rome or Byzantium and had a
long life, possessed at various times
by Athens, Sparta. Persia. Macedon.
Pergamus and Rome. 1t was one OF
the finest of ancient cities In lts
prime and it's gold coins We're the
standard of their day as the horins
of Florence became the standard In
Renaissance times. But when By
zantium, thanks largely to its incom-
parable location on the Bosphoruss
rose to power, the glories of Cyzi-
Gus faded. Today practically MOTH
ing is left of the once great city. It's
buildings were not left to fall; they
were torn down by Byzantines and
after them by Turks and the stones
used in the construction of the latest
and still flourishing metropolis oil
the straits.
Though 1t is both narrower ana
shorter than the Dardanelles. the
Bosphorus. third link in this chain
of historic waters, is perhaps most
important; for it is the immediate
gate to and from the great Black
Sea which reaches toward the heart
of Europe. To command this strait
is to command one of the great trade
routes of the world. a fact which a
been written deeply into history from
the days of the early Greeks to those
of the waning Turks. The strait Is
about twenty miles long and varies
in width from a third of a mile to
two miles. Darius. Persian king,
who invaded Europe, took his army
owe a bridge of boats which he had
constructed across the Bosphoruss
Water Route to Heart of Europe
At it's northern end h Bosphorus
expands suddenly into the Black Sea-
This is no small sea comparable to
one of our Great Lakes but a great
body of water $50 miles long and
from 200 to 400 miles wide. If locat-
ed in the northwestern portion of
the United States it would cover all