Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-05-30
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Q. What is the name OF the ex-
hibition OF horsemanship and rop-
Ing which takes place I'm Wyoming
each year? G. +. III.
A. This meet ia held in Chey-
enne and is called Cheyenne From
tier Days. 1t will be held this
year during the last week in July.
Q. How long will II take a lilac
bush to bloom which was started
from small sprout? L. j. T..
A. The Bureau of Plant Indus
try says that a lilac bush may
bloom any time from two years to
ten after planting. There is no ac-
counting for its behavior in this
respect.
Q. When was there an issue Of
three-cent stamps showing the pic
turc of a locomotive? j.. +.
A. The postoffice department
says that tho blue three-cent stamp
issue of 1869 had the engraving Of
an old-fashioned locomotive.
q. How did the United States
get Wake Island? r.. G.
A. The Bureau of Insular AZ
fairs says that Wake Island was
discovered and surveyed by Com
mander Wilkes in his exploring ex-
pedition of 1s3S-43, and was for
mally taken possession of in the
name of the United States by Com
modore Z. D. Taussig in 1899.
Q. What are the largest weigh
ing scales or machines? j. G.
a.. The machine at Watervliet
arsenal, used for weighing guns,
has a capacity of 100000 pounds.
The largest railroad or track scales
are suspended platform scales in
the West Albany yards of the New
York Central railroad. These have
a capacity of S25 tons.
Q. Where is the largest cemc-
terry In the United States? j, III. r..
A. Pine Lawn on Long Island,
New York, has an area of 1000
acres, and is probably the largest
cemetery in the country.
Q. When is a river a navigable
stream? j. r. f.
A. The courts say that those
rivers must be regarded as public
navlgable rivers in law which are
navigable in fact, and they arc
navigable in fact when they are
used, or are susceptible OF being
used, in their ordinary conditions
as highways of commerce.
Q. What is the largest gland in
the body? Il. Il. NJ.
A. The liver is classed az a
gland and exceeds all others in
size.
q. How does the number Of
sardines canned I'm California COM
pare with the output OF Maine?
G. z.
A. The Bureau of Fisheries
says that in 1921 the Maine pack
OF sardines was 1,350,631 cases,
valued at s3,960,91e, while the
California pack was 415,5s7 cases,
valued at $2,346,446.
q. What Is meant by SicilIan
Nespers? A. s.
A. on March 30, 1892, the
French in Sicily were massacred
by the Sicilians. The signal was
the sounding of the vesper bell
q. Is most of the rubber wild
or cultivated? w. c.
A. About SO per cent of the
rubber used comes from plantation
areas. The world production Of
crude rubber has increased more
than five fold in the last 20 years.
The amount Of wild or native rub
Der has declined considerably while
that of cultivated trees has in
creased from a small amount to
300. 900 tons a year.
Q. Who founded tho Friends
Church? Il. NJ.
A. This sect was founded nv
George Foxe, the English religion
list, who lived from 1924 to 1890.