Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-27
New Questions


How much money did Andrew
F.! Carnegie devote to library endow-
ment?
| Gan caterpillar sting?
I 3-What is the origin of the super
stitious fear of two-dollar bills, and
why is the corner torn off?
As there such thing as a black
rose?
5-Who was ''The Duke of Exc
ter's Daughter"
| 6-Do Americans eat as many
crackers as Englishmen?
TAT what temperature does dyna-
mite explode?
! 8-What town in Indiana or Ohio
has a tree growing in the tower Of
the courthouse?
9-Is a polar bear a warm or a
cold-blooded animal?
Questions Answered.
L. @. What was the Devils Bible?
A. Devils Bible was the popular
name of manuscript Bible written
on ass skin. The nGnae arose from
a legend that the writing was the
work of man who by the devils
help accomplished it in a few hours
in order to save his life, but who in
return became the slave of the Evil
One.
| 2. @. Where was tobacco first
found?
A. Tobacco is native of the west
ern hemisphere, where the aborigines
cultivated and used it from remote
times. It's generic name is in honor
OF Jean Nicot, who introduced it
into France in 1863 from Spain,
where it had been brought from
Santo Domingo in the same year. In
1885 it was taken to England by
Sir Francis Drake, and the prac'
tice of pipe smoking introduced
among the Elizabethan courtiers by
Sir Walter Raleigh. Its use rapidly
extended throughout Europe, and
soon became prevalent among Orien-
tai nations.
8. @. What is dutch concert?"
j A A dutch concert is a social en-
, tertainment in which every man
sings his own song at the same time
that his neighbor is singing his, or
, in which each person present sings
, in turn one verse of any song he
, pleases, some well-known chorus
: being used as burden after each
| verse.
!, 4. @. How far may dust be carried
7 in the air?'
, A. Dust from the eruption Of
: Krakatoa in 1883 circled around the
globe several times and for two
: years it gave rise to extraordinary
sunset CLOVIS and other remarkable
optical phenomena. The finest
: particles are believed to have been
raised to an altitude Of fifty miles
, and to have remained buoyed UP by
: air currents for several years. In
1901 dust from the Algerian desert
: was carried a maximum distance OF
$500 miles. Cinders from the Chi
cago fire reached the Azores forty
days after the outbreak of the con
flagration.
5. @. Will there be plenty OF
watermelons this summer?
A. A forecast of the commercial
. area planted to watermelons shows
r an increase in acreage of At pei
. cent. In the nine leading producing
t states there is an acreage of 161 900
Y Taking the Florida estimate of 36C
melons to the acre, nearly $4,000,
0 900 melons will be grown.
6. @. Who was it said all men are
: great in their dreams?
: A. The saying is credited to Freud
e one Of the most acute and painstak
5 ing of all of the students Of dream
= phenomena.
z. @. How many readers are reck
: oned to each newspaper sold?
y A. Newspaper publishers multiply
= their circulation by three in arriving
!. at the probable number of people
:. | reached by their papers. Magazine
/ publishers arrive at their approx
f mate number of readers by multiply
n ing the circulation by five.
4 8. @. How does the compensation
e of a widow of an officer in the late
: war compare with that Of the
II widow of a private?
t A. Both would receive the same
;. amount of compensation. If botE
$ husbands carried the same insur
/ ance, the widows would receive the
- same amount.
9. @. Who was vice president OF
!, the United States during the ad
. ministration of James A. Garfield?
!. A. Chester A. Arthur held the OF
flee of vice president and succeeded
to the presidency when President
James A. Garfield was shot and
i, killed?
) 10. @. What is Ty Cobh's home
town.
A Royston, Ga, is the home OF
n the famous American league baseball
;: player.
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