Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-09

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New Questions
1. How did the gross receipts of
the Dempsey Carpenter fight com
pare with the Dempsey-Willard
fight?
2. Why do so many ranches have
names beginning with "Lazy?'
8. How many nationalities are
there in the United States and how
many languages are spoken?
4. What is the origin Of the word
bashful?
S. In what country or by what
people were hotels first established?
6. To settle discussion, which of
former President Wilson's daugh-
ters are marie dand which married
first?
Z. How much tea is drunk in the
United States?
8. Who invented the slot ma
chimes?
9. Please give me the meaning Of
the word rosary?
10. What will prevent a cork from
flying out of a bottle?
Questions Answered
1. @. Can a porcupine throw it's
quilts?
A. The quilts of porcupine are
quite loosely attached to the body
and when it slaps with its tail, as
it does in self-defense, some quilts
may be sent quite a distance. This
is all the foundation there seems to
be for the popular belief that the
porcupine throws it's quilts at an
enemy.
2. @. Does the hump on a camel
have any relation to it's ability to go
long time without food and wa
ter?
A. The humps on the back Of a
camel are stores of flesh and fat,
reabsorbed IN support of the ami
NAL when overtaken by a famine.
8. @. Why is it considered bad
luck to kill spider?
A. This superstition had its prob
able origin in the legend that Rob-
ert Bruce derived such encourage
ment from watching the tireless eff
forts of spider, that he was spur
red on to renewed endeavor in be-
half of Scotland. Sir Walter Scott
said that the descendants Of Bruce
accepted the legend as fact so unhes-
itatingly that not one of them could
be induced to kill spider.
4 Q.-Why is it necessary to be
quiet when fishing? Can fish hear?
A. The Bureau Of Fisheries says
fish have no sense of hearing. They
have sense Of feeling, however,
which, warns them of an unusual
motion of the water.
SO. How long has the word ga
rage been in the English language?
A. The earliest record Of the use
of garage" in the English language
seems to be in 1903.
Go. What is the rock that is
claimed to give out a sound like a
bell when struck, and where is it
| found?
A. The Geological Survey says the
rock which gives out a bell-like
sound is a phonolitic volcanic rock,
a kind of lava of dense and compact
| structure. 1t is ELUSIVE and occurs
| in large areas Of the earth.
| 20. What is the origin Of the ex-
preston he escaped by the skin OF
his teeth?"
A. In the nineteenth chaper OF
Job, twentieth verse, is to be found
| the sentence, "I am escaped with
| the skin Of my teeth" which gives
a probable Biblical origin for all the
expressions relative to escaping by
| the skin of the teeth.
SO. Is there an inhabited island
of which nobody is ruler and which
is owned by no country?
A. You probably have reference
to the Island of Tristan da Cunha
an island half way between Africa
and South America in the Atlantic
ocean. This was discovered by g
Portuguese Of the same name 400
years ago. England at one time
sent troops there to watch for ships
attempting to communicate with ST
Helena, where Napoleon was i'm
prisoned. On the removal Of troops