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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

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question by writing Every Evening lnfor-
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O. VIII there be plenty Of water
melons this summer q. r..
A. A forecast Of the commercial
area planted to watermelons shows an
increase in acreage of ~ per cent. In
the nine leading producing states
there In an acreage OF 1G1 900 Taking
the Florida estimate of 500 melons TO
the acre, nearly 100000 melons win
be grown.
q. DO moro white people die of
sleeping sickness than Negroes?
r. Mel
A. The Census Bureau Gays that in
1920. /. 453 whites died OF the Disease
and only ~ Negroes. Among the
whites this was a rate OF Is per 100.-
900 population and among the Negroes
! OF
c. How far may dust he carried IN
| tho ARR T. VI. G.
a. Dust from tho eruption Of
| Kragatoa in 1888 clrcled around the
globe several times and for two years
it gave rise 10 extraordinary sunset
gows and other remarkable optical
!
believed TO have been raised. TO an
altitude Of 80 miles and to have re-
manned buoyed up by air currents for
several years. In 1901 dust from the
Algerian deceit was carried a maxi
mum distance Of $500 miles Cinderi
from the Chicago fire reached tn,
Azores 80 days after tho outbreak o
the ConflagratiOn.
.. How much In tho WOODWORK
Building worth? c. L. u
a. The New York city Departmcn
Of Taxes and Assessments says tina
this property 10 valued for the yea
1922 at S12. 500 900 OF this sum 81,
$50 il the valuation of the land
q. What is the meaning Of IN
phrase due process Of law" r. r
. a. The constitution Of the variou
states and tho Federal Constitutio
contain no description Of those pro
Cesses which it was intended 10 al
? low or forbid by the various uses {
B the expression due process Of law
II Ia generally held 10 mean. hOweve
a law in its regular course Of admins
. tration through courts OF Justice.
a
r known? G. II. :
I A. by the device Of coating a plat
( nun wire one-hundreth Of an inch
It diameter with silver. drawing the rs
a metals out together az fine as Dol
g sible. and then dlssolving away Il
d silver coating with nitric acid
s platinum wire three one-hundret
thousandths Of an inch in diarnet.
n has been securcd-eo fine that or
s. mile % 1t would weigh only o.
d twenty-ffih Of a grain.
It Q. How many telephones are me
D" IN North America? @.
I. a. There arc approximately !.
g 100000 telephones on THIS continent.
g Q. What Is the difference betvee
l. drilling and boring? p.
! a. In machine shop parlance, dri
~ ing is making a round hole throul
le metal or the like With a rotatir
he pointed tool that forces It's ";
through by pressure and rotatio
"a while boring Is charging a hole n
II already exists. Cutting a circular ne
e. in wood with brace and bit,
/ done by carpenters. !s boring, but
* similar operation in metal Is drilIIr
ie q. What IS dutch concert
VI. w.
- A. A dutch concert "a A social .
=. tertainment in which every m
" sings MS own song at the same I'll
= that his ne1ghbor IS singing his,
in which each person present sings
turn one verse Of any song ne pleas
some Wei known chorus being used
a burden after each verse.