Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
New Questions


/. What do Chinese use ginseng
for?
2. What is meant when 1t Is said
that a bill has been engrossed?
8. Has George Washington and
living descendants?
4. What state leads in the manu-
facture of ice?
5. Who first used the "bunt hit"
in baseball?
6. When playing a double.header.
which game is considered the reg
ular days ball game?
Z. Can eggs that have been put
down in waterglass be moved safely
from one place to another In an
automobile?
8. What is a lowboy?
9. In sending wedding invitations
IS it correct to include whole fam
lily in one invitation?
10. Did Captain Amundsen take
a radio outfit on his trip to the pole?
Questions Answered
1. @. What is a person called
who can see as well or better in
the dark?
A. The state of being able to see
IN the dark is known as hemera-
lnopea or day blindness. A person
who suffers from this may be known
IS hemeramopeal.
2. Q. How long do lions live?
A. The probable limit of age of
he lion has been differently stated
oy authorities. Button fixed it at
q years. However, lion which
died in the Tower of London in 1850
aad lived in captivity more than 70
years.
8. @. How long have elevators
been used?
A. The modern elevator is direct
evolution of the machine which
Elisha G.. Otis exhibited in 1852 in
the Crystal Palace in New York.
HOSTS Of various kinds have been
used before that time but this was
the first elevator wherein provision
was made for stopping the fall of
the car in the contingency Of the
breaking of the hosting cables.
4. @. What were mummy cases
made of?
A. Two cases were used for each
mummy and these were usually
made Of cedar. They were made to
fit the shrouded corpse. The inner
one was plain, while the outer one
was covered with paintings and
hieroglyphics, recountlng the life
and deeds of the dead.
5. @. Which was used first, the
pin or the needle?
A. Probably the pin in its print
tive form of spike, thorn, or fine
bone, was used to hold garment to-
gether long before the earliest needle
and thread was known. The brass
wire pin Of today was first made in
England in 1926. In the same year
the first drill-eyed needles were made
by using a stamping machine.
6. @. What is the record for para
chute jumping?
A. Captain A. w. Stevens, Of Nc
Cook field, in jumping 24,200 feet
with a parachute established a new
record.
I. Q. What are the five leading
industries in New York City?
A. In 1919 the clothing industry
ranked first, tobacco, printing, MILL
merry and lace goods, and manu-
featured furs following in the order
named.
8. @. Is there is any country that
measures distance by the days
walk?
A. The eli" a Chinese measure
of length, is the equivalent of one
one-hundredth of :. days walk. very
slightly exceeding one-third Of ar
English mile on the level, but in q
hilly country it might be as little
as one-eighth of a mile.
9. @. What is the word for fear
Of cats?
A. The term for this feeling is
aeluophobia.
10. @. When were the naval and
military academies established?
A. The naval school was founded
at 1S45. In 1S49 the name was
changed to United States Naval
Academy. The United States mill
tary Academy was established at
West Point in 1894.