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New Questions
1--When were steel springs for
carriages invented?
How many islands are there in
the Hawaiian group?
3-What are rattlesnake weeds?
allow long has England had old
age pensions?
5-What was the origin of the eX-
preston, THE good die young?"
6-Where is the greatest yield per
acre of sugar produced?
What Constitutes a bad debt?
S-Will you please explain the
process of sending money to London
by New York draft?
9-What were the popular cut
flowers in Civil war times?
10-What. was the Florentine ex
pertinent?
Questions Answered
1. @. How long has Marcel wav-
ing been known?
A. Next October a grand Marcel
fete is to be given in France to hon.
or Monsieur Marcel the originator
Of the Marcel wave. He is now sew
enty years old, and it is fifty years
since he began to seek for way to
inNAate the wave of naturally curly
hSSR After two years of expert
menting he invented the process of
artificial waving which bears his
name.
2. @. Is there any especial signifi-
canoe attached to the number 40?
A. Forty is a number that has
been regarded as peculiarly signiti-
cant. The idea may have originated
with readers of the Bible, who no.
tice that Moses was forty days on
the mount, Elijah was fed forty days
by the ravens, the rain Of the blood
fell forty days, another forty days
elapsed before Noah opened the Win
dow of the ark, forty days was the
period of embalming, Jonah gave
Ninevah forty days to repent, the
Lord tasted forty days and he was
seen forty days after his resurrec-
ton. Old English law also featured
many forty-day periods.
8. @. Please explain the method
used by Brazil in handling coffee.
A. The department of agriculture
says that in the Brazilian coffee
valorization scheme the coffee is pur-
chased outright by the Brazilian gov.
eminent, or at least by the state
departments in the coffee producing
region. Brazil not only directs the
expectation of coffee but exercises
control over the number of coffee
trees planted. Since Brazil is the
largest coffee producing country, it
has been able to exercise an almost
complete control over the worlds
supply. To finance the valorization
scheme, the Brazilian states have
! contracted large loans in foreign
! countries and in several instances
have issued large quantities OF pa
per money against the stocks OF
coffee. :,
a, @. Who was it who defined
history as lie that had been agreed
upon?
fiction agreed upon is attributed TO
! Napoleon.
| 5. @. Are there more Christians in
! the world than non-Christians?
| A. Only 34.2 per cent of the worlds
nopulation is classed as Christian.
| Mohammedans form 1876 per cent;
| Hebrews, O.6 per cent; Brahmans.
14.37 per cent; Buddhists, 1856 per
cent, and heathens, 81 per cent.
6. @. What year were autos first
licensed?
| A. In 1893 Elwood Haynes, of ko-
komo, Ind, was granted license to
run one of the first makes of the
HAYNES car. In 1896 there was IL
cense issued in Rochester, N. Y, to
Jonathan West, which was the out
come of what is known as the Jona-
than West and Swiss Laundry COM
pany case A license was issued
because Jonathan West ran into a
wagon of the Swiss Laundry COM
pany and a legal controversy was
the result. These are the first IL
censes of which the National Auto
mobile Chamber of Commerce has
record.
7. Q. How big is a molecule?
| A. 1t has been estimated that d
molecule of water has diameter OF
about one forty-millionth of an inch
and that the number of molecules in
a cubic inch of air is 443 million mil
lion million.
s. @. What is or was the largest
wine cask in the world?
A. The famous copper tun kept III
the celler of Heidelberg castle is said
to have been the largest wine cask in
the world, being thirty-siX feet in
length, twenty-siX feet in diameter
and capable of holding $4,000 gallons
8. @. To settle an argument, will Z
log placed in running water travei
faster or slower than the water?
A. The photographic office says
that log placed in running strean
, will travel neither faster nor slower
than the water, but take its speed
from the water.
10. @. Is snuff-taking INDUCED ii
to any extent nowadays?
A. The practice of snuff-taking is
more widely prevalent than is com
monty thought. In the United States
> where the consumption is abou
$500 tons a year, the chief user'
are foreign-born. The snuff used IL
this country is all of domestic man
lufacture.