Evening star., 1924-06-13
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN

Q. what is the average price of
passenger automobiles?-J. X. r..
A. The average price of new cars
sold is $S11, and IS per cent Of
all cars sold retail for under $1,000.
Q. What is the annual crop loss of
tobacco and cotton?-E. L. r.
A. The average loss is: Tobacco
3s6,3oo.ooo pounds; cotton. 3.a71. .ooo,-
900 pounds.
@. What is the best method of kill
ing grasshoppers?-W. w. T.
A. The Department of Agriculture
has completed a film which shows the
various methods it advocates. Poison
bait. with thorough blowing and har-
rowing of fields to destroy eggs, is
best, but hopper catchers and large
fiocks of turkeys are helpful
@. When was an air fight around
the world first suggested?-P. ]. F.
A. The idea of circumnavigating
the globe in an airship was first pro-
posed by Belgian aAronaut. Rob-
ertson. to the scientific societies Of
Europe in 1904.
Q. What industries used the most
coal last year?-E. v. Y.
A. The three manufacturing indus
Gas Illuminating and heating which
used 1,3SS.467 tons of anthracite coal
and 7,383,6S7 tons Of bituminous coal;
petroleum refining. which used ,105,-
sos tons of anthracite coal and B.
6ls534 tons of bituminous coal: the
iron and steel works and rolling mills.
which used 5s8,944 tons of anthra cite
coal and 25.s11, ,09S tons of bituminous
nous.
@. Is Margaret Sangster. the writ
A. She was married in 1920 to Car
roll II. Sheridan.
O. What railroad operates the fin
est and best equipped passenger train
e. H. r :
A. 1t would be difhcult to say. as
all class 1 railroads OF the United
senger trains. Among the roads op-
Grating these trains are: Great North
ern, Oriental Limited; Pennsylvania.
Broadway Limited; New York Cen
nois Central, Fioridan: Baltimore and
ohio, Capital Limited; Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe, California Linn
tied: Union Pacific, San Francisco
Overland Limited; Chicago, Rock
island and Pacific. Golden State Linn
tied, etc
O. Do American authors have 20
pay taxes on their royalties in Eng
.land?-F. E. r.
A. Such royalties of non-residents
are taxed in England. AT present
books published in Canada by nom
Canadian authors are not taxed, but
a resolution has been offered to put
on such a tax, since il is required in
Great Britain and in the United
States.
Q. Did Mark Twain write the poem
containing the lines Conductor, when
you collect a fare, punch in the pres
ence of the passen tare"?
A. II has often been attributed to
Mark Twain, but is the work of Noah
Brooks, who wrote il when he was
editor of the Newark Daily Adver-
tiser.
Q. What are isomerism and allo-
tropism?-M. /.
which are made upS of the same
chemical elements in the same pro-
portion, but in which the atoms are
differently arranged SO as to produce
substances having different physical
and chemical properties. Examples
are methyl ether and ethyl alcohol.
The formula for both of these is
ca H' o. Allotropism is the occur
renee of the same chemical substance
in different forms. For example, car
bon appears as a diamond, as char
Q. Is the Porcelain Tower still
standing ?-B. N. G.
A. The Porcelain Tower. known as
one Of the seven wonders Of the mid
die ages, which was built in Nan