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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Q. What Is the fastest OF the
wild ducks? How does its speed
compare with that of the carrier
pigeon?
A. The winged teal is the
fastest. The speed Is about IS
miles per hour. The carrier pigeon
makes a speed of from 80 to 40
miles per hour. They have been
known to make as much as so
miles per hour.
Q, Can you tell me something
OF the famous wreck on the Erie
railroad about the year 1864?
A. The wreck TO which you re-
fer occurred on July 10. 1864, at
King and Fuller's cut, four miles
east Of Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania
A trail carrying about 500 Con-
federato prisoners of war ran into
a coal train, due to the careless
ness Of the telegraph operator, who
was intoxicated at the time. 1t was
head-on collision where the track
could be seen for only d short dis
tance ahead, and both trains were
under speed. Fifty-one Confederate
soldiers and nineteen Union SOL
diers were killed, one hundred,
twenty-three were injured, some of
whom died of their wounds. The
wreck created a great deal of COM
ment at the time. The telegraph
operator was released. but public
opinion was so much aroused that
he disappeared from the locality.
Q. Why is Maryland called the
odd Line State?"
a. Because the Mason and
Dixon line formed the original
boundary line between this state
and Pennsylvania. The Mason and
Dixon line was the line run by two
English surveyors. Charles Mason
and jeremiah Dixon, during the
years 1763-1767. The phrase Mason
and Dixon line Is often used In
history to designate the dividing
line between the slave and the free
| states.
@. Who wrote the first encyclo-
pedia?
A. The first encyclopedia Is said
to have been compiled by Speusip-
pus. (died 800 B. c. a disciple Of
Plato. Among the Romans, Marcus
Terentius Varro (died about 27 B
c. was the first of the encyclo.
pedists.
@. Who was 1t that said OF
Socrates that he was not ar
Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen
Of the world?
A. This Is a quotation from "Or
Punishment" by Plutarch.
Q. How and by whom wa;
Prince William sound in Alaska
named?
A. 1t was named by Zaikof
whose ship the "Alexandr Nevski'
visited there in 1888, though Cap
tain Cook had been there prior t
this. 1t was named for Prince Will
liam, Duke of Cumberland.
@. Where do the humminj
birds go in the cold winter months
What do they eat?
A. The humming bird retires ia
to the south in winter, to the sub
tropical regions of Florida an
Central America. Their principa
food is honey and small insects.
Q. What is the derivation an
meaning of the name "Appleget?
A. 1t is a corruption of til
name "Applegarth," which a
Anglo-SaXon place namG r.-anln
apple garden"
@. Is Hebrew the ianguag
spoken by the majority OF the Jew
ish people?
, a. The, use of the Hebrew Ian
guage among the Jews has genel
; ally given way TO vernacular {
the countries in which they live. {
, late, however, there has been a RI
! vival of the use Of Hebrew. Vic
dish is the language spoken b
most Of the Jewish people. TIL
language has as a base q dialect {
German spoken in the Rhine di'
tricts during the middle age
Through the expansion of the Gel
man Jews this has become II
common tongue of several millio
r Jews living in Russia, Austria an
a the Balkan peninsula. These Jew
when driven westward toward IL
. close of the 10th century, carrie
their Yiddish with them into II
new Ghettos of western Euror
and America.
Q. What are the small quinn
Jumps sometimes seen on fruit an
on the outside of trees?
!, A. 1t is CONCEALED portions
l.. sap from the stem or the trunk I
the tree.
Q. How is etching made c
brass signs?
A. Paint the sign with aspha
varnish, leaving the parts TO |
etched implanted, raise bord,
around the outside, name of so
beeswax or asphalt, to hold Il
acid. Use nitric acid diluted vii
five times the quantity of waite
Pour the dilute acid on the sig
about IA inch deep. When Il
a letters are cut deep enough, whiC
must be found by trial, the &C
n may be poured off and the pla
cleaned by heating and wiping, al
-" finally with turpentine.
@. How many presidents b