Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-11-18
QUERY AND
ANSWER

q. Will you please answer in your
| query and Answers how old Moses
was when he died? Where was he liv-
ing at that time? Where will 1 find it
| in the Bible?
| A. Moses was 120 years old at
death. He died in the land of Moab,
on Mt. Nebo, at the top of Pisgah. You
Will ind the account in the 34th chap
ter of Deuteronomy.
/ q. Why are sailors trousers made
wide at the bottom?
A. They are made thus for con-
Venlence. They can be pulled up
quickly IN any emergency.
O. wish to ask through your good
paper where Abraham Lincoln's tomb
is located?
A. In his home Springfield,
Ill.
O. How can I keep my husband
nome nights? He usually says he has
10 see a fellow downtown"
A. Just ask him to take you out
for walk. Probably he will then be
too tired to leave the house.
z. Will you please tell me what
causes the eclipse of the sun and
moon at times?
A. When the earth is between the
moon and sun in line the moon lies
IN the shadow of the earth and so
suffers temporary observation. When
the moon passes between the earth
and the sun, the latter is at certain
points on the earth obscured by the
dark body of the moon.
@. Can people be criticised right
fully for spooning in public when it
is known they are engaged?
A. Yes. Because such demonstra-
lions are not at all conventional.
Q. | would like to know when it is
proper to use the past participle verb
hanged" and hung?
A. Hanged" is used for persons
only. Hung is used for all other OBJ
Jects. For example: The man was
hanged; the door was hung.
Q. May l ask your honest opinion
about a matter I am interested in?
When a fellow wants to kiss me and
acts like he is mad when 1 won't al
low him to do so, is it sign he loves
me? Please don't publish my name.
A. 1t is no sign he loves you You
are acting quite right in refusing him
such liberties unless you are en-
gagged We do not publish anybody's
name in this column. All questions are
asked to be signed as guarantee of
good faith.
@. Will you please settle an argu-
ment by stating when and where
Christopher Columbus died?
A. Christopher Columbus died at
his home in Spain on Monday, May 90,
1906
@. Can you tell me how I can get
rich quick without much work?
A Yes Get a patent on a suitcase
with a false bottom that won't leak.
@. Do the Koreans speak a Ian
guage of their own? Or is it Japanese
or Chinese?
A. The Korean language belongs to
the same class of language as the
Mongol -Tartar-Chinese and Japan
ese. 1t has borrowed words from the
Chinese, but in sound differs widely
In grammar it is nearly Identical with
Japanese.
@. Is there any penalty for send
ing anonymous letters through the
mails?
A. No, unless it carries criminal
threat or otherwise contains unlawful
matter. Then it is punishable accord
ing to the degree of the offense.
@. I desire to ask you what is the
native country of the hooking bird?
A. The hooking bird is semi-trop-
ical and it's home is anywhere the eli
mate is semi-tropied.
@. 1 am told that an ostrich can
run as fast as horse. Is that fact
or am I being "kidded?"
A. 1t is a fact Ostrichs have been
known to travel as fast as mile
minute.
@. Will you please answer what is
meant by the expression, HE met his
Waterloo?
A. The expression implies that the
person concerned has met an ignom-
ininous defeat despite the fact he has
had a continuous successful career in
the past. 1t is founded on Napoleon,
whose lifelong successes ended in his
downfall at the Battle of Waterloo.
@. What are we to do If ladies'
skirts get any shorter?
A. Just equip yourself with shock
absorbers.