Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-15
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN

Augustine. Fla. This is the earliest
reference 10 isolated electrical plants.
Q. What is Shirley Mason's real
name?-L. r.
A. Her name is F1ugarth. She
was born in Brooklyn in 1901.
@. How large must a town be 10
have the mail delivered?-B. +. X.
A. The Post Office Department
says that it is necessary that
village have a population of 800
people before it is entitled to village
mail carrier. Such carrier Is sup
posed to cover the entire route. The
following method must be followed IN
regard to securing free delivery IN an
incorporated town: To be eligible fer
free delivery service the town must
either have 5000 in postal receipts,
or population of 10000. If a town
has $1,000 in receipts the minimum
population number is $500. There
are other requirements, sueh as
proper sidewalks. lights, numbering
of houses, etc.
@. Is it possible 10 remove corn
| pletely all traces of magnetism from
hardened and tempered steel without
heating? What method is advisable
/ C. G. II.
A The Bureau of Standards says
| that the use of q coiled wire carrying
| a high frequency alternating current
will remove magnetism from hardened
steel. The magnet should be put in
| this coil and drawn slowly away. 1t
I is not possible to keep hard steel
! completely dema gnetized, for any JaS
! it gets while in the earrh's magnetic
! field would magnetic At slightly.
O. Please list the panics since n 2
| Civil War. ID.
A. Black FRIDAY. 1869: the pan,c
of 1878; boom and panic of 1880,
! panic of 1898, Barring Brothers pani&
1890; Venezuelan panic. Flower panic
/ Northern Pacific panic. Lawson
panic. panic of 1907 and the panic
of 1914.
@. At what rate do glaciers move?
C. Z.
A The Swiss Alpine Club in 1919
measured the largest of the Swiss
| glaciers, .LAletsch.' 1t had re
tre,Eted 10 feet following on nearly
so feet in 1911 and rather more than
| that in 1910. The Rhine Glacier had
gone back 81 feet in addition to the
40 feet slost in the previous year.
! Nearly all the smaller glaciers, out Of
! the 81 surveyed by the Alpine CLUB,
show some retreat and the larger loss
appears TO be that of the Palu Glacier,
near Bermina, which is losing regu-
larly 20 feet a year.
Q. How many countries have
signed the protocol establishing the
Permanent Court of international
| Justice?-P. T u.
A Forty-eight countries have
signed the protocol. In three cases.
a forty-ninth Germany has been
represented before the court.
Q. How much more does damp to-
racco weigh than dry tobacco
J. l.. y.
A Damp tobacco will probabl.s
weigh from 10 to 20 per cent NOR;
| than dry tobacco.
Q. Please state the date OF Queen
Victoria's marriage and the name OF
her father.-H. s.
A. Queen Victoria as married on
February 10, 1870. to Prince Albert.
Duke of Saxony, the son of Ernest,
Duke of Saxe-Cothburg- Goths. Vic
| toria was the only daughter of the
Duke of Kent, son of George III
Q. How much paste and mucilage IS
made in year?-H NJ.
A. Paste, mucilage and other adhe-
| siye products manufactured in thr
! United States were valued at sl,239 OF A
fol one year.
Q. What is duralumin a. f.
| A. This is aluminium alloy patented
by A. Wilson of Berlin. 1t is strong
readily rolled, stamped, drawn or
forged and resists rust quite we'll
q What is Rhodian law?-D. X Il.
A. 1t is an early system Of marine.
law, the only rule of which that sur
wives being the principle of general
average: IF a cargo be jettisoned t.
tighten the ship, all contribute t.
make good the loss incurred for Il -
benefit of all
Of you haze question you tCo 8
uns1cered send it to The Star Inform d
ton Bureau, Frederic J. HGSkin, dire
tor, Ttcenty first dad c streets north.
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ice is , cents IN stamps for retur
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