Evening star., 1925-09-09

carillons In Belgium and northern
rance In Holland there are about
| TO- Among the finest are Middle
burg, Al bells; Delft, 40; Amsterdam
lPalace), 81; Utrecht, AZ; Arnhem, ~;
The Hague, 81, and AppingedaIn, 25.
Inc bells OF Ypres. OF Termonde, of
| st. Peters at Louvain and Of Arras
are destroyed" The oldest chimes in
the United States are those Of Christ
! Church, Philadelphia; Christ Church,
Boston, and Trinity, New York.
@. What nationality is Capt. Nun,
gesser?-J. p. II.
A. The French bureau of infor1na.
| ton says that Capt. Charles Nunges..
, ser, the French ace, was born in Paris
France, March 10, 1892.
Q. What countries in South America.
| produce coal?-A. G.
A. Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Chile
and Brazil are producing coal Chile
! being the most important producer.
Q. Who is featherweight champiou
at present? What is the weight in
| this class?-K. /. A.
A Kaplan is the featherweight
| champion at present. During 1923
practically all countries agreed on ,
| featherweight limit at 126 pounds, and
most State commissions created a new
! class Of the junior featherweights az
l22 pounds.
Q. How many horses and mules has
| the Army?-H. NJ. r
A. As of June 80 1926. there were
| 24,970 Army horses and 1873 Army
| mules.
@. What is the range Of Ellen
Yaw,s voice-V. V.
A. Ellen Beach Yaw has the phe-
| nomenal range Of four octaves.
who's Who in Music" states that
her range is from G to E -four
| octaves).
Q. Is it true that most great men
have blue or gray eyes?-L. J. MEG.
A. After consulting various rec
| Ords we find that although in the
eyes Of famous people all colors are
represented, the majority appear to
have had eyes either of blue, gray
or blue-gray. Dante's eyes were
brown, as were also those of julius
Caesar, Paganini, Goethe, Leigh
Hunt, Voltaire, Gladstone, Pope Leo
XIII, Beethoven, Raphael and Sir
Joshua Reynolds. Persons with gray
eyes include Byron, Coleridge. Chat
terton, Napoleon, Bismarck and Nan
sen. the explorer. Audubon, the Duke
of Wellington, Richard Occur de Lion,
Wolsey, Dickens, Rusl1in, Moltke. the
Duke Of Marlborough, Swift and Edi-
son all had blue eyes. Many persons
have eyes that are at times gray and
at times blue. generally described as
blue-gray. Famous persons having
this type of eyes include Frederick
the Great. ]. Russell Lowell, Rossetti
and George Washington. Most por-
traits of Shakespeare indicate that
he had blue ewes.
@. How many cigarettes were
smoked in this country last year,
NJ. B.
A. According to an unofficial esti-
mate the number of cigarettes con-
sumed in 1924 was approximately
$4,000, 100000.
(The child tcfth no schooling has
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distin 0uished service; ICith elementary
education he has four times the
chance, 1oith high school education he
has 81 times the chance, 7Ctth college
education he has 500 times the chance.
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