Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-16
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Q. Give some information concern
ing ocean tonnage handled at the port
Of Montrea1.-D. c. r..
A. Ocean tonnage ha ndied at the
port of Montreal. situated at the head
OF the 30-foot ship channel in the st.
Lawrence River. increased from 554.-
69o tons in 1882 to 2,4O4.7S7 tons, not
including grain. in 1924. The num-
Der of ocean vessels which entered
and cleared was 64s in 1882 and 1888
in 1924.
O. What does s. p. Q. r. meant
A. l..
A The letters IS. p. @. r. stand
for the Latin words, "Senatus popu
la sque Roma which means The
Roman Senate and people"
Q. How are ivory billiard balls
leaned?-A. L.
A. Ivory billiard balls can be clean
ed with soft cloth, moistened with
tepid water. Where the balls are so
dirty that this is not effective, small
qua nifty OF alcohol can he used salts
factorify by applying same TO cloth
and rubbing the balls until they are
clean.
q. What was the November prodic-
ton OF natural-Gas gasoline In this
"ountry?-A. y. $.
A. The November. 1925, output was
102, 400, 900 gallons. an increase in
daily average production over DC
tober. 1925, Of per cent.
O. Who wrote The Night Before
Christina "?-R f.. S.
A. Clement Moore is the author of
THE Night Before Christmas.
O. How does radio station convey
its program TO another station to be
! rehroa dca st &C. f..
A. The LOOMS Radio College SAYS
that present-day hroadca sting < &C
tually a combina ton Of radio a.tu long
distance telephone line ira transmission.
Several high.Dowered hroadca sting
| sta lions throughout the country are
! connected by land telephone line To
! one central station. for inSts nee.
! WEAF'. where q program * TO be
! given. Then, when al is ready for The
| performa nee al WEAt' TO begin, the
! re- do transmitting apparatus in each
| Of the broadca sting stations is set into
| operation and each broadca sting sta
| ton transmits the program which
| comes over the telephone line from
WEAF.
q. How many telephone poles are
| there to a mile?-W. W. O.
| A. The American Telephone and
! Telegra phi Co. says that the average
number OF telephone poles per mile
! is So.
q. Does the Post Office Depa rtment
! Sd notion the sale of merchandise by
! the endless-chain system?-F. Y.
A. The Post Office Department saws
I nd t.i hay
| been held by the Post once Depart
ment for over a period OF 20 wears to
| be OF a fraudulent nature. In 1925 d
| fraud order was issued aga inst a com.
/ pany operating such an endless-c hahn
| business. The prosecuted company
| secured a permanent injunction to re-
| strain the fraud order, and at the
present time the case is in the Court
! of Appeals in the District of Column
/ bia. As yet no date has been set for
any hearing.
| Q. How many stockings made of
| try"-E. o. 6.
A. About l 500 900 dozen pairs Of
rayon stockings were exported last
year and about 100000 dozen pairs
of silk stockings.
Q. Is 81. Augustine the Oldest city
in Americans. y. l..
A. The oldest city in the New World
is Mexico City, which antedates ST.
Augustine by more than two centuries.
Mexico City dates from about 1928
! A D., when the AZtecs. looking for a
favorable site. saw perched on a cactus
an eagle devourinG snake. The omen
was interpreted to mean that this was
TO be the site of their city.
| G. Is plagiarism Il legal ofTense?-
! f. A. H.
! A Plagiarism consists in appropriat-
ting or copying from the work of an
: other, in literature or art, and passing
| off the appropriated or copied work as
! original without acknowledgment OF
the real ownership or source: that is
! to say, as ones own production. Ii Is
not legal offense unless it occurs in
| the case of a copyrighted work. in
" hich case. apart from moral Ques,
| tions. there is an invasion of legal