Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-27
and Lincoln Memorial; also at London
and Edinburgh.

and Edinburgh.
Q. Can nuts be called fruits?-C. z.
A. In botany the fruit of a Towering
plant Is the matured seed vessel. and
its contents together with such acces-
sorry parts as become finally incor-
porated with them. Thus in a botan-
ical sense not only apples, grapes, etc,
but all berries, nuts, grains, beans,
pumpkins, cucumbers, etc. are fruits.
Popular usage has become much mar
rover. The grains have been drop
ped, and the tendency is to drop nuts
also, SO that a fruit is now generalf>
understood to be the feshy, juic;r
product of some plant which Whcr
ripe is edible without cooking and
adapted to use as a dessert.
Q. Where was the first modern hip
podrome built, and how large was
it?-G. E.
A. The first indoor circus of modern
times was built at Paris in 1S43. II
was built entirely Of wood, the arena
was l0S meters long and 104 wide, and
1t had seating capacity OF $4,000 per
sons. This was destroyed by fire in
1870.
Q. What IS the national forest &c
per cent fund.-. Fl.
a. The act of August 10, 1912, gave
10 per cent of the national forest re-
ceipts to the Forest Service for the
construction of roads and trails within
the forests. This amounted to s497,-
1857 for the fiscal year 1925. To the
present time the 10 per cent fund has
amounted to s5,0Ss ,330.54.
@. Did any Of England's pipe organs
survive the time OF Cromwell
r. II. w.
a. In England there are no remains
Of organs constructed during the me
dieval period. Andsley says: owing
to the general destruction OF organs in
the time of Cromwell we have no con
ception of the richness of the churCh
organs during the fifteenth and sin
teenth centuries. The more beautiful
and richly decorated the organs the
more completely they We're destroyed
and their pipes melted down for buI-
let's"
@. How is u briquette made?-G. X
\. The briquette is a form of fuel.
known also as patent fuel" consist
ing of small coal compressed into Soli,!
! blocks by the aid OF some binding ma
terial For making hriquettes tn"
small coal, II previously washed, i
dried TO reduce the moisture TO az mos
/
| in a disintegrator. II is then inCOr-
porated in a pug mill with from t.
| 10 per cent of gas pitch and softencd
| by heating to between 20 and 30 de.
! grees centigrade TO d plastic mas.
which is nodded into blocks and com
! pacted by a pressure of one half t.
! two tons per square inch in machine
with a rotating die plate somewhar
| like that used in making semi plastly
clay bricks.
Q. When did long trousers first ap-
pear in the United StateS?-H. &.
! A. The fashion of wearing panta
looms was imported from Paris i'll
| 1900. 1t was 10 or Is years before
gay gailants" gave up their shorts.
| O. When will the Press Congress OF
| the World be held again? d. r.
\. The Third Congress of the Press
| Of the World will meet next Septem-
Der in Geneva, Switzerland. The first
meeting was held in San Francisco III
1915 and the second in Honolulu in
1921.
| Q. What part of the population Of
| Havana is white?-H. \. t.
! A. The total population Of Havana
| Cuba, is 3.36Sa23. The white popu-
lation is 2,294,l15, or 6S.1 per cent.
| The object Of The Erening Stdr h.
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