Evening star., 1928-10-18
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

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r.crcial and educational institutions.
@. How many men are employed on
the Federal prohibition force?-O. B. l..
A. The number of men employed on
the Federal prohibition force varies
considerably from year to year. For
the fiscal year ended June 30 1927,
there was a total number of 4,269 per-
manent and Is temporary members OF
the Federal prohibition force. This in
cluded both field officers and those 10
Gated in Washington. d. c.
O. Are all paintings executed with
brushes?-P. M.
A. Some painters use palette knives.
Q. How many newspapers are there
in the world?-E. j. C.
A. The total number of newspapers
and periodicals is about $4,000. Con-
tinental United States and Alaska pub
llsh 40 per cent; Canada. per cent;
germany, 13 per cent; Great Britain.
Is per cent; France, per cent: more
than one-half are printed in the Eng
lish language
O.. AT what time should moles be
caught for their pelts?-J. D. S.
A. The fur of the mole is best when
tne animal IS killed in the Winter sea-
son. 1t is also called as prime" in Mid
summer. although the animals fur is
somewhat shorter then. During the
molting periods in the Spring and Fall
there is deterioration in the value of
/ the fur.
@. What is the longest freight train
ever hauled?-W. f. j.
! A. What is thought to be the long
est freight train ever operated was one
over the Virginia Railroad from Vic
| torla, Va, to Roanoke, Va. a distance
OF l23 miles. The train consisted of
l89 empty coal cars, empty box cars.
2 cars of gasoline, one of steel and one
OF asphalt. The locomotive was 2-lO-
1912 mallet type and is used in han
ding trains of 125 to $50 loaded cars.
O. When was the Pennington Canal
built?-B NJ
| A. The Pennington Canal. which
connects New Haven with Southwick,
was built about l325-1331 and was
abandoned in l94S. The canal has a
length of Sc miles. The cost of con-
struction was 100000.
Q. Are boilers rated by horsepower
or heating surface?-A. H. w.
A. Formerly boilers were always
rated by horsepower. The present
tendency is to rate boilers by heating
surface. However. the horsepower
rating is still used to certain extent.
Q. How many Greek civilians were
killed during the World War?-E. S.
A. The figures compiled are for the
period 1912-l922. AS to civilians, women
and children. killed in Greece-that Is
to say, in Macedonia. Epirus, Thrace,
Asia Minor, Anatolia and elsewhere
during the years 1912-1922, a con-
servative estimate brings them UP to
10000. This takes in the massacres Of
Thrace in 1913, those in the Pontus
and the rest Of Turkey during the war,
and finally in 1922.
Q. Should milk be kept in the dark7
S. S.
A. When kept in the light, 1t de-
velopS an off flavor which is not de-
tected in milk kept out of the light.
@. Has any other large city been
bought as cheaply as was New York;
E. II. H
A. The site of the City of Ottawa
was originally settled by Philemon
Wright of New England. He later
transferred his right to this land to
Nicholas Sparks IN payment OF LABOR
as woodcutter. 1t is said that Sparks
accepted the payment most reluctantly.
@. Please name the II motions Of the
earth.-M. H.
A. The Naval Observatory says that
it cannot say that the earth has any
certain definite number of motions.
Popular Astronomy by Flammarion
aid Gore, gives the following as the
II principal motions of the earth
other authorities might regard their
numbers as greater or less than IL:
Rotation on its axis, revolution about
the sun. procession of the equinoxes,
motion around the center of gravity
of earth and moon. mutation. variation
in the obliquity Of the ecliptic, vari-
alton in the eccentricity. motion of the
perihelion, planetary perturbations, mo-
ton of the sun around the center of
gravity of the solar system and the
SIMS noti0n through sDace