Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-23
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

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@. How long after eating coyotillo do
the symptoms of poison develop?-W. A.
A. This plant Is found in our South
show no effect for days, or sometimes
weeks A paralysis of the limbs then
develops and lingering death follows.
@. What city has the most tele-
phones in proportion to its population?
e. G. H.
A. San Francisco leads the world,
with more than 80 to each 100 of its
population. Washington is second in
the United States, but Stockholm places
between San Francisco and Washington
in the world compilation.
@. In making rammed -earth houses
Is the dirt made into bricks, then the
bricks used in construction?-L. Ct.
A. The wall is made in one piece
without joints, since the various layers
are combined under pounding into one
mass.
@. What unit of the American Ex-
peditionary Forces was first to engage
in a major action in France?-J. j.
McF.
A. The War Department says that
the first unit of the United States Army
to engage in major action during the
World War was the 18th Infantry, 1st
Division, under the command of Col
NOW Maj. GEM Hanson E. Ely, at
Cantigney, on May 90. 1918.
@. What was Tom Thumbs real
name?-C. r.
A. The real name of Tom Thumb
was Charles Sherwood Stratton. He
was born in 1888 at Bridgeport, Conn.
He died in 1888
O. Where do bats go in the daytime?
H. K.
A. Bats spend the hours of daylight
in caves, ruins, hollow trees, garretS
and similar hiding places. They some
times resort to caverns in vast numbers.
At dusk they fly forth alone or in pairs,
searching for food.
@. Are aliens being deported in large
numbers?-C. A.
A. During the month of March, 1928.
$50 undesirable aliens found to be in
the United States unlawfully were de-
ported to the country whence they
came. The total deportations for the
nine months July /. 1927, to March 81,
1928, was $500. More than three-fifths
of this number entered the country
over the northern or southern land
boundaries, 1850 from Canada and
1853 from Mexico, while 2,143 aliens
landed at Atlantic seaports. 445 at Gulf
of Mexico ports 447 at Pacific ports
and is at ports in the outlying posses
sions of Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico.
These deportees were sent to nearly
every part of the world, 3.709, or 43.1
per cent, going to Europe: 2,l69. or 25.3
per cent. to Mexico: 1904, or 81 per
cent, to Canada; 421, or 30 per cent,
to Asia, and 400, or So per cent, to the
other countries.
@. What Frenchman claims to have
invented the phonograph?-S. E. K:
A. Charles Cros on April 80. 1877.
deposited with the Academy of Sciences
in Paris a detailed description of de-
vice ''for recording and reproducing
acoustical vibrations" eros could in
terest no one in his invention and had
not the necessary francs to patent 1t.
Edison was at work at the same time,
and took out preliminary patent in
December. 1877.
@. In what part of the United States
are the people of purest Anglo-Saxon
stock?-V. N.
A. Ellen Churchill Semple in the