New Britain herald., 1930-04-03

Index or forefnger; third Medius or middle; fourth. annularis or ring finger; fifth, auricularis or little finger.
 c. On what river is the city of Delhi, India, located?
 A. On the right bank of the Jumna river.
 c. On an official baseball dia- mond how far is it from the home plate 10 the pitchers box. and from the home plate to first base?
 A. The distance from home plate to the front of the pitchers box is 60 feet inches. The dis tancc from the home plate to first base is 9o feet.
 Q. Which is the oldest mint in the United States?
 A. The mint at Philadelphia is the oldest existing one, and it opened in 1792. The first mint es- tablishod in colonial days was in Massachusetts in 1852.
 Q. How many Roman Catholic | States, and how many nuns or sisters?
 X. The official Catholic directory for 1929 lists 26,353 priests in the United States There is no official information as to the number of sisters in the United States. It is unofficialy estimated that they l E0 mn
 Q. What does the family name Manhotf mean? A. It is German and means man of the house."
 Q. Is the brother of my husband more closely related to our children than my brother?
 A. Both arc uncles in the same degree of relationship. Q. What number multiplied by itself will make 800? A. Eight hundred is not a per feet square. Its square root is : 2S.9S plus.
 e. What separates France from Spain?
 A. The Pyrennes mountains form the boundary line between France and Spain?
 c. Who is the author Of the rhyme "A little nonsense now and then is rclished by the best of men"H
 A. It is anonymous
 Q. How old is Judge Ben Lind sey? Is he living?
 A. He is 60 years old and is living.
 c. What was the last compost lion Of Victor Herbert
 A. His last notable composition was Tier Regiment written in 1917.
 c. Who Is the leader of the United States Marine band?
 A. Taylor Branson.
 c. Who is the oldest United States senator in active service in the senate?
 A. Frederick IT. Gillett Of Massa- chusetts, born in 1851. is the oldest senator Tn point of age. Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin was born lin 1899 and served until March 3, 1915, when he was nearly S6 years old. Senator Francis E. Warren, of , Wyoming, who died in office was born in 1S44 and was S5 at the time of his death in 1929. c. Is the Queen of Spain related to the former Kaiser of Germany? X. They arc first cousins, their l mothers being daughters of the late , Queen Victoria Of Great Britain. Q. Why did the United States refuse to join the League Of Nations X. When the question of ratifica- ton of the covenant of the league came before the United States sen ate, that body refused to ratify the covenant in it's entirety. Much Of } the objection was centcrcd or di- { rccted against Articles 10 and 1G Of the league covenant l Q. When will Lent begin in il93I? s A. February IS, cAsh Wcdncs- dayD.
 { l c. Which countries own thci, embassies and legation in Washing ] ton, D, C.? D l X. Great Britain. Germany . France, Belgium. Italy, Cuba, Spain l Mexico. Japan, Turkey. Russia (not occuplcd) and Poland have cm- . bassjcs. Bolivia has it's own lc- gation.
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