New Britain herald., 1930-10-10

QUESTIONS ANSWERED
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 Q. What are the highest and lowest places in the world?
 A. The highest is Mount Everest in Indo-China, with an elevation above sea level of 29,141 feet; the lowest is the Dead Sea, Palestine, which is 1,293 feet below sea level.
 Q. Where is platinum mined in the United States and what is it worth?
 
 per ounce, and occurs in the United States, principally in Alaska, Butte, Humboldt, Plumas, Sacramento and Tuba counties, California, in south western Oregon and along the Gila river in Arizona
 Q. How much blood is there in the human body?
 A. The average is Az per cent of the weight of the body, or about one-twentieth.
 Q. How old is the King of Italy?
 A. 2 He was born in Naples, November II, 1889.
 O.. How many alien immigrants were admitted to the United States in 1929. and how many left the United States that year? How many Mexicans were admitted to the United States that year and how many departed?
 A. The total number of immi- grant aliens admitted was 279,67S, and 69,2oS departed from the United States. In the same fiscal year, 38,9S0 Mexicans entered the U. S. and 7,172 departed.
 c. Is there a federal law pro- hibting inter-racial marriage in the United States?
 A. The states alone legislate on the subject of marriage between races.
 Q. Who is head of the prohibi- ton bureau of the Department of Justice?
 A. Colonel Tmos w. Woodcock.
 Q. What is the nationality and meaning of the name Philbin?
 A. It is a British family name, diminutive for Philip, derived from the Greek and means "locing horses"
 Q. Who appeared with Billie Dove in The Painted Angel?"
 A. Edmund Lowe.
 c. What is the weight. of a cubic foot of gold, cast hammered?
 A. Twelve hundred and five pounds.
 O.. What language did Jesus speak?
 A. As far as is known He spoke only Aramaic, a dialect of the Hebrew language common in Pales- tine at the time.
 Q. Who wrote the poem "The Night Before Christmaso"
 A. Clement C, Moore.
 Q. When did the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago occur? How many lives were lost?
 A. The fire occurred December 30, 1903. Eddie Foy was appearing in "Mr. Bluebeard." The number of lives lost was 575.
 o. Is the Book of Ecclesitsticus tn esame as the Book of Ecclesi- astes?
 A. The Book Of Ecclesiastes is one of the books of the Old Testa- ment. and Ecclesiasticus is in the Apocrypha, but is not part of the King James version of the Bible.
 O.. On what date did the Jewish Passover fall in 1905?
 A. Thursday, April 16.
 Q. How old was the wife of Alexander Hamilton when she died? Where is she buried? How many children did she have?
 A. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton liver from 1757 to 1854, period of 97 years. Both she and her hus- band are buried in Trinity church. yard, New York City. They had eight childrenfi four sons and four daughters.
 Q. When a man becomes a citi- zen of the United States do all his children automatically become citi- zens also?
 A. Only the minor children be- come citizens by reason of the naturalization of the father.