New Britain herald., 1930-09-29

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 0. How many rounds were fought when Corbe:t won the heavyweight championship from Sullivan in 1892?
 A. Twenty-one.
 .. Is there a mountain peak in the United States called Camel's Hump?
 A. It is in the Green mountains of Vermont. about 20 miles south cast of Burlington and about three miles south of the Winooski river. The height is 4,OSS feet.
 Q. Who made the first airplane flight to Bermuda?
 A. Capt. Lewis A. Yancy William H. Alexander and Zeh Bonck, in April, 1929.
 .. What is the effect of being muscle bound?
 A. It is q form of muscular hy- pertrophy, characterized by loss of elasticity and increase in the size of the muscles. It is frequent among athletes.
 Q. What city has the largest Jewish population?
 A. New York City has the larg est Jewish population in the world.
 Q. How many times does the number 13 occur in the coat of arms of the United States?
 A. Five times; 13 stars; 13 stripes on the shield; Is arrows in the eagles claws; 13 leaves on the branch and 13 letters in "E Pluribus Unum."
 o. How is plotting paper made and what gives it the absorbent power?
 A. It is generally made from soft fibre, such as old rags and soda pulp, and some of the cheap grades con- tain varying percentages of clay. The stock is beaten rapidly and cut up in order to get fluffy porous fiber.
 Q. What is gravity, and how does it operate?
 A. It is a force, by reason of which all bodies and particles of matter in the universe tend toward one another. Every portion of mat ter attracts every other portion with a force directly proportional to the product of the two masses and in versely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
 c. What is the fastest speed made by a steam locomotive?
 A. On the Plant System between Fleming and Jacksonville. Florida, a steam locomotive travelled at the rate of 12O miles per hour.
 Q. What does the name Abner mean?
 A. It Is from the Hebrew and means father of light.'
 o. Have all Roman Catholic Popes been Italians?
 A. The greater number have been Italians, but there have been a few Spanish and French Popes; one Englishman, Nicholas Breakspear, who took the name of Adrian " GA. D. 115N and one Dutchman, Adrian Dedel, who was born at Utrecht, and served as Pope Adrian VI from 1922 to 1928.
 Q. Are pokeberries poisonous?
 A. Yes.
 Q. Did Robert Burns write "Comin' Through the Rye?" To what does the Rye refer?
 A. The song is frequently at tributed to Robert Burns because it appears in an early collection of his poems, but probably was written anonymously. It refers to the Rye river, and the custom lovers had of exacting a toll of kisses as they passed each other on the. stepping stones of the shallow stream. o. What does the phrase Mind your P's and Q's mean?
 A. To be accurate and precise Its origin has been variously ex- plained, but the most likely explana- tion is that it is an allusion to the supposed care necessary in distin- gushing those letters in handsettins type.
 c. On what date did Labor Day fall in 1912? A. September 2.
 Q. What is the import duty or gold jewelry?
 A. Eighty per cent ad valorem.
 Q. Where and when was Alice Day born? Is she married?
 A. She was born in Pueblo, Colo, rado, in 1908, and Is married to Jack Cohn, a broker in Hollywood.