New Britain herald., 1930-03-07
OUEHIONS ANSWERED


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 q. How much more money Is there in circulation now than there was in 1900?
 A. In 1900 the United States had $2,0S1, 23O,562 in circulation and in 1929 it had s4.746,296,567.
 c. What was the date of the Battle of Bunker Hill?
 A. June r, 1775.
 Q. What pay did George Wash ington receive for his services in the American IteNOlutlOn
 A. He volunteered his services without pay during the Revolution.
 Q. What is the geographic center of the United States?
 A. It is located in the easterf. part Of Smith County, Kansas, lati- tude S9 degrees 50 minutes; longi- tude 9s degrees S5 minutes.
 Q. Which is the oldest magazine now published in the United States? :?
 A. The Saturday Evening Post.
 Q. Where was the motion picture Moon of Israel" filmed?
 A. In Egypt and France.
 c. Was the Roman mile longer or shorter than the present English mile?
 A. The Roman mile contained 1000 paces of , Roman feet each. The Roman foot being 1162 and 11.65 English inches made the Ro- man mile about 14S yards less than the present English mile.
 Q. What is the value of a United States silver dollar dated 1880, proof coin?
 A. It is catalogued at s1.10.
 c. How many immigrants from Italy were admitted to the United States in 1929?
 A. The total number was 1S,0OS, including Sicily and Sardinia.
 Q. What do the names Itzoe and Itzig mean? What nationality are they?
 A. They are Polish names de- rived from the Hebrew and mean Laughter"
 c. Do moles have eyes?
 A. They have tiny black eyes.
 Q. How much will one hundred dollars, compounded annually at six per cent, amount to in 25 yearso
 A. s429.1o.
 Q. From what animal does cara cul fur come?
 A. It is the skin of the young of certain species of Persian sheep.
 Q. What is the verse in which the following line occurs: "Yet each man kills the thing he lovcs"? Who was the authoro
 A. It is in Oscar Wilde's, Bal lard of Reading Goal" and is as follows:
 Yet each man kills the thing he
 loves,
 By each let this be heard.
 Some do it with bitter look.
 Some with a fiatterins word,
 The coward does it with a kiss,
 The brave man with a sword"
 e. How many American soldiers are still buried in France? How many have been brought home?
 A. There arc 30,797 soldiers still buried in France, and approximately 4e,0O0 bodies have been sent home.
 Q. How many negroes are in the United States today compared with 1880?
 A. There were total of 4,441,- 1So slave and free negroes in the United States in 1860. and accord ing to the 1920 census the number was 1o,463.1S1.
 Q. How much did the United States pay to Spain for the Philip pines?
 A. s20,000,000
 Q. Where is Little Americao
 A. It is the name given by Rear Admiral Byrd to the site of the main base established for his South Polar explorations. It is located near the Bay of Whales on Ross Sea, about 500 miles from the South Pole.
 Q. Is the hippotamus a water animal?
 A. It is most at home in the water, and aquatic vegetation is its natural fare. It swims well. makes long excursions, sometimes into open water and even goes some distance into the salt estuarics of rivers. II is able to dive. quickly. but its or dinary method of submergcncc is quietly to sink to the bottom, where it is said that it may walk about browsing, for several minutes. Not only it's no3trils but it's small cars can b. closed by sphinstcr muscles | to keep out the water and it's in folded lips prevent an thrush of water when feeding. The nostrils l and eyes are so high that 1t need only expose an unnoticcablc fraction of the face in order 10 breathe and ! look about. while it's entire body is safely siddcn below the surface. HNVVnIlT IInnn INInnn