Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-14

automobile accessories, including tires,
4.S to 81; department stores. SO to. ST.;
all drug stores. 1855 TO ass; furniture,
Al; grocery stores, chain, IL to 2; hard
ware stores, 1.l3 to 2.68; all jewelry
stores. AZ to SIS; mems clothing, 322
to 4.03; all shoe stores. % to 4.6. A
range of figures is given as percentages
vary in accordance with geography and
also with volume Of business trans
acted.
Q. Are there some paved streets In
Venice, Italy?--A. NJ. S.
A The city is built on group of is
lands at the head of the Adriatic Sea.
Some Of the streets are paved streets
such as exist in other cities, but the
maiority are canals with the houses
built right at the water edge, so that
the gondolas or other boats can pull up
right at the doors.
@. What tree has the nickname Of
| Hop ho1nbeam" ?-B. a.
A. This is the nickname given to the
ironwood tree because of the dried hop
bells which cling to its branches.
@. Where is the highest lake in the
| United States?-P. MEG.
A. The highest lake having an area
| greater than OIL square mile Is Tula-
| inyo. III miles northeast of Mount
| Whitney, Calf. The elevation is a.
865 feet and the area about or square
| mile.
@. Why do moth balls disappear II
left among clothes for some timers. II.
A. They evaporate. The chemicals
! from which they are made evaporatS
| directly from the solid state without
passing through liquid state.
@. Where was "Prcmetheus Unbound
written?-F. M.
A. Shelley himself said: This poem.
/ begun in the Autumn OF 1918, was
chiefly written in the mountainous ruins
of the Baths of Caracaua.'
@. Why is water carried, in the In
dian Army, in leather bags made Of
gcatskin?-E. K.
A. This variety of leather is used to
accommodate the Mohammedans, who
could not drink from bag made OF
| pigskin, and the Hindus, who would be
unable TO drink from one Of calfskin.
@. What did Thomas Edison say
concerning the advantages OF being
/ hard of hearing?-O. G.
A. He said: This deafness has been
| of great advantage to me in various
ways. When in a telegraph Office I
could only hear the instrument directly
on the table at which sat- and. unlike
the other operators, was not bothered
by the other instruments. Again, in
experimenting on the telephone, had
to improve the transmitter so I could
| hear. This made the telephone COM
mercial, as the magnetic telephone re-
ceiver of Bell was too weak to be used
as transmitter commercially. 1t was
the same with the monograph. The
great defect Of that instrument was the
rendering of the overtones in music,
| and the kissing consonants in speech.
] worked over one year, 20 hours a
day, Sunday and all, to get the word
! specie perfectly recorded and repro
duced ON the phonograph. When this
was done, I knew that everything else
could be done-which was a fact.
Again, my nerves have been preserved
intact Broadway is as quiet to me as
| a country village is to q person with
normal hearing"
@. Why were entertainments called
Mosques ?-T. C..
! A. They were kind of L--.yate the
atrieal, popular in the seventeenth
century in the East and Europe proper.
The name is said to have originated
| from the use of the head masque rep
resenting romantic, historical or alle-
gorical types ON occasions Of festivity
| or solemnity.
@. How many porters does the Pull
man Co. employ?-E. M.
| A. 1t has about 10000 on its pay