Evening star., 1932-01-21
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

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@. viii there be a stamp issue in
honor of the International Olympic
Winter games at Lake Placid?-M. P.
A. There will. These stamps will be
first placed on sale January rs, 1882,
at Lake Placid, N. Y, and at other post
offices and the Philatelic Agency, Post
once Department, Washington, d. c.,
January rs, 1882. Stamp collectors de-
string first-day cancellations Of these
Winter games stamps may send limit
ed number of addressed covers not to
exceed rs to the postmaster, Lake
Placid, N. Y, with a cash or postal
money order remittance to cover eX-
actly the value of the stamps required
for affixing Other postage stamps will
not be accepted in payment.
@. Please name some of the wrestling
holds.-E. S.
A. Among the we'll known ones are
waist-lock hold, double-leg hold, nip
lock, half Nelson, quarter Nelson, full
Nelson, head lock, hammer locks, scis-
sors and three-quarter Nelson.
O. We're horses or oxen used In cross
ing the continent before the railroads
were built? If both, which were more
serviceable?- W. S.
A. Oxen, mules and horses were used.
Oxen had the most endurance and the
least speed Mules came next, while
horses had the least endurance but the
most speed
@. What per cent of the national In
come is expended for education?-S. 5.
A. The cost of public elementary and
secondary education is "a per cent OF
the total national income.
@. What postmaster has the distinc-
ton of having served the longest term
as a postmaster?-C. T. F.
A. J. N. Van Zandt. He was born
August II, 1874. The date of his ap-
pointment was April %, 1856.
@. Who wrote the music to Hail,
Hail, the Gangs All Here?"-B G. c..
A. Sir Arthur Sullivan. 1t was taken
from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta,
The Pirates of Penzance." The mel
ody used occurs in act 2, song l2-Sam-
uel and chorus of pirates-beginning
Come, friends, who plough the sea- I"
etc. This melody is exactly as 1t was
written in the operetta, but begins in
the middle Of the chorus. Theodore
Morse made slight change in the
notes at the end of the present ar
rangement.
@. How does type Of hot-water
bottle work, which contains a com
position which feels like emery and Is
heated by pouring little cold water
into the bottle?-L. B.
A, The Bureau of Standards says
that such a hot-water bottle is patent
ed and exact data cannot be given as
to its composition. The heating Is
generally caused by chemical reac-
ton between the substance in the bot
tie and the water Some such bottles
contain a mixture of substances that
react chemically when water Is added
in the same way that effervescent salts
undergo a chemical change in water.
Another kind depends on the fact that
heat Is absorbed when a substance Is
dissolved in water and that when the
substance crystallizes out of solution
an equal amount of heat Is given off.
@. Did the Byrd expedition exhaust
its food supply?-J H. A.
A. 1t did not. It prepared for a
three-year stay instead of two In case
it should get caught down there an
other year.