Evening star., 1933-12-18
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

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ment. Address your inquiry to The
Evening Star Information Bureau,
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@. How many depositors has the
Hamilton National Bank?-H. w.
A. About 10000, as Of December /,
1888.
O. How many people visited the Chi
cago Art Institute on the closing day
of this Summers exhibition?-H. A. r.
A. On October 81, 1888, there were
44,442 visitors.
Q. In auction and contract bridge,
do the cards have to be cut before they
are dealt, or merely offered for a cut?
e. K
A. The cards must be cut by the
player on the dealers right. This per-
son lifts a part of the pack and places
this part on the table toward the dealer.
The dealer completes the cut At least
four cards must be In each portion Of
the pack after the cut is made.
@. How many foreign language news
papers are published in this country?
B. M.
A. Ayers Newspaper Directory for
1888 lists 1913.
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Utah are Mormons?-N. S.
A. According to the 1880 census the
population of Utah was 507,847. The
total church membership was 369, sol,
and OF this number the membership
of the Church Of Jesus Christ of Lat
ter-Day Saints (Mormon) was 337, 200.
@. What do the terms durable goods
and consumption goods mean?-B. P.
A. Things in general use that are
quickly consumed or worn out are
termed consumption goods. Food,
clothes, gasoline, tobacco are among
them. Durable goods include more per-
manent articles. Bridges, locomotives.
machinery, furniture are examples Of
durable goods.
O. Which States have statutory pro-
hibition. and which have constitutional
prohibition?-E. H. S.
A. Those having statutory prohibition
are Alabama, Arkansas. Georgia, Iowa,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri. New Hampshire, North Caro-
| lima, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Vermont, Virginia and Utah. In some
of those the law will probably be re-
pealed Eleven States have constitu-
tional prohibition-Florida, Idaho, Ne
braska, South Dakota. West Virginia,
Wyoming. Kansas. Kentucky, Maine,
Oklahoma and Texas.
| @. When will the season open at the
Royal Opera of Rome?-I. T.
, A. 1t opens December 26 with Doni-
zetti's "Lucrezia Borgia," in which Gigli
will sing.
@. What is the origin of the express
sion. higher than Gilderoy's kite?-
H. N.
/ A. In this expression kite is North
| ern English and Scotch and means
body. The allusion is to a celebrated
! robber, Gilderoy. who was hanged in
Edinburgh in 1886 on an unusually high
gallows.
@. Does any breakfast cereal contain
peanut hulls?-D. E. j.
| A. The Bureau of Chemistry says
! that there is no record Of any break
| fast cereal on the market made OF
either peanuts or peanut hulls. This
| is a story which crops up periodically
and had its origin many years ago when
railroad car was broken open in a
| freight wreck in the Middle West and
| a reporter saw that it contained peanut
hulls. He secured the bill Of lading and