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AIRY question of fact by writing Ina
Brownsville Herald Information
Bureau. Frederic j. Hnskin. Director
washington. ID C. Please encloss
three CD cents for reply.
q. DO most deaths from drowning
occur I'm mid -summer? u. u
"A. Two-thirds OF oil drowningn
occur in May, June. July. and Aug
ust. Drowning claims about 7.To0
lives each year.
q. Can postal savings accounts be
opened at every post Officer w. ID.
"A. Postal Savings accounts may be
opened only nc post offices which
have been designated as Postal Saw
ings repositories.
q. When did mahogany come int
general use? 4. #.
a. While mahogany was used Arm
late Elizabethan days and the peri
DDS Of William and Mary and Queen
Anne. IL was not until after Ills
that Ii came fully into les own. Prior
to this time the bulk OF furniture I'm
Europe was made Of native species
as the cost OF q cargo OF mahogany
made II an expensive luxury. H.
Avery Tripping In hts tome. English
Homes OF the Early Georgian. I'm
speaking OF the use or mahogany aH
early ms 1871 states. while In the
reign OF Queen Anne. it gradually
supplemented walnut In the cabinet
makers esteem"
q. What II the derivation on tho
word academy? H. I'D. y.
A. The word II derived from thu
olive grove OF Academe. Platos re-
tirement.
q. Where was the first school for
the deaf I'm the United States? G. c.
"A. The first permanent school for
the deaf in the United States was
established In Hartford. Connecti-
cut. In 1916.
q. What Is the source Of the en-
preston passing the buck?" E. R
"A. The phrase pass the buck" tB
derived from the game OF cards. In
such games. the counter or ether
object lis placed on the table be-
fore the dealer and passed by him
70 the next dealer 70 prevent mis-
takes as to the position or the deal.
In poker, m marker is put into a
jack pot. another Jack pot being in
order when the deal passes to him
who holds the buck.
q. What Is Eymurgy? r.. vi.
"A. This Is a branch OF technology
Cal chemistry treating or processes
IN which fermentation Is the princi-
pal feature. as brewing, making OF
yeast. and wine-making.
q. Was Mary j. Holmes the novel;
ist, married? W.. III.
"A. She was married 90 Daniel
Holmes, a lawyer OF Brockport, w. ".
q. Who invented the streamlined
train? G. G.. ..
A. A patent for a streamlined train,
forerunner OF those Of today. wal
granted by the ". q. Patent Office to
Samuel r.. Calthrop of Roxbury,
Mass, IN 1865.
q. Please give m brief history cG
Blackboard, the pirate. w. II. II.
A. Blackboard was the nickname
given I'd Edward Teach. He was born
I'm Bristol. The date Is not recorded.
He probably started out as a CON-
mon sailor and took to piracy I'm
17l6. He was called blackboard
from the length and thickness OF his
beard. he was killed by nm expedi-
ton sent out under Lieut.. Robert
Maynard.
q. When was Ray Chapman killed
by n baseball? II. WI. ".
"A. Ray Chapman. shortStop OF the
Cleveland Team. died August Is.
1920. after having his skull fractured
by a baseball.
q. In II true that the sarFnsso Sea
In particularly clear? R. Nice.
A. The SargaSso Sea Is distinguish
ed by exceptionally high salinity.
high temperature. an unusually blue
color. and great transparency. The
sea Is surrounded by the great cur
rent systems OF the Atlantic and its
waters are comparatively mcticnless.
Sediment brought down by rivers
does not reach this sea Another
reason for It's transparency is the
lack or plankton, a minute organ
ism which Is found to a greater OF
less degree In practically all the
oceans.
q. For whom Is Reno, Nevadn
named? III. WI.
"a The city Is named after General
Jesse Lee Reno, a Federal officer in
the Civil War.
q. What was Jeanette MacDon-
AIDS early stage experience? L. III.
a.. Miss Macdonald obtained IN DO
sition I'm the chorus or "a Ned Way
burn show az the Capitol Theatre.
Prom that show she went into other
choruSes until her first real success
came when she was cast for n or
the leading roles In q Greenwich
Village Theatre production entitled
Fantastic F~ricassee." Her wori.
in that production brought her "a
the attention Of Henry Savage. who
placed her under contract. While
under the direction on Mr.. Savage
she played the leading role IN sew
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