Evening star., 1935-12-02
ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

A reader can get the anstDer to anv
question OF fact BY Criting The Washing
ton EDening Star Information Bureau.
Frederic J. HasIin, Director, Washing
ton, d. C. Please inclose stamp t0r reply.
@. How many postal money orders are
issued in year2-C. NJ.
A. The Post ONCE Department issues
almost 200 million money orders an
nually.
Q. How long does 1t take to train q
carrier pigeon to transport news photo
graphs?-R. K.
A. 1t takes at least a year to train
the pigeons for this work.
@. How many Bibles were printed last
year?-E. J. S.
A. 1t is estimated that in the year 1894
over 21,o00.o00 Bibles or parts of Bibles
were published by the British and For
eign Bible Society, the American Bible
Society and two or three more of the
larger Bible houses Of other countries.
@. What IS the inscription on the
bronze tablet placed by the Colonial
Danes on the Louisville Jacksonville
Municipal Bridge?-E. H.
A. The inscription is as follows: The
discovery of the Ohio River-In 1869 A. D.
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Sale, COM
missioned by the French officials of Louis
XIV at Quebec, seeking a water route
to China and Japan, guided by an Indian
and accompanied by a party in canoes.
hi l-iFr InI Aryf
quois Indians the Ohio, meaning the
beautiful river.
@. Was Paul Whiteman ever in a Navy
band?-G. w.
A. During the World War Mr.. White.
man was Navy bandmaster on the West
Coast.
@. Are there more or fewer eating
places in the United States now than
there were in 1929?-H. Men.
A. There is a large increase in the
number. In 1929 there were only l34,293
eating places in the United States, where
as in 1888 there were 170.434 restaurants
and eating places in the United States.
O. Do the particles which form the
rings around Saturn revoIve together
around the planet?-C. B.
A. The rings of Saturn spin around the
planet rapidly. 1t is now believed that
they consist of swarm of separate par
ticles. each following its own independ-
ent orbit. BY means of a spectroscope
the velocity of any point of the ring has
been determined and it has been found
that particles on the inner edge of the
ring revolve about the planet in approx
imately five hours, while those on the
outer edge require about IA hours for
one revolution.
@. How much money did the Govern.
ment pay for war veterans in 1892
C. N. C.
A. During the fiscal year 1884 pay
mentS to living veterans of all wars
amounted to $21,05109l The amount
paid to the dependents of deceased vet
erans was $40, ,763, 1926. The amount spent
for administration, medical hospital and
domiciliary care was $66, ,484,2 ,288.
@. How many Cub Scouts are there?-
L. F. D.
A. Latest figures place the Cubs mem-
bership at $3.50. Their packs, corre-
spending to the Boy Scout troops, number
2,297.
@. Who won the Nobel prizes in chem.
iStry and in Hterature?-R. B.
A. The Nobel chemistry prize was
awarded to Prof. Frederick Joliot Of
France and his wife, Nine. Irene Joliot-
Curie, for their research work in creating
radium substitutes. The Swedish Acad-
emy announced that the prize for liter.
ature would be held in reserve this year.
Q. Where is the Oldest windmill in this
country?-T. M. F.
A. Itewas built at West Yarmouth, on
Cape Cod. in 1888. The mill has been
purchased for Henry Ford and reas.
Sembled at Greenfield Village.
@. How extensive are the oil resources
of the United States?-A. J. H.
A. 1t is estimated that the potential
oil fields Of the United States cover LILO
million acres, with only 100000 actually
exploited.
@. How much snow does it take to cor.
respond to an inch of rain?-J. S. K.
A. The Weather Bureau says that the
ferent Snowfalls. some snow being quite
light and dry; others, wet. AS a gen.
eral average, 10 inches of snow may be
taken as equivalent to one inch of water.
@. What was the date of the South
Carolina earthquake?-D. P. R.
A. 1t occurred at 9:51 o'clock. standard
time, on the night of August 81, 1886.
Q. Are other countries giving old-age
penSionS?-E. D. P.
A. Many of them are. and the trend
is distinctly in this direction.
O. Are any of ShakeSpeare's lineal
descendants living?-J. F.
A. Within the last five years the last
descendant of Shakespeare has died. At
the time of the death of Shakespeare
there were two surviving children
Susanna, who married John Hall, and
Judith, the wife of Thomas Quincy.
@. Please give the names of some ia.
nous optimists.-H. F.
A. st. Thomas AQuinaS and his fol.
lowers Endorsed the theory that this is
the best of all possible worlds. In
the Renaissance, Giordano Bruno voiced
a feeling of worldwide joy, universal
optimism. At the beginning of the
eighteenth century the English philoso.
pher Shaftesbury found in the beauty
and harmony of the universe reason for