Evening star., 1935-06-14

A. This was q name applied 10
any one OF series of laws, passed
in various border and Northern
States before the Civil War, sharply
discriminating against free Negroes
who wished to emigrate to such
States and become citizens thereof.
| Thus, in some States, certificates Of
freedom were to be filed, Negroes
were to be rigidly excluded from the
militia and from the public schools,
and no Negro was to testify in cases
in which any white man was directly
interested.
@. Do many tourists visit Yugo-
Slavia?-G. G.
A. More than $1,000 tourists visited
that country last year.
@. Where is Conrad weiser Me-
mortal Park?-B. H.
A. Conrad Weiser Memorial Park
Is beautiful shrine located along the
| William Penn highway, Just east of
.Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pa. 1t
contains the heart Of the pioneer
| homestead-farm of Col Conrad
| Weiser, noted pioneer hero, with the
original Weiser mansion, over 200
| years old, now restored and furnished
with antique furniture. There is also
a museum Of Weiser records.
@. What kind of dance is the
/ galop?-H. F.
| A. A spirited dance of German
origin In "a time. It was introduced
into Paris in 1929 and subsequently
became favorite dance of the Vic
/ torian era.
@. Please give short biography
of Representative Florence Kahn's
mother-D. S.
/ A. Mrs. Mary Prag. who died re-
/ Gently at the age of 80, was one Of
Sen Francisco's pioneer women, and
one Of the civic leaders of her COM
munity Left widow with a l0-year-
/ old daughter. she taught school to
I support them both. She continued
/ long after the daughter was grown
! are married. for As years, in fact, and
was member of the Board of Ed
ucation at the time of her death.
She made the fight for adequate pay
and pensions for teachers.
O. A character about whom the
celebrated George Borrow wrote Is
| Jasper Petulengro. What does the
| second name meant. NJ.
/ A. 1t is a gypsy word for shoe
smith.
| Q. Please give a brief history Of the
| University of Bologna.-E. K.
TN ~ Akn al
sites in the world A school Of law
existed in Bologna in the eleventh
century. The earliest statutes date
from 1917, with the faculty of law
as the first department. Among stu
dents Of the university we're Dante,
/ Petrarch and Tasso. One of the
features of the later history of
Bologna was its admission of women
as early as the eighteenth century.
@. What occasioned the writing Of
| the song. "Finiculi, Finicula"?-C. T.
i A. Sigmund Spaeth says it was
written for the opening of the funicu-
lar railway up Mount Vesuvius.
@. When was the first base ball
club organized?-A. r.
/ A The first organized base ball club
in America was the Olympic Town
/ ball Club of Philadelphia in 1888.
@ How old is the Belssco Theater
in Washington? Who designed the
] building?-R. G.
A. The Belasco Theater. formerly
/ the Lafayette Square Opera House.
i was designed and supervised by U. H.
Painter. a civil engineer The theater
was first opened September go 1895.
| A bronze memorial tablet, erected by
the architects daughter in 1902, re-
cords the fact that the building was
erected of steel skeleton construction,
stone, erra-cotta, mackite and brick,
to prove that an opera house can be
made safe at all times from fire and
/ nanic"