, 1935-11-19


q. Has New Orleans any streets
wider than Canal Street? G. H.
A. There are several which are '
wider, at least In some places. Among
them are Florida Avenue. North and
South Jefferson Parkway, Orleans
Avenue, and North and South Clat-
borne.
q. How many people visit the
Statue OF Liberty In a year? "A. s.
A. Within the past year, more
than $4,000 people visited It,
q. Can slate Be given a high
polish? II. L. v.
A. Slate will not take a polish like
granite OF marble, but a finish called
the hone finish gives a dull lustre
To this material. This finish Is
usually given in the slate mill by
means OF a buffing machine which
carries q series OF fine grained rub
bing blocks over the surface.
q. When was BeIa Kun, the Hun
garian communist leader, born? TX.
X.
"A. He was born IN 1886.
q. What Is an arpent? T. r.
Al 1t Is an old French measure OF
land. varying In different localities,
containing q little over an acre. It
Is also O measure equivalent to the
length OF one side OF q square
arpent.
q. Who started the Republic OF Ii
IBERIA? G. w.
"A. II was founded by freed Negro
slaves from the United States.
@. Are riding boots and polo
boots alike? G.. G..
"A Riding boots have a softness
around the ankle. while polo boots
are stiff all the way up.
@. How wide IN the Seine River nc
Paris? j. A.
"A. 1t has a width o. $40 feet az II
enters Paris and 446 feet as IL leaves
the city. Where the island, La Cite
lies. the river is widest, S63 feet.
q. What is the extent Of Ameri-
can supremacy i'm Machine Age de-
veIOpment? II. S.
A. AS the wheel is the basic inA
strument of machinery, q good meas|
ure is TO state that fixe-sixths OF all
the wheels in the world are In the
United States.
q. Where did Rachmaninoff re-
ceive his musical training? c. r..
"A. The marked talent Of his
youth Is evident IN that at the age
Of nine years he had been accepted
as a pupil at the Petrograd Con-
servatory. studying there for three
years under DemyanSky. The fol-
lowing six-year period was spent
at the Moscow Conservatory where
he came under Ziloti for piano
and Taneyef Arensky for compo-
sition.
q. What state has m law COM
pelling restaurant owners 10 serve
cheese and butter? L.. vi.
A. To advertise its dairy industry
Wisconsin has such n law compell-
ing purveyors Of food to serve one
third OF an ounce OF cheese and
two-thirds OF an ounce Of butter
with all meals costing twenty-five
cents or more.
q. How much property was de-
Stroyed In the recent fires I'm CAL
ifornia? III. r.
A. Property estimated at SS.0O0,-
600 was destroyed I'm the series OF
brush fires near Malibu Beach,
California.
@. What n Trefa meat? j. G. C..
A. II is meat prohibited to the
Jews as food because it has not
been slaughtered in the orthodox
manner; so called from a Hebrew
word signifying that which is torn.
q. What does II mean In Saliva
ton Army parlance, TO fire q vol
ley. III. y.
"A. 1t mean TO say Amen in con-
cert.
@. Was Helen Hunt Jackson,
author Of Ramona, married? ". WI.
"A. Her first husband was Major
Edward b. Hunt who died in 1853.
In 1875 she married a Colorado
banker, w. S. Jackson.
q. When were child deIinquents
first separated from adults? E. G..
"A. In the United States it was
not until 1924 with the establish
ment Of the New York House of
Refuge that the treatment Of child
delinquentS vas separated from
that OF adults. IN England such
separation was introduced BY the
ParkhurSt Juvenile Prison in 1897.
@. What " the meaning OF BIZ
loxi? j. vi.
A. In the language of the Biloxi
Indians the word means first peo-
pie. G
q. IL the Tribcrough Bridge COM
pleted? How much will n cost?
III. NJ
A. The s4s. DOC. 600 structure at
Astoria, L. T., is scheduled for COM
pletion by July ! next year.
q Please give a short biogra-
ply or NijinSky. ID. VII.
"A. Vaslav Nijinsky, famous Rus
sian dancer. was born &C Warsaw
in 1892. Trained In the Russian
Imperial Ballet School at st.
Petersburg Uenlngrad). he la
ter joined Diaghilev's Ballet Russo.
His most famous creations are The
Spectre OF the Rose, Petrushka,
Carnival. Les Sylphides, and The
Afternoon of a Faun. His career