Evening star., 1936-02-04
ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
BY Frederic J. Haskin.

Star Information Bureau, Frederic j.
Hdskin Director, Washington, d. c.
Please inclose stamp for reply.
@. For whom was Kipling named
Rudyard?-P. D.
A. 1t is said that he was named after
Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire, England,
where his parents first met.
o. @. Did Clark Gable appear in the
silent version of The Merry Wioow?"
20. M. j.
A, He was one of the extra players
In the silent version of The Merry
Widow" in which Mae Murray and John
Gilbert played the leading roles.
@. Who pays Robert Ripley's travelling
,expenses?-H. v.
A. Mr.. Ripley states that he pays his
own travelling expenses.
@. How is common ink made?-G, H.
A. BY hydrolysis, tannic acid yields
gallic acid, and with ferric salts it forms
a blush black compound, the basis Of
common ink.
@. How are the judges of the United
States Supreme Court appointed?-
w. A. S.
A. They are appointed by the Presi-
dent, by and with the consent OF the
Senate.
@. How long has it been since 81 gold
pieces have been coined?-A. L. D.
A. The last issue of gold dollars was
in 1922 when 10,016 were issued as Grant
Memorial coins.
@. How old was Harry Thaw at the
time he shot Stanford White?-F. B.
A. He was about 80 years old. The
tragedy took place at Madison Square
Garden, June Is, 1906.
@. Why isn't it possible to make artifi-
cial comb honey?-J. w. B.
A. The difficulty in producing an arti-
fetal comb honey as made by bees de-
pends not on the inversion of cane sugar
to grape sugar, but the reproduction of
the honeycomb. Honeycomb is mass
of cells composed of wax, built by bees
in their nest or hive, to contain their
brood and stores of pollen and honey.
Honey consists principally of a mixture
in varied portions of sugars with little
water 1t is made by the bee from the
nectar of flowers by the addition of
certain engines. Beeswax out of which
the comb is made is secreted by special
glands on the underside of the abdomen.
it is employed in constructing the honey
comb after mastication and mixture with
saliva.
@. What per cent of the worlds rail-
road mileage is in the United States?
ID. w.
A. The United States controls 81 per
cent of the worlds railroad mileage.
@. How old is the tune to which Aud
Lang Syne" is Sung?-D. <.
A. The tune was known as early as
1000.
O. How much does the population of
the world increase each year?-D. NJ E.
A. 1t is estimated that 10000 persons
are born every day. and that 100000 die
daily. The net gain would be $4,000 a
day, or nearly 10000, 900 year. There
are now about 1000, 0,000, 900 people in the
world.
@. Please give some information about
Phoebe Cary.-F. M.
A. Phoebe Cary, sister of Alice Cary,
was born near Cincinnati in 1924. She
wrote practically one-third of the Poems
of Alice and Phoebe Cary" and many
other poems, including the well-known
hymn, beginning "One sweetly solemn
thought" Her death quickly followed
that of her sister in 1871.
@. How many private elementary
schools are affiliated with religious de-
nominations?-E. N.
A. Ninety-one per cent of all private
elementary schools reporting to the Fed
eral Office of Education have some re-
ligious denominational afhliation or con-
troll.
G. What was DORIS Rebellion?-E. S.
A. This was an insurrection in Rhode
Island, headed by Thomas w. Dorr,
1841-42, having for its object the exten-
sion of the suffrage, which, according to
the charter of 1868, was restricted to
holders of real estate and to their eldest
sons. Dorr chosen Governor by an ir-
regular election, seized the State house at
Providence His forces, however, were
dispersed, and he was tried for treason
and sentenced to life imprisonment. In
l845 he was released. The movement re-
suited in the adoption, in 1912, of a con-
stitution providing for extended suffrage.
@. What kind of plant is the ocotillo?-
E. G. H.
A. 1t is thorny shrub of the tamariSk
family, sometimes called candlewood. 1t
branches at the base into several slender,
intensely spiny stems, 10 to Is feet high.
These are leafy only near the top, and
bear at their upper ends narrow clusters
of bright scarlet flowers. The ocotillo Is
a characteristic shrub of rock mesas and
deserts from Western Texas to California.
From its thorny appearance it is often
mistaken for a cactus. Mexicans weave
ocotillo stems into fences.
@. When was "Lakme" first produced?
&C. w.
A. The first production was in Paris,
April IA, 1888. The first adequate Ameri-
can production was at the Academy OF
Music, in New York City, by the Amer
ican Opera Co., March l, 1886.
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