Evening star., 1936-03-10

Haskin, Director, Washington. D. C.
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@. Did Red Grange complete his coll
lege course?-R. C. H
A. He was graduated from the Uni
versity Of Illinois in June, 1926.
@. What amount was collected in gaso-
line taxes last year from State and
Federal taxes combined2-J. g. B.
A. The total amount of money COL
lected by the Federal, State, and munic-
lpal governments in gasoline taxes was
SS04 100000. This is preliminary figure
for 1885.
Q. Can the King of England dissolve
the British Parliament?-A. T.
A. The King of England has officially
the right to prorogue-that is, to adjourn
the Parliament-but cannot dissolve it.
The Parliament is an elected body and
under the British constitution has the
same right to function in its sphere
as the King has in his own.
G. Did George Bernard Shaw go to
college?-R. G.
A. The writer was self-educated after
his 18th year.
@. Does a bugler sound Taps" at the
funeral of a soldier in the German,
French and Russian Armies?-S. H.
A. The custom of sounding a bugle
call for dead soldier is not known in
the German Army. There are, however,
regulations for the ceremonies at the
funeral of soldier. The bugle call is
not sounded at the burial of dead SOL
dier in the French Army. A platoon of
10 men belonging to the unit of the
deceased soldier attends the funeral and
presents arms when the body is lowered
into the ground A bugle call is not
sounded for a dead soldier in the Red
Army. A funeral march is played by
an army band.
@. At what point does the boundary
between the United States and Canada
pass through the Great Lakes?-C. B. E.
A. The international boundary passes
practically through the center of all of
them except Lake Michigan. 1t is en-
tirely within the United States.
@. How old is the Los Remedies Aque-
duct?-J. McC.
A. This auueduct had it's source in the
town of Los Remedies, in the Federal
District of Mexico, and short distance
northwest of Mexico City. It dates from
1920 and was built under the direction
of Don Alfonso Tello de GuZman. The
aqueduct has not been in use for many
years. The water was obtained from a
strong spring that threw high stream.
Around this stream a tower was built
and circular runways provided through
which the water passed to lower level
where the aqueduct began. The pass
ing of the water through the runWayS
provided its momentum.
@. What does Sell Exchange Switch"
mean above a column of stocks or bonds?
&C. S. E.
A. The Babson's Reports, Inc, gives
the following information: Sell-EX-
change -Swith above column of stocks
or bonds means that the firm advises
the sale of those securities AS most
investors would want to reinvest, such
advice could be interpreted as advice to
exchange or 'switch'-the last term be-
ing financial parlance for swapping.
@. What is the heaviest rainfall in
the shortest time?-E. R.
A. The fastest shower ever recorded
by the Weather Bureau with an auto
matte gauge occurred ON April 3, 1926,
at Opids Camp, a mountain section in
California One gauge registered LOB
! inches and the other, 0.92 inch in one
minute. The previous world record was
247 inches in three minutes at Porto
| Bello. Panama, November %, 1911.
@. What Office or bureau has charge
| of the coffee industry in Brazil?-F. B.
| A. The National Coffee Bureau has
! charge of everything relating to that
product: Limitation of the planting OF
| trees to avoid excess production; i'm
provement in the quality Of the coffee
| bean; financing of the harvest, and the
regulation of exports.
@. What is the salinity Of the Dead
| Sea?-R. NJ.
A. The salinity of the Dead Sea is %
to q per cent, which is about i've times
that of the ocean.
@. Do the features change with ma
turity?-J. L. B.
A. The fact that the ears grow larger,
the nose gets longer and broader. and
the mouth wider as one grows older
has been established by DR.. Ales
Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropoI-
opv of the Smithsonian Institution.
@. Did wooden Indians originate in
America?-N. w.
A. John L. Morrison, editor, and COLI
lector of wooden Indians says: wooden
Indians are not indigenous to American
soil. AS early as the reign OF James l
the wooden Indian was familiar SlgnC
IN England. OF the early wooden In
{. ans in America, an odd, cupldIlKe
Pocahontas that once stood guard on
Hancock street, Boston. dates from 173O.
The pioneer authenticated appearance
of a cigar store show figure was in TITO,
when Christopher Demuth opened to-
bacco shop in Lancaster, Pa. This hg-
ure was not an Indian, but dehcate'
minuet- type gentleman extending
snuff box invitingly."
@. Who were the Seven Wise Men?
j. G. ,.
A. This was the collective designation
of a number of Greek sages, who lived
about 62O-548 BIC. and devoted them
selves to the cultivation of practical wis
dom. Their moral and social experience
was embodied in brief aphorlSms, eX~
pressed in verse or in prose.