Evening star., 1937-12-04
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@. Was Maureen O'Sullivan, the movie
actress, born in this country?-W. F..
A. Miss CSullivan was born at Bayle.
ireland.
G. How many times were horses shot
Under Napoleon while he was In bat
tle?-S. M.
A. Nineteen horses were shot dead
under him.
@. What determines whether q State
shall have a Representative at large in
Congress?-M. D.
A. The apportionment based on the
1880 census was made by the method of
major fractions. Considering q House
OF Representatives with 435 members.
each State has as many Representatives
as the whole number of times 279 ,712
was contained in the total population of
the State, plus an additional Representa-
tive If the fractional remainder was
greater than one-half.
@. How many ships have tonnage of
over 50,000?-J. L.
A. There are five ships In the world
with registered gross tonnages above
$4,000.
@. Explain magnifcation and light in
tensity.-J. F. G.
A. Magnifcation is the ratio OF the
magnitude of the image to the magni-
tude Of the object expressed in diam
eters of the object. Light intensity
means the quantity of light per unit area.
@. What is an elephant t-shrew?--W. H.
A. 1t is an insect-eating mammal re-
.sembling the rat. The popular name
alludes to its peculiar, elongated nose,
which looks like an elephants trunk.
The hind legs are long and out of all
proportion to the fore legs and fit the
animal for jumping. Elephant-shrews
are confined to Africa.
@. Please tell something of the Dra-
CONAN laws in ancient Greece
A. The Draconian laws are noteworthy
primarily for their cruelty. The death
penalty was attached to almost all
crimes, even the petty ones. This code
Of Draco is said to have made the first
legal distinction between voluntary and
involuntary homicide and to have made
murderer liable to punishment by the
state. Theft was made punishable by
death and debt exposed a man to the
danger of slavery. The 81 ephetae or
special judges were probably Draco's
creation.
@. Do people often get airsick on COM
mercial airplanes?-C. S.
A. The large airlines say that airsick-
ness is very rare and occurs orly in very
rough weather. There is much less air
sickness than seasickness or carsickness.
@. Who was the fair Rosamond?-E.
w. H.
A. This was the common appellation
OF the daughter of Lord Clifford. who
became the mistress of Henry II. pop
ular legend says she was kept by the
King in a bower at Woodstock which
was reached by labyrinthine passage
known only to him. Legend also adds
that in 1176 she was discovered and poi
soned by Queen Eleanor.
G. Is the United States represented
somewhere in France by a consul who is
a Negro?-A. H.
A. The consul at Calais is q colored
man.
@. Please give biography Of Roger
Martin du Gard, winner of the 1887 Nobel
prize for lterature-L. w.
A. Roger Martin du Gard is member
OF the board of the French literary publ
cation Les Nouvelles Litteraires Born at
Neuilly -sur-Seine in 1881, he studied at
the University of Paris and the Ecole des
Charles and became an arcfivist and
photographer. His first published work
was monograph about the Abbaye de
Gumieges. In 1909 his first novel,
"Devenir," was published. Four years
later Jean Barois" came out. He began
to publish the series of Les Thibaults"
in 1922. M. du Gard is married and has
one daughter. He lives at 10 Rue d,l
Dragon in Paris.
@. What is embracery?-C. J. H.
A. 1t is an attempt to corrupt or influ-
ence jury by money, promises, letters,
threats or persuasions.
@. Who discovered beet sugar?-C. r.
A. The discovery of sugar in the beet
was made by German chemist Marg-
graf, as early as l747. Little progress was
made until so years later when another
German chemist, Achard, succeeded in
extracting sugar from the beet root on a
comparatively large scale.
@. In what play is the line, "A rose
by any other name would smell as
sweet?"-V. r.
A. 1t is from the second act of Romeo
and Juliet: Whats in a name? That
which we call rose by any other name
would smell as sweet"
O. Who invented the method OF re-
enacting crime by Photographic H
A. The method of reconstructing
crime by photography and rehearsing il
in the way it was probably perpetrated
was the invention of Alphonse Bertillon,
although the idea is said to have been
narrowed from Gaboriau.
@. How old is Josef Hofmann, the
pianist?-H. T.
A. Josef Hoffman, will be 81 years ole
on January &c.
q Who WAS the prinre who led hi,