Evening star., 1939-07-20
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To Questions
By Frederic J. HasEin.

By Frederic J. Hasktn.
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O. What is the largest Government
office building in the world?-K. NH.
A. 1t is the new building of the De-
partment of Agriculture at Washington.
D. c., which contains 1899 900 square
feet and is occupied by 6,442 employees.
@. Please describe a Holbein rug
G. L. H.
A. These rugs are so called because
they are often represented in the pictures
OF the famous painter They have a
pattern of Arabesque octagonal forms
arranged regularly in rows and columns,
with diamond-shaped figures between
them. The ground is mostly a checker
OF two colors which rather disguses
the true nature of the pattern The de-
sign Is essentially the same as that Of
the Turcoman rugs of about three GEN.
turies later.
@. How long has fox-hunting been
popular IN this country?-R. T. M.
A. AS far back as 1742 Lord Fairfax,
who settled in Virginia. imported hounds
ana Kept up regular establishment for
fox-huntlng at his country estate.
". What is meant by an egg tooth?-
A. 1t is the hard, sharp prominence on
the tip of the beak or nose of embryo
birds and newborn reptiles, enabling
them to break through the eggshell at
matching time without injury to the
organ. In both birds and reptiles it
peels off and is dropped soon after the
Matching.
@. Where is James A. Bland who wrote
Garry Me Back to Old Virginny"
buried?-J. D. F.
A. The Etude says that his grave has
just been located in the Merton Ceme-
terry at Bala-Cynwyd, a suburb of Phila-
delphia
@. Is there a fruit called monkey
bread?-L. N. K.
A. 1t is the fruit of the African baobab
tree, the pulp of which has a pleasant
acid taste and can be made into a bever-
age.
Q. Who was the first white man to
set foot on New England soil?
A. On May IS, 1902 Capt Bartholomew
Gosnold of Falmouth, England landed
at South Dartmouth near New Bedford,
Mass.
@. When was the first law passed con-
cerning religious liberation in the
United States?-J. G. G.
A. In 1649 the Maryland General
Assembly passed an Act Concerning
Religion which has been called the
pioneer liberation law in America. 1t
authorized public places of worship for
the Anglican Church.
@. Who discovered st. Helena. the is
land on which Napoleon died?-W. &c.
A. The island was discovered on May
Il, 1902, by the Portuguese Joao de Nova,
on his voyage home from India, and
was named by him St. Helena
Q. How many vehicles use the Tri-
borough Bridge in New York?-M. B.
A. Since its opening in 1886 approxi-
mately 33,5000o0 vehicles representing
receipts of more than S8,5OOOOO have
used the bridge
@. When was the first baseball game
televised?-C. B. H.
A. The first television broadcast of
New York. on May II, 1899, when Col
umbia and Princeton Universities played
double header.
@. Did Longfellow write the poem
called Mr.. Finney's Turnip?'-M. B.
A. While it is persistently attributed
to him, Longfellow denied the author
ship in letter to George Anderson on
July II, 1881.
q. What kings dying request was that
his mistress should be provided for?
C. j.
deathbed to his brother James II Let
not poor Nelly starve.' His wish was
faithfully carried out by the latter who
paid all of Nell Gwyn's debts, provided
her with money and settled on her an
estate with the provision that it should
revert to the Duke of st. Albans her son
by the King.
Q. Where can I find list of hobbies
OF famous women in the United States?
IT. S.
A. The biographical volume, "Ameri-
can Women lists the hobbies of 1O,222
leading women.
@. How many employees are required to
take the 1910 census?-M B.
A. Approximately 100000 enumerators
will be required to take the census.
@. Is there such an animal as a dor
mouse?-L. T. j.
A. The dormouse is small squirrel
like rodent with prominent black ewes
and bushy tail. Like the squirrel. It
sits on its hind legs when eating and
stores food for the winter. 1t is chest
nut IN color, about the size of a mouse,
and spends half the year in sleep.
Canoe Journey
The jealous boughs hang low above the