Evening star., 1940-07-09
Huskin's Answers
To Readers Questions
By Frederic J. Haskin.

By Frederic J. Haskin.
@. How long do turtle eggs require for
hatching?-R. U. v.
A. The incubation period of the eggs
of American turtles is approximately
two months.
@. Is there spot where four States
meet?-H. H.
A. Only one, the point where Colorado,
Utah, Arizona and New Mexico touch.
1t lies IN a large Indian reservation and
has been proposed as national monu.
ment.
G. When did the Congress first meet
In Washington, D. CPS. C.
A. The second session Of the Sixth
Congress, the second Congress of Presi-
dent Adams, was the first held in WASH
ington, D. G. 1t convened on November
IT, 1900.
@. How many Popes have there been7
j. T.
A. His Holiness Pope Plus XII is the
262d Pope to occupy the chair of st,
Peter. This list excludes the anti-popes,
@. Where did the periodical cicada
appear this year?-C. B. r.
A. This years brood emerged in an
area from the New England and New
York coast line across New Jersey and
pennsylvania and down through the
Appalachian region to Northern Georgia.
then westward across Western Ohio ard
Indiana into Illinois. They usually ap-
pear late in May in the Northern States,
but this years late season is believed to
have delayed them.
@. Who can receive a Victory Medal2
F. E. S.
A. In order to be eligible for the Vic.
tory Medal man must have served be.
tween April 6, 1917, and November II.
1918. In the United States military or
naval forces or as a member of the
American Expeditionary Forces in si-
oerla or European Russia after having
entered the service subsequent to No.
vember II, 1918.
@. Has 1t ever been estimated how
much rainfall on the earth amounts
tow. B. .
A. Meteorologists have figured that
the amount Of rain and snow falling on
the entire surface of the earth averages
about 100000 tons a second.
n
orlglnate?-C. S.
A. Barless cages have been extensively
used in Europe since 1900. The creation
OF this type of construction, in the mod.
ern way, is attributed to Ursus Eggen-
schWller, a Swiss artist. On the side
from which the visitors view the ami.
mails, empty or water-filled moats form
intervening barriers preventing the ami.
mails escape. Usually unscalable rock
work is used to inclose the BACKGROUND.
@. Who is Ernest Sutherland Bates?-
C.B
A. The late DR.. Bates was an American
author and editor. He was book reviewer
for the New York Tribune for 10 wears
and wrote "The Bible Designed to Re
Read as Living Literature" THE Story
OF the Supreme Court" THE Story Of
Congress- Hearst, Lord of San Simeon:
Biography of the Bible" This Land Of
Liberty and Mary Baker Eddy-the
Truth and the Traditions" He died on
December 4, 1889, just after completing
American Faith"
Q. How was time reckoned in ancient
Greece?-L. c. H.
A. The Greeks used lunar 12-ronth.
with INTERPOLATION of an extra month
three times in eight years. Years were
computed in Olympiads of four years.
beginning with 776 BIC.
Q. Who invented the Diesel engine?-
w. T.
A. The Diesel engine was patented bv
Dr. Rudolf Diesel, German scientist, in
1892. The first real engine was not built
until the following year, and exhibited
in 1893. 1t became famous during the
World War because of it's use in SUBJ
marines.
@. Where does the musk-ox liye?-
B. B. S.
A. Musk-oxen were circumpolar in dis
tribution during the Pleistocene, but they
are now confined to Arctic Canada and
Greenland. In 1881 began an effort to
re-establish musk-oxen in Alaska, with
the introduction of herd of "a animals.
This herd, now on Nunivak Island, has
increased to SO, and Is doing well.