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i @. Was the greatness OF Lincoln's
j address at Gettysburg Immediately
| recognized?-A. C. q.
j A. Editorials in the American
press showed that. with about five
exceptions, newspapers did not i'm
Imediately recognize its greatness.
There was some comment abroad.
The Edinburgh Review declared that
Pericles' Eulogy on the Heroes of the
j Peloponnesian War alone could be
compared with it.
| Q. How long did Mrs. Rebecca
FELTON, serve in the Senate?-B. M.
A. Mrs. FELTON, participated in the
sessions on November 81 and 20,
1922. She was the first woman to
serve In the United States Senate,
having been appointed to all out
the term of Senator Thomas E.
Watson OF Georgia, who died In Of
fee.
@. Please name some Of the great
European composers who visited
the United States.-J. E. M.
A. Dvorak came in 1892 and for
two years was head OF the Ma
tional Conservatory Of Music in
New York. Tchaikovsky was pres
ent at the opening Of Carnegie Hall
in May. 1891. and conducted con-
cert there. Rimsky-K -Korsakov, while
in the Russian Navy, spent several
months in New York City during
foreign cruise, 1863-64. Johann
Strauss conducted concerts in Bos-
ton and New York during 1872, and
Saint-Saens made concert tour in
1906. He returned in 1916 as the
French representative to the Pana-
ma Pacific Exposition In San Fran
cisco.
@. What cape in Western United
States received its name as a re-
minder of the failure of English and
Spanish navigators to discover the
mouth of certain river?-L. NICE.
A. Cape Disappointment in Wash
ington. The river was the Columbia.
@. How is molasses madea-w.
F. H.
A. Molasses is by-product in the
manufacture of sugar. Ordinarily,
the first molasses obtained in max
ing raw sugar is boiled down till
more sugar can be removed, leaving
a second molasses. This in turn may
yield a third sugar and third mo-
lasses. which is an impure, sticky
product used in making industrial
alcohol, stock feed, etc.
@. Who was John Jolly?-M. P.
A. He was q Cherokee Indian
chief, noted as the adopted father
of Gen. Samuel Houston. His
early life was spent in Tennessee,
and 1t was here that Houston came
to live with him, remaining three
years.
| @. Are most of the telephones in
this country dial-operated?-G. H.
A. At the beginning of this year
about two-thirds were dial-operated.
| 1t is estimated that within 10 years
all the country's telephones will be
operated by dials and that all long
distance calls will be made by this
method.
@. How many airports has the
United States?-T. o. B.
A. On April /, 1916, there were
4,167 civil and military airports in
operation Texas led with $50. fol-
lowed by California and Florida.
@. Who first said that nothing is
certain but death and taxes?-C.
B. @.
A. Benjamin Franklin used the
words, "| . but in this world
nothing is certain but death and
taxes" in 1789, in a letter to a
friend. M. Leroy. He is generally
regarded as the first person to have
used them.
@. What is the brightest object In
the sky, Venus or Sirius?-O. c. K.
A. When Venus is at its brightest
as an evening star it is brighter
than any other planet or star.
When neither Venus nor Jupiter is
at its brightest, the star Sirius is
the brightest object in the sky.
@. Is there any relation between
! suffering and intellfgence?-K. E. H.
A. DR.. James F. Bender has stated
that as a group Sufferers are at
least normal in intelligence, and
there is some evidence to indicate
that they are above average in this
respect. Suffering was not found in
q survey of large group of feeble
minded children and adults, though
it is twice as prevalent among coll
lege students as among the general
population.
@. How. are sponges prepared for
the market?-C. R. P.
A. The living sponges are killed
by being trodden under the bare
feet of the fishers They are hung
up and the soft parts allowed to
decay and then washed and strung
| on ropes In punches.