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THAT.lWHlCH ANBODY OUGHT To KNOW (Continued from page 2) 67. From where do we get dates? Arabia, India, North Africa, Cali fornia, Arizona and elsewhere. 08. Where do we get our domestic sardines? From Maine and California. in69. What is the longest railroad the world ? rl The Trans-Siberian. 70. Where is Kenosha? Wisconsin. 71. What is the speed of sound ? - In dry air at freezing it travels r.bor.t 1,091 feet a second. In water its speed is about 4,680 feet per sec ond. It traveled at 11,463 feet four 4i-ches a sJcond through an iron bar 8,000 feet long. 72. What is the speed of light? Agviroximately 186,700 miles a second. 73. Who was Cleoparta and how P'did she die? A qUeen of Egypt. Committed sui cide by causing an asp t bite her. 74. Where are condors found? The Andes. 75. Who discovered the law of gra vitation? Sir Isaac Newton. 76. What is the distance between the earth ant sun? 93,100,000 miles. 77. Who invented photography? Scheele, a Swede, discovered the principles about 1780 and Wedgwood English, firt applied them in June, 1802. & 78. What country produces the most wool? Australia. 79. What is felt? A cloth made from matted wool, fur or hair, by pressure. * 80. What cereal is used in all parts of the world? None. Wheat is used most extei sively, with rice and corn next. * 81. What states produce phos 0phntes? Arkansas, Tennesr e and other Southern states. 32. Why is cast iron called pig *iron? Because of a fancied resemblance of the row of channels into which the molten metal flows to a litter of pigs. 83. Name three principal acids? Hydrochloric, sulphuric and nitric. 84. Name three powerful poisons? Cyanide of potassium, strychnine and arsenie. 85. Who. discovered radium? Mine. Curie in Paris in 1902. ' 86. Who discovered the X-ray? Roentgen, a German, in 1895. 5 87. Name three principal alkalis? Soda, potash and ammonia. 88. What part of Germany do toys come from. Nuremburg and the Nuremburg re gion. 89. What states bound West Vir ginia? Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentkucky and Ohio. 90. Where do we get peanuts from? California, Georgia, Virginia and other Southern states and Pennsyl vania. 91. Where is the capital of Ala Montgomery. 92. Who composed "II Trovatore ?" Verdi. 93. What is the weight of air in a room 20x30x10? 484 86-1,000 pourds. 94. Where is platinum found. Ural mountains. 95. With what metal is platinum Quick, cl for every. I T is hard to appr convenience and s~ of cooking with the fection until you hav done so. It's a relief, especiall~ weather, to be rid ol coal, wood and ash< ing up litter and bla stove. And then y have to "rush the haking .days and he; kitchen. Two burne New Perfection will all the heat needed kind of baking. You late the heat produce burner, wvarm somneth on one and roast ove in a New Perfection < The long blue chimn W29iPZI~emirii- i nIm~I am associated when found? Copper, iron, gold, iridum and osmium. 96. How is sulphuric acid made? Iron pyrites roasted in special furnoces yield sulphur dioxide, which is collected in a lead chamber in the presence of water, obygen or air and mitrous anhydride. 97. Where do %ve get sulphur from ? Louisiana and Texas. 98. Who discovered how to vul canize rubber? Charles Goodyear. 99. Where do we import rubber from? South and Central America, Malay peninsula, Ceylon, Borneo, Java and equatorial Africa. 100. What is vulcanite and how is it made? A black variety of hard rubbe; made from the cheaper grades of rubber vulcanized with much sul phur., 101. Who ilvented the cotton gii? Eli Whitney. 102. What is the price of 12 grains of gold ? United States assay office price, May 12, 1921, was 56.695 cents. 103. What is the difference be TI FABRICS A W HETHER you orMrs.Amer tire question is pr serious concern thi Unless, of cour to the same conchi that the G & J Tir successful history a isfactory service, h tation to keep thai PLOV HARDW) WE /E RECOP G&J 4an heat kind of co< aciate the New Perfection Ltisfaction the right draught Newv Per-. heat of the white-. e actually forcibly against all utensils. The w 'in warm tipped flame pro carrying the most heat anc is, sweep,. not soot up your I eking the and pans. ou don't The New Perfect fire" on simple, practical it up the nomical. Supplie: rs on the instantly, and whe give you are through just s for any save your fuel. Y< can regu- to watch it. No a< :A by each take care of. A b, ing gently fill it and clean it, rvenote For the most sal n. sults mi~e Aladdin ey of the regularly. You a clean and eflicienl New Perfectionz Oil Coe a!tmost hardware, furni ment stores. -STANDARDIoLCOMI WPER] Oil Co&) tween anthracite and bituminous coal? Hard coal is anthracite; soft coal is bituminous coal. 104. Whiere do we get benzol from? The fractional distillation of coal tar. 105. Of what is glass made? A fusion of silica with two or more alkaline bases. 106. How is window glass made? Producing by blowpipe a large cyl inder which is cut open and heated in a flattening oven and t'ien trans ferred to an annealing oven. 107. What is procelain? A fine earthenware harder, whiter, harder to fuse and more translucent than ordinary pottery. 108. What country makes the best optical lenses and what city? Jena, in Germany, formerly pro duced the best lenses. Recently the bureau of standards has turned out lenses excelled by none. 109. What kind of a machine is used to cut the facets on (ianonds? A diamon(l lathe where "diamond cuts diamon(l." 110. What is a foot pound? A unit of energy equal to the work er tES ND CORDS i happen to be Mr. ican Car Owner, the obably a source of s particular season. se, you have come sion as we have e, with its 29 years' Lnd consistently sat. as more of a repu. i any other. IDEN kRE CO. LL AND IMEND TUBEl lupplies just to drive the :ipped flame the cooking hi te duces [ does ALADDIN :.ettles ion is SKCURITY0OIL heat "l" n you [but it off and >u don't have' ijustments to y or girl can isfactory re.. Security Oil [ways find it k Stores are sold iture and depart. AN Y(NEWJE!RSLEY) FECTI ON SStoves PTired "I was weak and run-down," relates Mrs. Eula Burnett, of Dalton, Ga. "I was thin and Just felt tired, all the time. I didn't rest well. I wasn't ever hungry. I knew, by this, I needed a tonic, and. as there is none better than CARDUI The Woman's Tonic ...I began using Cardul," continues Mrs. Burnett. "After my first bottle, I slept better and ate better. I took four bottles. Now I'm well, feel just fine, eat and sleep, my skin is clear and I have gained and sure feel that Cardui is the best tonic ever made." Thousands of other women have found Cardui just as Mrs. Burnett did. It should help you. At all druggists. lone in raising one pound avoirdu pois the height of one foot. 111. Where do we get horax from ? California, Nevad, Texas and Ore gon. 112. Where is the A ssuan Dam? Across the Nile in Upper Egypt. 113. What star recently measured was found of enormous size? Betelgeu:se. 11 . What larg, river in the Unit ed States flows from south to north ? The San Joaquin river in Califor nin. The Red river of the North. 115. What are the Straits of -%es sina ? They separate Sicily from Italy. 116. What is the highest mountain in the world ? Mlount Everest. 117. Where do we import cork from? Southern Europe and Northern Africa. 118. Where is the St. (othard tun nel ? Under the Alps. 119. What is the Taj \Alahal? A mausoleum huilt at Ag.ra, India, by the mogul emperor, Shan ahan, in mlmory of his favorite wife. 120. Where is Labrador? On th east coast of North Anier iea from St. Lawrence river to H1 ud son's bay. 121. Who wrote "The Star Span gled Hanner"? JoIn Spofford Smith wrote th< music about 1789. Francis Scott Key wrote the words. 122. Who wrote "!Ione, Sweet ilomle"? John Hloward Payne wrote the worIs. Sir lilnry U ishop, an Eng lishmaln, wrote the musiv. 123. Who was Mlartin Luther? pal leader of the Reforma tioln. 12.1. What is the chief avid in vine Acetic. 1 25. Whok( wrlot "Dion Quixote" ? Cervantes. 12G;. WXho wrIote "Le-s Aliserables"'? Victor Ilio. 127. What place is the gre-atest dis tanlce belo w -'ea level ? The l3e:9l S':a, I 13( foet below sea level. 128. What are ax handles madie of? Ash in the E'ast and hickory in the West. Auguste Rodlin. 13(1. Why is a l''ahrenhneit ther mome(I(ter1 (alled l-'ahlrenheit ? Namued after Gabroiel I banie1l -'ah renhe it,. whlo invitened it. I 01. Who owvned am(1ran the Newv York Hera' ld for a long ti me ? da1mes Gordo~l(n Hlennett. 132. What is copra ? The driled kernel of thle cocoeanut.1 13:1. What inseet carries mialaria ? The miosqnuito ofi the genus Ann 134. Who dIiscover-ed t he P'aciftic oceanI ? 135. What country has the large-st oEutJput (of nlickle inl the woldh ? Canada. 136. What ingr-edients are in the best white paliit? Linseed oil, turpenitine, liquid dry er, wvhiite lead 01nd zinc OX ide. 1:37. What is glucose and how% (1Glcose is nmade from cruden corn starch Iliquor that is firist. converted into a liquid by being hydlrolized by an acid, then neu tri zed hv a solui tion oIf sod1iumi (arbona te, a ad hi nally fIltered and1( e!vaplorated iln vacuumli pans. 138. In what part of the wvorld does it never raini? Sahara dlesert. 139. What wa the 'pproximat< G. C. COOPER, i censed Optometerist EYES Carefully Examined, Glasses Fil ited, Broketi Lenses Duplicated. Satisfaction Guaranteed. SUMTER. S. C. population of England, France, Ger- 143. What city on the Atlantic sea many and Russia before the 0ar? board is the greatest pottery center? England, 34,000,00; France, 40,000,- Trenton, N. J. 000; Germany, 65,000,000; Russia, 180-' 144. Who is called the "father of 000,000. railroads" in the United States? 140. Where is the City of Mecca ? John Stevens. In the kingdom of Hedjaz. 145. What is the heayiest kind of 141. Where do we get quicksilver wood ? from ? Lignum vitate. California, Texas and Spain. 146. What is the lightest wood? 142 . Of what are violin strings Basswood has been called the light Madle? est, but it has been asserted recently From "catgut," now usually made that balsa, or corkwood, found in from the intestines of sheep. South America, is the lightest. 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