The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, July 13, 1921, Section One Pages 1 to 10, Image 9
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.
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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
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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
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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
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as there is none better than
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continues Mrs. Burnett.
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better and ate better. I took
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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<
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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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We also sell and erect iron fen;-ing.
Sumter Marble and Mantel Co.
J. P. (OM MANDERt, Proprietor
SUMTER, S. C.
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We have a high power, fast cutting outfit forced feed-a comi
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