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Show ? ANOTHER ? A General Quiz The Questions 1. What is the meaning of tele as used in the word telegraph? 2. Sanskrit is the ancient sacred and literary language of what country? 3. What is called the first law of nature? 4. For what sentence of four words is the word "good-by" a contraction or abbreviation of? 5. Is Alaska larger than Texas? 6. What does pettifogger mean? 7. What is the difference between be-tween astrology and astronomy? 8. How do pearls range in size? 9. Wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating is called what? 10. Which is the world's smallest fish? The Answers 1. Far off. 2. India. 3. Self-preservation. 4. God be with ye. 5. Yes. Alaska, 590,884 square miles; Texas, 265,986 square miles. 6. A lawyer who practices in petty cases. 7. Astrology is the art pursued of foretelling or forecasting the future of mankind by reference to the influence supposed to be exerted ex-erted by the stars. Astronomy is the study of the heavenly bodies. 8. Pearls iange in size from the tiny "dust' specimens which weigh less than one-twenty-fifth of a grain up to the giant paragons which have been known to weigh as much as 337 grains, or about 8,500 times more. 9. Flotsam. 10. The pandaka pygmaea, which is found in Lake Buhi on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is only six-sixteenths of an inch in length. |