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Show Answers to Questions. Q. What president of the United States lived the longest? E. K A. Tliia distinction went to John Adams, Ad-ams, second president of the republic, who lived up to the fine old age of SI years. His death occurred on the same dav as tiiat of his successor In office, Thomas Jefferson, who was born eight years after Adams. :j! Q. What percentage of the population of Mexico is Illiterate? V. R. F. A. The bureau of census says that a report compiled several years ago shows that at that time 70.7 per cent of the population of Mexico over 12 years of age was illiterate. iji Q. Is it healthful to keep plants in a sleeping chamber? E. V. S. A. Growing plants in a sleeping chamber cham-ber are beneficial because the plant absorb ab-sorb the carbon dioxide which is given off by the ihuman body as a waste product prod-uct of the act of breathing, and so tend to purify the air for human use. ' Q. What is considered the most famous work of Thackeray? i B. A. A. "Vanity Fair," a satire on London society of the nineteenth century, is the most famous of Thackeray's works. Thackeray was evidently pleased with the work himself, for. it is said that he used to lift his hat every time he passed the house In which he wrote "Vanity Fair." Q. Is the salary of the mayor of Chicago Chi-cago larger than that of tho chief executive execu-tive of New York City? X. M. I. A. Chicago's mayor receives an annual salary of $18,000, while the compensation compensa-tion of the mayor of New York Is $15,000 a year. The mayor of Philadelphia is paid $12,000 a year, while the -; ecutive of Boston gets SlO.OOfc -i Q. Who first used the -"They shall not pass"? A. This famous expression " used by Marshal Petain at it '.. Verdun. It became the slog French army defending that point and helped to stimulate -of the soldiers in keeping bae' ;. man hordes. '' :. . Q. Why does the length '''; of latitude vary? - A. As the earth is not a perl -It being compressed at the : length of a degree of latitude ' degrees are longer toward where the earth Is flatter, amTf ward- the equator, where Uk more curved. If the earth wenv a degree of latitude would In'' stant length. - Q. How many is a "few"? A. In the Bible St. Peter, I :i to the number of persons sa ark, says "a few, that is e . were saved through water." 1 :, In the ark were Noah, his nifi sons and their wives. The die "; fines "few" as not many. (Any reader -can get the ani ... question by writing The Trll. : mation bureau, Frederic J. Ha tor. .Washington. D.. C. This tu strictly to information. The t " not give advice. on legal, medl..,. nanclal matters. Tt does not .;; settle family "troubles, nor to .!; exhaustive research on any sul ;': your question plainly and br:. -i full name and. address, and ini stamp for return postage. All ."; sent direct to the inquirer.) , '.. |