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Show Here's Your Answer By FREDERIC . HASKIN A reader can get the answer to sny question of fact by writing The Salt Lake Telegram Information Infor-mation Bureau, Frederio J. Haskln, Has-kln, Director, Washington, D. C Pleasa inclose 3 cents for reply. Q. Has France a monument dedicated to Sarah Bernhardt T L.T. A. One has been authorized and will be erected at Andernoa, near Biarritz, where Madame Bern-hard Bern-hard lived for a time., Q. Where ia the fort in which Dr. Mudd was Imprisoned for setting set-ting the leg of John WUkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln? 8. T. A. It la Fort Jefferson, on Garden Gar-den key, the southernmost of the Dry Tortugas keys, at the southern south-ern tip of Florida. It was begun in 184, but never finished. It is now to be renovated, repaired and improved under a W P A allotment allot-ment Q. How wide and long ts the Longueuil bridge In Montreal, Canada? M. B. A. It has a total width of 73 "4 feet and a roadway of 37 feet affording room for four" lanes of traffic. The main span Is 137 feet, other spans range from 90 to 245 feet and the total length of the bridge is two miles. Ths weight of the steel -used in the superstructure superstruc-ture is about 30,000 tone. Q. Why was Henry Stanley, the explorer, called Bula Matarl? C F H. A.' Bula Matarl, the rock breaker, was the African natives' name for Stanley. Q. Isn't the dictionary which aays that Arkwright Invented the spinning Jenny In error en that point? 8.D.A. A. It was in error, as Is stated in a letter from G. at C. Merriam company, publishers of Webster's New International, which has appeared ap-peared in "The Saturday Review of Literature." The letter reads in part: "What Arkwright invented in-vented was the spinning frame, which ia in fact quite a different spinning machine and one that could do more work than the spin- ning jenny. Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny about a year before Arkwright put his frame into use." Q. When did President Roosevelt Roose-velt Riga the social security bill? W. H. A. It was signed by ths president presi-dent on August , 1935. Q. What does alma mater mean literally? M. B. A. The expression haa been adopted from Latin, meaning foe- ' tering mother. |