Show FRIEND F OF THE I PEOPLE Friend d of the People J would appreciate it very much if it itI I give me rue some information in regard to the Dead sea that we read about In lii religious history i t SUBSCRIBER Tt The Dead sea is a a. salt lake in the ancient vale of ot at the southern extremity ity of Palestine sixteen miles southeast of Jerusalem It Is 1292 feet below the level of the Mediterranean forty six forty miles In length from six to nine miles wide and In some places place 1300 feet deep The Jordan river emp emp- U ti ties sinto it on the north but the sea h has s no outlet and and the sea seY sev several ral times as much salt as the ocean more more even than the waters of ot the Great Salt lake lake and and the water is so d dense nise that a bather cannot sink shik The valley is volcanic still subject to earthquakes earthquakes earth earth- quakes and large masses of asphalt a R re re occasionally cast up from the lakes lake's bed FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE Friend of the People To settle an argument will you please tell me what and where Is Monaco Mon H. H E. E M. M Monaco is a small principality on the Mediterranean near Nice having an anarea anarea anarea area of only eight square miles The principal point of interest Is Monte MonteCarlo MonteCarlo MonteCarlo Carlo a winter resort famous for its great gambling rooms leased to a company company com corn pany whose payments furnish the main source of ot public publio revenue FRIEND OF THE TaE PEOPLE Friend of ot the People Kindly Inform me If LeIf Ericson the Norseman discovered America Masons teach the monks in I early Christian days i CATHOLIC WORKING GIRL 1 In the year 1000 according to the Saga narratives Leif son of ot Eric the Red fled leaving Greenland which had been discovered and settled by his father father father fa- fa ther a Norwegian proceeded southward southward southward south south- ward In a ship accompanied by thirty- thirty five men and discovered the American coast to which he gave the name of In 1007 a rich Greenlander with a following of sixty emigrated to Vinland and there planted a colony which seems to have grown somewhat but after a time we he hear r nothing more about it 2 It is entirely possible that they the history of the Masonic order does not state so specifically FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE |