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Show ASK ME O -TT" T y Ottering Information ANOTHER f on Various Subjects i ,,,.. A - ... . The Questions 1. Who fixed the mean length of the year at 365V4 days and decreed de-creed that every fourth year should have 366 days? 2. How much of the world's railway rail-way mileage is in the United States? 3. Who holds the record for the longest cabinet service? 4. How large was the Continental army in the Revolutionary war? 5. How many Presidents died on July 4? 6. Does the starfish travel very far? 7. Which of the following is a prime number 7, 10 or 22? 8. How does the moon compare with the earth in size? 9. What was the highest price per ton of gold ever paid? 10. What are the three theological virtues? The Answers 1. Julius Caesar. 2. Thirty per cent. 3. James Wilson, who was secretary sec-retary of agriculture from 1897 to 1913, under McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. 4. Army records show that 528,-274 528,-274 regulars and volunteers fought in the Revolutionary war. 5. Three Presidents John Adams, Ad-ams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. 6. The farthest distance ever traveled by any starfish is approximately ap-proximately 5,000 feet. 7. Seven. It is divisible by no number except itself and one. 8. The moon is one-fourth in size. Its diameter is about 2,000 miles, the earth's about 8,000 miles. 9. In 1907 the Selby Smelting Works of San Francisco paid the Mohawk Mine of Nevada $574,958 for 47 tons of gold ore, this price of $12,041 per ton being the highest high-est ever recorded in the history of gold mining. 10. Faith, hope and charity. |