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Show Ask Me 3 AnrOIfering r ,7 H Information on JTLOtllQI E Various Subjects 1. Ilijs there ever been on air-jl:inc air-jl:inc down nround the world? 2. How long does it lake to Ret i telephone call through to London rom this country? 3. How many miles of sub-naririe sub-naririe cable are there? 4. What town is nearest the geo-.'.rapliical geo-.'.rapliical center of the United stales? 5. What is pectin? G. Why ore some tin cans en-nmelod en-nmelod on the inside? 7. What is the population of the earth? 8. There are G, 1 i'J registered hospitals in the United Slates. There are approximately 2fJ.O0 hotels. 9. In 1892 a fusion of industrial workers and farmers known es the Populist party, and roughly comparable to the Farmer-Laboi party of today, mustered 1,027,000 popular votes and 22 electoral votes. The vele was about one-tenth one-tenth of the total vote cast. 10. Yes. At the commencement of the Civil war, John J. Stockton of New Jersey was minister resident resi-dent at the Vatican. 8. How many hospitals are there in the United States? Hotels? 9. What is the largest vote a labor party ever cast in the United Slates? 10. Did the United States have diplomatic relations with the Vatican Vati-can during the Civil war? Answers 1. There has never been a round-the-world airplane flight in that such a flight would require girdling the globe at its greatest circumference, either along the equator or along a single degree of longitude. 2. It takes about 10 minutes. 3. The earth is encircled with more than 300,000 miles of submarine sub-marine cables, 100.000,000 miles of telephone wires and 5,000,000 miles of telegraph cables. 4. Lebanon, in Eastern Smith county, Kan., is the nearest. 5. It is a substance which appears ap-pears in many vegetable tissues as a constituent of the sap or cell wall. In making jellies its presence pres-ence is necessary to cause the fruit juice to solidify. 6. Red fruits and vegetables bleach in contact with tin plate and foods with sulphur content discolor the can just as a cooked egg discolors a silver spoon. The stain is harmless but uninviting. 7. There are about 2,000,000,000 people on the earth, according to the 1030 estimates of the International Inter-national Statistical institute of the League of Nations at Geneva. |
