DO YOU KNOW?
(1) Where is the New Year a more important holiday than Christmas? (2) How much rain falls on the earth every day? (3) When was paint first used? (4) What is the name of the Jewish New Year? ' (5) Which is the Land of the Midnight Sun? ANSWERS (1) In France and Scotland. (2) Every day more than 300 cubic miles of water falls on the surface of the earth as rain. This represents a weight of 10 million tons a second. (3) In very ancient times the Greeks painted their statues as well as their walls. (4) The “Feast of the Trumpets.” • (5) Norway.
Billy crept into his father’s room at dead of night and awoke his parent. “Burglars, father!” he said. Together they listened and watched. Then Father spoke. “Not a word!” said he. “Perhaps they will open that window. It’s the one we’ve been unable to open since the painters were here.”
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 24
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158DO YOU KNOW? Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 24
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