DO YOU KNOW?
(1) What silver paper is? (2) How the colours used on chocolate wrappings are obtained? (3) If inland fogs are deeper or shallower than sea fogs? (4) How the expression “to put a spoke in the wheel” originated? (5) From which substance is asphalt being manufactured artificially? ANSWERS (1) This is a term loosely used for thin sheets of rolled metal of various kinds, but usually either tin, lead, or aluminium. (2) By lacquering the silver paper with a varnish. (3) Inland fogs vary in .height from a few feet to many hundreds. At sea they are usually very shallow, but one was known to be about 2000 feet deep. (4) It Is used to Indicate that somebody’s progress has heen barred. It has its origin, no doubt, In the far-off days when vehicles had solid wooden wheels. Holes were made in some of. these so that tbe driver who wished to put on the brake could do so by pushing through one of the holes a piece of wood called a spoke, and thus prevent the wheel from revolving. (5) Petroleum-
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 24
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185DO YOU KNOW? Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 24
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