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MUSIC AND DRAMA

What charm is the turquoise supposed to have? 1958.

What is the difference between a male and a female sapphire? 1678.

How can a diamond be distinguished? 527.

What famous diamond was found by a negress? 527.

Where was the largest diamond of North America found? 527.

What famous diamond is mounted in the scepter of the Czar of Russia? 527.

Where is the richest diamond mine in the world? 527.

What element in lead and coal is the same that, crystalized, forms the diamond? 332.

What country produces nearly one-half of the zinc of the world? 756.

When and where was the largest gold nugget ever discovered? 162.

Where is the richest copper mine in the world? 452.

What silver region produces one-third of the silver outout of the world? 1758.

What state furnishes one-third of the gold, silver, copper and lead mined in the United States? 1254.

What metal expands less by heat than any other? 1502.

What metal will neither tarnish nor rust? 80.

What metal is nine times heavier than water? 452.

Where is sulphur found? 1846.

What is the lightest of all metals? 1537.

What are pyrites? 1566.

What is thallium, when and how discovered? 1897.

What mineral is used to make the Drummond light? 1071.

How is steel produced? 1819.

What has reduced the price of steel very much? 1820.

What metal rusts most easily, and why? 1649.

What is known as Prince's metal? 1644.

What metal is fluid when not heated? 1206.

Where do we find the purest iron ore in America? 1218.

Where are the richest copper mines in the world? 1218-9.

What mines produce one-third of the iron of the United Kingdom? 1222.

How are metals extracted from ores? 1211.

What state yields the most zinc? 1241.

From what is magnesium obtained? 1145.

How were coal beds formed? 749.

What is the extent of the coal fields of the United States? 414.

What is the largest mineral vein in the world? 2025.

Where are the largest manganese mines in the world? 2023.

What is the favorite metal for making casts of statues etc., and how is it prepared? 1598.

What mineral may be woven into cloth? 116.

What gives the prevailing color to granite? 792.                                *

What is the study of shells called? 1738.

How are shells formed? 1737.

Where is the best white sand in the world found? 773.

What is the process of assaying? 122.

What is the process of mining? 1232.

In what various forms do minerals occur? 1232.

What are the more important problems of mining? 1233.

MUSIC AND   DRAMA

Who was the father of the modern comic opera? 1372. Who has been called the singing flower of beauty? 806. When and where was Mendelssohn born?

At what age did Mendelssohn begin the study of music? 1202. What is the national hymn of France? 1176. Where was Mozart born? 1274. Who wrote America? 1770.

Who was the great genius of the fifteenth century, and also painted the celebrated picture of The Last Supper? 1056.

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