Do You Know
(1) Who this is? (2) What famous author connected with the South Seas died on December 4, 1894? (3) The differenci between “Daisy Lady Chain,'
and “Lady Daisy Umiu, assuming there is such a person as Earl Chain ? (4) On whose tomb is written “Here lies one whose name was writ in water?’’ Answers to yesterday’s questions: (1) Major-General Richardson, Administrator of Samoa. (2) “Gone to Davy Jones’s locker” is the old sea term for “dead” and usually implies “buried at sea.” The origin, though doubtful, is said to be: Locker—A seaman's private box; Davy Jones—a corruption of “duffv Jonah” (West Indian, “duffy,” a ghost or spirit). Gone to the safe place where Jonah's spirit went. 73) The Colossus was a» statue of Apollo. 126 feet high, which ; stood over the harbour of Rhodes in the Aegean Sers—One of the Seven Wonders. (4) A phagocyte is a white blood cornuscle, which resists harmful microbes.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 December 1927, Page 4
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157Do You Know Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 December 1927, Page 4
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