The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-16


mitted to this column and answered. if possible. n
the cannot be given the questions will b.
printed TO invite replies from the outside The col.
urnn is for the mutual pleasure and profit of our
readers.
A SABBATH DAYS JOURNEY.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal;
MUNclE. Ind. SCHOOL GIRL.
About 900 yards.
INDIANAPOLIS DIRECTORY.
To the Editer of the Indianapolis Journals
Who publishes the Indianapolis business a.
rectory, and what is the price,
A " wHITEmAM
NEW YORK, Y Murray street
r. L. Polk 6 Co.; S..
INVISIBLE SOAP.
To the Editor Of the indianapolis Jou rnaf:
Can you give me the quotation In which tia
words invisible soap occur, as originate u
Cry.
Hoods miss Kmansegg:
Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap
In impsrceptible water"
To the Editor of the indianapolis JournaE
Is not the word epithet applied solely to ad-
jectiyes of an offensive character? d
GREENFIELD.
That is common error epithets may be good
as well as bad. The words truthful honest
Just worthy, etc, are all epthets.
JUBILEE.
To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal.
Please give derivation of the word jubilee
Cry HAH
The word comes from the Hebrew s'yobel,"a
horn. from the fact that the commencement at
the year of jubilee was proclaimed by the sound
of peculiar horn called '.yobel1
GEAR OF RUSSIA
TO the Editor OF the indianapolis Journal.
Which is the title for the ruler of Russia. Czas
or EMPEROR EDNA
Cry.
Peter the Great was the frat to take the title
Of Emperor. That is the political title the
Emperor being universally called 'Czar." which
isa pronounced az though written ''Tzar."
AN DAT.
To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal
Is 1t improper to say "a grain of oat"
Cry. B.
The word Ia seldom used except in the plural
1t is the only English grain of which we can
speak In the singular without the intervention Of
another noun Thus we say "a grain Of wheat
"a grain Of barley" but never "a grain Of oass
THE GATLINa GUN.
To the Editor OF the indianapolis Journaa,
10 the Calling gun used by any other nati0a.
than the United StRtes2 Please tell how many
shots 1t can fire in q minute What kind of arms
is the United States army supplied with2 xSs
LEBANON.
Several European nations have bought them
The gun usually has ten barrels, and, owing to
the rapidity with which it is fed can fire from
six hundred to one thousand two hundred shots
minute, the projectile being musket balls
The United States army, infantry, are armed
with Springfield and Winchester rifles
SYDNEY SMITH ON TAKES.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis journal:
Please confer favor by giving Sydney Smith's
raillery about taxes IA
City.
The usually quoted part is as follows: Tho
school boy whips his taxed top, the beardless
youth manages his taxed horse, with taxed
bride, on taxed road and the dying English
man, pouring his medicine. which has paid
per cent. into spoon which has paid Is per
cent, filings himself back upon his chintzb bed,
which has paid % per cent. and expires in tho
arms OF an apothecary, who has paid a license OF
fI00 for the privilege of putting him to deatia.H
SLAPPED OLD HICKORY.
10 the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
What is the name of the man who is credited
with having slapped Andrew jackson. when
President, in the face @.
MARTINSvILLE.
DIR. Reynall Coats, who died few days ago
near Philadelphia, aged eighty-four. In 1924
during heated interview with President jack
son. he slapped the President in the face. In
December 1886, he accompanied the South sea
expedition. He drafted the address of the ma
tive American party in 1874, and was the author
of many poems OF late years he had been very
eccentric, AMI took much delight In attacking
Walt Whitman and other poets. He lived alone
and did his own cooking in a dingy room in re-
mote part of the city.