The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-22
QUERIES AND ANSWERS.
TARIFF COMMISSION.


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BEsrosvrLLE. Ind, JAM 10.
There is none.
MILITARY DRILL.
Where can get it, CIVIC.
HUNTINGDON, Jan. IA
Upton's Tactics. The volume can be ordered
of any book-dealer.
SCHOOL OF oRATORY.
Is there school of eocuton and oratory at Indian
apoIs READER
GREENcAsTLE, Ind.
There is no school OF elocution of the kind you
indicate. There several private teachers of
the art in the city.
PRESIDENTS GRAVES
Is there dead exPresident that has stone9
IF So who! ARTHUR SooNEY.
STAR, Ind JAM IL
There is monument over ex-President Har-
rison's grave, but arrangements have been made
for building one.
NEW YEARS DAY.
Please many years it will be until the
year comes in on Sunday again and what figure leap
has BEEN prior to 1883. New Year came in on Sun
day" ED. LAMBERT.
Five years. Each leap year advances the
ii me one DAY. Six years.
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
To settle dispute, please state there gov
eminent bonds that the administration could pay on az
present, does the government have to wait until
they become due some time in the future.
PHILADELPHIA W. W. SooTToN.
The government can buy bonds at any time it
chooses.
ZIMMERMAN PUBLICATION.
Is there any paper published in the interest of
lumber trade and saw mill men. G. E. H.
SHERIDAN, Ind, Jan. IA.
There are a number of such publications.
Among them the '.Lumberman's Gazette" pub
lished at Bay City, Mich, the mississippi Val
apolis. and the Saw mill Gazette" New York
City,
THE LIFE OF MARION, ETC.
L. Where get the life of General Marion Of the
revolutionary wara q On what day of the week did
the 9Th of February come in 1S70l 5. Please
song in which is found the following:
''Then put hands together,
And help the working man."
I believe it is entitled the Labor Song"
COAL CITY, Ind. Jan, 10. READER.
l. Of any book dealer Several biographies of
Marion have been published Weems's Life is
standard. 2. Saturday. 3. 1t is not known at
the music stores.
THE YEAR 1900
read in the St Louis Post Dispatch that per-
son born on Feb. 20, 1896 would not have a birth
year. How is it that such distinction is made in the
year 19OO2 North END SUBSCRIBER.
INDIANAPOLIS JAN Ia.
In order to reconcile the civil with the solar
year. which the addition of one day Of the fourth
year does not do with accuracy. Pope Gregory
XIII ordered that all centurial years. which are
not multipleS of AGO. should not be made leap
years. Under this rule. the Gregorian calendar
being used in all Christian countries except
Russia, the year 1900 will not be a leap year
and there will be Goth of February between
1896 and 1904
PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, ETC.
1. Who is President of the republic of Mexico?
2. How many mnts there in the United States!
Locate each of them. 3. Why is tbs word The
placed before the word Hague which is the capital
of Holland? A. Why is the civil war so calleds s.
State, if possible the real names of Artemus Ward
and Mark Twain. T.. c.. c..
Upton, Ind, Jan. IA
l. Porfrio Diaz. 2 Four. At Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Carson City and Denver. 3. 1t
is probably matter of custom arising out of
the origin of tho name. It means Tho Hedge"
and originally referred to the hedges surround
ing the grounds which the city stands. 4.
Because it was between the citizens of the same
word ''civil." 5. Charles F. Brown and Samuel
l.. Clemens.
LAMARS OATH.
i. Will you please give the oath Lamar took upon
entering the United States Congress? 2. Was he
Gamar) in the rebel Congress, and what oath did he
he will have to take upon taking his seat Supreme
Judge? ALBERT PAYNE.
CARBON, Ind. Jan Is.
l. The ordinary modified oath required of ex-
rebels. This oath omits the clause from the
regular form which requires the Individual to
United States government 2 He not in
the rebel Congress. 8. The judicial oath sworn
to by MIR. Lamar On Wednesday was as follows
Il, l.. @. G. Lamar do soemnly swear that I will
administer justice without respect to persons and do
equal right the and to the rich, and that will
the duties ncumb bent Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States according
the best of my ability and understandings agreeaby
to the and the laws of the United States