The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

They have not. Sometimes. we think they
assume an authority, however. AS rule
though, the addressee is requested to open
the suspected letter in the presence of the
authorities.
Whence comes the old proverb, while the
grass grows the horse starves ?''-Apeman-
tus.
It is one of John Heywood's proverbs. He
lived IN the last third of the fifteenth CEN
fury. He wrote, while the erase groweth,
the horse starveth." From George Whet-
stone, 1913, is quoted: "Whylst grass doth
grow, oft starves the seely steede."
What is the pay of draughtsmen in civil
and mechanical engineering2 2. What are
branch, and which would you advise
young man to take up?-Seeker.
From $l.25 to So day in the former, and
50 to S. a day in the latter. 3 About equal,
both being pretty well filled. without know
ing something about the young man we
would not advise
What is Hog Latin" where is it used.
and where did the name Hog Latin" origi-
nate? In what respect does it differ from
pure Latin Caesar.
Hog Latin, generally called Dog Latin, is
simply very bad Latin. The French and Ger
mans called it Kitchen Latin. We don't
know how the term originated. There is
number of similar phrases: Dog-sleep (com-
pare cat-nap), a light sleep that isn't
sleep; doggerel, verse that isn't poetry etc.
Will you kindly state if United States
warship has ever gone to Constantinople
after the European exclusion treaty with
or without permission?-W. W., Sr.
Farragut went to Constantinople in the
small vessel Frolic, as his flagship the
Franklin, was too large to be allowed up
at the city. Finally, permission was given
by the Sultan. and the Franklin steamed
up the Dardanelles and anchored off the
city of the Sublime Porte. This was in 1868
Several of the States of the Union have
formally adopted State emblems, usually
flowers. Will you kindly give a list of these?
e S. II.
A list published in December last gives
these State flowers and emblems: Alabama,
goldenrod; Colorado, columbine; Delaware
peach blossom; Idaho, syringa Maine, pine
cone and tassel Minnesota, cypripodium;
Montana, bitter root; Nebraska, goIdenrod;
Utah. sego lily; Vermont, red clover; Rhode
Island and Wisconsin. maple tree.
Who made famous the saying: Where
am 1 at?" and on what occasion?-J. B.
Congressman Cobb, of Alabama, used the
expression on April 20. 1892. He was inter-
rupted in a speech in Congress, and when
he began again used the now very famous
expression. Congressman Watson, in a book
printed for Populist consumption implied
that Cobb was drunk when he said this
but committee of investigation decided
that he failed to prove his implied charge
Whether Cobb or Watson made the remark
famous we do not know.
Was the constitutionality of the income
tax levied during the war of the rebellion
tested in the United States Court? If So
what was the decision?-J. p. T..
Not severely. People during the war stood
a good many things which they do not
stand now. Everything went" in those
days; so, though a case was prepared, it
was not argued thoroughly ard had no
definite decision In 1880, however, the Su-
preme Court of the United States Gin Spring
er VS.. the United States) decided that the
wartime income tax was constitutional.
DO the inhabitants of Central America
raise coffee? If so, how much coffee does a
tree at seven or eight years old produce in
pounds? How many trees are planted TO the
acre? What is the average height of a
coffee tree at seven or eight years old? How
often does the tree bear fruit yearly? Does
the coffee bean or berry grow in long pods
like peas or beans? How often does the
coffee tree have to be planted? What is the
average life of coffee tree?-C. v. V.
Central America raises a large quantity
OF coffee. The average yield of tree cannot
be stated; perhaps about twenty pounds
Trees are planted about every eight feet,
about eight hundred trees being set out to
the acre tree grows to be thirty feet
high, but is kept down to about eight feet
high. The tree is evergreen, but bears one
crop year. The berries grow in pairs, sur
rounded by a. thick. sweet pulp and skin.
The tree begins to yield when three years
nj &c f11lI hoa rin xuha five hoarc
for twenty years thereafter.
Kindly inform me about the motto, "Honi
soft qut NAL V penSe,' where and from
whom it originated?-T. j. G.
The expression is said to date from the
time of Edward III of England, about 1349
At a court ball the beautiful Countess of
Salisbury dropped her garter. On seeing
this the courtiers began to laugh. There
upon the King picked up the garter with
the famous remark, 'Honi soft qui NAL v
pense'-'May he be ashamed who thinks
evil of it," (Not as translated usually, "eviI
to him who evil thinks.') Honi, properly
honni. is the past partciple of the old
French verb honnir to shame 1t was Gus
tomary then for knights to indicate their
purity Of thought and loftiness of mind by
acts of what might be called sublimated
humility; so shortly afterwards Edward
Saul Will make tnlS mean article the
badge of an order so lofty that the noblest
will wear lit gladly" and thereafter he in
stituted the Order of the Carter"
Is ii true that a Prince once led a Queen
for miles through towns and villages that
were built of paper and were moved on dur
ing the night, so as always TO be ahead of
the Queens. B.
This is an historical fact The Queen was
Catherine ii, Empress OF Russia; the Prince
was Gregory Potemkin. Potemkin was a
strong adherent of the Empress when she
dethroned her husband in 1862 and in 1860
became attached to the court He founded
the city of Kherson, near the mouth of the
Dnieper, secured Crimea for the Turks and
other countries from the Georgians and the
Tartars. Catherine heaped honors and
wealth on him, giving him large estates
and about $SoO0,0O0 in cash. In the summer
of 1857, DESTROYS of seeing the new provinces
which Potemkin had represented as beau
tiful, fertile and populous the Empress
made a trip from Kieff Gown the Dniener
Then it was that Potemktl erected the pa
per villages. They were like scenes in a
theater, and when passed at one place
were taken down, packed up and sent ahead
of the imperial trkin to do duty in another
spot Forests, population. good roads were
all provided by the Prince and the Empress
was wholly delighted with the value of the
new provinces She named the new lands