The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-19
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

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lots. Plurality over Bryan and Sewall cleo
tors, 2SS, 49,
What is the postofIice address of Alfred
Austin, the English poet-laureate?-A- c.
McC.
We do not know; he may be addressed
in care of Lord Chamberlain's Department,
Stable Yard, st. Jamess Palace, London.
Is it a law and is it in force that the
WIDOWS OF senators draw their husbands
salary as senator as long as they live, after
their husbands death?-I. G. N.
1t is not. No widow of a senator draws
salary or pension as such.
What meaning is attached to the sap
viii.
The sapphire is not the birthday stone of
September; it is the birthday stone of April,
and means Innocence, freedom from en-
chantment.,' Chrysolite is September's
stone which means freedom from sadness
and from evil passions.
When was the fight between Corbett and
FitZsimmons in Hot Springs to have taken
place? Why did they not fight?-M. L.
The fight was to have taken place in No
vember, 1885, but was prevented by adverse
legislation. Fitzsimmons was arrested Oct
81 and Corbett surrendered himself the
next day.
Which is most valuable the cotton or egg
crop of the United States?-W. M. E.
Statistics of the American hens industry
are not very complete, but to equal the cot
ton crop of 1896 the then CROP would need
/ to be in the neighborhood of twenty-one
hundred million dozens of eggs.
Where was VIII Carleton born, when did
ne begin to write, and where does he live
now?-C. H. F.
Will Carleton was born in Hudson, Lena
wee county, Michigan, Oct 81, 1916;
graduated at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale,
Mich, in 1865; began to lecture soon after
wards and in 1871 published his first vol
ume of poems He had begun to write
while in college. He lives in Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Where was the birthplace of the great
Edmund Burke? Has he descendants in this
country? If so, where do they reside, and
was he in any way identified with America
or its interests ?-Reader.
Edmund Burke was born in Dublin Both
of his sons died before he did, without de-
scendants. He left no lineal descendants
so there are none in this country. Burke
was friend of America, and opposed the
war as unnecessary and the ministerial
policy as impracticable. He died July Z, 1897
When was the last war between Austria
and Italy? 2. What was the name of the
last great naval combat between the said
nations? 3. Were not the Italian ships in
great part irOnclad, while the Austrian Ves-
seis were of wood?-Canuck.
In 1866; it is known as the six weeks war,
and lasted from June IS to Aug g. q The
battle of LISA, near Venice, on July 90
1866 3. The Italian fleet numbered eleven
ironclads and eleven wooden vessels the
Austrians had seven ironclads, seven heavy
sells.
Which represents the largest amount OF
capital, agriculture or manufacturing, and
what amount of manufacturing do iron and
steel represent?-Old Subscriber.
Agriculture, by two to one. Farm land
and buildings in 1850 represented value Of
$13,279, 252, 649; the implements were nearly
$500, 900, 600; the live stock more than $780,
100000. The capital employed in manufac-
turing was more than $4,000, 900 900. In 1893
the iron ore produced in the United States
represented about $2O,OOO,OOO in value, the
pig iron about $95,OOO,OOO and the steel about
$12O, OOO, Co.,
Will you give some facts about pyro-elec-
tricity of minerals and the faculty of some
minerals possessed of electricity by heat,
vective discharge? Also name me the ' LIQUIDS Tf
possessed with this electric heat.-P. Y. r.
Pyro-electricity is electricity developed in
some crystalline bodies by unequally heat
ing or cooling them. Tourmaline, in a
crystalline state, possesses this property in
a marked degree. Other bodies having it
are silicate of zinc, boracite, quartz, tar
trate of potash, sulphate of quinine, topaz,
prehnite, scolezite axenite, cane sugar and
sodium ammonium racemate. No liquids
are possessed of this property We do not
lyF1fNV hot
Our historians speak of Mary Chiffon as
the the, flrst young girl who landed at Plymouth
lating to her? Why is Roam or Book Pla-
teau (Utah) so mandolin. w.
The book of the Mayflower descendants
for 1896 says of Mary Chiffon that she was
No. So of the Mayfower's passengers mar
ried John Winslow brother of Governor
Edward Winslow, and died in 1879, leaving
children. The honor of being the first per-
son to set foot on Plymouth Rock is claimed
for her and for John Alden. 2. Roam noun
tains Tor plateau) probably got their name
from their color, as SO many other noun
tains in Utah did; why they are called also
Book mountains we do not know.
What is the salary of the mayor of Great
er New York to be? 2. What was the ma
ture OF the Crittenden compromise ?-B. 0. c.
to have salary of $1,000 a year. 2. A
proposal made by Senator Crittenden, of
Kentucky, in 1850, to divide the Territories
between the slave States and the free
States on the line Of the Missouri compro-
mise. 1t would have amended the Consti-
tuition, have abolished slavery north of lat
itude 36 degrees so minutes, south of that
line would have protected it, would have
retained slavery in the District OF Column
bia, in United States forts, protected the
interstate slave trade, the United States to
pay the owner the full value of slaves res
cued by violence, etc. This compromise
failed in the House Jan. IA, 1861 $50 to 113),
in the Senate March Q9 to 20)
How did the superstition of Friday being
an unlucky day originate? 2. Isn't it a fact
that history does not support same? g. On
what days of the week were the following
battles fought Gettysburg, Spottsylvania.
Wilderness, Antietam, Waterloo?-T. L.
1t is not certain. Probably the crucifixion
of Christ on Friday had something to do
with it; but it is said that the Romans. the
ancient Scandinavians and the Hindus have
the same belief, so it would seem that the
Christian origin is but a suggested expla-
nation for a superstition thar can't ha ex