The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-12
March "a, 1884. He died at New Brighton,
N. Y. Jan. 10, 1889. We do not know what

According to the Constitution of the United
States can a man be elected to Congress
from a congressional district of which he is
not resident? 2. Can a man be elected to
any county office in a county of which he is
not resident?
/. The Constitution specifies that a repre-
sentative to Congress must be resident of
the State from which he is elected, but does
not limit him to the district. q Not in Indi-
ana.
In the scathing philippe pronounced by
john Randolph, Of Roanoke. seyenty-two
the duel between himself and Henry CLAW.
Randolph compared Adams and Clay to the
characters of Blifil and Black George, add
ing, Il shall not say which is Blifl and
which is Black George" Please describe
these characteristic.
Blfil is character in Henry Fielding's
novel of tom JONES' He is one of the
villains of the story. a hypocritical cox
comb of "pinchbeck professions and
vamped-up virtue" Black George is an
other villain in the same story. He is a
gamekeeper who sells the game he is paid
to keep and displays great ingratitude to
Tom Jones, who has been his patron and
benefactor. Probably Adams was Blifil and
Clay was Black George.
How do the electors of the different
states cast their votes for President? 2.
Has it ever occurred in the history of the
united states that an elector, having been
elected as a Democrat. voted for q Repub-
hcan for President, or the reverse?-E: L.
Under the twelfth amendment to the Con-
stitution, the electors meet in their respec-
tive States and vote by ballot for Presi-
dent and Vice President separately The
amendment referred to gives the full law
for the proceedings. 2. In 1892 one elector on
the Peoples party ticket in North Dakota
elected as a Populist voted for Cleveland,
and SO the votes of that State were cast one
for each candidate. After the election of
1920, one elector voted for John Quincy
Adams to prevent Monroe from getting
unanimous election; he said that only Wash
ington should have such ali election.
Who was the founder of the Baptist
Church and when was 1t founded?-Sub-
scriber.
Most Baptist historians refer the begin
ming of the Baptist Church to the times of
the apostles and say that the early Chris
tian church was Baptist in it's organization
and manner of worship. Others and all nom
Baptist historians refer the beginning of
the church to about 1920, when the Ana
baptiSts first came into prominence The
leader of the AnabaptistS was Thomas
Muenzer, the Lutheran pastor of Zwickau.
Johann Bockhold, afterwards known as
John of Leyden, was another leader. The
AnabaptistS were prosecuted and extermi-
mated. Afterwards the Baptists, who, except
in the matter of adult baptism, had nothing
in common with the Anabaptists, grew up
in England especially always as heretics
from the state church. In 1911 church was
formed in Amsterdam, composed of English
Baptists So it is impossible to say his
torically when the church was formed or by
whom. Historically, it seems to have had
beginning so far under legal cloud that
no records of it are attainable, and conse-
quently not to have come into notice until
it had got beyond Its beginning
G. C. F.: The regiments of mmunes are
for recruits who could reasonably be ex-
pected to keep from infectious diseases, not
for boys and men outside the enlistment
age limit. L. H. w. and others: The YES
sells of our navy that carry thirteen-inch
guns are the battle ships Indiana Massa-
chusetts and Oregon. Other battle ships
that will carry such guns are building The
single-turret monitors that date from the
civil war carry ifteen-inch cannon, but they
are smooth bores and of little use against
modern heavy armor plates. ]. G. D.: The
most formidable boats of our navy are the
three battle ships named in the preceding
answer. They are of the same weight and
same armament. CHI: A bullets trajec-
tory is the path it describes, and it is
curved in case of long shot, but for one
hundred yards, as in your example, would
be as straight a. line as you could draw
with a ruler. w. T. H: The BARRIERS
striped pole originally signified that the
barber also bled folks surgically, the white
winding stripes standing for bandages. An
undertaken is so called because he under
takes to take charge of funerals. The
figure of an Indian in front of cigar store
may have once signifed that Indians
brought tobacco to the white mems notice
Three gilt balls were, five hundred years
ago. six gilt pills in the coat of arms of a
Florentine physician named Medici. He
went into the banking business, taking his
coat of arms as his sign. In those days
banking included pawnbroking. In time
bankers had no distinctive sign and three of
the gilt pills were held to by pawnbrokers.
Please give a receipt for canning corn O.
Give brief history of Homer, Socrates and
Confucius.-W. r.
Canning in tin is rather a delicate opera
ton; you can can in glass jars just as you
preserve fruits. Dissolve one ounce tartaric
acid in teacup of water. Put one table,
of sweet corn. cut from the cob cook the
corn as usual, and when boiling hot, fill
the can or jar: place the jars in boiler of
water, and when the contents Of the Jars
are boiling, screw on the covers. 2 It is a
question if there ever was a person called
Homer; but here is the accepted biography
of Homer" whoever he was; a native of
the Isle of Chios, blind, lived about $50
years before Christ. His works are: The
Odyssey and the "Ilad" and other poems
are attributed to him. Confucius is the
Angllcized form of the Chinese K'ung Futse
The Chinese sage Of that name was born B.
c. $50; he married at nineteen, in B. c.. 49S
became chief magistrate Of city, and then
minister of crime in the state of Lu. He
had long been teacher. and had about four
thousand professed disciples. He left Lu
b. c. 494 and travelled for many years, not
returning there until 4S3, where his son
died the next year. Finally, in the seventy
third year of his age, B. c. ATS, he himself
died. He was the great teacher of the Chinese,
but laid no claim to divine revelations diff
fering in that fact from most, If not all,
other spiritual leaders. Socrates, the Greek
philosopher, was born in Athens between
All and 469 B. c., served in the army, and
He resisted the bosses" of his time called
the Thirty, in 404 and was forbidden by a
law that they passed to teach the art of
argument" He offended them so much that
in 800 an accusation of offending against