The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-08
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

What was the negro population In the
United States in 1S90?-R. l..
There were returned 7,47O040 persons of
African descent.
TO whom in New Orleans should write
TO find unclaimed money or estate?-M. NJ.
TO some reputable lawyer. Your local
lawyer can name some one in New Orleans,
probably
What were the best running records made
by Ten Broeck?-M. M.
Ten Brock holds two highest records,
which should be considered his best per-
formances. They are two miles in S:271z,
and two and hve-eighths miles. 4:5S1z.
Please tell me where or to whom to write
70 to have test made CT some soft rock in
which think there is some valuable paint.
"A Subscriber.
son. but advise you to go to the nearest
analytical chemist, who will assay it for
you
prevent sunburn? l have been exposed to
the sun for years. but whenever it strikes
me my skin peels.-J. e.
We think that you cannot help yourself,
but consult skin specialist-a "dermatolo-
gist' he calls himself nowadays.
How many Southern States have laws
that disfranchise part of the adult male
population? What are the laws of each
State?-L. B.
Every one Of them-every one in the
Union, kar that matter. Idiots, insane per-
sens. felons and paupers are generally ex-
cluded. We haven't space to give regula-
tons Of each State,
How large a navy have the United States
TO date?-E L. A.
Our lighting strength includes four first
class battle ships, one second-class battle
ship. two armored cruisers, thirteen pro-
tected cruisers, six monitors of modern con-
struction, one ram and one dynamite
cruiser. Besides these are torpedo craft
unprotected cruisers and gunboats galore.
According to the best parliamentary
usages does nomination in regular order
require a second before being voted on?
%. II. n.
The manuals Of parliamentary practice do
not say. In strict parliamentary bodies
there are practically no nominations. In
political conventions nomination is sec
Onded, not because it # necessary, but to
allow some person to talk.
How long does a man have to reside in
Rhode Island before he can apply for a di-
vorce for desertion?-No Name
He must live there for one year. He may
then get a divorce for desertion that has
continued for five years, or if the desertion
period, at the discretion of the court.
Please give a remedy that will destroy lice
on watermelon vines?-J. e. c.
One of the best remedies is the use of to-
bacco dust in and on the hills. The tobacco
is a fertilizer as well as an insecticide In
small garden cut barrel hoops in two,
stick the ends in the ground over the vine
and stretch mosquito netting over It, fast
ening the edges of the netting well down
and covering them with earth. Bags sat-
urated with turpentine scattered about the
vines are said to keep these insects away.
2 What country has the largest war vessel,
and what is its name.-Constant.
According TO the official Navy Register
they are the Indiana, the Iowa, the Mas
sachusetts and the Oregon. 2 The Italian
vessels Italia and Lepanto are the largest
war vessels, but the British vessels Males
tic. Magnificent, Mars, though not so large,
are much more powerful, and practically
are the largest war vessels afloat. They are
of 1900 tons displacement with engines of
1900 horse power, and they carry four
twelve-inch and twelve six-inch guns in
their principal battery.
Can the President of the United States.
under any circumstances, declare war with
out first calling Congress together? Or can
he resent any insult from a foreign mower
by engaging the army and navy without
IL NJ
There are two separate questions here
though you have united them in one In
the first place the President cannot declare
war without the consent of Congress. (See
Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph
III But an insult might be an act of war.
in which case it would be his duty, not to
declare war, but to defend the country. OF
course when another country begins the
war the President does not require the con-
sent of Congress to protect the United
States.
VIII you please give q short sketch of
name or just a nom de plume? 2 Also, was
the poem 'Locksley Hall" by Tennyson,
and Mary Chaworth?-A Subscriber
Sara Jane Clarke was born at Pompey,
N. Y, in 1895. She was educated at
Rochester, N. Y, and began to teach. She
published poems when very young In 1853
she married Leander K. Lippincott of Phil
adelphia, one Of the family of publishers
She took her nom de plume from volume
of sketches and letters issued in 1s49 en-
titled Greenwood Leaves" Since her mar
rage she has lived chiefly in Philadelphia
2. We think not. The recent life of Tenny-
son does not say that it was.
Where did DIR. Alexander Campbell die?
How old was he? Did he set up any church
or was the work to establish primitive
Christianity? Isn't he considered by honest
historians one of the wisest men that lived
in his day? Was he not the ablest debater
or the principles of Christianity that the
world has ever known?-L N Q.
Or. Campbell died in Bethany W. Va,
March 4. 1856 He was then about eighty
years old. His father Thomas Campbell,
began and he pushed to success the Church
or Christ, Campbellite church. He is
described as having many of the qualities
OF & reformer. and among them personal en-
eTgy and pugnRcity." and as a man OF noble
presence highly endowed as an orator of
vigorous thought and fluent, energetic
speech.
Where Is the longest wire rome tran1wav
~ the world. and how long is itY What ala
~ COST Lnlnr What fenf Is 1870 -.