The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-24

use iron pontoons and sometimes even rub
Der pontoons, but wooden ones are preferred
STILL They can be repaired more easily than
the others and are not so liable to damage
Please state the number killed on both
sides in the battle of Gettysburg.-J. S. d.
The Union losses were $780, of which
1884 were killed, 1918 wounded and 6649
missing. There was never an official report
of Confederate losses, but they were esti-
mated at 36,000-about 5000 killed, 900
wounded and 5000 prisoners.
What were the original names of the
cruisers Harvard and Yale? Who are their
commanders? Have the names of the ST.
Paul and ST. Louis been changed Want
TO Know.
The Harvard was the New York, the Yale
the Paris. They are commanded respec-
lively by Captain c. S. Cotton and Captain
W. C. Wise. The names of the st. Paul
and the ST. Louis have not been changed.
Does the Indiana experiment station
publish anything concerning its work, such
as an annual agricultural report and bulle-
tins that would be of Importance to farm
ers? If so, how can get these publications?
-Inquisitive.
The experiment station at Purdue Uni
versity issues many bulletins and other pub
locations durirg the year for the use of
farmers, to whom they sent, free of
cost, on application. Send your name and
address to c. S. Plumb, superintendent agri-
cultural department, Purdue University,
Lafayette, Ind.
How maay ships constitute a feet?-J.
c. B.
There is no fixed number. 1t has been
said that a fleet required twelve battle
ships, and that Admiral Sampson did not
command fleet because he did not have
twelve line of battle ships. That is ridicu-
lous. A fleet may consist of any number of
vessels, though two vessels commanded in
dependently are generally called a squadron
ard form a commodores command. Proper
ly, fleet is any number of vessels COM
manded by an admiral. Simpsons command
is a fleet; it is divided into three squad
rons, commanded by commodores.
J. NJ NJ: The monitor Puritan cost 49,
17S,046; our biggest battle ships cost over
100000 each. j. P. W.: The life of Uncle
Sans biggest guns is unknown, because
none has become worn out. 1t is known,
however, that they will outlive anything
made in Europe. Wear shows in two ways;
in the destruction of the bore's rif1ing and
in the disarrangement of the various layers
of which the gun is composed. Their pro-
jectiles are thirteen inches in diameter,
weigh 1,100 pounds, the powder charge is
500 pounds and the limit of range is six
miles afioat and ten miles on land.
Why did the Senate take action on the
application of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris
again to become a citizen of the United
States? What benefit will she derive by be-
ing a clt1zen?-A Reader
Mrs. Sartoris wanted it to- She wanted
0if 90 tho =
her father had been President. Probably her
return to citizenship will avoid legal COM
plications after Mrs. Grants death. and 1t
certainly allows the appointment of her son
to commission in the volunteer army.
which could not have been made If he and
his mother had remained British subjects.
Would man born in Canada. who came
70 the United States after he was twenty
one years old, and who had served in the
United states navy five years be a legal
voter without taking out papers? Would it
m 1S any difference If he has been allowed
70 vote for several years? Would his serv-
ice in the navy make any difference in the
Tune 1t would take to get his papers? If he
is not a voter and is challenged, claims the
right to vote and is allowed to- what would
De the legal way to stop. his vote being
counted?-F. A. j.
He would not. 2. 1t should not. g. No:
sailors have no short cut to naturalization.
as soldiers have. A. His vote must be count
ed that time. but then he can be indicted
for perjury, and, if convicted, can be SEN
fenced to state prison. Then he will lose
bis vote forever.
Please give information concerning tho
Five Dials'' of London, England and the
fortune said to be connected with it? 3, Are
there legal documents on file that would
give the reader or the inscription possession
OF the fortune? 3. Who could / write TO
concerning them?- A. r.
There is no Five Dials in London. though
there was a Five Points in New York. In
London there are the Seven Dials. We never
heard of any fortune connected with the
place 2 We do not believe so. In fact
we think that the whole story of a fortune
awaiting some one in the Five or the Seven
Dials of London is just an attempt to swim
die people There are several similar stories
some about great fortunes in this country
others about fortunes in England. but all
are fakes. 8. We do not know; we should
advise you to go to the person who told YOU
about it,
Is there now. or has there been in twenty
years, any United States public land in
Texas? 2. Have physicians to any extent
adopted the nonalcoholic treatment of dis
ease? .. Has It not been proven that al
cohol can be dispensed with to advantages
IN cases where it was once thought to be
absolutely necessary?-Progress.
There seems to be none now and we
think that for twenty years the only public
land in Texas has been state land. Just
about nineteen years ago an official return
from the state treasurer showed that the
State had 12,900,O00 acres of common school
land, 10000 acres of university land 4O7. 600
acres of asylum land, 3,O5O,O0O of State Capt.
tol landSand several million acres of public
debt reserve lands but there were no
United States lands. g. We think not 8. In
some cases, yes; but not in ALL The use
of alcohol in sickness depends on the dis
cases.
Your answer to our question as to the
time here when Dewey fought the battle of
Manila is questioned by educators. They
say. the Philippines are just inside the ac-
tual dividing line, and are therefore west
and not east, of us. Please go over the
matter again. stating what parallel the
agreed international line is on and how
Manila is situated with reference TO ii
w. c. 3.
Our answer was right. When the inter-
national date line was first plotted and
agreed to it ran very erratic course and
the Philippines were between it and the
United States, so that they We're. indeed
west of us. But the line was Strengthened
afterward; it begins in the Boring straits
and goes west of the Aleutian islands. then
it runs east to longitude $50 degrees. and
keeps to that to the south pole. This places
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