The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-19

dent; William Brown, vice president;
Samuel Jones, secretary; and Thomas Gray
treasurer" The best usage calls for the
| seni-colon. as the break is quite as decided
in one case as the other. The general rule
for the use of the semi-colon is that it is to
be placed after each clause in a sentence
where the clauses, or some of them, contain
commas; also. where the break in the sense
is too decided for the comma This would
frequently make it precede a conjunction
VIII you kindly state the English pronun-
citation of the novel QUO Vadis?" Also,
the reason for so naming the work. 2. Was
united States by act Of Congress- or was it
| SIMPLY adopted by the religious bodies of
the United States? DO not the people in
! general consider The Star-spangled Ban
ner" as the real national song Patriot.
!. Quo Vahdis. The meaning of the
phrase is whittier goest thou?' and is a
question supposed to be presented by the
| incidents of the story. 3 There has been
no formal, official adoption of any song as
the national song. 1t is simply a matter Of
usage, some giving the preference to
America some to THE Star-spangled
Banner" and some doubtless to "Hai Co
lumbia" or Yankee Doodle"
Please tell me something of Lord Kitch-
ener.-G. S. d.
Horatio Herbert Kitchener was eldest son
of Lieut.. Col H. H. Kitchener and was
born in 1850. He was educated at the Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich, joined the
Royal Engineers and was employed for
some time in and after 1874 on the Palestine
and Cyprus surveys. He served having
volunteered as major of cavalry, in the
Egyptian army in 1892 with the Nile expe-
dition in 1884, and became Governor of Sua-
kin in 1885, For his bravery at HANDFUL in
1883, when he led the Egyptian troops
against Osman Digna, he was made aid-de-
camp to the Queen and in the subsequent
lighting he was mentioned in dispatches and
made c. B. From 1888 to 1892 he held the
rank of adjutant general in the Egyptian
army, and in the latter year was appointed
A. ID. c. to the Queen. After the taking of
Dongola in 1896 he was made K. c. B., and
subsequently organized the final irresistible
advance against the khalifa, which resulted
in his utter defeat. For this he was award
ed peerage as Baron Kitchener of Khar-
tum ana OF Aspall, in the county of Suffolk.
What is the price of aluminium? .. How
IS the ore or clay treated? And where in
the the United !! States do they treat the 0r9F
About 40 cents a pound. 2. Clay is not
used, beauxite and cryolite being more cas-
lily worked. The Hall process consists in
e.ectrolyzing alumina dissolved in a fused
mixture of fiuorides of alumina and sodium
or OF tuorides of illuminated potassium. The
mixture of fiuoride salts is placed in carbon
lined iron tanks. The pots, their Innings
and the reduced metal in the bottoms be-
come negative electrodes. The anodes are a
series of three-inch carboy cylinders at
tached to copper conductors. The mixture
is melted by heat due to it's resistance to
the current, and alumina is added Then
the resistance is reduced and electrolysis
begins. The metal accumulates at the bot
tom of the pot and may be drawn off, so the
pots can be run continuously for months at
time. Among others, there are large re-
duction works at Pittsburg, Pa, and at
Brooklyn, N. Y, there is a concern that ex-
tracts the metal from the beauXite that is
imported from Ireland
How can I give a hard finish to pine
wood! 2 Please give a sketch of Charles
Reade's life.-Read.
Here is q method that is recommended for
treating soft woods: To as much yellow
ochre as your hand will hold add half
teaspoonful of Venetian red, mixing rather
thinner than paint with glue size. Let the
mixture simmer in a pan. keeping it well
stirred. Apply with brush. and when dry
run it over with fine sandpaper and polish
with French polish, or with turpentine and
beeswax. For a deeper color, use more of
the red. ?. Charles Reade was born at Fps
den. Oxfordshire, England, in 1884, grad
uated at Magdalen College Oxford, 1885;
was elected to Vinerian fellowship at Ok
ford, 1872; was called TO the bar at Lin
coins Inn in 1S43 and in 1852 published
Peg Wellington" This work once made
his reputation, and many other novels fol-
lowed, most of them being eventually
dramatized by himself or by Dion Bouci-
cault. He also wrote several plays indie
pendently from his books. He gained some
note, too, for lawsuits upon the rights of
authors and the limits of permissible liter
airy criticism, and was a vigorous advocate
of international copyright. He died in Lon
don, April II, 1884.