The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-27

| Chinaman believes that a tudiciously
chosen burial place viii bring wealth and
distinction to the posterity OF the person
buried. and ne often defers burial for
months while he searches for lucky
spot. Making lines OF railroads or tele-
graphs, or opening mines changes the as
pect of many such sites. In his belief
hence his opposition.
| II a couple Is married I'm church and wish
| TO receive at their new home. how should
| the reception cards read? Are they issued
| in the name OF the brides parents just as
though ii were to be at their own homes
| -B. b.
/ A separate card for the reception can be
enclosed with the invitation to the cere-
mony and need contain no names. A we'll
established stationer is good authority on
these matters, and 1t is well to leave them
| with him.
| What income Is the government receiving
| from the war tax, and what articles con-
tribute large portions of it?-A- s. c.
These revenues bring in little over a
hundred million dollars a year. OF this,
fermented liquors pay a little over 80 per
cent. chewing and smoking tobaccos about
Is per cent, cigars and cigarettes over
per cent. and bankers over 3A per cent.
| Schedule A, including telephone and tele-
| graph messages, express receipts and doc
uments generally. brings over third of
| all the receipts, and the assessment on
| proprietary articles accounts for nearly
per cent.
Please give the population OF Indiana
taken by the last census. 2. Can you give
me the number of births and deaths in In
diana from Jan. i, 1880, to April j, 1900? 3.
| If person wants TO put money in govern
ment bonds, TO whom must they apply? 4.
| Can any one put less than 1000 in govern
ment bonds. and what is the rate Of inter-
| est paid?-Reader.
Indiana's population in 1890 was 2,1S9 03O.
! 2. This record is now kept by the State
| Board of Health. but goes back only year
| or two. 3. To any bank. 4. Fifty dollars
is the lowest denomination in bonds. All
bonds are now selling at premium. The
| rate of interest varies from per cent. to
and 311
Please inform me the name of the pre-
! siding officer of the Sons of the Revolution
and OF the Sons of Colonial Times.-E. B.
| The president of the Indiana Society Of
| the Sons of the Revolution is Mr.. Jesse c.
| Harrington. Indianapolis. President Of the
| Indiana Society of the Sons of the Ameri-
| can Revolution is Captain William e Eng
| lish, indianapolis There Is a Society of
the Colonial Wars" with no branch in In
diana, however, but we do not know of such
Times" The governor general of the So
city of Colonial Wars is Frederick j. De
Peyster, New York city.
What is meant by a bonded warehouse,
and TO what use are such put?-I. d.
A storehouse in which are put dutiable
goods whose owner gives bond that ensure
the payment of the duties within a credit
period provided by law. He may then sell
the goods and pay duty practically as he
sells them. Meanwhile the warehouse
though it may be of private ownership, is
under governmental supervision. An i'm
porter or manufacturer may thus at his
best convenience get goods ready for sale
and have them at hand, without being put
Immediately to the investment of capital
involved in paying duties or internal rev.
enues.
What limits do writer's give to the So
called Middle Ages?-Seer.
Authors do not agree on this point. The
beginning is usually taken as the over
throw of the West Roman Empire in 47e
but the battle of scissors, 4S6, the Access
sion of Charlemagne. 76S, and the dis
solution of the Frankish empire, s43, have
each some adherents. Then the modern
epoch is considered to have commenced
with the fall of Constantinople, 1885, the
invention of printing, about 1850; the dis
covery of America, the crisis of the Ref
ormation, 1917 to 1920 and few writers
put it as late as the Westphalen peace,
164s.
How do millers cleanse low grades Of
wheat of foreign substances?-T. p. A
The two chief processes are sitting and
exposing thin cascade of the grain to an
air blast. Substances that cling to the
grain, such as dust, smut and rust,
are removed in perforated cylin-
der in which revolves brushes, the dust
passing through the holes. By pouring the
grain down an inclined plane the round
seeds are separated because of the superior
velocity they acquire in rolling. compared
with that of long grains that slide. BY
such operations good wheat can be secured
from grain of which not more than half is
fit for making flour.
Is Joshua Giddngs to be classed as an
Abolitionist? 2. Did he oppose the annexa-
ton of Texas? 3. What finally became Of
him Free Soil.
Not in the strict sense of the word but
he held that slavery was a serious evil,
that Congress had no right to protect 1t in
the States, nor to permit it in the District
of Columbia and the Territories. He also
opposed the return by free States or gen.
eral government Of fugitive slaves, and
held that Congress should break up the
coastwise slave trade. 2 He did, zealously.
8. After twenty-one years in Congress,
some of his experience there highly tumul-
tuous. he was made. in 1861, consul general
to British North America, and died in
Montreal, in 1864.
When Ray Ewry made his record I'm the
standing broad jump Of eleven feet one-half
inch, last season, was ii measured from
toe line to heel mark or from heel to heel?
Should distances on the running broad
jump be measured from toe to heel? 2 Was
Michael Sweeny's worlds record on the
running high jump of six feet five and one
half inches made with or without
weights?-C. M.
The take-off for the running broad Jump
is from a joist five inches wide flush with
ha eli ipo in