The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

virtuoso. Her large compositions include
ballet music aSd lyric symphony, but
she is best known for her many songs.
The most marked characteristic of her
compositions is her independence of the
canons of her art. This is likely at first
&c make the student credit her with positive
genius, an impression that rarely holds
long. She engages yearly in concert tours
of Europe, and several times has talked of
coming to this country.
What method do tanners use for remov-
ing hair from hides? 2. Is Russia leather
of Russian manufacturers. d.
There are two processes. By one the
hides are hung in moist and very warm
closed room until the hair is so loosened
at the roots that it can be removed with
a knife or by machinery In the other
the hides are raised and plunged at inter-
walls of a day or two in milk OF lime, the
entire process taking about a week. 2.
Nowadays ii is made here. Formerly it
was of Russian make, and the demand
was greater than the importation. Our
Minister to Russia in 1873, Marshall Jewell,
was a tanner. He discovered the process
by which 1T was made, and it is now ex-
tensively manufactured here.
Please give a history of Fontanebleau.
France, NapoleonS neadQuarterS.-W.
II. s.
The town of Fontainebleau, which is sit
uated on the Seine, about thirty-five miles
from Paris, is celebrated chiefly for its
chateau, or pleasure palace of the Kings
of France, and the forest that surrounds
it. The forest covers an extent of sixty
four square miles and presents much fine
scenery. The chateau is said to have been
founded by Robert the Pious toward the
end of the tenth century. 1t was rebuilt
in the twelfth century by Louis VII and
was enlarged by Louis TX and his sue
cessors Almost every king has added
something to its establishment Under
Louis XIV 1t was occupied by Nine. de
Montespan and under Louis XIV by Du
Barry. Pope Plus VII was detained there
as prisoner for two years by Napoleon.
Many state transactions and treaties are
dated from Fontainebleau, among them the
act of abdication of Napoleon in 1874 The
history of the place cannot be told in a
paragraph.
BY whom built, what is the cost and
vate mausoleum in the United States? 2
What was the population of the United
States in 1890 and what part lived in towns
and cities of 1000 population and over?
What is the population in 1900 and what
part lives in towns and cities of 1000 pop
ulation and over?-W. III. c., Noblesville.
The family mausoleum built after the
death of his son few years ago by John
w. Mackay in Greenwood Cemetery. New
York city, and on which he is said to have
expended 100000, is probably the most cost
ly private structure of the kind in this
country. The plans for this monument, by
the way, were drawn by an Indianapolis
man. A $500, 900 monument is to be
erected in Woodlawn Cemetery, Philadel-
phia, in memory of DR.. Evans, the famous
American dentist, who made a great tor
tune by the practice of his profession in
Paris. 1t will be constructed after the
pattern of the Grant tomb at Riverside
but will not be nearly so large. The Grant
tomb. WHICH was built with public funds
cost $500, 900. 2. The population of the United
States in 1900 was 5.3OS, 4S3. We have not
access to any statistics showing. the di-
visions of population at that time. The
total population of the United States In
1900 is 1926, go. The census fluctuations
have not yet covered the divisions you