The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-24

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citizens. Married men ara accepted only
on the approval of the regimental comrnan-
der. The height for infantry and artillery
must be not less than five feet four
inches. weigh not less than 40 pounds,
nor more than 1so pounds. For the cavalry
arm the height must not be less than five
feet four inches. nor more than five feet
ten inches, and the weight must not ex-
coed 165 pounds.
viii every person that died between the
1st of June and the LIST of July be counted
by the census enumerator the same as If
note and A loses will he have TO pay the
costs? 3. If a person puts money in a bank
for one year and gives the bank the privi-
lege of loaning IL can he draw ii out before
the end of the year?-Reader-
1. No; only the persons living on the 1st
day of June belong to the enumeration. 2.
Yes, unless the court makes a special rul-
ing to the contrary. 3. A banker has the
privilege of loaning any deposit without
| special permission. What might be done in
the case of a special deposit would depend
entirely on the terms of the contract. In
such a case as you mention the money
could probably not be drawn out.
WndL Is InOmdS a EDISON , latest III
vention? Please give a sketch of him.. b..
The latest TO nave newspaper exploita-
ton is a new method for separating gold
from sand. 1t is now being tried In the
West, the nature of the processes being
kept secret. Edison was born at Milan, o.,
Feb. IL, 1s47. His first employment was
as a train boy. Soon he learned printing,
and edited and printed a small paper in
<Ha ~ o. ra ~ hie train II uroS affar
he became a telegraph operator that he
began his remarkable series of inventions
He now has at West Orange, N. j., an i'm
mense establishment, with a corps of
skilled Investigators, and here invention is
remarkably systematized.
BY what method are lead shot made?-N.
H. o.
They are made in tall towers. The molten
metal is run through ~collanders. dropping
| from 100 to $50 feet in water. The length
of the fall effects spherical shape and
| cools the shot so that it's form Is pre-
| served when 1t strikes the water. In an
| other method the fall is lessened by using
a tube through which is forced a strong
| upward air current. The shot are rolled
down an inclined plane to sort out mis-
| shapen ones, and are then revolved in
| cylinders with powdered graphite until pol
ished. To the lead melted is added
about 1 per cent. of arsenic, which results
in great ductility and softness.
What was the origin Of the Phoenician
alphabet? 2. What was the original Ian
guage Of man on the earth?
This is a question over which few scien-
lists theorize. and they do not agree. The
Phoenicians showed but little originality
in their culture and few believe that they
invented an alphabet. An older form of it
than that borne by the famous Moabite
stone has been discovered, and the claim
has been made that 1t had source in the
hieroglyphs Of Egypt. 2. Philologists hold
that language was not mans gift, his fac
ulty or natural capacity, but rather was
an accumulated acquisition. So the original
language was of the crudest and naturally
is nameless.
Will you kindly give a remedy for the
so-called buffalo moth, or carpet beetle?
Do they attack fur and cotton goods?
"A q. 3.
These pests usually make their abiding
place and lay their eggs along the edge
of carpets, and 1t is said that the best
way to destroy them is to lay two or three
thicknesses Of wet cloth on the carpet end
iron them down with hot fiat irons, the
heat thus generated killing the insects.
1t is also recommended by good authorities
to brush the bare floor with a strong So
luton Of corrosive sublimate. This is very
poisonous and must be handled with care.
Upholstered furniture and wooden CLOTH
ing may be saturated with gasoline. They
do not. we believe, attack cotton goods,
but furs would hardly be safe from them.
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Can you tell me- something OF the COM
munity established about fifty years ago
by George Ripley?-S. A. C.
This was Brook farm, described as an ex-
pertinent in plain living and high thinking.
The farm of 200 acres was ten miles from
Boston. and agriculture and several trades
were carried on. Nathanial Hawthorne,
Charles A. Dana and John S. Dwight were
some of the $50 associates with Ripley, and
among the sympathizers were Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, Bronson
Alcott, w. H. Charming and Maragret Full
Ter. The kitchen and table were common,
and so little help was hired that philoso-
piers and poets performed the lowliest
tasks that farming offers. The experiment
lasted from 1s41 to 1S47, and ended in fnan-
cial failure. Lives of Ripley and of Mar
garet Fuller give accounts Of the COM
munity.
Did the earliest known Indians of this
country sibsist entirely on game? Did they
not till the soil to some extent?-B. s.
The Indian diet varied much with diff
ferent tribes, but with the exception of
those occupying the prairies and the ex-
treme north, whose chief dependence was
hunting, it was rather extensive. The
Menominis took their name from the wild
rice they ate freely. The Hurons and
others cultivated the sunfiower for its
seeds. Maple sugar was an extensive In
dian product all along the Ohio valley and
the St. Lawrence and Great Lake regions,
the white settlers learned from the Indians
the process of securing it. Along the sea-
shore fish, CLAIMS and oysters were taken
in abundance. Wild fruits were eaten in
various ways. Southern tribes ate several
herbs as green's, n boiled or roasted
marsh bulbs. East of the Mississippi in
the South, beans, squashes and corn were
staples. and along the gulf a corn mortar
stood before every habitation. Warriors
of that territory always carried a pouch of