The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-17

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Il per cent. are narrow guage and IL per
cent. broad guage.
Are there fishes which give an electric
shock 20 overcome fish they mean to eat?
2 When does the ST. Louis Worlds Fair
come and how long is it TO last?-W- f. NJ.
Not so far as known; many fishes can
give shocks. but IL is believed they do so
merely as a matter OF protection. 2 The
plan is to have it last for six months. be-
ginning in the spring of 1903.
Since the Spanish war. are the Bay 3
lands. off the east coast of Spanish Hon
duras. American or Spanish?-G r. Is.
Spanish Honduras is a republic and has
not been a Spanish possession since 1871.
1t includes the Bay islands, for. though
Great Britain seized them IN 1854. they were
restored two years later because of the pro-
test OF the United States; so the recent war
with Spain did not affect their title.
BY whom are teachers employed for the
schools of Porto Rico? What salaries are
paid and what inducements, if any, are
offered for experienced teachers? How
would one go about getting a position
there? 2. Is there an English translation
of the German fairy story called The
Star Dollar?'-J. b. b.
NAAN0 " ~ L. AAAC
education. San Juan. Porto Rico, for in
formation concerning the schools. 2. We do
not know the story. 1t would be traced
more easily if name Of author was given.
What is the composition of hard rubber.
and what the process of its manufac-
ture?-D.
1t is made of rubber and sulphur in about
two parts of the former to one of the lat
ter, a little litharge being added for the
black product, vermilion for the red. When
made into the desired shapes it is heated to
about 800 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour or
two. If a polished surface is desired, the
articles are covered before heating with
tin foil, which a%fterward is stripped off.
What is calamine? .. What are to be the
speed, cost and guns of the battleship Hi
nOis? 3. What is the nickname of the
State of Illinois ?.J. Nick.
A native carbonate of zinc containing as
high as so per cent. of the metal and oc-
curing a~bundantly; or a silicate of zinc
some mineralogists applying the name TO
the latter and calling the former Smith
sonite. 2. Sixteen knots, $2,595.NO; four
thirteen-inch and fourteen six-inch guns for
the main battery, and for the second bat
terry sixteen ~six-pounders, six o~ne-pounders,
four Colts and two three-inch field pieces.
3 The Sucker State.
When did Alexander II. Stuart die? 2. Is
George Ticknor Curtis living? Also Robert
G.. Winthrop. Was Amalia Opie only a
poetess or did she write novels? II so, can
yOJ name some of them? 4. Is Mary u.
wilkins maTried?-S X
February 10, 1891. .. Both died in 1894,
Curtis on March 2S, Winthrop on Nov. 16.
3. Her reputation rests chiefly on her series
of stories depicting English home life.
Father and Daughter" Temper, or Do
nestle Scenes and '"Tales of the Heart
were some of them. About 1910 she became
a member of the Society of Friends, which
prescribed fiction, and thereafter she
turned to the writing of moral treatises.
4. No.
What and where were the Black Hole of
Calcutta, the GrOtta del Cane and the Upas
valley?-E.
The first was a dungeon of Calcutta, In
dia, wherein were confined the English gar
rison of a captured fort. OF 146 prisoners,
126 died from suffocation the first night.
The others were liberated the following
morning. This was in 1855. The second is a
cave in southern Italy. ten feet long, four
feet wide and seven high, which is remark
able for it's exhalations of poisonous gases
that sti1e most animals instantaneously. 1t
has been known for this popularity since
the days of the ancients. The last is a val
ley of Papandayang, a volcano of the
Island of Java. and is noted for deadly
gases.
When was the great Alexandrian Library
destroyed; by whose order, for what pur-
pose and how may manuscripts and vol
umes did ii contain?-W. {. 3.
Writers disagree in all these particulars.
The number of volumes is variously stated
at from 400. 900 to 200, 0OO, and while some
writer's claim that because OF the small
ness of the ancient volume these figures
should be discounted for purposes of com
parison with modern libraries, others take
another view. 1t is stated and denied that
part of the library was burned by spread
Of the fires that Caesar started among the
fleet in the harbor; that different portions
of the collections were destroyed by
Aurelian in 273; by pillage of Christians,
this following an edict of Theodosius, IL
$50 or S91, and that final destruction came
from the Saracens in $40. As to the last.
careful students think it unlikely that the
Saracens found much to destroy.
Who was called the Quaker poet? ..
From what poem are these lines taken9
For all sad words of tongue or pen.
The saddest are these: 1t might have
been" 3. Who was Stephen Girard?-Be-
fOrehand.
John Greenleaf Whittier; John Scott and
Bernard Barton also had the title. :. From
Whittier's Maud Muller" 5. a noted
philanthropist. born in France in 1850, who.
during our revolution, was a sutler, gro
Ger and liquor dealer in and about Phil
adelphia. Later he was engaged in the
West India trade and in banking. For
years he was by far the richest man i'm
this country, ill-tempered, eccentric, free
thinker" and ungracious. living and dying
with hardly a friend. yet active in relieving
distress in seasons of epidemic. a liberal
giver to public charities. and on his death
bequeathing nearly all his property to char
liable institutions of Philadelphia and New
Orleans and 10 the founding of Girard
College for Orphan Boys.
Switched Of.