The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-23

ing charged with 1t. It's notable outbreak
in this country was at Salem, Mass. in
1922, where nineteen supposed witches
were hanged. The last legal executions of
supposed witches in Europe occurred
toward the end of the eighteenth century,
but within thirty years witches have been
burned judically in Mexico.
How can I make shoemaker's wax?-K.
L. p.
By melting together the best Swedish
pitch and tallow. The quantity Of the lat
ter you can determine by experiment. Your
pitch should be brown where broken.
A says that If / plant pit of a certain
variety of peach the tree that grows will
not bear that variety. Is he rights.
Yes; or he will be in big majority Of
cases, for varieties rarely come true from
seed.
How many bones are in the human body!
&C. +. H.
At birth they number 27S, at the age of
twenty-five they are 224. and in extreme old
age they are but 194. The adult skeleton
is usually considered to consist of zoo bones.
erty by exposure to rain and rough wealth
err? Ii so, TO what extent?
Yes: all grades OF coal deteriorate. some
of them. after long periods Of exposure, to
the point of practical worthlessness as fuel.
Please state what the total vote Of New
York, Pennsylvania and Michigan is.-A
Subscriber.
The official figures have not appeared in
state of each State-at Albany, Harrisburg
and Lansing, respectively.
Was Horace Greeley ever the candidate
Of the Green5ack party?-Mrs. j. Z.
No; in the presidential election of 1872
Mr.. Greeley had the nominations Of the
Independent Republicans and of the Dem
ocrats. He died in that year. The Green
back party was organized in 1S74.
How does the national debt compare
with its amount of five years ago?-S. II.
Nov. ], 1897, including items Offset by an
equal amount of cash in the treasury and
amounting to $3.50. 456.95S. it was 81, sos H.
643, and on the LIST of this month, including
$500, 500 Offset by cash, it was $2,I75 246.-
16S.
Who is Dora Klussman Freaney, author
of Loving Vainly. poem which appeared
in the Journals issue OF Nov. z? Are any
of her works published in book form p
Reader.
Mrs. F'rcaney Is a resident Of Indianapolis
and has been an occasional contributor to
the Journal for some years. So far as We
know she has never published a book
C. w w. Comata ara co numerous tho&
one visible to the natural eye appears every
three or four years. AS Kepler put it, ce-
lestial spaces are as full of comets as the
sea is of fish. Their number makes il i'm
possible to identify that to which you refer.
All comets are explained by astronomers
TO be fragments of nebulous matter, maybe
scattered pieces of the raw material from
which astronomical systems are formed.
They are believed to be comparatively
short-lived. the tail fading. the rest com.
ing to be only a faint patch OF light, all
finally being dissipated altogether.
What Of Rubenstein, the composer?-W.
G. c.
Anton Gregor Rubenstein was born I'm
Roumania Nov. 30. 1880. and had instruction
from his mother and from able masters In
Moscow. Paris and Berlin. In 1851 his con-
cert tour amounted to q sensation because
| Of his compositions and skill as q pianist.
A year later he was made imperial concert