The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-13

Of the inhabitants are provided for on SINH
lar lines TO the provisions on the same sub
ject in the Spanish treaty concerning Porto
Rico. In taking the islands the United
States assumes no burden of debt. Certain
obligations are assumed by the United
States to protect charters granted by Den
mark To various enterprises. The treaty
was ratified by the Senate Feb. 1t. 1902.
VIII you print a sketch of class of peo-
pie called Essenes2 ,. What are the name
and dimensions of our greatest battleship?
w. H. w.
They were a small Jewish sect of the
time of Christ. were mystics and most of
them were celibates Their character and
history are involved in obscurity. but
Christianity stands in close connection
with them, and the claim has been adj
vanced that Christ came from their ranks.
2. The heaviest completed are of the class
to which the Alabama, Illinois, Kearsarge
and Kentucky belong. Their displacement
is 11,525 tons; but batteships of 1890 tons
are building
Please explain the compulsory education
law.-Reader.
The provisions of the law are clear and
simple. They require that the parent,
guardian or other person having control or
charge of any child shall send it TO a pub
lie. private or parochial school each school
year for q period of at least twelve con-
secutive weeks in each year Children
mentally or physically incapacitated for
such attendance shall be exempt upon
physicians certificate as TO their condition.
Truant officers are required to enforce the
foregoing regulations.
Will you print some information con-
corning Helgoland, its people and the ORR
gin of the name?-F. B. o.
1t is an island a mile long and a third of
a mile wide, situated in the North sea,
about forty miles from the mouth of the
Elbe. During most of last century it was a
British possession, but it was ceded to Ger
many in 1890 It's inhabitants are about
1000; one class, Frisians seamen and fish
ermen, hardy and primitive in their habits,
and having contempt for landsnnen; the
other class, merchants, who have emil
grated from the European mainland. Pow
erty, disease and crime are almost un-
known. A large population of outing folk
and tourists is here during summer. The
name comes from a German word signify
ing saints land or island.
Who were the translators of the Ameri-
can Revised Version of the Bible? ?. What
advantage did they have over the King
James translators?-H.
Two committees of scholars and church
Observation-Disclosures members for the
British organization and twenty-seven in
the United States. The work had been in
augurated in the Church of England. but
the other denominations using the St
James version were invited to join, and
did so. >. That of the great advance in
scholarship since 1911, which was especially
notable in Hebrew and Greek philology,
textual criticism, archaeology and biblical
geography. The aim was not to produce
new version, but to bring the old version
up to the present state of the English Ian
guage, and to the present standards of
scholarship.
In what part of the globe is Iceland? 2
Is it republic or to what country does it
belong? g. What language is spoken? L.
What climate has it's. b. S.
1t is just without the Arctic circle. $50
miles east of Greenland. ,. 1t is a part of
the Danish kingdom, but has home rule.
being governed through a member of the
Kings Cabinet, who is responsible to the
Icelandic legislative bodies, and through a
Governor appointed by the King. and resi-
dent i'm Iceland 5. The Icelandc, which
was spoken all over Scandinavia until the
thirteenth century, and is q sister language
to Anglo-Saxcn and old German-closely
like the former. 4. Mild. considering it's
latitude; it is without forests, and cereals
will not ripen in its short summer. but
garden vegetables are grown and there is
good pasturage for sheep and ponies.
Is Falstaff an historical character? ?. Is
not the water at the bottom of the ocean
of practically the same density as that at
the surface? 3. Will YOU explain how oil
stills troubled waters?-Also.
He has been identified as Sir John Old
castle, distinguished the first author and
the first martyr among the English nobil-
ity He was burned alive in 147. less
complete Identification as Falstaff is that of
Sir John Fastolf, who lived from about 1873
to 1859. ,. 1t is denser. of course, but the
difference is small, considering the enor-
nous pressure. Yet according TO TAFT, an
ocean two miles deep loses seventy-six feet
of depth because of compression and the
depression of the actual ocean bares some
100000 square miles of the earth's surface
that otherwise would be under water g.
Large waves are increa sed in size and the
destructive motion of the water composing
the waves is increased in force by little
waves that ride on the surface of the large
ones. A film of oil on the water prevents
the formation of small waves so stops the
increase of the larger waves and checks
the motion of The water in the latter be-
fore it reaches the breaking or combing
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