The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-14


custom house and brothel. His idea still
holds good. FREDERICK w. EDDY.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
What is the language of Mexico?-H.
Spanish.
Will you give me the date of unwilling the
r. E. Lee monument at Richmond?-M.
May %, 1890.
Was Gen. Phil Sheridan a west-Pointer?
"A. NJ. j.
Yes; in the class of 1853.
Please tell me which is the largest lumber
market in the United States or in the
world.-G. A. b.
Chicago
Who are the president and director gen.
eral Of the ST Louis Purchase Exposition
of 1904?-C. +.
F. W. WAGNER and John H. Averill, re-
spectively.
Who was chaplain of the Rough Riders?
M.
Henry A. Brown, of Prescott, A. T.
Shortly after the he made chap
lain of the regular army.
Is the quotation correct: Throw pnySlc
to the dogs; I'll none of it?" 2. Who first
used it'll. B. III.
Yes. 2. William Shakespeare, in MAC
BETH Act V. Scene 8.
Which are increasing the faster. the
negroes or whites of the United States?
w. +.
The whites, by a percentage of increase
for the decade 1S9O-19OO of ola to 1S.1.
In general history what is meant by the
VII Brumaire?-C. V. b.
The seventh of the second month Of the
calendar followed in France from 1893 to
1906, and corresponding to Oct. % of our
calendar.
In our club II was moved and seconded
that a proposition be accepted; it was dis
cussed, but when put to vote there were
neither ayes nor noes. Was the motion lost
or carried?-Mrs. p. T. OBJ.
1t was lost.
Did two Confederate officers fight duel
during the civil war? 2. II so, who and
where?-J. A. NJ.
Yes q Colonel Calhoun and Major
Rhett, at Charleston, in 1862, the former
being killed.
Why do the negroes of Texas celebrate
Because on that day of 1866 General Cor
don Granger. of the United States army,
took military command over Texas and
proclaimed, among other things, the free
| dom of the negroes.
Please give the names of some of the
| book authors of Indiana in Sundays paper
Subscriber.
| The list is too long to give even the more
important ones in the space at disposal
here. Meredith Nicholson's book, 1.-The
Hoosier," covers the subject.
How many negroes are there in Chicago?
| z. What Is the population of the city? 8.
| How many negroes are there in Illinois?
| 4. How many are there in Memphis? s..
| How many in Tennessee?-F. o.
BY the last census So,15O, this including
negroes and those of negro descent. 2. L.
69S,575. 3. S5,07S. 4. 1890 s. 4SO,243.
Where is the prohibition recorded for
| bidding the kings of Israel to keep many
horses? 2. Who took away the horses
| that certain kings of Judah had conse-
Grated to the sun? Forty thousand horse
men were slain in one battle; who was
captain of the defeated army?-H. B. L.
Deuteronomy XVII, 1872. Josiah; the
reference is II Kings. XIII. III. 8. Sho-
bach: see II Samuel, X, 1S
4
| Who commands the battleship Oregon? g
| Where is she and when will she return to
| the United States?-E. NJ.
Capt. William T. Burwell. 2. The vessel
| is on the way to the Asiatic station, so
| likely will not be recalled for several
years. Mail to any one aboard should be
addressed. for the present, in care of the
postmaster of San Francisco.
| Can a first cousin to any candidate to be
| voted for at a general election legally serve
| as poll clerk at such election?-W. T. c.
The Indiana statute in regard to rela-
| tionship OF election officers to candidates
specifies only judges and inspectors. The
| disqualifying degrees of kinship in their
| case include first and second cousins. AS
| poll clerks do not decide any questions it
was probably thought unnecessary to apply
the regulation to them.
| Will you list the colleges that all the
| Presidents of the United States attended
| -B. p.
John Adams, John Quincy Adams,
| Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard; Jefferson,
Munroe and Tyler, William and Mary;
| Madison, Princeton: Harrison. Hampden-
Sidney: Polk, University of North Carolina
| Pierce, Bowdoin: Buchanan, Dickinson;
Hayes. Kenyon: Garfield, Williams: Arthur.
| Union; Benjamin Harrison. Miami Univer-
sity; Washington, Jackson. Van Buren,,
Taylor, Fillmore. Lincoln. Johnson, Cleve-
land and Mckinley did not attend college.
| Grant was a West Pointer.
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Did the pension system come into ex-
istence before or after the civil war closed
| At what date?-G. G.
1t began away back in the early history
Of the colonies. Plymouth colonists nro.
vided by enactment in 1886. for those
MANNED In military service, and this is
probably the first aension legislation in