The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-16

ing at low rateS.-SuDScriher.
Address Secretary OF the Young Womans
Christian Association. go North Pennsyl-
vania street, or the manager OF the Bertha
Ballard Home. All North Delaware street.
A buys a piece OF property for 500 and
sells it 10 b for $500. taking I'm payment
seventy-two notes of 1880 each, payable
monthly, without interest What has been
AS per cent. Of gain, assuming that each
note was raid promptly when due?-A. c. T.
The question of interest being put out of
consideration, the gain is simply the 5000
a proportion Of 2-7, or IS Al per cent.
What language is Meme, meme, tekel,
| upharsin,' the handwriting on the WALTZ
A. T. s.
Chaldee. To account for the fact that ''all
the Kings wise men" could neither read
nor interpret it. it is supposed by many
writers that the Inscription was written in
other than Chaldean text.
Will you name George Washington's first
! Cabinet? 2. When and how long was Presi-
! dent Roosevelt Governor of New York;.
Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state; AL
exander Hamilton, secretary of the treas
ury; Henry Knox, secretary of war; Sam
uel Osgood, postmaster general; Edmund
Randolph. attorney general ?. From Jan.
l, 1899, TO Dec. 81, 1900.
Where is the center of population and CD
| of area of the United States?-O. G.. w.
! In Bartholomew county. Indiana, six
/ miles southeast of Columbus, the county
1 seat. g In northern Kansas, about 80 de-
| grees So minutes north latitude, and IS de-
grees 80 minutes west longitude; this ex-
elusive of Alaska. Hawaii and recent ac-
cessions.
Please inform me where can obtain the
| latest and best atlas of our new posses
! sions and the World?-W i. A
A recent number of the National Geo
graphic Magazine, published in Washing
ton, ID. c., contained large and elaborate
map of the Philippines made according to
latest government surveys. 1t has also, we
believe, published maps of Cuba and Porto
Rico. Rand, McNally & Co, Chicago, are
reliable map publishers.
! Please give the law governing the board
| of health i'm smallpox cases. Is it lawful
! that the board of health quarantine fam
| lily living five miles in the country when
one of its members is just taking smallpox,
and not visit them for two weeks?-U. S. T.
A case Of this kind is one of neglect, and
if serious i'll resulted the local authorities
could be held liable. The law provides that
in cities and towns local health officers
shall look after such quarantined patients
In rural districts the County Commission
ers must provide for their care.
|
What is the public debt at present? 2.
| What per cent has it decreased since the
| civil war? 3. Who is president of the United
! States Senate ?-J. II. G..
The Treasury Departments statement for
Jan. 81 put it at 81, $50 72S ga. ?. A very small
fraction over 81 per cent, reckoning from
the debt OF June 80, 1866. 8. No one; the
Constitution provides that the Vice Presi-
dent shall be president of the Senate. and
the vice presidency is vacant. William p.
Frye is president pro tempore of the Sen
ate.
How many bales of cotton were produced
in each of the cotton States for the last
three or four years?-Britton.
! In thousands of bales, respectively, for
1898, 1899, 1900 and 1901 the figures are: North
! Carolina, 476, $50, 400 and 425; for South
| Carolina, 956, 900, s74 and S02; Georgia, LAS,
LAS, 226 and 1895; Florida, 65. 81, 81 and So:
Alabama, 1,l47, 1,16l. 1,136 and 1,O7S; Missis-
sippi 1908, 1,776. 1.S49 and 1,115 Louisiana.
SEQ. 577. COL and SOS; Texas, 3,0OS. 3143, 2,575
and $780, Arkansas. 900, 921, Go and $40;
Tennessee. $50, SS1, 24O and 275.
Is there House Of Lords in Canada? Q
Does it require more postage to send a let
ter from England to Canada, than between
two places i'm England?-G.
No; the higher house of the Canadian
Parliament is the Senate. Senators are
nominated for life by the Governor Cen
eral (himself appointee of the CROWN
and must be thirty years old and worth at
least $4,000. 2. Not unless the letter weighs
over half an ounce; that is a letter up to
four ounces goes within the United King
dom for a penny, while that sum will carry
only a half ounce letter to the Dominion.
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Was the leaning tower at Pisa built to
lean? II not when and why did the leaning
take plaee?-E.
II is thought not but that IL began 10
lean when the third of it's eight stories
was completed. The architects seem 20
have accommodated their designs to this
situation, and to have adhered to the in
cline, but lessened the slope of the upper
stories so as 10 keep the center of gravity
within the walls. The entire deviation is
about fourteen feet the diameter of the
whole being fifty feet, The structure was
begun in liza but its eighth story was not
completed until the middle of the four
teenth century
VIII YOU sketch the life of John Howard
Payne? ?. What was the reason OF his exile,
and did he afteFward see his mOther?-A.
He was born in New York city, June 2,
1892. and was a precOeious youngster, at
the age OF fourteen editing clandestinely a
weekly paper, the Thespian Mirror, while
employed I'm a counting house. The follow
ing year he entered Union College. remain
ing two terms and publishing twenty-five
numbers of a periodical called The Pas
time. His first appearance as a professional
actor occurred in New York, Feb. u, 1909,
as Young NorvaL" He appeared i'm other
cities here, and In 1913 was playing in Eng
land. For the next twenty years he had a
career of varied success as actor, play
wright and manager. making much
money, yet keeping i'm almost con-
slant financial perplexity. While resid-
ing in London and Paris. he wrote many
dramas, mostly adaptations from the
French. "Brutus" and Charles the Sec
ond'' were the more lasting, but it in
"Clar or the Maid of Milan" that his song.
Home, Sweet Home" occurred. He re-