The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15

made surveying and exploring trips in 1876,
1S47, 1SiS, 1851 and 1853. g. He received an
Admiralty grant of $4,000 for learning, in
the trip of 1873, of the fate of the Sir John
Franklin party.
Please print j. b. Elmores poem on Mo-
non wreck in which are the following lines
II heard the engineer for to say
Cut, oh, cut, my leg away."-A. l.. j.
These verses have been published in the
Journal a number of times and we do not
care to repeat them. The actual horrible
occurrence on which they were based seems
: to to make the amusement caused by
the queer lines somewhat misplaced.
Did the returns of the last census indi-
cate that the death rate among printers
was higher than the average among other
trades ?-T. A. j.
They indicated the opposite, giving a
| death rate of 121 for printers (compositors,
printers and pressmen) to IS for cabinet
| makers and upholsterers, 17.2 for carpen-
| tiers and joiners, "a for boot and shoe
| makers and 1873 for blacksmiths. These
figures. however. not very reliable for
purposes of accurate comparison.
A friend argues that the country district
school will become a relic, being replaced
by graded schools after the manner of those
| in sizeable towns and cities. Is he right ?
Ellen B.
| He is not, for such change, II 1t is effected
generally, must come very slowly. 1t has
| been going on i'm New England for fifty
years. More recently it has been begun
! in the West and South. and in most locali-
ties has been an Improvement, so is likely
| to be extended.
Will you give me some information Of the
| society of volunteer life-savers?-Price
| 1t is the United States Volunteer Life
| saving Corps, incorporated in 1890. and now
| having a membership of about 1000, with
some 500 stations. 1t distributes life-sav-
| ing apparatus, directions and mediums for
resuscitating the drowning, and gives med
| ais for rescues. 1t is supported by private
subscriptions, and its officers serve with
| out pay. Its national headquarters is at
| IS Park Row, New York city.
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| What is platinum. where is ii found. and
in what form, and what is its value per
| ounce?-W. NJ
| A whitish-gray metal. very heavy, melting
only at very high heat and attacked by very
| few agencies: used chiefly in electrical APP
pliances, in apparatus for making various
|
found chiefly in the native state In grains,
scales or nuggets, mixed in gravel beds, like
the gold of placer deposits, often with
| gold. Most of IT comes from Russia, near
the Ural mountains. little is mined in
this country, but last years production
was only ninety-four ounces, worth $l,Si4.
It's price varies much, having fallen as low
as 50 an ounce some ten years ago.
! Will you give me a brief history of the
| Diamond Necklace" as TO the relation
| that Cardinal Rohan, Queen Marie An
| toinette and Countess Lamotte bore to
| it's.
1.-The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
was puzzle that has not been satisfac-
torily solved. It's makers sought to sell
| it to Queen Marie Antoinette through
Countess Lamotte-Valois. The latter had
persuaded Rohan that the Queen looked
on him with great favor His hopes were
kept lively by letters purporting to be from
the Queen, but really written by the count