The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-16

take place in about week, and the other
officers will be named.
Are there any papers that publish the list
of persons and their postoff1ce addresses
who obtain United States patents? Does the
Patent Office give out the list of patents
weekly or monthly?-T III. l..
The Scientific American contains such a
list; also the Patent Record, monthly pub
lished in Washington, d. c. The list is, we
understand, always accessible at the Patent
Office.
Suppose a foreigner enlists in the United
States army and is honorably discharged,
is he a citizen of the United States.
would he still have to take out naturaliza-
tion papers?-W. wv.
He is not citizen, but if twenty-one or
older of good moral character and resident
in the country for a year, may become one
on his petition without previous declaration
of intentions.
Do such deoderizers as chloride of lime
and crude carbolic acid render the effluvia
from cesspools harmless? 2. Does the de-
struction OF bad odor render the atmO-
sphere of the vicinity innocuous?-F. B. b.
In ordinary cases they should do so, if
used rightly. A per cent. solution is recon-
mended with either: the chloride of lime
should be fresh. . Speaking generally and
of ordinary cesspools. yes; but odorless
| gases are found in large sewers that are
very poisonous.
l. To what extent is gutta percha similar to
India rubber. and how and where is it OBJ
tained?-J. NJ. X
1t is the dried milky juice of certain
| kinds of trees and climbers, and in many
features is closely like caoutchouc, but is
only very slightly elastic, and the fact that
| the two substances are often confounded is
due largely to the fact that they are put to
| similar uses. Gutta percha comes chiefly
| from southern Asia, though there are big
! forest areas of it's trees in South America,
| and poor qualities obtained in Africa.
1t is secured by destructive methods at
present, the largest trees being felled and
! stripped of bark in order to collect the juice.
/ VIII you give a receipt for making and
| coloring kalsomine?-Mrs. s.
| To make, soak one pound white glue over
| night. dissolve in boiling water and add
| twenty pounds of Paris white diluting with
| water to the consistency of rich milk. Tint
to brown with burnt lumber, to gray with
| raw lumber in which is a trace of lamp
black. to rose with three parts of vermil-
small quantities. to blue with Prussian blue
| to straw with chrome yellow. adding a very
| little Spanish brown, and to buff with two
parts spruce or Indian yellow to one part
| burnt sienna. Delicate tints the more
desirable. The mixture always will appear
more highly colored the wall than in the
| pot.
/ Will you print the running records for
/ horses from quarter mile mile 20.
G. r.
Quarter mile. :21L. by Bob Wade. at
| Butte, Mont, Aug. 90 1890; three-eighths
mile "a. by Red S. and Fashion. at re-
| spectively. Butte. July %. 1896. and Lam
passas. Tex, Aug. 10. 1891: half, :46, Geral-
| dine. Morris Park. Aug. 80. 1899; Az fur
longs. 80, Handpress, New York Jockey
Club. May %. 1897: fivc-eighths. Maid Mari
an. :56s.. New York Jockey Club. Oct. !,
1894; 5is furlongs, 1:o2ls Platter Morris Park.
Oct. 81. 1909: three-quarters. 1:0sa.. by Fire
arm and by Endurance, at, respectively.
| Morris Park. Oct. g. 1899. and Coney Island.
Sept. 2S. 1901; Ga furlongs. lis As. McChes-
ney. Chicago. Oct .. 1901: seven-eighths,
| l:23Is. Bella B., Monmouth Park July s.,
1890; az furlongs. LEX, Dunois, Oakland.
Cal. Feb 2i. 1899; mile. 1854, Salvador,
Monmouth Park, Aug. 2s. 1880
What is meant by "sun fast and ''sln
| slow" as shown in computing time?-B.
That the real sun is ahead or behind the
| fictitious sun from which mean solar time
Is reckoned. The true suns day, which is
the interval efapsing between two transits
Of the sun of the meridian. is variable. be-
ing affected by the varying velocity of the
earth I'm Its orbit and by the obiquity of
the ecliptic: so. since the early days of fair
| ly accurate timepieees. the make-believe
mean sun has been made the basis of cal
culation. The sun and the perfectly regu-
lated clock cpincide about April Is. June IS.
Aug. 81. and Dec. "A: from Dec. "a to April