The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-06

II the hole is dry, water is poured in before
the bailer is used.
Will you tell me something of the career
of Columbus after he had completed his
voyaging TO the new world?-D. G.. j.
He had no career after that, but reached
Spain broken in health, and Queen Isabelle
dying in the month of his return. with few
friends of influence He strove to move the
King in his own and his sons behalf, failed
and died within about six months Of his
return.
have been told that the docks for ship
ping at Liverpool are like tanks. with the
water kept always at the same level, and
with entrances like canal locks; is this
true? And If so. why are they so. instead
of open to the harbor?-G w. b.
1t is true, the especial need of such con-
struction being the great difference be-
tween low and high tide levels. which is
about thirty feet-enough to drain dry an
ordinary dock.
What is the usual length of course in a
hospital training school for nurses? 2 Is
the tuition free?-M. MEG.
Three years for some schools connected
with the hospitals of large cities and rang
ing down to a year at much smaller insti-
IuIlOnS. Z. les, at the SCHOOLS
board. lodging and small cash allowance
are given besides, but the course is filled
with very hard work, which tests the pupils
strength severely. In many schools there
is a probationary period at the beginning
of the course, during which, among other
matters. the applicants pluck, strength and
endurance are tried.
civ, &c h0v oyi,1
is produced from peoples ?-L. l..
The drug is the dried juice of unripe pop
py heads, and is secured from the peoples
cultivated for ii when the heads are of the
size of hens egg The head is pierced
with an iron in the afternoon, and early the
next day the juice that has run from the
all water to drain away from this product,
and then it goes through a long spell Of
drying, during which it is often turned.
What is the width of the Mississippi at
its mouth? 2. What are the, five greatest
manufacturing States of the Union, accord
ing to the census of 1900? 3. What is the
population to the square mile?-G. ..
The distance between its three greater
mouths. or passes, is about thirty miles.
The passes are from a quarter to third of
narrowed by the Eads system of jetties to
about one thousand feet. Above the branch
ing mouth to the Red river the Mississippi
averages about a half mile In width. 2.
In order from the first, New York, Penn
sylvania. Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio.
g. A little over six hundred
What are the restrictions on foreign i'm
migration? Must the immigrants be able
to read and write and what language?
Must they be property holders?-M. G.
The present law excludes all idiots, in
become public charge, persons suffering
from a loathsome or dangerous contagious
disease, persons who have been convicted
of a felony or other Infamous crime or mis-
demeanor involving moral turpitude, polyg-
amists, beggars, Anarchists, epileptics and
persons who have been insane within five
years or who have been insane two or more
times, and contract laborers. There is a
head tax of two dollars on each immigrant.
There is no property qualification other
than the bar against paupers. and no edu-
cational qualification whatever In 1897
Congress passed a law excluding all for
eigners over sixteen years of age who could
not read or write the English or some
other language, but President Cleveland We
toed the bill on the grounds Of general pol
icy and because it was defective in form.