The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-22

What is the best disinfectant for disease
germs? -F. i. NJ.
Heat.
What is the Indian population of the
United States at present?-A. w. f.
About 100000.
What amount of money was spent on the
buildings and grounds of the worlds fair at
Chicago?@I.
Its construction expenses footed up $lS,S22,-
622 Sc.
What is the idea involved in taking dead
body out of house through the roof, as
practiced by savages?-W. A. j.
To confuse and bewilder the ghost so that
it cannot urn.
What is the population of Colombia? 2.
What is the religion of the country?-M-
About 100000. including some 10000 un-
civilized Indians. 2. The Roman Catholic,
though others are tolerated.
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What is the lowest temperature ever re-
corded?-H. w. a.
Four hundred and ninety-three Fahrenheit
degrees below zero. This was obtained by
Prof. James Dewar, by evapOrating liquid
hydrogen under reduced pressure.
Did the ancients know of the value as
support of an arch?-F. l..
Yes, though some of the more ancient peo-
pies, the Egyptians, for example, restricted
the use of arches to unitarian and private
structures, not using them at all in their
temples and other buildings of monumental
character.
If such statistics are obtainable, will you
state what proportion the Lake Superior dis
trict copper production bears to the produc-
portion the latter is of the worlds output?
IS. +. Il.
| For last year. $50 per cent. for Lake SUI
perior, to 4S.S for Montana and 1872 for Arr
zona- 2. About "a per cent.
Did Isaak Walton write other books than
| the one on fishing to which reference Is so
often made? 2 Was he an old man when
| the famous book was written?-C. H. b.
He wrote several biographies Of much
| merit. q The first edition appeared when
he was sixty years old; the fourth, con-
! tanning nearly twice as many chapters as
the first, came out twenty-three years
| later.
What is Fuller's earth, and for whom
named?-C. A. NJ
An earth looking much like clay, COM
posed largely of silica, alumina and water,
with some lime. II Is used largely now In
altering oils. the earth taking up the oils
| impurities. Formerly it was used much
and considered very valuable for cleans
| ing or fulling cloth and wool. From this
old use, net for some man named Fuller,
came the name.
Was not the Iron Gate" of the Danube
blasted prior to the blowing up or our
| own Hell Gate?"-B.
! Yes; but the removal of each obstruction
was a matter covering many years and in
| Guiding several series of operations. The
| Iron Gate" was first attacked in 1874 and
| Hell-Gate blasting began in 1851, but the
| big doings at the latter's reefs ended prac-
| tically with 1885, while the Austrian chan
mel in the Danube was not opened until
| 1896.
| Is the school for army engineers main
| tanned by government at West Point? 2. Are
not the appointments made TO 1t from
West Point IF. {. w.
| No; it was removed two years ago from
| Willets Point, N. Y, to the national capi-
| tall g Yes: and usually the assignments
| are from cadets who in their final examina-
| tions take very high rank. This is because
| the engineering branch is the most scien-
| tific one of the army service.
|
| Can you !dentify "Dummer's War" for
me i'm American history and give me some
| information about it?-A. c. T.
1t lasted from 1723 to IT'S. and was
between Indians of the Abnaki tribe and
] settlers of Maine and Vermont which then
were within the jurisdiction of Massachu-
sets. A French Jesuit named Sebastian
| Rale stirred the savages up to the trouble.
| Several bloody fights occurred in Maine
| RaIe meeting death in of them. The
name you give comes from the name of the
acting Governor of Massachusetts, of that
| time, William Dummer.
| Who was Martyr to his umbrella" and
| why?-O. u.
| This has the sound OF prize question
No such niokname is traceable, but Jonas
Hanway is probably the man meant. He
| was an Enelishman of numerous mild &C.
| centricities. earnest philanthropist and
| a prolific writer of books and pamphlets
| He is said to have been the first Of his
| countrymen to carry an umbrella in Lon
| don, and to have kept up the practice for
many years, despite jibes and insults by
| wholesale. II WAS VI bAdl III. JO0n-
son, stirred by Hanway's angry criticism
of 1.-The Essay on Tea" wrote: Jonas
| acquired some reputation by travelling
abroad, but lost it all by travelling at
home"
Please print the name of the senators Of
| Indiana. President, Cabinet and Vice Presi-
| dent.-Constant Reader.
| You can hardly be very constant read
| err" not TO know that Charles w. Fairbanks
| and Albert ]. Beverage are United States
| senators from Indiana and there is no Vice
| President since Roosevelt succeeded McKin-
| icy after the latter's death. Cabinet officers
| are: John Hay. secretary OF state: Leslie
| NJ. Shaw. secretary OF the treasury: VIII
liam III. Taft. secretary of war; Philander
| C. Knox. attorney general: Henry c. Payne.
postmaster general; William III. Moody.
secretary of the navy; Ethan A. Hitchcock.