The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-13

I borders of Massachusetts and Rhode Island
used to supply some, though none is mined
| there for fuel at present. 2. For 1902 the
figures were respectively, 23S, 697, 6S1 and A.
49, $50 tons.
Can you inform me where l may obtain
a book or pamphlet that will be of benefit
In writing essay on international law?-
High School Student.
Thomas A. Walkers Manual of Inter
national Law" Theodore d. Woolsey's I'm
ternational Law" and Elements of Inter
national Law" by George b. Davis. are all
good works on the subject-the last per-
haps the handiest in size. They can be
obtained of any city bookseller or found in
most public libraries.
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T.: Much starch is made from corn. The
latter is soaked in caustic soda or hydro
chloric acid 10 dissolve the gluten. and then
| is ground and washed in sleeves. Proprietary
laundry starches do not include poisonous
ingredients. H. X: "Faithless Nellie Gray
was written by Thomas Hood. Barbara
Aliens Cruelty is one OF the very old bal
lads of Percy's Reliques Arthur: ''Taffy,
as nickname for the Welshman. is a cor
ruption of David, a common Welsh name,
just as "Sawney' for the Scotchman is a
corruption OF Sandy, which is short for
Alexander. w. S. H.: Josephine died a
little over a year prior to Waterloo.
VIII you explain briefly the following: /.
"The Faust OF legend" g The legend of
Roland and Oliver. 3. Thomas a Kempis.
t. Multiple telegraphy?-J. NJ.
He was Johann Faust Faustus. a
soothsayer and astrologer who lived in
Germany from about 14S5 to 1910, and who
was widely believed to have done marvellous
things through the assistance of the devil.
Because of the prevailing superstitions of
those days his real history became hope
lessly obscured in a mass of the most ex-
travagant fiction. 2. Roland and Oliver
were two of Charlemagne's twelve peers"
of whose bravery the old romancers told
many eXtravagant tales. 3. Was mediae-
val ecclesiastic who lived from about 1880
to 1741, most of the time in an Augustinian
convent, and now pretty generally held to be
the author of the very famous religious
book, limitation of Christ" 4. name for
the sending of two or more telegraphic
messages simultaneously on one wire.
What is the metronome time for piece
of music marked Moderate PA. L. G.
All terms to indicate speed in music are
relative and vague, moderate the vaguest
of all. Usually it is linked with another,
as allegro moderate, or andante moderate,
when it serves a guide against excess.
Alone ii seems often a subterfuge of the
composer to conceal his own uncertainty.
The metronome indication in modern times
is but little better. 1t depends in all cases
on what form of note is to be regarded as
the unit of the measure. At present COM
posers are inclined to suggest slow tempo
by writing in whole and half notes instead
of in quarters and eighths. Consequently,
to adopt the quarter the unit, and mark
a modern piece quarter equals 100,' and
to apply the same marking TO a piece pub
lished a century ago would doubtless be to
turn the old-timer into impossible al
legro. Again, there are composers who to
save the trouble of writing the tails to
eighth and sixteenth notes, write their
fast pieces in whole and half notes, thus
giving the quarter relatively short dura-
ton that might be equivalent to the six
teenth of Mozarts era. The Interpretation
of tempo is necessarily a matter of must
cianly feeling, and the metronome should
be regarded as merely suggestive. So you
cannot be answered positively, though it
will be fairly safe, II piece be written
mainly in quarters that is, with the quar-
ter note representing one beat of the baton,
! to regard quarter equals ninety-two" as