The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-21
Questions and Answers

When did Price, Mccormick G. Co. fail?
j. II. c.
May "a, 1900.
On what date did Easter fall in 1872
p. w.
On April %.
Was Columbus ever at Honduras?-c. F.
Yes, he skirted that coast in his fourth
and final voyage in 15O2-15oS.
To settle a dispute, in what depot at
Washington was President Garfield shot!-
ID. Z. T.
In that of the Baltimore & Potomac Rail-
road.
In 1919 what revolution was on in Spain?
49,
None of Importance In 152O-151 came
instruction in CASTLE.
Why is the Strait of Babelmandeb called
1.-THE Gate of Tears pa L. d.
Because that is the meaning in English of
its Arabic name 1t was named because of
its perils for small sailing craft.
|. Who is our minister to Argentina? 2.
What language is spoken there? D. How
M 1Snf s. does 1t take 's''s'
The Hon. John Barrett. 3 Spanish.
chiefly. s. New York to Buenos Ayres,
twenty-five days.
I have seen reference to schools of for.
estry; will you put me on the track OF
such?-B. L. c.
Yale and Cornell universities have such
at, respectively, New Haven, Conn, and
Ithaca, r.. Y, and there is another at Bit
more, N. c.
How much of a rise can water be sue
cessfully siphoned over?-A. S. c.
In theory thirty-three feet. less in prac-
tice, and in permanent siphon a pump is
placed at the highest point to remove the
air that accumulates there.
What are the towers used in some places
in trap shooting?-W. p.
Wooden towers from which the 'clay
pigeons are thrown by traps, instead of
from the surface of the ground. More diff
fcult shooting and closer resemblance to
hunting afeld are claimed for this idea.
on the Passions" by William Collins, be-
ginning:
when festive heavenly swain was young.
When first attuned his viol rungE etc.
We cannot find such a parody. and.
such productions are usually short lived, it
will probably be difficult to trace.
When was it that DR.. Tanner tasted forty
days? 2 How did he come TO do it?-J. NJ.
From June rs to Aug. Z, 1880. 2 Through
an offer of $1,000 made by DR.. w. A. Ham
mond 10 a woman of Brooklyn. n. Y. who
claimed not to have taken nourishment for
several years, if she would fast a month
DIR. Tanner came from out the West, and
the offer was extended to him.
Was John Young Brown expelled from
COngreSsf-P. ).
No; a seat was refused TO him in the for
tieth Congress because Of political disabil-
tiles and after his first election TO the
House he had to wait year before he was
old enough TO serve as representative In
the latter case he had confessed his age
and been nominated against his own pro-
tests
Is there any difference between grasshop-
pers and locusts? ?. How often do the lat
ter make their appearance?-R. o. ID.
Yes. though popularity the two words are
applied indiscriminately- p Annually.
though not nearly always in hurtful num-
bers. The seventeen-year locust" is the
cicada, and in the South he appears once
in thirteen years because the greater heat
there hastens his development.
viii you give the solution used by dealers
in secondhand furniture 10 give il the ap-
pearance OF new. and tell how il is applied?
=. What per cent of iron is necessary in ore
| in order for il TO be considered valuable.
taking in consideration a large body OF ore
| and good location "A. Nj. IS.
| Half-and-half of linseed oil and spirits of