The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-31

any bounty" In cases where no previous
application has been made the bounty is
0utaWed, but an endeay0r is being made to
have bill passed for the relief of all sol
dIerS who have never received any bounty.
The. best thing you can do is to put your
matter in the hands of some competent
claim agent.
ELEcTRIoIrY-C H.. City. Light travels
at the rate of 1S6, 700 miles second, and, if
anything, electricity travels faster than
light. No instrument has as yet been in
vented sensitive enough to measure the
velocity of electricity. Therefore, if con-
tinuous wire was stretched from this city
to Hamburg, and the circuit left open, the
Instant the key was touched here the re-
Spouse would be heard there. To make the
matter more plain, two instruments placed
upon table in San Francisco, and wire
passed from one to the other around the
world. the response from one instrument to
the other would be SO simultaneous that the
ear could not detect the difference.
EXTRA PAY-O. Fl. L., Orange, CAL
There is DO act whatever of June a. 1884,
allowing all or any volunteer officers below
the grade of Brigadier- General, who were
in the service Of the United States between
March Sd and April 10, 1865, three months
extra pay, but there was an act Of July 3,
1854, supplemental to an act of March 3,
1865, which allowed the heirs or legal repre-
sentatives of officers killed in battle between
March 3, 1865, and April 10, 1866, three
mon tbs extra pay. The law is on file at
General Miles office.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - T. b., Rockland,
Idaho The law reads as follows: Before
an instrument may be recorded its
execution must be acknowledged by the
person executing it, or, if executed by a corpora
ton, by its President or Secretary, or proved
by a subscribing witness, and the acknowledge
ment or proof certified by = any
officer of the state where the acknowledgment
is made authorized by its laws to take such
proof or acknowledgment"
ELECTRICITY Correspondent. City. A
recent work, published by former cleo
trician of the Western Union Telegraph
Office. says that the velocity of electricity
may be stated at from 45. COO to 10000 miles
per second, according to conditions OF the
atmosphere and conductor. Thus, for in
stance, one inch of water will offer as much
resistance to the passage of the electrical
current as 100000 inches of copper wire.
GAME LAws-W. and H., City. Ducks
are not included in the game laws, but the
Supervisors of this city, at the request of
the Sportsmen's Protective Association of
this city, recently passed law prohibiting
the sale of all kinds of ducks in the market
or elsewhere between the months Of March
1st and October 1st OF each year, the same
being the close season for quail, rail and
other game birds.
U. S. S. CHARLEsToN-J.L L., City, The
signal to knock the underpinnng from the
United States cruiser Charleston at the
time she was launched was given by Irving
Of A ttna nct o'n
Saturday, October %, 1889, and she immedi-
ately slid into the water. ~ Z. 0. Alexander
was member of the State Board of Har-
Dor Commissioners at the time of the
launch.
NATURALIZATIoN-J. II. c., City. Hav-
ing complied with every other requisite of
complete citizenship except taking out your
final papers, any Circuit or District Court
in the State has the authority to issue your
naturalization papers upon your taking the
customary oath of fidelity, etc. When you
make your application for citizenship the
clerk of the court will instruct you what
to do.
STANFORD UNIvERsITY-Miss E. NJ c.,
Orange, Cal. The Leland Stanford Jr. Uni
versity is in San Mateo County. about thirty
three miles from this city. The railroad
station is PalO Alto 1t was expected that
time this fall, but complications have arisen
that makes it impossible at this time to say
just when it will be opened for educational
purposes.
PALMER HoUsE-L. L., City. When Pot
ter Palmer was asked how many rooms
were in the Palmer House, Chicago, his re-
ply was that he did not know exactly, but
as near as he could come at it, there were
about 800. You will have to take this for
an answer, as no one appears to know eX-
actly, but those best informed put the num-
bet down as being between 100 and 800
NATIVE SoNs-Somebody, City. Your
question can only be answered approx
mately. There are at this time 165 parlors
OF Native Sons in the State, having men,
bership Of about 5000, which number is
90 parlors of Native Daughters, and their
membership is about 1000
LEGAL HoLIDAY-C. J. L., San Jose.
The Governor, by proclamation, has made
the Sth of September, 1890. legal holiday
The 9th was already so created. This year
the banks will close on Saturday, September
9th, at II O'Clock noon, and will not open
again until Wednesday, September 10th, at
10 o'clock in the morning.
PHYLLoxERA - Daily Reader, City.
Without an understanding of the accented
letters it would be difficult matter to con-
vey a correct idea of the correct pronuncia-
ton of any word, but if Daily Reader will
pronounce Phylloxera as it is spelled
Phyl-lox-e-ra, he can scarcely go wrong.
OLD VEIN. L., City, When man joins
the United States Army his obligation is to
obey and uphold the Constitution of the United
States. and to defend the same against "all
enemies" not particularly Great Britain"
but all powers that ale at war with U.s.