The morning call., 1891-01-25

minority is calculated from the first minute
of the day on which she was born TO the
same minute of the corresponding day COM
pleting the period of minority-she cannot
marry without the consent of her father or
mother or guardian or other person having
charge of her, the exception only being a
non-aged person, who has been previously
married, because after marriage the control
OF the parents or guardian was superseded
by that of the husband.
THE GREATEsr-A S., Eureka CAL, and
j. Mem, City. The questions asked by you
are not easily answered. because subject so
much to individual preferences and the
opinions of man varying SO much. One
may not be greatly out of the way in hold
ing that of the living Ade.ina Patti is the
greatest vocaliste, De Lesseps the greatest
clVil engineer, Meissoner the greatest
painter and Sir Charles Russell perhaps
the greatest lawyer.
DEAD AND LIvING-A. S., Eureka. CAL,
and j. Mem, City. Jean Francois Milet,
the artist; Victor Hugo. the writer, and
among the dead. j. l.. E. MISSIONER, the
painter; Ferdinand de Lesseps, the civil en-
gineer; Alfred Tennyson, the poet and
Louis Pasteur, the scientist, are among the
living.
JACKSON AND CoRBErT-L. G. T., City.
The particulars asked concerning Peter
jackson and James Corbett are respectively:
Height, 1eet inches and feet p inches :;
age, % ana "A; length of arm, % inches and
34A inches. measured from the tip of the
nose to the end of the fingers; place of birth,
West Indies and San Francisco
TREATY OF QUERETARo-C. E. s., San
ders, Cal. The Treaty of Queretaro so
called because exchanged there) also called
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. because
dated there, can be found in the first volume
OF Hlttell's CODES and Statutes of Cali
fornia."
LINcoLN's AYcEsTRY-R. T., GuernevilIe,
Cal The ancestry of President Abraham
LINCOLN is traceable for three generations
to Virginia and Pennsylvania, and before
that to England. The Q. c. has never heard
that his ancestors were from Sweden.
MRS. OLE BULL - c. T. L. G., City. %
Mrs. Ole Bull. the widow of the violinist,
probably still lives with Mrs. Emma Thursby
at the Gramercy Park Hotel, in New York
City. ~ The Q. c. does not know what
vlollns are now IN her possession"
ANENT THE MooN-L. L. f., Susanvllle,
Cal. There is some foundation for the OBJ
seryation quoted by you, tor the moon will
not Use and set at the same point of the
=
of one and another year.
VETERANS HOME-C. A. L., Yountville.
Cal. o. The Veterans Home property at
Yountville, Napa County, does not belong
to the State of California, (2) nor does the
Governor appoint the Board of Directors.
BARRED BY ACTs-T K j., Santa Monica,
Cal. Invalid soldiers OF the war with Mex
leo, and for that matter also of the war of
1872, are barred by acts construed as against
the Government in the war of 1S61-65.
PoPULATIoN-G D. s.. Honolulu. Il. l.
~ The population of the British Empire
including all her possessions is estimated at
$3.50, 57i, 800; (2) and that of the Russian EN-.
pire Gn 1850 at 105, 7S7, 2l5
DEMPsE Y-MCCAFFREY-D. s., City. The
Dempsey-McCaffrey fight at Jersey City OH
February l, 1883. was decided in favor of
the first named. jeremiah Dunno was the
referee.
Nor BY ANY MEANs-P. c., City. The
mere fact that as a foreign-born you have
lived in the United States seven or even
fourteen years does not per Sc make you
citizen.
PERPETUAL MOTIONS. c. R., City
Thomas A. Edison and the late John Erics-
son have not been credited with attempts to
solve the problem of perpetual motion.
NoNPAREIL-F. j., City. Nonpareil is
from the French, and means none such
having no equal-peerless.
In TwENTY-FoUR RoUNDs-C. NJ. City.
Jackson whipped McAuIiffe in twenty-four
rounds of three minutes each.
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