The morning call., 1891-04-19
THE CALLS
QUERY COLUMN.
Medals Awarded in The Public Schools Of
the City.

Medals Awarded in the Public Schools Of
the City.
Loca, Temperature = The Poli-Tax Question
Again-Brothers in Battle at Port Royal
The Signal Service.
THE CALLS Query Column is conducted with
a view TO aid all seekers after knowledge of gea-
eral interest.
Catch questions win not receive any attention.
No opinion will be given IN this column regard
ing the reliability or character OF any person or
firms in this city or elsewhere.
Questions, answers TO which are in the nature
OF an advertisement, viii not be answered.
Every inquiry must have the true and full
name of the sender, as well as the correct resi-
dence. Any inquiry that has not The cor
rect name and address of the sender will
be treated as If it was not signed, and the
writer need not expect an answer.
PoLL-TAx AGAIN : 81. K, City. The
O. C. has stated as plainly and directly as the
English language can make it that in May,
1880, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Hart gave the opin-
California are not exempt from poll
That is the law until it is decided otherwise
by competent authority, and it would not
matter whether you may have understood
or not that Acknowledgement Hart eX-
pressed a thousand opinions during the re-
cent session of the Legislature, or whether
that official did or did not. The opinion of
1880 was given in a case to decide the ques-
ton, and is O ruling which has not been re-
verSed.
SIGNAL SERYICE-W. S., Santa Rosa,
Cal. a. The Weather Bureau of the United
States Signal Service will shortly be trans
ferred from the War Department to the De-
partment OF Agriculture and under the new
state of affairs will be essentially civilian
establishment under Government control.
Military signaling, meteornlogy, telegraphy
and some scientific attachments were some
OF the qualifications requisite In the Bureau
service. ~ The employees" as you call
them, were men enlisted at large for the
service and the officers in charge of stations
officers of the line of the army detailed for
such duty. The greater number of officers
in the army are West Pointers.
REPoRTING THE MADRoNo-F. j., City.
The Merchants Exchange marine reporter
at Meigg's Wharf reports all incoming and
outgoing vessels to the Merchants EX-
change for the benefit of merchants and
others interested, and the names Of such
vessels are furnished by the Exchange to
papers that pay for the news The light
householder Madrono, tfat does not go on
q regular voyage, but simply outside TO
Point Bonita. Pigeon Point, the Farallones
aud other lighthouse stations on the coast,
to supply them with oil, coal or stores, is
never reported.
AT PoRT RoYAL-A. NJ. Emmett, Cal
At the battle of Port Royal. s. c., during
the war the Union fleet was commanded by
Flag Officer s. +. Du Pont and the land
forces by Brigadier- General T. W. Sherman;
the Confederate fleet by Flag Officer Josiah
Tattnall and the land forces by Brigadier-
General Thomas F. DTaytOn. The latter's
brother, Captain Perciyal Drayton, com-
manded the steamer PocahOntas of the
Union fleet. There were others of like
rank with him in the fleet ard Du Pout and
Tattnall were former messmates.
SCHOOL MEDALs-D. H., City. Seventy
one medals to boys are awarded annually to
pupils of the public schools out of the
Bridge Medal Fund, five of which are for
department james Denman in December.
1888, presented $1,000 as a fund to be used
exclusively for the purpose of procuring
medals for the most meritorlous and deserv-
ing girl graduates from the grammar
schools, having already provided in 1865
are medal funds also In the Lincoln, Broad
way, John SWEET and North COSMOPOLITAN
grammar schools for boys and girls alike.
BOUNTY ON CUYoTEs-A. NJ, Emmett,
Cal. Not being in possession of the ordi-
nances of San Benito County, which is pre-.
sumably your query though it is so charm
iDgly vague as to include every county in
the State, the Q, G. cannot tell what the
bounty on coyote scalps is in that county
1t probably is not more than % cents. Pre-
sent your scaps to the County Treasurer,
and ON proof that the "varmints" were
killed in that county he will pay you what
bounty is due you.
LOCAL TEMPERATURE-Q. A. c., City.
For the first half of the year 1890 the highest
monthly average temperature was 59.8 and
lowest 462; for the second half of 1889 it
was GIG and 51.3 respectively, and for the
first half ISL and 1872; for the second half
of 1888 SOL and 52.4, and for the first 81 and
46.3; for the second half of 1887 62.9 and
51.7, and for the first IS and AZ; for the
second half of 1856 Cos and 53.1. and for the
first half $40 and 500.
STEAMSHIP QUERIEs-F. j., City. ID OF
the steamers running TO China from this
port the longest is the China, length 40
feet. (2) The City of Picking can carry more
freight than the China about 1000 tons or
40 cubic feet more. 90 The China's con-
sumption of coal is greater than that of the
Picking, because of greater speed. az The
China is the fastest steamer in the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company
On THE OCEAN DEEP.-G. B., Pueblo,
Colo. The British bark Iredae, CAPTAIN
Little, was on Friday 11S days out from
London to this port, but since departure was
spoken on January 9th in latitude 4Jo north,
IorNrt a vas ha nv 10,
about 135 days.
VERY LIKELY A BLUNDER-L. T. R.,
City. The drop curtain at the New Cali
fornia Theater is noticeable for the repre-
sentation of one of the elephants kneeing
with his forefeet bent outwardly, and
really ii does seem AT unnatural position.
TAMALPAIs-A. f., City. This word
means literally ''the country of the tamales.'
The word is from "tamal," the popular
Mexican dish, and 'pais," country. Beyond
the mountain along the coast is the bay Of
Tomales-the plural Of tamal.
Tom THUMB. S. Marsbfeld, Oregon.
Charles III. Stratton General Tom Thumb
died at marlborough, Mass. on July Is.
1888. after stroke of apopleXy. His widow
married on April 6. 1885, Count Primo
Magri, an Italian dwarf
MISTRESS OF HERsELF-C. c., Kings
City, Cal. Under the laws of this State
female has attained her legal majority at
the age of IS, and, being her own mistress,
cannot be forced to do what she does not
please to do.
No REwARD.-F. E. c., City. There is
no reward for an invention of practical
and safe re-escape save such natural re-
ward which any good and practical inyen-
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