The morning call., 1891-07-19

PORTUGAL. .,,,....,I 54l $4,000 2452 $50
Roumania. ................I 2Ol 1.75Ol 100000
Russia. Observation-Disclosures. S79l 30.432i 2l $4,000
Spain ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 81 II sou 6l93, 100
sweden ............ .....- SOB 4,144 1,662.6IO
IurAey ................ :. ooI 4O.olzI o,I4O,OOO
rincludes torpedo-boats
1t appears from the Universal Register,
issued by the committee of Lloyd's Register
Of British and Foreign Shipping. that Great
Britain has guns capable of penetrating
81 inches of unbacked iron, and 16 others
which can penetrate IS inches of the same
material. Italy has 20 guns which can pen
citrate 80 inches of iron. France has IA guns
which can pierce q inches and Il others
able to penetrate % inches of unbacked
iron. Russia has 20 guns and Spain equal
to the penetration of "a inches of iron, and
no other power has any guns capable of
an equivalent result In other words, of
guns able to penetrate "a inches OF un-
backed iron, France has 2S, Italy 20, Russia
20, Spain .. and Great Britain %. Next,
regarding the speeds of their war-shps,
we lind the several powers stand as fol-
lows: Ships of 20 knots and above-En-
gland !. France l, Italy 10, Spain ., and
other European nations 4. OF 19-knot
speed, England has II ships, France 10, Ger
many 3 Italy and other nations 9. OF IS
knot ships, England has 5, France 7, Ger
many :, Italy and other nations e. The
United States is, however, chiefly seen
in 17-knOt ships, of which we have %.
mounting ISL guns; France, of 20 guns;
Italy, OF 40 guns, ana other nations, OF
10 guns. England has IL ships of 90 guns
that can steam 10 knots, whereas France has
only, Of IS guns. AT 10 knots France beats
us, with IL shiUs of pa guns, as compared
with our y ships of 126 guns; and at ii
knots France has % ships of 334 guns,
whereas we have only Is ships of 252 guns.
Summarizing these figures, it appears that
with speeds above IA knots we have so ships
OF 795 guns; France, 90 of 600 guns; Ger
many, % OF 2S5 guns, and Italy, Al of POI
guns.
POKER PLAYING-Reader, City. In an
swer TO your question, " If one player in a
game of poker has too many or too few
cards is that particular players hand foul,
or is there misdeal requiring the cards to
be dealt over again ?" the Q. c. gives the
following rules, taken from THE American
Hoyle," which is the accepted standard
among players: "Rule 5-If the dealer deals
without having the pack cut, or shuffies after
II is cut, or misses hand, or gives too many
or too few cards 10 any player, or exposes a
card in dealing, he forfeits an ante to the
pool and deals again Rule elf player,
after lifting any of his cards, is found
to nave too many or too few cards he must
go out OF the game. Some players merely
require fresh deal without any
forfeit. and some require player to ta6e
the card dealt him If only one card is ex-
posed. Again, some players give a hand
with only four cards the option of going
in). Rule IF, when drawing TO fill, the
dealer gives the player too many or too few
cards, and the player lifts any of them, he
must 20 out of the game. If the error is
discovered before lifting. it can be rectified
in the case OF too many cards by with
drawing the superfuous ones, in the
case of too few, cards by filling from
If PLAYER chips with more or less than FIVE
cards, he must 90 out Of the game. But il
all the other players have gone ont of the
game before the discovery is made there is
no penalty. = Rule 1.-THE dea. in
which an imperfection of ths pack is dis
covered is void. All preceding deals stand
good"
ADMIRAL PoRTER-B. F. B., City. Ad-
miral David D. Porter, at different times as
Lieutenant, Commander, Acting Rear-Ad-
miral, Fice-Admiral and Admiral, was in
many important engagements during the
late war, and 1t would have been q miracle
if some of the vessels he was on had not
been hit by either shot or she'll. As Lieu
tenant Porter he Was in command of the
Powhatan, at Sumter, at the Southwest
Pass and during the chase of the Confed-
crate steamer Brooklyn. Detached from the
Powhatan, he was with the mortar fl0tilla
during the attacks on Forts jackson and st.
Phillip at Nicksburg. at Arkansas Post, at
Alexandria. Louisiana, Shreveport, Fort
EiSHtI. Dtdultsl, TOEI aUueTSOn, w Inning
ton, Richmond and other engagements. at
times from twenty to thirty thousand shots
were fired during an engagement.
GOLD AND SILVER PRoDUCT-E. H. D.,
City. The report of the Director of the
Mint gives the direct estimate of the prod
uct of gold and silver during the year 1887
to have been: Gold, fine ounces: Califor-
MIA 651, 407, valued at Sl3. GA; Montana,
2o9,237, valued at S5,97S, $50, and Colorado
234,203, valued at 81, 3S7. OF silver the
product was in fiue ounces: Montana,
-, 7Sl,O72, valued at SIT ,S17, 54S; Colorado
II, III, 4S8, valued at S15,660. 236 Utah COM
ing in third and Nevada fourth in this prod
uct, California only contributing 1852 2S1
ounces, valued at 1,632.00 At this time
there is but very little difference in the out
put from year to year, so that il can be
safely affirmed that California is still the
greatest gold-producing State and Montana
the greatest silyer-producing State.
HUssAR-W. v, Sacramento. HGssar is
derived from the Hungarian word husz, sig
nifying twenty. At time when the Turks
were overrunning Eastern Europe every
twenty houses were compelled to send and
maintain in the field one soldier fully
equipped. These men. to distinguish them
from the regular army, were called thus
Sars, and they proved so valiant in the
field that the name became a SYNONYM for
dash and courage and has been adopted in
all languages of Europe. The Hungarian
cavalry claims that the name was given be-
cause, in the Turkish wars, each man OF
them was match for twenty Turks.
LELAND STANFORD JR- UNIVERSITY
l.. f. b., Napa. The address of sthe Presi-
dent OF the Leland Stanford Jr. University
is David s. Jordan. President, Menlo
Park, CAL" The Registrar of the uni
versity has not been named as yet All in
formation with reference TO the institution
can be obtained by addressing the Presi-
dent as above. This is intended also as an
answer to number Of queries with refer
ence to the same subject.
THE PoLKA-Dancer, City. The polka is
not of modern introduction. In John Davis
poem on Dancing, published in 1886, this
dance is clearly indicated in the following
lines:
Yet there is one, the most delightful kind.
lofty Jumping or a-leaping round,
When arm In arm two dancers are entwined,
And whiri themselves with strict enhancement
And still their feet an anapest do sound;
An anapast is all their nusics song.
Whose first two feet are short. and third Is long
RAINFALL OF 80 AND '91-G. O., City.
The rainfall between December 8, 1890, and
June 30, 1891, was Jas follows: During the
month of December, from and after the sth,
1.22 inches; January, .9S of an inch; Febru-
airy, 7.25 inches; March, 1 SO inches; April,
2. A inches; May, 1.25 inches; June, II of
an inch. Total, 1922 inches.
POPULATION OF THE WoRLD-E. W. T.,
City. 1t is estimated that in round num-
bers the population of the world is I.45O.-
100000, of which number 100000 600 are
clothed and live in houses, 700, O00, 600 live in
imperfect dwellings and 25o, 100000 are wan
dering savages.
FIRST CHIEF ENGINEER-Side Stoker,