The morning call., 1891-12-27

rect name and address of the sender will
be treated as il it was not signed, and the
writer need not expect All answer.
STATE PROHIBITION BY STATUTE-R. d.
W., Yuba City, Cal. Maine passed the first
general prohihitory law in 1916, which law
ended the local option era. This law failed.
Delaware followed with similar law in 1877.
but it was declared unconstitutional. On
June 3 1851, Names first prohibtory law
was superseded by the Maine Law. 1t was
repealed in 1856 and stringent license law
substituted; in 1853 prohibition was re-
enacted. Following the lead of Maine
and partially patterning after its law.
prohibition was enacted in MINES ota
1852, Rhode Island 1852, Massachusetts
Q652), Vermont QS52), Michigan 1888,
Connecticut qS54, Indiana 1855, Delaware
tre-enacted 1850, Iowa 1850, Nebraska
$3.50, New York $3.50, New Hampshire
1853 and Illinois $3.50 In only two of
the States has the prohibitory law stood
until now-Ne rmOnt and New Hampshire.
IN six it was declared unconstitutional
Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Indiana and New York. In Con-
necticutit was repealed; in Illinois it failed
of approval; in Iowa it was rendered i'll
operative. Kansas is prohibition State
and among the high-license States may be
named Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Mis-
souri,. PennSy lYania, Arkansas, Nebraska,
Minnesota.
Productive STATEs-R. d. W, Yuba
City, Cal. The figures of the latest census
cannot be given in reply to your questions,
because such data have not been published.
The principal producing States are in the
order given, according to the best figures ::
Cotton-M Mississippi, Georgia. Texas, Ala
bama, Arkansas, South Carolina, Louisi-
ana, North Carolina, Tennessee; tobacco
Kentucky. Virginia, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, OHIO, Maryland, Pennsylvania, In
diana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Connecti-
South Carolina Georgia, Louisiana,
North Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Ala
bama, Texas; iron Michigan, Ala
bama. Pennsylvania, New York; wheat
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Mime
sofa. Iowa. California, Mississippi. WiScOn-
sin, Pennsylvania. Nebraska, Kansas. Ken
lucky, New York. Louisiana is the great
sugar-caue growing State, besides MisSiS-
sppi and Florida, while sorghum is raised
in California. Alabama, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan and Wisconsin.
THOMAS PAINE-H. s., City. Thomas
Paine died in New York, June s, 1909, and
by his own direct on was buried on his farm
at New Rochelle, n. Y, where he had spent
most Of the seven last years of his life. In
1919 William Goblet, the English reformer,
exhumed the remains and conveyed them to
England. One authority declares that no
body paid any attention to the affair; tile
relics he offered were not purchased and the
bones were reinforced" Another authority
says that the removal of the bones to Eng
land was with the hope OF increasing en-
thuriasm for the republican ideas of which
Paine was still the fayorite eXemplar in
print; tut the movement did not produce
the desired effect. and it is believed that the
remains found their final resting-place in
France"
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE-H.
S, City. 1t has frequently been asserted
that Thomas Paine was the author Of the
original draft of the Declaration of indie
pendence, but the evidence offered is far
from conclusive. Thomas Jefferson, Benja-
min Franklin. John Adams, Roger Sher-
man and Robert r. Livingston constituted
the committee appointed to prepare the
draft and Mr.. jefferson, being the Chair
man of the committee, was naturally asked
to write the document He did so in a house
near what is now the corner of Market and
Seventh streets in Philadelphia, ana Con-
gress subjected his draft to a severe aud pro-
ionged revision, making many suppress
sions, additions and alterations, most of
which were improvements.
LAST APPEARANCEs-W. C., City. The
persons named, who are all dead. made their
last appearances on the stage in this city on
the dates given: Emma Abbott, in "Bohe-
milan Girl" at the Baldwin Tneater, on
December 90, 1890; Lawrence Barrett, in
" Yorick's Love" New California Theater,
June ], 1889; Dion B0ueicault at Bald win
Theater. in Kerry" and "Phryne," on
September "a. 1887; W. }. Florence, same
theater. in almighty Dollar" December 4.
1886; Aimee (Mare Trc0ul. at Bush-street
Theater, in MAN zelle." January 1, 1887
and appeared some years before in this city,
the exact date the Q. c. has not yet ascer-
tained.
GRANT AS A RIDER-J. II. L., City. Your
query whether Grant ever drove team OF
trotting or pacing horses distance of forty
miles in three hours, which is a feat impos-
sOle of accomplishment, was undoubtedly
suggested by mistaken recollection of a
reference in an article, Generals in the
Saddle" from the Rider and Driver. How
close the reading of the article must have
been may be judged from the quotation
Grant once covered fifty miles in four
hours on three horses"
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES F. Y,
City. q No person except a natural-borr
citizen can be eligible to he Office OF Presi-
dent 1t is claimed that the person born in
foreign land Of naturalized parents is
natural born. (2) Section II, Chapter 126
Laws OF 1882, expressly prohibits the natur-
aliZation of Chinese, which disposes of your
question whether Chinese child Is eligible
'On account of the naturalization of his
father" The citizenship of the husband
controls that of the wife.
CRossING THE L1NE-J. H., Woodville.
Cal. On the voyage from Honolulu to sgd.
ney, Australia, you necessarily cross the
one hundred and eightieth meridian. mark.
ing the division between the Eastern and
Western hemispheres, being the exact an
tipOde of Greenwich, and the Sandwich Isl
andS being more than 20o eastward OF that
meridian. In going west day is dropped
from the calendar; in going east the day is
doubled.
CITIZENSHIP MADE EASY. II. W.,
YOuntyille, Cal. Any alien under 81 years
of age, whatever his age when coming to
this country, who has been in the armies of
the United States and honorably discharged
therefrom, may become a citizen on petit
ton, without previous declaration of ipten.
ton. provided he has resided in the United
States at least one year previous to making
the petition and is of good moral character
FOUR SEAsoNs-J. II. W.. Yountville,
Cal. Popularity speaking in America spring
embraces the months of March, April and
May; summer, June. July and August
autumn, September, October and Novem-
Der; winter, December, January and Feb
ruary. The exact day of their Introduction
is fixed automatically, but the divisions
above given do not hold good all the world
over.
From BURNs-J. P. D., City. In Rob er
Burns poem, ITO Mary in Heaven" will be
found the lines:
Thou lingering star with lessening ray
That lov'st to greet the early morn.
Mary Campbell was betrofhed tn the moot