The morning call., 1892-01-24
TIE CALLS
QUERY COLUMN:
4 Brief History Of The Confederate Iron
Clad MGTTiIlaG.
s7seifc Gravity Considered Minnesota's Con-
MISUNDERSTANDING Proceedings
AMI Mrs Bates the Giants.

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writer need not expect an answer
IRoNCIAo MEBEINAc-J. IT,, Sacrament
To-. Cal You are alt grtheT at sea in your
reco.. eeti0ns If the history 4 tie rebel iron
clad Nelrmac, rs she was known In
the North, bus Virginia, as she was chris
.ened by the Southern Conlederacy, nor
was she reEted after tie memorable en-
cagemeut with the Monitor, which rang
out her death-kaeu. In 1875 the United
states had SIX screw irigates built, and
among the number was the MerEimac. 10
1861, when the large naval establishment at
Norfolk twelve miles from Fort Monroe,
was abandoned hurgiedly by the FederalS,
among the ships burned was this fTjgate Of
and docked by the Contederates in
the summer Of 1851, and, after cutting
heT down to the old berthdeck was trans
formed into an ironclad, and rechusJened
Virginia. Her first engagement was on the
Sth Of March, 1862, when she attacked the
Federal wooden feet, and sunk tie Con-
gress and Cumberland. Erlcss0n's Monitor,
which had been builtiD l00days, engaged her
on the following day, and the result OF that
naval duel in Hampton Roads TeY0lulI0nlZeu
naval warfare and gave wooden war vessels
and the MeTrimac or Virginia their quletus.
The latter retired disabled to the N0TiOih
Yard, and when the ConfedeTateS IN turn
evacuated that naval establishment, Com
mOdore Iatnall ordered her TO be de-
,troyed and she was fired, after having been
run ashore near Craney Island.
INSOLVENCY ". Il. Napa Junction.
Cal d An insolveut debtor owing debts
exceeding in amount the sum Of $500 may
petition in voluntary solyeucy. An adiudi-
cation in involuntary solyency may be made
On the petition of i've or more creditors
whose demands accruing in this State
amount in the aggregate to not less than
$500 .2l Either application Is made to the
Superior Court Tie cost viii vary accord
.ng 10 whether the estate is small or great,
simple OF complicated, and what the ls0ors
If the ass. guee may be. .3l 4 LAWYER can
better Inform you on the subject OF
costs ana fees. ! GU can consult your
own incijuations whether TO employ one or
not. II is decidedly preferable, if not alb
solutely necessary, to have one IN al legal
matters l4f Section GOO Of the Code or
Civil Procedure provides what pr perry II
the REORGANIZATION IS exempt from exc
cut N. Il is too long TO give IN the e. C.,
even In a condensed form. 81 \ voluntary
fAr -
next preceding the fling 10 the county where
tie petition IS filed. The involuntary petit
ton Is filed iu the county where {! g debtor
resides OF has his place Of business. 50 ILc
answer TO the second question reg riding
cost applies 10 the siEtb-'How long does it
AXE TO 90 through? '--ceriallly nj under
Thirty days.
SPECIFIC GRAvIrY-B r., CITY. The
speclc gravity II any body is tie proper
tIen waica tie weight Of q certain bulk Ct
that body bears TO the same LUX Of another
tCdv. which is taken as a standard. The
standard for substances, solid and liquid, IS
dist led water at tie temperature q o.
tahr.. barometer 30 inches; and the weight
q a cubic inch Of this standard is given as
2J1.4-6 TT Y grains; hence q cubic foot OF u
weighs gs.l-S ayo TdUpois ounces, OF UZ.52
ayCiTGulaIs pounds. For aeIItoIm BODIES
The standard IS atmospheric air. cubic
inch Of which at WpeT8juTe q j FanT.
weighs S26qS ard at CO Fahr .50235 grains
Troy. Tie specific gravity OF solids is best
measured by tie hydrostatic balance
DIVING AND SwDSuNG-E. A. R, City.
Tie man Who makes living by diving for
which lie receives pay, IL, Of course, pro-
f,ssional diver. One WHO occasionally re-
ceiyes lay for diving yet does not follow it
IS a vocation, cannot be called a profess
sOnal and yet caunot strictly be classed as
ali amateur. An amateur need not neceS-
5auly have 20 contest with professional to
become himself professional, Tor he may
have become such without ever having had
cCntest-in short. y0u are splitting fine hairs
to no purpose. - Nor IS 8 professional
diver necessarily a professional swimmer.
The nan NhO can swim with diver. suit
on is q remarkable Cne-in fact, lie cannot
swim when 50 enCaSed.
JACKSON MEDAL-T NJ and J. E, City.
In no biography Of Maj0T-General Andrew
Jackson las the O. c. found a record that
Congress ordered a medal struck of TO COM
memorate his signal and extraordinary vic
tory at New Orleans over the British in
1915. But granted for the sake Of argument
that such an honor was accorded, II is IN
reasonable to maintain that every member
Of Congress, as well as the President and
his Cabinet, received this medal also, Such
course would be comforting very little dis
tiDctiOn upon the real hero
MINNFsOTA's CoNsTITUTIoN-W. W. P,
City. The Constitution Of Minnesota rati-
fed in 1857 did not admit fOreigB-bor resi-
dents of the Territory as citizens Of the
Union when the Territory became a State,
nor did 1t permit them to yO'e unless they
had declared their intention TO become citi-
zens, and then demanded a residence quail
fcalion both ia the United States and in the
State. Legal voters only were permitted by
the enabling act TO vote for delegates to
the Constitutional Convention.
Mr.. AND Mrs. BATEs-J. R, Heads
burg Cal The giant, Martin Van Buren,
Bates, WAS born in Kentucky. weighed 49G
pounds, aud was feet p inches in stature
HIS wife, Anna Swan. a native Of England
weighed little over 800 pounds when he
married her IN England in 1871, and was of
the same height As he.
VIA MAGELLAN STRAIT-J. II. W,
YountYille, Cal New York and Val
parais0 are separated by water by $40 geo
graphical miles, 1860 between New York
and Magellan Strait. The latter Is up
ward oil 800 miles long
WIDTH OF STREETs-1. B.. City. Broad
way in New York is 80 feet in width from
the Battery to Union square or Fourteenth
street, and 30 feet from Seventeenth to
Fifty-ninth street; Devisadero street in
this city Is 62R, California SZj5 west of
Kearny and So east, and Market street 120
feet.
WILLIAMS IN THE SENATE-S. H., Santa
Clara, Cal A. ?. Williams of San Fran
cisco was elected on August C, 1856 to serve
out John +. Mller's uneXDiTed term in The
Senate of the United States.
SALE OF SUNoL-M. D., City. In his
current catalogue Of the Tarry town Stock
Farm, Robert Bonner stated that ne had
paid Sal, COO for Sunol.
JENNY LIND-H. F., Peralta. Cal Jenny
Lind Goldschmidt died at London, England,