The morning call., 1892-02-21

Catch questions Will not receive any attention.
No opinion Will be given IN TINS 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
az an advertisement, viii not be answered.
livery inquiry must nave the true ana IulI
name OF The sender as we'll as the correct resi-
GenCe. Any inquiry that has not The cor
rect name and add csS OF the sender VIII
be treated As II il WAS not stgnedf Rud ths
writer need not expect al answer
ANEEICAN Inv. r. City. According
20 tile United States Geological Survey the
earliest mention made OF manufactured
American tia was that in 1850, made Of ore
taken from The Temcscal tia mines in san
Bernardno County, Cal At the luterna-
t0nal Exhibition in 1876 at Philadelphia
bar inches long, wide and / thick was
exhibited. Il was reduced from stream tin
a med IN The creek at Clancy, not lar from
Helena Mont A com any called the United
States Tin Plate Company was organized I'D
1874 for the purpose Of manufacturing TN
plate in tile United States but very little
plate was made. and tie effort was
soon abandoned. Tie fact Is that
there are ne official records OF statIstc>@t
The quantity Of TN and teTne plates made m
tie uited States between the years 1872
and 1878. Plates were made at the works
iu NtLSyIlC OHju. in 1873 and 1874, and At
the Ieechlurg Pa works IN 1874, 1879 and
1896 and at Demm.eT lPa.1 mp 10 1875. The
suect-rou made AT Apollo, Pa, WAS timed
ut New York City. But the price for coke
plates so steadily decreased from 1872 TO
1875 that the American manufacturers could
not meet Il, and the manufacture IN Inc
United states was discontinued.
AN HISTORICAL DARK DAY E. r. ",
City. Il May -. 1850, was the famous dark
day in America, and il was said Of it that in
many places il was impossible to read ordi-
nary print" No Congress, Continental or
United States, met in The year 1850, but the
circumstance to which YOU allude indefinitely
occurred at the session Of the Legislature Of
Connecticut at Hartford. The House Of
Representatives being unable 10 transact
its business, adjourned, and q proposal
o. adjourn the Council was under consider
alton, some thinking tie day IF judgment
was at hand. Abraham Davenport man
Of stern integrity and stanch patriot, OBJ
jeCted and said: That day Is either at
Iaud or 1t Is not; IL IL Is not there Is no
cause Cf adjournment; II It IS ! choose 70 be
found doing my duty. / wish therefore
that candles may be brought" (2) The
cause of that dark day is attributed TO the
presence Of ordinary clouds OF very unusual
volume and density. In Winters Tent
on the Beach, is given q very beautiful
poetical version Of the above anecdOte.
SOMEWHAT FIsuY-P. c. D.. City. Dc
the authority Of Professor David ). Jordan,
President of tie Leland Stanford Jr. Uni
versity, the @ {. REPLIES: The tomcod
lNicrogadus prcxjmusl is not the whiting Of
the European market although closely re-
lated 20 that species. Tie tomcods are Of
two species only, tie one .Micr0Eadus tom
C0cl found on the Atlantic coast and Micro
EaluS pIONlWus $50 called because Il Is near
10 The other One found on the coast II Cal
If6rui3. 50 lar as flesh is concerned there
is little difference between this nSh and The
whiting. TIE true whiting Of Euroae is
tie Ner.aDgus meTlangus, OF G1lus meT-
lauEUs
ACROSS TIE CoNTINENT-H W. Nouut-
Vile, Cal % Tie first trausc0nuneutal
line OF railroad was CONF leteI on May 10,
1852. when al Pr0montoTy Summit, Utah. al
q point 1856 miles west Of the Missouri
River and $50 east If Sacramento the june
ton Of the Union PaC be and Central Pacific
was made Ground Has ken az Omaha,
NrbT.. for tie Union Pacific On November
., 1865. ~ Through trains began 10 run on
May ~ and or August % arrived IN San
Francisco from Boston, Mass, the first car
lead Of freight.
CLAIMS CoWuTTEE-J H., City. The
House Committee on Claims is composed Of
the following-uamed members: Chairman,
3. II. Bum Of North Carolina; C. H.
AIausuT Of Missouri, W. G. Stahluecker OF
New York. Robert Bullock Of Florida, j.
ByTns Of Missouri. y. y Cox Of Tennessee,
LAW +. Mccain Of Illinois, J. y Cox #
New York. John W. Kendall Of Kentucky,
Z, H. Page of Rhode Island, John L. Rey-
burn and J.. J.. Atkinson IF Pennsy wanna,
George W. Smith Of Illinois, T. F. Loud Of
California and John N. Meyer JE Of New
York
MARRIAGE DECLARATIoN-A A., City
a declaration Of marriage under tie Civil
Code Of this State must show substantially
~ tie names, ages and residence OF the
paTties; ~ the fact Of marriage; - the
time Of marriage; 81 that The marriage has
not been soiemnlzed. The declaration must
be joint one. The copy Of a declaration
submitted by you conforms 10 only two Of
the i've conditions enumerated.
KELLY NoToR-B. B. r., City. The
claim Of john W. Keely is that lie has dis
covered a new ethcric force in other
words, claims TO he able to utilize sound
force S a motive power. II was intended
OF course, 10 suppianJ steam and, in fact
every known mechanical power, but to be
applied 10 some more practical and better
understood thing than aerial navigation.
SHEEP IN AMERICA M D.. Oakley.
Idaho. a. For 1891 the number Of sheep in
the United States was reported at A., 43l. 1j6
q The number Of sheep declined annually
under the operation Of the tariff reduction
Of 1888, and it was not until 1890 for the
decade that there was an increase in the
number
LABOREE's WAGEs-M D.. Oakley, Idaho.
The wages OF the laborer, meaning By that
term one who performs all kinds Of manual
labor without having q special trade. ranges
from s. 30 90 s. per week In England. in
New OTk, from Sc 10 SO; IN Chicago, from
s. % to 50, and In San Francisco from 50
10 81.
POPULAR VoTE-J. Nee WestpOrt Cal
Cleveland received IN 1883 the largest plu-
Talty popular vote ever cast for Presiden-
tial candidate, namely, J,j3S, 421; Grant IN
1872 bad the greatest majority popular vote,
namely. 727, J7J more than for all his op-
pOneuts
PoPULATIoE-L J., City. o. According
to the census taken in 1891 London, E.
gland, has a population If 4,23l, 43l, and ac-
COTdlng 10 that Of 1880 Berlin, Germany, Of
1.579. pa 2 Salt Lake Lity, Utah, was re-
turned al 4i,643, and Portland, Oregon, at
1855.
STATES u THE UNION-G. H. B., City
You and your friends apparently know not
what you are talking about. The number
Of States in the Union is not g, nor IS. nor
o., but 81; nor are there % stars in the
American flag, nor 70 stars Oh tie new half
dollar
MARKET PMcEs-M D., Oakley, Idaho.
For the prices Of wool In Great Britain and
Australia, the O. C. refers you to the com
merciaI column, for the answer given to this
question one day or week may not be q cor
rect one for the next
EXEMPT. H.. City. The necessary
furniture in the three living-rooms Of a
family cannot be seized for taxes Neces-
saTy furniture does not inclnda ulann