The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-03
THE CALLS QUERY COLUMN.
Comparative Figures Of Waterloo and
Gettysburg.
Pioneer Antonio M. Sunol - Origin Of the
Potato-United States Mints-Vessels Of
the New Navy in Commission.

AIERlOO AND GETI1SBURG RE- w .,
Napa. Cal. The subject of the comparative
losses in the battles of Waterloo and Gettys-
burg has been a much debated one. Au-
thoritieS are not of one mind. The French
army at Waterloo, according to Haydn's
Dictionary of Dates, numbered 71.947 men
and 246 guns, and the allies 133, Col men of
all arms and 2G0 guns-English 67,66l and
Prussians CSC 600. The loss OF the allies was
22,97G, of whom 4206 were killed, II, $50
wounded and 1921 missing; of the French
1880 killed and wounded 1900 taken priS-
Oners, total &c, 300-though other accounts,
including some French writers, make the
loss about 10000, which are the figures gen.
orally accepted. At any rate, 49, 276 on both
sides are thus accounted for as hOrs de
combat. 1t may be admitted that the heav-
lest loss suffered in any one battle of the
war of the rebellion was at Get
tysburg. The numbers engaged and the
loss are varOusly stated. General Meade,
the Union commander. claimed that his
strength was about q, 000 with about 81. 600
OF all arms brought into battle, French's
7000 having been keptidle at Frederick, and
about 1000 more detailed for special service.
These figures correspond nearly with
General Humphreys statement that the
Army of the Potomac in this action COM
prised 10000 infantry, 10000 cavalry
and an artillery force Of 800 guns.
OF the Confederate forces, General
Humphrey says that General Lee entered
Pennsylvania with $1,000 infantry, 5000
cavalry and proportionate force OF artll-
lery. GTeeley'S American Conflict" puts
down the count CT Lees army marching
through Hagerstown as $1,000 infantry, COCO
cavalry and go guns, with no less than
5000 cavalry under Stuart advancing with
tnFpHul
loss was %, 190-2S34 killed, 713 wounded
and 6643 missing. The Confederate loss
is not stated officially, and one writer puts
the total hors de combat at 5000, evidently
an exaggeration. Greeley's work, above
alluded to. estimates the loss at $4,000, OF
whom $1,000 were killed and 10000 I'M
wounded prisoners, and Johnston's Cyclic
pedia 81, coos, 600 killed and wounded and
$500 missing, including the unw0unded
prisoners. These figures would show at
Waterloo force OF 205,60S. loss 1926; at
Gettysburg 17S,000, loss 81, 100.
NEW NAvY-C. C. City. Consultation at
any of the libraries of Volume XIII Of the
Annual Encyclopedia will give YOU full
history of the new navy, with the names
and class of the vessels. The @. c. is not
conducted with view to furnish infOrma-
tiOn to residents OF the city on general ques-
tons which they can answer themselves
with little application by consulting refer
ence books in the libraries. Of the vessels
of the new navy the following named are in
commission: Cruisers-Atlanta, Baltimore,
Benn ngton, Boston, Charleston. Chicago.
Concord, Newark, Petrol, Philadelphia,
Sa II Francisco and Yorktown; double-tur-
ret monitor, MiaDtOn0mah; dyua mite
cru User, Vesuvius, and torpedo boat, Cush-
ing.
THE POTATO - r. j. NJ, Suisun, Cal
The potato was introduced to the world by
the Spaniards, who met with it in the
neighborhood of Quito, in Peru. where it
was cultivated by the natives. In the
Cronica de Peru of Pedro Ceca, published
at Seville in 1853, as we'll as in other Span
iSh books of about the same date, the pc
tatO is mentioned under the name of
"batata' or papa" A monk is supposed
to have been the first to introduce it from
Peru into Spain, from which country it
passed into Italy and thence into Belgium.
BRoILED EGGs-J. c.. City. OF course
an egg is not broiled in the sense that meat
is. An egg cooked or roasted in the shell
in the ashes or cnders of fire is called a
"broiled egg" and is said TO be most appe-
tizing. But if you cooks cannot agree upon
a thing in your line, the @. G. will not at
tempt TO set itself up as an expert on cul-
mary methods or nomenclature.
ONE TRIAL Is ALL-H. W., Yountville,
CAL The law is so merciful to the person
charged with crime that in this country the
man tried on charge If murder and found
not guilty by the jury cannot be rearreSted
and tried again for the same crime, even
though new evidence could be produced.
LOSSES DURING THE WARE w., Napa.
Cal. The deaths in the Union army during
the war were 279,376; in the Confederate
133, 1871. which on account of the nature of
the case must be accepted as r partial state
ment only. No two authorities agree on
either of the figures, and probably the
above do not include the losses in the navy.
SEAMEN IN THE NAvY-C. c., City. The
for the navy are on a basis
of 1900 men and $50 boys but how this
ment of each vessel in the navy is no one
can inform you save the Navy Department
at Washington. d. G.
UNITED STATES MINT Sd. j. L., City.
There are eleven minis in the United States.
located rs follows: Washington, ID. c.;
Boise City. Idaho; Carson City, New;
Mont; New Orleans, La; New York. n.
Y; Philadelphia, Pa: San Francisco, Cal,
and 81. Louis, Mo.
LARGEST LocoMoTIvEs-R E. L., City.
The largest passenger locomotive, it is
claimed, was built in Schenectady, n. Y, in
1883. for the NJ. c. r. r., and the largest
freight. FL Gobernador. Of 105 tons. in use
at Tehachapi, was constructed in Sacra-
mento in 1884.
PALACE HoTEL-T. s.. City. 1t is said
that the Palace Hotel in this city is the
largest caravansary in the world.
NITRATE OF SoDA-C. H.. City. Nitrate
of Soda or inter, is used largely in the prep
araton of saltpeter in the manufacture OF
gunpowder and extensively also by chemi-
cal analysts and assayers.
Nor IN THE EVENING ScHooLs-W. E.,
City. Assaying and mining engineering
are not taught in any evening class of the
public schools. Said classes are onl y for
elementary studies.
SULLIvAN's AGE-E. b., City. John L.
Sullivan was born October IS, 1858.