The morning call., 1893-03-05
THE QUERY COLUMN
Why St. Helena and Not
Santa Helena?
PENSIONS FOR FIREMEN.
The Eschscholtzia as the National
Flower-A Sleepless Age-The
Discovery of Hawaii.

The WHY AND WHEREFoRE-Curio
Santa Cruz writes: why is the town in
Napa County called st. Saint Helena, and
not Santa Helena. like Santa Maria. etc. 81
The reason is undoubtedly this: The
Spanish sanity names are San for the male
and Santa for the female appellatons; e. g.,
San Andreas. San Diego, San Pedro San
Bernardino. San Francisco; Santa Bar
bara, Santa Monica, Santa Isabel, Santa
Rosa, etc. But Mount ST. Helena, from
which the modern city in Napa County
takes its name. was so named in 1S41 by the
Russian naturalist Wosnessensky, who first
ascended it, the name being in honor of the
Empress of Russia, and following the Eu-
ropean abbreviatiOn of sanity spelling
Our correspondent will remember there was
2 Musc0vlte COLONY in this part of California
in those days. % The words "afferent"
and ''efferent" have distinct meaning gs, like
the words affected" and effected" so often
confounded by illiterate persons. An "af-
ferenC is some thing which brings in; an
''etferent' something which conveys or car
ries out. man may be affected with a
disease, but he cannot be effected by il.
Effected means continued or accomplished;
affected means visited by" or influenced"
A man may have effected his purpose, but it
is gross grammatical blunder TO say that q
whole district would be effected bv q bill
(3) Afferent and efferent are perfectly legiti-
mate words in their proper application.
II AM DYING. EGYPT. DY1Ne"-E. F.
p, Angels Camp, Cal. II is regretted that
there is not space available in the Query
Column to reprint this poem, but you are
probably in error about its having been
written by Confederate officer the night
before his death. That this is the COM
N, ouly aaaantHd etnrv is fruo
the facts are the other way. The story Is
that General W. Fl. Lyle of the Con-
federate army on the night before the battle
of Chickamauga had presentiment that
he would be killed and rose In his tent, at
the instance of brother officer, TO pen the
poem. which, he said, was ringing in his
mind at the time. Lvtle was killed at
Chickamauga. but after investigation it
| turned out that the general had written the
poem some years before the battle was
fought September 1920. 1863 and that it is
contained in CoggeshalPs Poets and
Poetry of the West" printed in 1862
PISTOL PERMITS Subscriber, City, m
Length of residence has nothing to do with
the granting of permit to carry pistol or
| other concealed deadly weapon. The ap-
plicant must show to the satisfaction OF the
Police Commissioners that he is exposed to
peril by reason OF his employment or by
being on duty at night and, above all, that
he is "a peaceable person." (N If a man
has attempted to take your life or threat
ened to kill you warrant will be granted
for his arrest on your making oath 10 that
effect. (3) No citizen Is allowed TO carry
pistol without permit, whatever his social
position or nationality.
CALIFORNIA CoNGREssMEN, ETC. = H.,
Decoto, Cal. C) Following is the represen-
tation of California in the new or Fifty
third Congress: Senators-Leland Stanford
(R.) San Francisco; Stephen NJ. White D.},
succeeds Charles n. FELTON, (R.); House of
Representatives = Thomas j. Geary (D),
Santa Rosa; Anthony Caminetti (D). Jack
son; James G. Mcguire (D.), San Francisco
Marion Cannon D.), Ventura; S. G. Hill
born (R.). Oakland; Eugene F. Loud (R).
San Francisco; William w. Bowers (R)'
San Diego. (2) The Republican nominating
convention for President was held at Min
neapolis June 7-10 1892; the Democratic at
Chicago June 2124. 1892.
CHINESE IMMIGRATIoN-A. H., j. d.
and others. The Chinese immigration into
California and the United States virtually
commenced in 1853. but the first great
rush was when 10000 contract laborers
were employed in the construction Of the
Central Pacific Railroad. (2) After 1873
| they began to spread over the East and the
whole country. (3l The total Of arrivals up
to 1873 was about 10000, and the depart
ures $1,000. az The greatest number of
| Chinese immigrants arriving at this port
was probably IN 1868, 1869 and 1870, in which
years the figures were 1900, $1,000 and
l1,000.
A SLEEPLEss AGE-Subscriber, City.
Edison is great man, but his idea Of the
men of the future being able to do without
sleep is probably an Eastern newspaper
| fiction. During sleep nature ia at work
| putting the brain in order, repairing wasted
tissue and giving to muscles and nerves