The morning call., 1894-03-25

jurisdiction and a seal ana clerk have
power to grant naturalization papers. The
declaration of Intention. when this is
needed, may be made before the clerk of
any of the above courts.
DESERT LAND ACT-M. E.. City. A
person who took up land uGder the desert
land act and has failed TO make the neces-
sary yearly Improvements as we'll as to
bring water upon the land within the
time prescribed by law cannot homestead
the land. The land, however, can be
homesteaded, but not by the party who
made The original entry for it as desert
/ land for the reason that when the partv
filed upon the land under the desert land
act he must have known that the land was
unit for cultivation, and to homestead the
tract it would be necessary to show
that it can be cultivated and will grow
vegetation. Therefore should he now file
for homestead his first oath would have
been in the nature of perjury. and cense-
quently his last application would in ell
likelihood be denied. He can relinQuish
his desert filing, and some one else
can make application for homestead
entry. In the volume of decisions, XIV,
January to June, 1892, Department Of the
| terror, relating TO the public lands, page
123, appears the case of Haggin VS.. Do
herty, wherein one Chapman made a
aferward filed homestead entry with
Chapman's relinquishment of the desert
land entry, and which homestead filing
was allowed.
SwINBURNE-H. S. B., Berkeley, Cal.
The poems and ballads of Charles AIger-
non Swinburne esta blished the school of
heroic poetry. When Lord Alfred Tenny-
son died in 1898 many looked upon SWIM
hur ha
laureate. His name was mentioned in
connection with that of Edwin Arnold,
William Morris and Lewis Morris, but the
appointment was not made. One of the
reasons Tor the opposition to Swim burne
was that there was objection to his re-
ligious views and ideas of morality. The
poet does not pose before the public as
an admirer of either the Old or the New
Testament. His contemporaries look
upon him as rare and brilliant genius and
he is classed as first among the poets. The
objection that was raised to him on the
ground of immortality was based on poems
published by him in h is younger days, and
which at the time of their publication
were severely criticized.
LAWMAKERS Student, City. The Con-
gress OF the United States is composed of
444 members of whom SS are Senators and
$50 RepreseD tatives. The Parliament of
The United Kingdom is the largest repre-
sentative body IN the world. II is com DO sed
of 1928 members-533 in the House of Lords
aud go in the House of Commons. The
Corps Leeislatif of France is composed
OF 300 Senators and 5S4 Deputies. Ger
many has SO members in the Bun
desrath, or Senate. and 397 in the Reich
stag. Italy has 50S Deputies, with a
varying number of Senators. There are
431 members in the Spanish Cortes. Can
ada has eighty memb bers in the Senate and
215 IN the House of Commons. japan has
800 peers and like number of representa-
tiyes.
THE HARBoR CoMMIssIoNERs-H. F.
c., City. AT San Francisco the president
of the Board of Harbor Commissioners
receives a salary of $1,000 per annum. two
other Commissioners $4,000 each, secretary
$1,000, assistant secretary $500, chief en-
gineer $1,000, chief wharfnger $1,000, at
torney for the board S24O0, superinten-
dent of urgent repairs S240c. superinten.
dent of tugs and dredgers S2400, twenty
one wharingers at S125 per month each.
and sixteen collectors at 500 per month
each. At San Diego there are two Com
missioners, who receive salary of S25 a
month each. and secretary, who is paid
S125 month. At Eureka, Humboldt
County, there are two Commissioners, who