The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-07

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APOLLO BELvEDERE-J. j. p, City. The
measurements Of The statue Of Apollo Belve-
defe in the Vatican at Rome are as follows:
Height. feet 21s inches; length of foot, 10
inches; width of foot across WIDEST part. Az
inches; calf OF the leg, s % inches; thigh. %
inches; waist. Az 2-S inches; chest, 6212
inches; upper arm. 10 6-S inches; length of
arm from shoulder 10 wrist, 3412 inches; length
of hand from wrist 10 end of middle finger. Ia
inches; length of middle finger, inches;
length OF face from lower line OF chin TO line Of
hair on the forehead, inches: circumference
OF head. 81 inches; circumference OF wrist, 912
inches.
WILL NOT FATHER IT-W. X. B.. City.
This correspondent calls attention 10 the fact
that some time since the query editor was ex-
tremey severe Ia crtlciZing as ungrammatical
the construction of a sentence In fruit circular,
and then adds that the query editor should
look after the head lines Of an evening paper
In which there Is a gross grammatical blunder
Now, as the query editor has not anything to
do with editing the copy that go 3 in The even
ing paper alluded TO. The responsibility OF the
err ors, attention to which is called, must rest
with those whose duty II Is 10 attend TO such
matters.
POLICE CoMMIsSIoNERS-A. and b., City.
ID. NJ. Burns was appointed Police Commits
sioner for the city and county OF San Francisco
by Governor Markham TO MI the vacancy on
the board caused by the death OF Il. Z. Ham
moDd. His term OF office Is indefinite. as, by
some oversight. no provision was made for a
change In the commission. The Incumbent
can only be removed by trial for malfeasance in
Office. by resignation or by death. IL new
charter should be prepared provision will no
doubt be introduced that will regulate the term
OF Office OF The Commissioners.
AsYLUMs FOR THE INSANE-M. E. B., Sui
sun, Solano County. Cal. There are five asy-
lums for the insane in the State OF California.
These are known as 'the Stockton State Asy-
lum Tor the Insane" at Stockton. San Joaquin
County,; "tbe Napa Stie Asylum for the
Insane" at Napa, Napa County; The State
Asylum at Agnews," Santa Clara County;
1.-The Mendocino State Insane Asylum" at
Ukiah. Mendocino County; and The southern
California State Asylum Tor the Insane and
Inebriaies." at San BerBardinO, San Bernat-
dino County.
The ANTtDIvE ORDINANCE-S., City. The
so-called anli-dlve ordinance. 2637. was passed
on the 22d OF May. 1898, in The Board OF Su-
pervisors by the following vote: Ayes-Good-
win, Rogers, Kennedy, Foreman, Refs. Day,
Dnudon, Hinton aud Denman; No. Ryan.
What is known as the sde-doUr ordinance,
2696. was passed October 3. 1898. The Super
visOrs who voted IN favor of the ordinance
were: Stanton, kennedy, Refs. Day, Dundon,
Hinton. James and Denman. Those who voted
against it were: Supervisors Goodwin, Rogers
and Ryan.
NATIONAL SCHooLs-A d.. City. The Pre-
sentati0u Sisters are in charge of nearly 100
! national schools In Ireland. To some OF these
are attached orphanages and technical schools,
notably Georges Hill. Thuries and Stradbally.
These are also aided by the British Govern
lnent The Sisters also teach schools in Eng
land, Canada, Tasmania, Australia, British
India. Newfoundland, New York, West Troy,
Staten Island, Massachusetts. Iowa, Dakota
and California. The twenty schools taught by
the Sisters in Newfoundland are Government
schools.
RELIGIOUS CREEps-W. f. G. and A. o. s..
City. There are no statistics from which any one
can obtain exact figures as 10 the number of resi-
deuis belonging to each Of the many religious
creeds In San Francisco 1t Is claimed that
100000 represents The adbrrents OF the Roman
Catholic church.. $4,000 the number Of the
jewish faith and about 10000 represent all
! the other creeds combined, not Including the