The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-17

over to the first peace officer, but in doing this
he assumed all the responsibility that follows
an unWarranted arrest.
EDUCATIONAL RIGHTs-S E. c., City. The law
OF California provides that every parent.
guardian or other person in the State of Cali
fornia having control and charge of any child
or children between the ages of and IA years
shall be required to send such child or children
to public school for a period for at least two
thirds OF the time during which a public
school shall be taught in city, city and county
or school district in each school year. unless it
such bodily or mental condition. as to be I'M
able to attend school or that the parents or
guardians are extremely poor or sick or that
the child or children is or are taught in a pri-
vate school or al home in such branches as are
usually taught in the primary schools of the
the State.
UNION HIGH ScHooL-Inquirer, Elmira, So
lano County, Cal. There is no provision in the
law by which union high school can be dis
continued except to allow it to lapse by an
average attendance often pupils or less. When
the school has so lapsed the County Superin-
tendent shall suspend the school and report the
fact TO the Board of Supervisors of the district
In which 1t is located. The board after declar-
ing the school lapsed, shall cause the property
to be sold and the proceeds to be distributed to
the districts composing the high school dis
trlct In proportion to the assessed valuation of
property in the district.
CRIBBAGE-J. T., City. The law of sequence
or runs in cribbage is as follows, as laid down
by Hoyle: To form sequence in play it mat
tiers not which of the cards is played first or
last, providing the sequence can be produced
by transposition of the order in which they
Tell; thus you lead the five of hearts, your adj
Yersary returns the three of diamonds, you
then play the four of any suit and score three
for the sequence; he then plays six and makes
four, and SO on as long as the continuous
sequence can be made.
RECORD CLAIMS. C. s., Indian Diggings, Ell
Dorado County, Cal. The instructions of the
Land Department are that claims of mining
land must be recorded. Copp in his compila-
ton OF laws relating to mineral lands, and
which book is authority in the land offices,
says: "Record of location notices should be
made. in the absence of district recorder
with the proper recorder of deeds for the
county wherein the claim is situated. 1t is de-
slrable to have the notices attested by wit
nesses, for locators cannot be too careful about
their evidence"
FIRST INSTRUMENTATION City. The majority
OF authorities recognize Sunday as the first day
of the week. There are some who hold that
Sundays the seventh day, basing their opinion
on Genesis 2: "And on the seventh day
God ended his work which he had made; and
he rested on the seventh day from, all his work
which he had made; and verse g. "And God
blessed the seventh DAY and sanctified it, be-
cause that in it he had rested from all his work
which God had created and made"
SNA1Ls-J. T. NJ. City. Persons who have had
trouble with snails in their vegetable or flower
gardens say that if at night cabbage leaves are
placed on the beds the snails will crawl under
and cling to them until the sun rises; there
lore 1t is necessary to get up before sunrise and
collect the leaves which will be found to be
covered with the garden pests. Another
method is to cover the edging of garden beds
with train oil and SCOT. 1t is said that snails
Will never cross such border.
AMERICAN EMBLEM-Miss K, City, The en-
blem of the United States is the bald or white
headed eagle of North America. 1t is the one
adopted as the national emblem for the coat of
arms of the United States and is figured on
some OF the coins. The eagle was first used on
American coins in 1888, when it appeared on
sets mint. At one time it was suggested that
the eagle appear on the national flag but this
Idea was abandoned.
LICK OBSERVATORY NJ. D., City, The cost of
reaching the Lick Observatory on the top of
Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County from
this city is the amount of fare to San Jose and
the fare by stage from that city to the top of
the mountain, or the fee charged by liyery-
vatory is open to visitors The observatory is
gilt OF the late James Lick to the people OF
this State for the benefit of science.
VACCINATIONS. Z. c., City The State law
provides that the trustees of the several COM
mon school districts of this State and boards of
common school government in the several
cities and towns, are directed to exclude from
the penents OF the common schools therein