The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25
ANSWERS TO coRREspospEurs

DEMONSTRATIONS and A. R., City, The
matter of the Mayors veto OF the tax levy will
come up in court on the 9TH of next month.
1t is impossible at this time to tell if there will
be any reduction. Taxes become delinquent
on the 25th of November. The tax levy of
81 25 is that amount on each 500 of yalua-
ton OF real and personal property. The valu-
alton placed on property one year is no guide
for the valuation 10 be placed upon it
the f9lowi9g year The property in year
and 1t is generally assessed according to the
value al the time 1t is assessed. Taxes on real
estate are paid in two installments.
TELEscoPE-E. F., San Jose, Cal. Answers to
Correspondents, as has many times been an
nounced, does not advertise any business OF
firms, nor does 1t recommend any article
offered for sale by any individual or firm.
Such announcements are found in the adYer.
Using columns of THE CALL. There are differ
emit kinds of glasses used for the purpose of
discerning objects at q distance. For the pur-
pose OF distinguishing an object at the distance
OF hve miles field glass or marine glass Is as
good as a telescope, providing you procure the
right kind of one.
SAN MIGUEL RANcHo-H. J., CITY. The San
Miguel Rancho as it appears on the Official
map Of the City and County in the Office of the
Surveyor shows that from near the intersec-
ton Of Castro and Seventeenth streets the
boundary line runs west to point near Cole
duA Slccls, lucHCc sOutuWtSb
Seventh avenue, thence almost southerly to
near w street and Fifteenth avenue, and
thence southerly toward the County line.
THE SEAsoNs-E. J. c., City Astronomically
the year is divided into four nearly equal sea-
sons-spring, summer, autumn and winter
and reckoned solely with respect to the suns
motion, spring beginning when the sun crosses
reaches the summer solstice, autumn when it
crosses the equator going southwark and
winter when 1t reaches the winter solstice.
FOUNTAIN OF YoUTH-Nita, City. It was be-
lieved in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen.
turtles that there existed in the island of
Bimini one of the Bahsma group, q fountain,
the waters of which had the power to restore
the aged to youth, and give vigor to the sick
and deerepid. Juan Ponce de Leon and Ferdi-
nand de Soto, Spanish navigators, made vain
searches Tor this reputed fountain.
MANUELo's NARRATIyE-Rose, City. "Califor-
mia $50 Years Ago or Manuelos Narrative. y
purporting to be . history OF California trans
publication, and it has never been looked upon
by those versed in the history of the connt-v
as anything but the prod uction of some indi
v1dual who was writing against space. 1t has
no historic value.
A MILE. J. c., City. An ordinary statute
mile is $3.50 feet and a nautical mile is 6OSo. OF
feet, as fixed by the United States coast survey
equal very nearly TO the admiralty knot
adopted by the British photographic ONCE.
e0SO feet,
The GAME Laws. II. g., Berkeley, Alameda
County, Cal According to the game law az
amended last March 1t is lawful to hunt rail in
the state OF Caliiornia between the 18th OF
October and the 18th of February following.
svENGALI-E. L. c., City. svengali Is pro.
nounced as if written Sven-gal-ee, the in the
middle pronounced as a in father. The name
OF the author OF ''Trilby" is pronounced a. !;
written Du Mo-res-a.
THE GuNBoAT WAsP-Y. s., Marine Barracks.
Mare Island. Cal. The British gunboat Wasp