The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-14

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PHARMACY-J. w., City. II person desires
to become pharmacist there are two courses
open--one is to take a course in the College of
Pharmacy and the other is to serve time in
retail drugstore. One who desires to enter the
college should have had at least years train
ing in a retail drugstore, as the practical
knowledge obtained enables the student to
better understand the lectures and make more
satisfactory progress. The fee for junior stu
dents is fS7 so and for senior students S162 80.
Inc requirements Tor admission to the college
IN this City are that the applicant must be at
| least IL years OF age, and that he must present
| either certificate of graduation from one of
| the high schools OF this State, diploma from
school or academy accredited by the State Uni
| yersity, a certificate of high standing in some
other institution OF collegiate grade, diploma
| from the normal school, first grade teachers
certificate OF this State, or q certificate OF hay
| ing completed satisfactorily the first years
| course in high school of this State. Those
who do not present any of these have to I'M
| dergo prescribed examination. Certificates
| OF graduation are issued TO those who are OF
good moral character, have attained the age OF
Il, who have attended two full courses in each
| of the departments of the college or course
| (the SenioT) after a course in some recognized
! college of pharmacy, who have had four years
| experience in pharmacy where physicians
prescriptions are put up, who have done the
laboratory work OF the college and who pre-
sent some special work done in the laboratory
in lieu of thesis. One who has served two
years in retail drugstore can, after an examl-
nation at the college, obtain O. license as an
associate pharmacist, and after four years
license to put up prescriptions or carry on the
business OF pharmacist.
NOT A LEAP YEAR,. II. s., City. The year
1896 will be a leap year, but the year 1900
Will not be, and the reason for this is as fol-
lows: The old Roman year contained but 355
days, divided into twelve lunar months, with
an intercaary month thrown in at certain in
tervals, as became necessary, TO atone for the
fact that it requires more than twelve precise
lunar months to make year. This arrange
ment led to great confusion, and Julius Caesar
in the year B. c. 46 remedied the trouble in a
large degree by the introduction OF what is
known as the Julian calendar, which regarded
the year composed OF $3.50 days. This was
great improvement, but, as matter OF TACT,
the natural year contains IL minutes and 10
seconds less than 1851 days, which difference
amounts in 60 years ID 10 hours 30 minutes
and 40 seconds, or little more than three
fourths OF day. AS a consequence, between
the year 325 A. D., when the rule Tor the de-
termination OF Easter Sunday was adopted, and
the year 1892 there was found to be an accu-
mulated error of ten days Whereas the sun
had crossed the equator at the vernal equinox
325 A. d. on March 81, it crossed it
in 1882, according to the Julian cal
XIII, to remedy this imperfection OF
the generally accepted calendar, ordered that
what according to this mode of reckoning
would have been October 3, 1882, be reckoned
as October Is; and TO prevent repetition OF
the error he further ordered that every hun
dredth year should not be a leap year, except
ing the year 1000, and every 400 years there
after.
MONTEREY MINEs-"Miner," Johnstown, Pa
The report OF the State Mineraloglst says of the
Los Burros mines in Monterey County: ''They
are located forty-five miles from the railroad at
King City in southwesterly direction on the
western slope of the Santa Lucia range. In an
air line the little camp on Alder Creek around
which the mines are situated is distant three
miles from the ocean. In former years consld-
cradle placer mining was done in this district
which is covered with gravel. Since the title
to the different grants that cover so much OF
this country was confirmed about eight year,
ago, the owners OF the land have forbidden
placer mining Gold obtained there, which
sold for $1S an ounce, was mostly very fine. Chi
nese were the principal operators. 1t is stated
that in places in the immediate ne1ghborhood
of the village IS day to the pick had been
made. The mines being worked are the Grand
Pacific, South Extension, Cruikshanks, Last
Chance North Extension, Manchester, Nam
moth, Queen Manzanito, Pine Cone. King ard
Grizzly. In these shafts have been sunk and
tunnels run on quartz lodges ten TO twelve
inches in width, but the freight IS so high that
it does not pay to handle ore that pays less
than So 10 the ton" OF the santa Clara mine
j n Los Angeles County the same official says
that it has seen better days. The Topeka,
Union and Escondido in the immediate vicn-
ity have been large producers, but now they
are worked down TO the water line and base
ore proposition now faces the owners in the
form of iron pyrites.
MOUNT ORIzABA-W. a. H., City. The exact
height of Mount Orizaba, in Mexico is Il, 314
feet. Humboldt determined the height of
Orizaba to be 1873. An earlier determine
ton by Ferrer made it II $40 feet, but Hum
boldt's measurement was generally accepted
as the correct one Certain barometric deter
limitations made in the spring OF 1890 by
Professor Helprin of the Philadelphia Aead-
recorded height. His measurement was at a
point about 100 feet below the apex
OF the cone the ascent had been eX-
ceedingly difficult and he unable
to reach the highest point-and it indi-
Gated height OF 1S,206. In 1922 DR.. J. T.
Scoville OF Terre Haute, Ind, executed some
triangnlation work about OrizabG and deduced
the height IL 314 feet This work has been
duced by theUnited States Coast Survey with the
same result. 1t has always been Claimed that
Mount Elias, 1s,015 feet, was the highest
mountain of North America, but this puts Elias
on a lower notch. Fifteen miles northeast OF
Elias are two mountains still higher than ORR
zaba, one is Mount Logan, 1872, and an I'M
named mountain close to it, 1886.
CROSSING THE BARE. NJ, City. The poem
you inquire about is not across the Bar" by
Whittier, but ''Crossing the Bar one of the
latest written by Alfred Tennyson, and the one
that was sung to DR.. Bridges music by boy
choir when the funeral service was held in
Westminster Abbey over the remains of the
author. The poem is as follows:
Sunset and evening star,
And clear call for mel
And may there be no moaning of the bar
When put out to sea-
But such tide as moving seems asleep
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundlesS
deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of Farewell
When embark
For tho frem out our bourne of time and place
The flood may bear me far,
1 hope to see my Pilot face to face
When have crost the bar.
WEST PoINT-L. G. K. City. Application for
admission to the United States Military Acad-