The San Francisco call., 1895-11-26
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

CLRARING-HoUsE-M W. W., Oakland, Cal.
clearing house is place or institution where
the settlement of mutual claims, especially of
banks, is effected by the payment of differ
ences, called balances. The system was estab-
lished in London to facilitate business and it
has been adopted in the United States, but the
methods differ from those in London i'll this
that the work is done more quietly and with
more dispatch. Each bank that belongs to the
clearinghouse sends there daily two clerks,
other the settling clerk. The duty of the
former is TO distribute the bills, checks, drafts,
etc. which it holds as creditor of other banks;
| that OF the latter to receive such eX-
changes from the delivery clerks of other banks.
| Each settling clerk, as he enters furnishes the
manager of the clearinghouse credit ticket,
| showing the total amount of exchanges which
his bank has brought. These are noted by
| proof clerk. Then the delivery clerk makes
| his rounds and after the differences have been
made up, each debtor bank pays its difference
| to the clearinghouse before certain hour,
soon after which each creditor bank receives
from the clearinghouse the balance due It,
A LIBERAL EDUcAToN-F. L. T., City. On
the subject of liberal education Lowell in
"Among My Books" says: 'The study of them
(the classies) is fifty called "a liberal educa-
tion,' because it emancipates the mind from
every narrow provncialism, whether OF
egotism or tradition, and is the apprenticeship
free brother of the guild which passes the
torch of life from age TO age"
Sir William Hamilton, on the same SUBJECT,
says:
perfection of man means or an instrument, are
only not the same but they are in realty gen
orally opposed And these perfections are OPP
posed so the training requisite for their acquisition
is not identical and has been distinguished by
different The one is styled liberal ana the
other professional education; the pranches OF
knowledge cultivated for these purposes being
called respectively liberal and professional, or Ho
eral and lucrative sciences.
SEALING WAx-Martha, City. There is a Ian
guage of sealing wax among the fashlonaole
people. White is used for communications re-
lating to weddings black for obituaries, violet
for expressions of sympathy, chocolate for in
yitations to dinner, red for business, ruby for
engaged lovers letters, green for letters from
lovers who live in hopes, brown Tor refnsal OF
offer of marriage, blue Tor constancy, yellow
signifies jealousy, pale green s1gnlhes re-
proach, and pink is used between young girls.
Gray is the color used by friends in writing to
one another.
THE EARTH-C. F. McC., Oakland, Cal. The
planet on which we live is an isolated sphere.
like the other planets, unsupported by any
visible connection. Like them, it moves round
the under the influence of the attractive
force OF that enormous central sphere. This
attraction increases and decreases dlrectly ac-
cOrdlng to the mass OF the attracting Dooy,
but inversely, as the square OF the distance.
The earths period of revolution round the sun
depends on It's velocity at mean distance.
SUCCESS IN LIED. C. NJ, Pacific Grove, Mon
terey County. Cal. The best course for a
young man to pursue to make success OF
life is to select some trade or profession to
which he may feel himself specially adapted,
| pitch right in with determination to win,
and he will succeed. If he hangs on to the
| ragged edge in the expectation that success
will come to him he may hang there till dooms-
4 n q mr. xIill lrNncG h i'm h
| STATUE OF FREEDoM-Inquirer, City. The
| statue of Freedom that surmounts the dome of
| the Capitol al Washington is 10 feet inches
| high and weighs Ia ,985 pounds. The height
OF the dome above the base line of the east
| front is 2S7 feet inches. The rotunda is 95
| feet inches in diameter, and its height from
| the floor to the top OF the canopy of the dome
| is $50 feet inches.
| PRESIDENT AND GovERNoR-K. K, City. 1t is
| proper form to address an official communica-
| ton to the President of the United States in the
! following words: Honorable Grover Cleve-
! land, President of the United States, Sir and
| the Governor of the State of California as tol-
| lows: Honorable James III. Budd, Governor
| of California, Sir"
| THE LExINGToN-H. c. L., City. The steamer
| Lexington was burned January 13, 1910, while
on her passage from New York to Stonington.
OF 145 persons on board only four escaped
with their lives.
KENDALL's DEATH-G. A. g., Oakdale, Stanis-
laus County, Cal. The date of Kendall death
was published in THE CALL, Tuesday, October
%, in Answers to Correspondents.
For OLD MEN--P. F. H., City. For informa-
ton for home for old men in the city of Los
Angeles write to the secretary of the Associ-
ated Charities, Los Angeles.
THE BosToN-W. Z. L., Sacramento, Cal. The
announcement has been made that the warship
Boston would go into commission on the 25th
of November.
ALIENs-R. NJ. W., City. There is no law in
this State that prohibits an alien from pur-
chasing real estate.
No PREMIUM. H. P, City. There is no pre-
MUM on $5 piece of the year 1S42.
MRS. FRANK LEsLIE-K. NJ, City. Mrs. Frank
Leslie-Wi ilde was divorced from willie Wilde"
on the 10th of June, 1898.