The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-09


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THE UNIvERsITIEs-J. W. R., Santa Clara, Cal.
The following from the United States Report
of the Commissioner of Education is a list of
tellowships in the principal universities, also
the income: University of California, 4, $1,000
year; Yale, 6, 1876; University of Illinois,
4, $500; Johns Hopkins University, %,
$4,000; Amherst College, 1, $500; Boston
University, 2, $1,000; Harvard, "a, $12, 500;
Clark University, 80 $4,000; University
Minnesota s. $50; University Of Missis-
sippi, 5, $1,000; College of New JERSEY,
-, $500; Cornell University, 10, $4,000;
the City of New York, 8, 5000; Bryn Mawr VI
College, 7, $4,000; Haverford College, q, $1,000;
University OF Pennsylvania, 6, $1,000; Brown
10, $500; Hampden Sidney (Va) College, 1,
5000; Washington and Lee University, 1,
$500; University OF Wisconsin, 9, $500. Grad
uate scholarships: University of California, l,
5000; Wesleyan University, l. $3.50; Yale, 8,
$3.50; Johns Hopkins University, SO, $1,000;
Harvard, AT, $l0,950; Cornell, s, $1,000, and
University of Rochester, 2, 5000.
TRAINING FOR BICYCLE Races P. NJ, City
A professional trainer has furnished the Query
Column with the following rules for those who
wish to train for bicycle races: Food-Plain
wholesome, plenty OF meat, not too fat, posi-
lively no pastry, fruit in moderation and eat
sparingly of potatoes; drink-no liquor of any
kind, avoid coffee, drink weak black tea, do
not drink very much water and do not suck
lines to moisten the throat; clothing-dress
comfortably and warm if there is need of re-
duction of flesh wear two sweaters at
first, do not stand IN a draught after
dismounting; work-at first ride from
three to five miles both morning and evening
at a good pace, but if you get tired quit. Do
not overdo yourself. Keep this up until ten
days before the race (having begun say, three
weeks before the race, and then ride the dis
lance you intend to race, squirting the last
eighth OF mile. Keep this up until two days
before the race sprfntng as fast as possible on
the last eighth OF a mile. Do not mount
wheel the day before the race-rest. AS to
physical treatment, bathing and the like after
exercising, no special rule can be laid down.
That is a matter that must be decided by the
trainer in each individual case.
IN CASE OF DIvoRcE-W. g., City. In the case
of dissolution of marriage by court of COM
petent jurisdiction in the State OF California
the community property and the homestead is
disposed of as follows: If the decree be on the
ground of adultery or extreme cruelty the COM
munity property shall be assigned to the re-
spective parties in such proportion as the court
from the facts of the case may deem Just; if
the divorce is rendered on any other grounds
the community property shall be divided
equally between the man and the woman; if q
homestead has been selected from the commu-
nifty property it may be assigned to the limo
cent party, either absolutely or for q limited
period, subject in the latter case to the further
disposition of the court, or it may in the dis
cretion of the court be divided or sold and the
proceeds divided; if the homestead was selected
from separate property 1t shall be assigned to
the former owner of such property, subject to
the power of the court to assign 1t for limited
period to the innocent party.
PUBLIC LANDS IN California; H and L. ].
s., City. There surveyed and unsurveyed
lands in California vacant and subject to en-
try. Information about these lands can be OBJ
tanned by communicating with any of the fol-
lowing land offices: Humboldt, Hum boldt
County; Independence, Inyo County; Los An
geles; Marysville, Yuba County; Redding,
Shasta County; Sacramento. San Francisco,
Stockton and Visalia. Maps of public lands
may be obtained on payment of 81 to the Office
in the district in which the land is located
Every person who is the head of a family, or
who has arrived at the age of 81, and is a citi-
zen of the United States or has filed his
declaration of intention to become such, shall
be entitled to enter onequarter section or less
quantity of unappropriated public lands. Ii
the entry is for eighty acres the fee to be paid.
on fling the applicants affidavit is SIS. If in
excess OF that number of acres the fee is $40
Then there are fees to attorneys, cost of build
ing house in which to live ON the land taken
up and the fees for proving up.
Tn Ctota ~
California, if man dies and there is no will,
if he leaves widow and more than one child,
one-third OF the property left goes to the sur
viving wife and the remainder goes in equal
shares to the children. In making a will, the
party making it should be careful to be ex-
plicit as to what he desires shall be done with
his property after death. deed of gift is a
transfer made with the intention OF passing
the title and delivering possession of the thing
given, ana it must be acce pied by the donee.
Be q man as careful as he wishes in the dispo-
sitlon OF his property, there is nothing to pre-
vent interested parties, after his death, from
did not know what he was about while in life
and wanted to do with his property, or that he
was incapable of disposing of it.
ALTERNATIvE-C. L. W., Oakland, Cal. The
word alternative means choice-one choice
between two things, consequently the use of
the phrase mo other alternative" is incorrect.
1t should be mo alternative" E. S. Gould in
"Good English and Misused Words" says:
Yet popular usage has corrupted it (alterna-
t1ve) that 1t is now commonly applied to the
things themselves and not to the choice between
them, as thus: ''You may take either alterna-
tive" or AT was forced to choose between two
alternatives" and indeed some people go so far
to say "Several alternatives were presented TO
him."
Gladstone in his Oxford essays uses the fol-
lowing: "My decided preference is for the
fourth and last of these alternatives"
AIDS TO MEMoRY-A. s., Los Angeles, Cal.
There are several books published that are said
to be aids to memory and such may be obtained
from any first-class book-dealer. A writer on