The San Francisco call., 1896-08-30
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the old silver dollar we love SO well.
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MAcHrNERY-G. w. L., Red Bluff, Cal. 1t is
generally denied that American mining
machinery and American agricultural fmple-
ments are sold cheaper in this country for ex-
portation than to home consumers.
MEDICAL WORKS.. H. Los Angeles, Cal. II
you wish to secure list of the standerd medi.
cal works, the latest up to date, write to first
class book seller and such will be sent you.
This de apartment will not recommend any par
ticular book or books nor advertise the firms
that have them on sale.
RAIL IN SAN MATEo-C. R., City. An ordi.
nance of the Supervisors of San Mateo County,
adopted November i, 1895, says that it shall
be unlawful to kill or hunt rail in that county
between the 18th day of November and the
10Th of October of the following year.. There.
fore, the open season is only one month.
CATHODE RAY-M C. w. Jr., City. No rule
can be laid down fixing the time that plate
shall be exposed during an X-ray experiment
The operator must be guided by the condition
OF affairs, the thickness of the object to be OPP
Grated upon, the sensitiveness OF the plate and
so forth.
ALFTLER1LIA-E. G. s., Iivermore, Cal. AL
filerilla is the Spanish-Ameriean name for
pingrass or pineloyer (eredium cicutarium)
now raturalized in California and some other
parts of the United States and used forage
herb. The spelling is sometimes alhlar1a aud
alfleria.
THE RIGHT TO ATTACKS, City. A salesman
to whom a manufacturer for whom he is work
ing is indebted and. who cannot obtain his
money has right to sue, and he can have the
property of his employer attached To ascer-
tain what further rights he might have in the
matter the salesman should state his case
to an attorney.
QUESTION OF LawAsubscriber, City. This
department does not undertake to solve legal
questions. That is matter for the courts and
for that reason 1t cannot answer whether,
under certain circuInstaiees, an individual
could compel another individual to grant him
right OF way over certain lands without
| making 1t way for public use.
COULD ExeHANGE-N B. F., Citrus, Inyo
County, Cal. From present indications and
| the utterance of the leaders of the Democratic
| Populist movement for free silver coinage, it
! looks very much as if a person having silver
coined at the mints OF the United States could
| 90 to the Treasury and demand gold in ex-
change for it. AT present there is no law on
| this subject
FILARIA-E. G. ST. Livermore, Cal. Filaria,
or fleria, is the name given to genus typical
of the filariide. A nematode or thread worm
of this genus is para site in man and in some
of the lower animals 1t is said to be the
cause OF elephantlaSlS, tlat Is, the one known
as flaria, sanguinis-hominis, which in its
larva form is found in the lymphatics and
blood vessels.
No PREMIuM-C. c., City. There is no prem
ium on q five cent nickel without the word
cents upon it. The catalogues of dealers have
printed on them, Coins we do not buy; Fly
ing eagle cents Of 1857 and 1858; three cent
nickel, excepting 1877 (do not mistake nickel
for silver; five cents, nickel, without the word
cents; quarters and halves of 1858 with arrow
hpa6H q side Of date and qrO1Ind the
! eagle; half dollars of 1861, and dollars of 1878
with either seven or eight feathers in the
eagles TAIL"
REFERENDUM AND INITIATIVE Ignorance,
City. Direct legislation comprises the
referendum and initiative. Under the former,
laws, etc., after being passed by the Legislature
are referred to a direct vote of ''the people" to
be ratified or rejected. When "obligatoryn y all
laws must be so referred; when Optional"
they are referred only on request of a certain
number or percentage of the voters. The
initiative requires the submission to such
direct vote of any proposed law formally ap-
proved by certain percentage OF the voters.
PERU AND MEx1co-B. F., Oakland, Cal. The
subjects of the Ineas of Peru were not COM
mercial people and had no knowledge of
money. In this they differed from the ancient
Mexicans, who had an established currency.
The first coins struck in a mint on the Amer
lean continent were those minted in the City
of Mexico, in the mint established in 1885.
The coins were Il real, real, 2 reales and
reales. At that period the ratio between gold
and silver was to 1. The first coins of Peru
silver reales, medios and pesos-wefe nninted
in 1921. AT that time the ratio was 10 to 1.
No SUCH ORDINANcE--A. R., City. There is
no ordinance prohibiting persons from stalking
out horses, cows or goats, and requiring that
such shall be kept within an Enclosure. There
is an ordinance which declares that 'no
person having or using any animal shall leave
the same without securely fastening the same,
except it be attached to q d1ay, truck or WATER
cart; or, If attached to dray, truck or water
cart, shall leave such animal without first
securely locking the wheels of the vehicle to
which it is attached; any animal left unfast-
ened in violation of this ordinance shall be
impounded."
REPREsENTAT1oN-A. W. p, Oakland, Cal.
The following table shows the number OF cleo
toral votes cast at the Presidential election of
1892, the numbe and politics of the represen-
tatives at the Co ngressional election of 1884,
The same number of Representatives will be
elected this year as there are now In office, as
there has not been any change In the appor-
tionment. This includes Utah, which was not
State in 1894. The only increase In the cleo
toral college will be electors from Utah, three
in number. which will make the number 447,
and 224 will be necessary to choice. There
will be no change in the number OF United
States Senators, there being two from each
State Each OF the following named States
will have Senator whose term expires in
1897. The letter following the name of the
State indicates the politics OF the retiring Sen
R: Colorado, R.. Connecticut, b.; Florida,
D.; Georgia, D; Idaho, B.; Illinois,
B antnsn Indiana, ~ 1ouissns 1loWs h Ansas. Ma4S
land, D.; Missouri, D.; Nevada, p; New
Hampshire R.; New York, D.; North Caro-
lima, R.; North Dakota R.. Ohio D. Oregon,
n cx,lx 10 lipo n