The San Francisco call., 1896-07-29
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

MUs1C-A. f. l. N. Marshall. Cal. There is
no department of music in the University of
California al Berkeley.
ALASKA SCHooLs-H. d. G.. CITY. For infor
nation about the schools of Alaska address a
communication TO James Sheakley, Governor
OF Alaska.
SILVER as LEGAL TENDER-''A Friend of THE
CALL" City. The amounro of silver dollars that
person can tender in the payment of bill il
unlimited unless otherwise contracted.
STEWARDSHIP. D. c., City. If you wish to
apply for position as stewardess on a steamer
running out of this port send an Application
to the company owning the steamer you NAV
choose.
DREssMAKING A. F. I. N, Marshall, Cal.
This department does not advertise any pri-
vate business, and for that reason cannot tell
you anything about the dressmaking estab-
iishmentyou ask about.
THE GALA. F. ]. N, Marshall, Cal. The
first number of The CALL was issued on the
lst of December, 1856. by a company of five
printers, ,; !. Ayers, Lewllin Zublin, Charles
r. Jobson, David w. Higgins and William L.
Carpenter.
To BUILD A SIDEWALK. W. r.. City II the
owner OF outside property desires to lay down
q iye-foot sidewalk in front of his property
where the full width of the sidewalk is four
teen feet he must obtain e permit from the
with the work.
FREE CorsAGE-w. D. H. and E. E. B., Hayes
street, City. What is meant by "free coinage
OF silver" and 'l6 10 l" was explained in a
half-eolumn answer in Answers 10 Correspond
ents in THE CALL of June 20. This department
has not the space TO reproduce that answer
every few days.
PLANs-subscriber, Berkeley, Cal. If Jones
engages an architect TO draw plans Tor him
and he pays him for them they are his prop
erty, bnt unless there is an understanding TO
from dra wing plans for brown TO build house
just like that built for Jones.
GoID-J. F. NJ, City. California has not nro-
dnced more gold than the aggregate of all
other parts OF the world. The product of Cal
liornla from 1S4S 10 1894 inclusive was 81 :
203i il1o,6O4, while the product of the world
IRON non o l4s2 70 1894 was in excess of 2000,-
OOO,OOO. The amount of gold coin in the
world at this time is SO ,901, 100000.
PERcussIoN-M L. F., Vallejo, Cal. Percus-
sion when applied to music refers TO musical
ms instruments, in which the tone. is produced
by blow from hammer or similar imple-
ment, such as the drum and the pianotorte
10 plahoiorte playing percussion touch refers
10 methoa OF touching digitsl or pedal to
proouce tone OF particular quality.
]. WILKES BooTH-ConstantR Reader, Oakland.
CAL Booth, the assassin Of President Lincoln
after escaping from the theater rode some
thirty miles into Maryland, where his broken
leg was set by DR.. Mudd. After that he hid in
the thickets and swamps and was finally
traced TO Garretts barn, Bowling Green
twenty miles from Fredericksburg where he
was concealed with Harold The pursuing
party, twenty-eight in number, surrounded
the barn and called upon the two men to sur
render. Harold came out and gave himself
OD, OuI Booth declared that hc 10
taken alive. An sttempt was made to smoke
him out by building straw fire around the
par parn, oat ne stood his ground and he was in
the act OF firing at those outside when Colonel
Conger, who commanded the pursuing party
ordered Sergeant Boston Corbett to shoot The
snot @ was fatal, The bullet entered Booths
head and he died two hours after receiving the
wound His remains were buried in the arsenal
yard In Washingt gton, and some years after his
brother secured the remains and had them in
TERED in cemetery in Baltimore. He was
captured on April 26, 1865.
EARTH's REvoLurIoN-B. +. H., Amalie, Kern
County, Cal. Professor George Davidson has
kindly furnished the following answer to the
question, "How many revolutions, to frac-
ton, does the earth make on its axis to one in
its orbit7': "There are three kinds OF years.
The sidereal year is the one which represents
the earth's true orbital revolution around the
sun, but il is not used as the year of chronology
ana the calendar, because the seasons depend
on the suns place in relation to the equinoxes.
The tropical year is the year usually en-
ployed, unless expressly stated TO the contrary
me anomalisuc year Is the time from peri
helion to perihelion and Is little longer than
the ddereAl year
For 1900 Leverrier gives the following
lengths OF the three different kinds of years:
Tropical yaar.............365 AS 45bl
Hidefehi year. hr................S60 8 S.07
Anomalistic year, ,..........396 o Is AS Oe
The length OF the sideraal year Is invsriable
and Is readily found by adding to 365. IS the
time required by the Gun to move through
22. dl70o6 AT the rate OF his sidereal motion,