The San Francisco call., 1896-04-21
ANswgRs TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ANeWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Correspondents should not feel disappointed If
their questions are not dnstUered Immediately. In
many cases the information solicited requires con-
siderable research and delay. The ans,0ers ap-
pear in the order in euhich they turned in and
as as space trill permit
The name and address Of the toriter should dc-
company letters of inquiry not for publication but
to enable the editor in charge of this department to
correspond aUith the Writer If aeceSsary to obtain
| clearer idea of tohGt is GuGnted.
EASTER IN 1s47-W. H., City. Easter Sun
day, 1847, fell on the 4th of April.
! GAS BILL CoLLECToRs-J R., Alameda Cal
The salary of collectors of gas bills in San
Francisco is $1,000 year.
PARIS ExPosIToN-S., City. The year 1900 is
| the year named for the opening of the next ex-
position in the city OF Paris, France.
SCHOOL TRUs1EE-Inquirer, Eaglesville, Modoc
| County, Cal School Trustee being elected
to perform certain public duties is public
| officer.
CONCEALED WEAPoNs-S. T. D. c., Forbes
town, Butte County, Cal. A traveller in this
| State may carry firearm or other weapon con-
cealed while on journey.
SAN PABLO CAvE-I. NJ. D., City. The tree
cave recently described in THE CALL and
| located at Point San Pablo may be reached
| from either San Pablo or Pinole.
BILLIoN-F. D., City. In writing billion
in figures the people of the United States and
of France use 100000, 900, while the people
or England write 100000, 100000.
LOUIS XII c., Oakland, Cal. The version
of Louis XI presented by Sheridan is by Ca
mile de Ia Vigne, while that presented nv
Tom Keene was written by Boucicault.
| THE QUEENS SEcRETARY-D. c., Los Ange-
| les, Cal. Sir Henry Ponsonby, private secre-
| tary to Queen Victoria, died on the 2Ist of last
| November and was succeeded by Lieutenant
| Colonel Sir Arthur John Bigge, K. .CB. and
| R.A.
| 1NsANITY-G. N, City. Insanity is not one of
the grounds for divorce in this State The fact
| that wife is an unfortunate inmate of an asy-
| lum for the insane will not give the husband
| the right TO apply for divorce because she is
! SUCH an Inmate.
PRIVATE BUsINEss-A. S., CITY. There is no
law that empowers the Legislature or munich
pal authorities to regulate the amount that
either physician in his private practice may
| cnarge MS patlent, or the amount that in pri-
| Vate cases an undertaken may charge for his
| services.
Poll TAx-Reader, Minturn, MADEIRA County,
Cal Ii a person pays poll tax in San Francisco
that exempts him from the payment of that
| tax Tor that year in any other county of the
state, but 1t will not exempt him from the
| payment OF special school or road tax in an
| other county.
GUIDE OF SAN FRANCIsCo-S T. D. c., Forbes
| town, Butte County, Cal. Any first-class book
seller will be able to furnish you a copy of q
guidebook of the City and County OF San Fran
cisco. The California State Board of Trade
! this City, can furnish you matter that will give
you information of the City and County.
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WATCHEs-A. D., City. The man who says
that as good watches cannot be made in the
United States as are made in foreign countries
betrays his ignorance of the watch industry in
this country. AS fine watches as are made in
the world can be made in the United States,
provided the party wishing extra fine one
Will pay the price asked.
THE RED SEA-C. F. R., Langlois, Curry
! County, Or. The length of the Red Sea is 1850
miles, and the width at the entrance, d-El-
Mandeb, is twenty miles; the Persian Gulf is
$50 miles long, and the entrance is ffty-fve
miles wide; the Straits of Gibralter are one and
half miles long and three-quarters of mile
| wide.
FOREIGN PoPULATIoN-J. n. R., Grass Valley,
Nevada County, Cal. The population of Eng
land is 27,499,9s4; that of Wales l sol ,O34
of Scotland, 4, ,063, 103. That of France is 49,
| 21S, ,903. These are the figures OF 1891. The
latest figures follows; England, 27 >
4S3, ,491; Wales, 1,716,4O5 including Mon
1sa. 1S1'H' ''O'-AHu' 40-0'0t'' FRANCE ''''t''-
EASTER SUNDAYS. W, Cal. The following is
the rule for finding Easter Sunday: Easter Sun
day is always the first Sunday after the full
moon which happens upon or next after
| the 21st of March, and If a full moon happens
on Sunday then Easter Sunday is the Sunday
| after. This year the 21st of March was on Sat
! urday, the full moon happened on Sunday. the
| 29th, consequently Easter fell on the following
! Sunday, April D.
! A MINERAL FIND-C. j. R., Los Angeles Cal.
II man has taken up homestead of 160
| acres according to law, has complied with all
! the requirements and has received his patent
| from the United States, 10 one has right to
! go upon that land without his permission. If
| there should happen to be any mineral upon
| the land no one but the owner would have any
! right to it. In other words, no one has right
to locate mining claim on the private prop
| erty OF another.
LUNAR CRATERs-C. F., City. The number of
lunar crater is not known, but is said to be
very large. scientific journal recently pub
lished the following on the subject: ga large
| lunar map by Schmidt in 1873 includes about
81, 900 of these craters seen on the moons
| surface, some OF them very deep. They are BUR
rounded by ramParts, or walls raised above the
general level. The mountains are proper
tionately high. One peak named Newton has
an elevation OF $4,000 feet"
NoRDENsKJoLD-J. A. R., City. Baron Eric
Nordenskjo pronounced as if written nawr-
den-shold, was born in Helsingfors, Finland,
| November 1S, 1882. He was educated at the
university in his native place. He became pro-
fcient in his favorite studies, but the Russian
Government suspected him of designs against
/ the country and forced him to leave Finland,
| to which place he was not permitted to return
for several years. In 1858 he was professor of
nineralogy at Stockholm, and afterward he
was member of several Arctic expeditions,
some of which he organized He made care
full exploration of Spitzenbergen, made map
OF the country and visited Greenland in 1870.
1 He served two years as a member of the
east Land in 1878, and made other voyages of
exploration and discovery. In 1873 he started
on voyage to the north pole, and in his en-
deavors discovered the Northeast passage and
| reached Japan the following year. He was
created Baron in 1880, and received several
hinh far tInor ord fhoi