The San Francisco call., 1896-05-03

is no offer of premium for $40 gold piece
of 1S43. Dealers in old coins offer them for
from $13 so to $l5.
AsHuRsr CoLoNY-J. G., City. You can OBJ
tain all the information you desire about the
Ashurst Colony by writing to the secretary at
Kirkwood, Tehama County.
GREENBAcKs NJ, Dimond, Alameda
County, Cal. At no time during the war and
up to the time that specie payment
sumed did greenbacks keep up their face value.
PENsIoNs-E w., City. An old soldier of the
army OF the United States, who is a resident of
a foreign country, can draw his pension the
same as If he was resident OF the United
States.
PRoTEsTANTs-W. C. A., City. The term Prot
estant at this time is generally applied to those
Christian bodies which are descended from
the Reformation of the sixteenth century and
opposed to the Roman Catholic and Greek
churches.
SUB-TREAsURY CHECKS j. A H, Vallejo,
Cal. Checks drawn on the United States Sub
treasury at San Francisco must be cashed there,
as they will not be honored at any of the other
Sub-treasuries.
A FRENCH Conn.,. P. J. dix centimes
piece coined in 1853, during the reign OF
Napoleon III, has no special value except such
as person would be willing to pay for it as
curiosity. The coin is not quoted by dealers.
MUST HAVE A LICENsE-A. C. A., Kelseyville,
Lake County, Cal. In San Francisco, and. in
fact, in all parts of the State of California,
person must have license to peddle anything
that he manufactures This department. cam
| not advertise places in this City that sell tin
| foil.
NUMERAroN-A. NJ, Agnews, Cal. According
| to the custom prevailing in the United States
and in France 1,5o0,000,o00 reads one billion
five hundred millions; according to English
Enumeration 1t reads one thousand five hun
dreds of millions.
sERPENT's TEETH. W.. City. serpents have
sharp-pointed teeth, smooth and arched
| toward the throat. Most of the venomous
ones have. however, in place of teeth in the
upper jaw, two fangs, through which the
poison is injected i'll a wound after bite.
Nor ExEMrT-U. s. D., selby, Cal. Persons
in the employ of the United States Government
are not by reason OF such employment ex-
empted from the payment of poll tax in this
State. The only ones exempted are paupers,
| insane people, idiots and California Indians
not taxed.
Is A LoTTERY-subscriber, City. Any club
that is organized for the purpose of paying so
much a week or month and tlen draws num-
| bers for the purpose of determining who shall
| have certain merchandise, comes within the
| law that declares it is unlawful TO dispose OF
| property by chance.
PREMIUM ON DIME-Subscriber City. There
| is no premium on dimes coined in the United
| States during the year 1894, except those
| coined in the mint of San Francisco, and none
| OF those are in circulation, do not waste
your time looking Tor dime of 1894 that was
| mlnted In San francisco, you will not find one.
| PALIsADEs-G. H. t. City. The Palisades is
the name given to a long bluff or precipice
which extends along the west shore OF the
Hudson River in Rockland County, New York
and Bergen and Hudson counties, New Jersey.
| It is formed of basalt or trap rock, is nearly
straight eighteen miles long and in some
places 4S0 feet high.
FOREIGN PARENTAGE-Mrs. T., City. If child
| is born of foreign parents in the United States
| that child is an American by birth. If within
| a year that child should be taken to foreign
| arriving at majority, have to decide which
! citizenship it would adopt that of the father
or that of the land of birth.
| HFLAes-J. K, City. The law of this State in
| regard to flags applies only to military COM
panies, which are not permitted to parade
| with any flag except that of the United States
or that OF the state OF California. There is no
| law that requires society having flag of its
own to designate it to fly over that flag either
an American flag or an American streamer.
PoPULATIoN-A Subscriber, City. According
to the State enumeration in 1892 the popula-
| ton Of the City of New York was 1 1,SO1, ,739;
| that OF Chicago, according to the school census
80
London on the 25th of September, 1895, was
4 ,392, ,346, and that of Paris in 1891 was 447-
957. These are the latest figures obtainable.
DURRANT's TRIALs-Correspondent, Sulphur
Bank, Lake County, Cal Durrant having been
convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont
and having taken an appeal, no further steps
will be taken in his case until the Supreme
Court decides that appeal He is charged with
the murder of Minnie Williams, but whether
he is to be tried for that crime will depend on
the result OF the appeal.
THE CZAR OF RUssIA-F. A, City. The Gear
of Russia is Nicholas II, born May Is, 1868.
He is the eldest son OF the late Alexander III.
He ascended the throne on the death of his
father, November 1, 1894. He married Prin-
cess Alexander Alix, daughter of Ludwig ",
Grand Duke of Hesse. The offspring of this
union is a daughter, Olga, born November Is,
1895. The dates given are according to the
new style. The Russian dates are according to
the old style, twelve days earlier than those
given.
ESCAPE FROM PRIsoN-A. o. S., City. If
prisoner escapes from q county jail while
awaiting trial for an offense less than a felony
or while serving out term for a crime under
the grade of felony he commits misdemeanor
for which he can be punished. If he is not ar
rested within year after the escape the stat
ute of Limitation runs against a prosecution,
unless in the meantime warrant was issued
against the escape. In that case he may be ar
rested al any Il1ne, trleu anu punlSneQ 1Or the
| escape.
THE MACALIsTER TARTAN-J.A., Concord, B.
CAL The answer given few days since about
the colors of the tartan of the Macalisters of
Scotland was based on information obtained
from ''McIan's Costumes of Scotland" con-
sidered the very best authority on the subject.
P S. r. of Milton, Calaveras County, friend
of this de partment, takes exception to this au-
| thority and sends letter in which he writes,
| 'sThe Macalister tartan contains five colors-
! red, navy blue green, sky blue and white'-
| but P S. R. does not state upon what he bases
the assertion that the colors he gives are those
| of the Macalisters.
A CREoLE-J. A. F., City. Creole is from the
| Spanish, criollo, creole. properly, nursed,
| grown up-from criar, breed. In Louisiana,
| Spanish America, the West Indies and Mauri-
thus, creole denotes in its widest sense any one
boru in the country, but of a race not native
to it. 1t is usually applied, however, to per-
sons born in the colony or country,
of pure European blood as distin-
| guished both from immigrant Europeans
and from the offspring of mixed blood. In