The San Francisco call., 1896-03-24
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
No PREMIUM OrFERED-s., Colusa, Cal. No
premium is offered for half dollar OF 1919 or
| one of 1927.
| A MILLION STAMPs-W. D., City. The United
States Government does not purchase million
Cancelled postage stamps, as IT. is not engaged
in the secondhand stamp business.
FITzsIMMoNs-o. S., City. Robert Fitzsim-
mons, the pugilist, was born in Elston, Corn
wall, England, June a. 1862 consequently
next June he will be 81 years OF age.
PALMER-PL1MMER- NJ, City. On the 25th
of November, 1895, sPeddier'' Palmer beat
Billy Plimmer for purse OF $4,000 in fourteen
rounds in fifty-four minutes, London, Eng
land.
FITzsIMMoNs- -CHoYNsKI-D. H., Benicia, Cal.
The fight between Bob Fitzsimmons and 10
Choynski took place IN Boston, Mass, June IL,
1894. 1t was declared draw, because after
the fifth round the police lnterfered.
For THE STAGE. Mc City. If you desire to
prepare yourself for the stage you had better
call on the manager OF a theater and he Will
give you the necessary advice. This depart
ment cannot advertise those who INSTRUCT
stage-struck people.
BUREAU OF HIeHwAys-A. S., Stanford Uni
versity. Palo Alto, Cal. By communication
with E. Myron Wolf, secretary of the State
Bureau of Highways, State Capitol at Sacra-
mento, you will receive all information about
the report of the convention of that body held
last month.
VALUE OF CoINs-Inquirer, Encondido, Cal.
Ten to 25 cents is offered for half-cent %. 81
OF 1900. Dealers offer to sell five-franc pieces
OF 1922 with figure of Louis XVIII at 81 70 to
81 90. The description of the other coins in
| your communication is too indefinite to locate
them in the catalogues
YELLOW CARNAT1oN--s., Mount Bullion, Mari
posa County, Cal. Yes; there are yellow car
nations. From the caryophylus under the in
fuence OF cultivation, have been derived all
the splendid varieties of carnations, whose
flowers are of all possible colors and com bina-
lions OF colors except blue.
| To Cooks INLET-H. B. E., Mill Valley, Marin
| County. An advertisement has appeared in
the daily papers recently announcing the fact
to Cooks Inlet, but as this department does
not adver tise private enterprises, it cannot
furnish the desired information.
| DURRANT's SECOND TRIAL. g., Santa Rosa,
Cal. Whether Theodore Durrant will have q
! second trial is uncertain, as his case is now
| before the Supreme Court, and there is no
i knowing what that body may decide, nor IS
| trial will take place should he be granted d
new trial, but 1t is safe to say that about year
will elapse before decision is reached.
| OcTAGoNAL DoLLARs-N. B., San Jose, Cal.
| Gold dollars of octagonal shape were never
coined in the mints OF the United States. They
were issued by private mints and jewelers. in
/ San Francisco in the early days. Some were
made as late as 1875. Collectors of coins do
not make any offer to purchase any of these,
but they have them fo1 sale an6 charge from
So rs to 81 for each, according to date, variety
and state OF preservation.
BUILpINGs-C. A. j., CITY, Whether the Mills
and the Crocker buildings will stand "being
kept in constant repair, barring earthquakes
and acts of Providence" 200 or 1000 years
answers to correspondents cannot say, not be-
ing endowed with the gift of representation
There are no buildings that were erected 200
years or more ago of the same materials or
combination OF similar materials as used In
the two buildings named by which you could
form an idea as to how long these two build
ings might stand.
QUOTATIONS City AS you do
not state in your communication the character
of quotations you desire it is impossible to
know exactly what you do desire. nMany
Thoughts OF Many Minds" two volumes
Familiar Quotations." by Grocott; Latin
thors'' and "Quotations From the German and
Spanish" with English translations by Tate,
and Familiar Quotations From -, French and
will furnish you more than 5000 quotations to
select from.
THE PEMBERToN sDIsAsTER-Old Vet, Yount-
vile, Napa County, Cal. The Pemberton Cot
ton-mills, in Lawrence, Mass, were built in
1858, had capacity of $50 hands, had $50
looms, 29. 900 spindles, and when in full opera
tion consumed go, 900 pounds of cotton per
day. On the 10th of January, 1860, while
! the machinery was in motion, the main build
| ing. without moments warning, collapsed,
and confagration followed. There were 700
+k1 A,,ftI tIxa@
| seven were killed outright, 134 were more or
less injured, and of this number IA subse-
| quently died.
| CHINESE BRAcELETs-C. r., City. The brace
lets so commonly worn by Chinese are of
nepnrite or jade, q change of feldspar by a
| process of saussuritization which is a CONVEX
sion into saussurite, q term used by some
lithologists in describing certain metamorphic
| changes in various feldspars. The reason that
| it is SO universally used by the Chinese is that
they attribute to it certain virtue, namely,
that OF being preventive of renal disease.
| guard against attacks of nephritis, hence its
name nephrite. These bracelets are a fad
among certain class of white people because
| they are Chinese.
STocKHoLDERs-C., Napa, Cal. The law
of this State says that each stoekholder in a
corporation is individually liable for such pro-
portion of its debts and liabilities as the
| diuOQlib VI; StOCh VI SudIcS OWueQ Uy ulm Oedr
| to the whole of the subscribed capital stock or
shares of the corporation, and for like pro-
| portion of each debt or claim against the cor
| poration. In a recent case the Supreme Court
held that stockholder could not be held Ii
able beyond the proportion of the, stock he
owns to the capital stock of the corporation.
| An action against a stockholder should be
commenced in the place in which the corpora
| ton has its headquarters.
A CoNTRAcT-Steno, City. A contract be-
| tween an employer and an employe depends
upon the language used at the time the en-
ploye is engaged. If the employer should
say 81 will engage you and pay you at the rate
of $50 per month";" that would be one proposi-
| ton, but if he should say, 81 will engage you
by the month and pay you $50 each month -
that would be another proposition. In the first
| case he would have the right to dismiss his
| employe at any time and pay him only for
! such time as he worked. In the other case he
would be bound by his contract and it is prob
able that court would compel him to pay the
employe a full months salary if he should
discharge him without cause before the month
was up.
| ENGLAND's REvENUE-M. P. M, Oakland, CAL
The actual net income of England for the fiscal