The San Francisco call., 1896-09-24

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the deer season was open from January L to
July and in 1890it was open from the LIST of
January to June l.
! A HYMNS. j., City. The hymn ''There is a
| Happy Land - which has been translated into
! nineteen languages, was written by Andra,v
Young, native OF Edinburgh, Scotland. in
1888.
FRENCH HIsroRY-T. P, City. After the exc.
cution of Louis XVI and then the execution
of Marie Antoinette in France, the National
Convention was in power; after that the
Directory, the Consulate and then Napoleon I.
HARD DRINKERs-K, Alameda, Cal. While
it is true that many professional men are hard
drinkers, it IS not true that the best profes-
sional men are such. Many OF the best profess
sional men are not addicted to the drinking
habit.
SIPHoN THE LAKE-R. P. NJ, Colfax, Iowa
This correspondent suggests that it would be
more practical to siphon Eagle Lake. described
in an article in THE CALL OF the 26th OF August
than to tap it for the purpose OF drawing the
water from the lake.
NINE. ALBANI-M. W., Oakland, Cal Nine.
Albani, prima donna, was born in Chambly,
Canada, in 1851. Her family name was La
Jeunesse, and she descended from one of the
early French families OF the country. She
made her first appearance in Albany, n. Y, at
the age OF IL, and met with such success that
she adopted the professional name OF Albani
The SEVEN WoNDERs-T P. City. The seven
wonders OF the world, the ancient world, were:
The Pyramids, first, which in Egypt were laidi
1, Next Baoylons Gardens, for Amytis made;
Then Mausolo's Tomb OF affection and guilt;
Fourth; the Temple OF Diana. in Ephesus built;
Inc Colosso5 OF Rhodes, cast in BRASS to the sun;
SIKH, Jupi er's Statue, by Phdias done;
The Pharos OF Egypt, last wonder of old,
VI Falaee OF cyprus, cemented with gold.
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS T. P, City The ancient
Egyptians had distinctive family names and
olstlnetlve names to distinguish one member
OF the family from the other. They did NOT
use "Mr., Mrs. or Miss" for the reason
that the English tongue was unknown
to them. They had a number OF HOLIDAYS
which they observed and they used engage
ment rings. Osiris, Isis and Horus were
Egyptian gods.
CAM1NETu-F. H, City. Anthony Camin-
ETH represented the Second District of Cali
1orn1a in Congress, which includes Alpine.
Amador, Butte, Calaveras, EI Dorado, Inyo,
Mariposa, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento,
San Joaquin, Sutter and Tuolumne counties.
In the Fifty-s econd and Fifty third sessions.
He was not reelected to the present session.
bis home is in Jackson, A1nador County
| When he is in this City letter directed to him
al the LICK House will reach him.
FALSE PRBTENsE-Subseriber,C City. ANY in.
dividual who would go to transportation
company and obtain tickets at reduced rates
on the ground that such were for a poor per-
son and worthy object of charity, and would
then sell them at full rates, would be guilty of
having obtained property by false pretenses
but whether he could be convicted under the
law would depend upon the facts and the tes-
tlmony obtafnable. The degree of the crime
would depend upon the value Of the property
obtained. II man should secure admission
Tor an individual into public institution and
then collect $40 from the relatives or friends
OF the individual ON the representa- ton that
the State charged that much he should GER
prosecuted a I'd ghp no
the prosecuting attorney of the county.
THE COINAGE OF THE UNITED srArEs-J. D.,
Vacaville, Cal The coinage of silver dollars,
half dollars, quarters, dimes and half
dimes was authorized by act of Congress of
April z, 1892. Dollars were first coined in
| 1898 to 1905, then, by order of the executive,
coinage OF the silver dollar was discontinued
until 1886. There were no dollars coined in
| 1887, but in 1888 they were coined again and
continued successively until 1873 when the
silver dollar was demonetiged, and none were
coined again until 1873, when it was re-
monetizsd and its coinage was continued un-
I'll 1894 inclusive, in which year only 75S
November 10, 1895, when by order of the Sec
retary OF the Treasury the coinage was
p stopPsu P9su ana was 1ot resumed until the 25th of
| in 1898 to 1896, then from 1901 TO
1914, ana then from 1915 to the present
and 1897; 1904 to 1907, 1915 and 1916, 1918
to 1928, 1928, 1927 to 1928 and 1881 to date
| Dimes were coined In 1896 to 1898 1900 TO
1802, 1907, 1909 to 1911, 1914, 1920 TO 1923,
1925, 1927 10 date. Half-uimes we're coined
! in 1894 to 1897, 1900 to 1903. 1906, 1929 to
| 1873 when the coinage OF silver half-dimes
was discontinued. Nickel Scent pieces were
authorized in 1866, and have been coined
every year since that date.
TUNNEL-N. S. NJ, East Oakland Cal. Thers
is tunnel under the st. Clair River between
Port Huron, St. Clair County, Mich, and
Sarnia, Canada. This tunnel was built to con-
meet the tracks of the Grand Trunk Railroad
OF Canada with the Chicago and Grand Trunk,
| the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee and
| the Toledo, Saginaw and Muskegon railroads
in the United States. The tunnel was built of
| cast-iron segments by means of hydraulic
shields, and was the first cast iron tunnel OF
its kind and the longest river tunnel in the
world-6O50 feet. 1t was begun in August,
1889, and was puilt at the rate of I59 feet per
4 week, the two shields meeting in the center
August 80, 1890. The first railroad trip was
made through it April 8, 1891, and it was
formally opened on the 10Th OF the following
| September. The outs ide diameter is 2l.7 and
the inside 20 feet The cost of constructing
| this tunnel was within the estimate of
| 100000. In 1871 it was proposed TO con-
struct tunnel under the Detroit River to con-
meet the City of Detroit with the Canadian
| side, for use of the Michigan Central aud the
i Great Western Railway of Canada. A small
| drainage tunnel was driven as an experiment
to distance OF 1910 feet from the Michigan
| side and more than $40 feet from the Canadian
| shore. Great difficulties we're encoun tered
| from the inflow of water and gas, the former
| under head much greater than that due to
| the expectations, and the work was finally
| abandoned in 1878.
| BFsr peanut taffv in the world Townsend'ss