The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-20

army; the chevrons, however, are inverted.
The insignia of nOn-commissioned officers
Is: First sergeant, three chevrons and q dia-
mond; color sergeant, circle and three chew
Tons; ordnance sergeant tar and three chew
rons with bar across the top Of each;
sergesnt-major, three ebevrons with half
circle over each; hospital steward, three
chevrons and Geneva cross; fsrrier SER
geant, three chevrons and horseshoe; saddler
sergeant, three chevrons and stiTrup; chief
trumpeter, same device as sergeant-major
with addition of bugle; commissary sergeant,
three chevrons gray; corporals, two chew
rons; lance-corporals, one cheVron.
MINES IN CALIFoRNIA-J. P. B., Auburn, Cal.
The officers OF the Mining Bureau are at this
time collecting statistics with a view to ascer-
tanning how many gold and how many silver
mines there are in the State of California and
how many men are engaged In each, but the
figures received are not sufficient TO form an
approximate number OF either. This depart
ment might guess at the number, but will not.
VENUS DE Mno-"Wahua," Los Angeles,
Cal. The "Venus Victorious" is called the
''Venus of Milo" because 1t was brought from
the island of Milo in the Egean Sea by Adj
miral dUrville in 1920. 1t is one of the chefs
d'euvre of antiquity and is now in the Louvre
in Paris. The measurements of the statue are :
Height feet IL inches; circumference OF
head at forehead and over hair, % inches;
width of forehead, 8 inches; length of nose
of face, hair line TO chin, 73l inches; length
of ears, inches; circumference of neck u
Inches; width across shoulders, 1915 inches !;
circumference at shoulders, 4S inches; bust
43 inches; waist 81 inches; from hip to knee
% inches; knee TO ankle, 231$ inches; knee to
sole of loot, 24A inches; length OF foot, 121l
inches; width OF foot, 49, inches; circumfer-
ence OF upper arm, 143z inches.
HUSBAND AND WIFE AND LErTERs-M. E. and
A., City. These correspondents ask about the
right to open letters. One asks: HAS the hus-
band any right whatever to open his vife's
letter without her consent?" and the other
asks: 'In case husband deserts his wife and
she comes in possession OF letter addressed to
him, has she right 10 open that letter." The
opening of letter addressed to another is a
crime under the United States law, and is
punishable by fine and Imprisonment. Sec
ton 723, paragraph 8, of the postal law saws:
"Neither husband nor wife controls the CORE
sDondenee to the other; when so instructed, a
Pos tmaster must refuse 10 deliver to the hns-
! band letters addressed to the wife, or to the
wife those addressed to the husband. In the
absence OF instructions to the contrary, the
Wffe's letters should be placed in the hus,
! bands Dox and delivered to him with his own
| letters unless they be known to live sena-
rately" The postal authorities say that while
IL is generally understood that 1naa and yyife
! are one, the Postal Department in the matter
OF letters, recognize them as two distinct indi-
vidbalS, and that, under strict construction of
W0nl6
not have the right to open his wife's letters
without her consent, and in the second case If
| a deserted wife received letter addressed n
| her husband, If she wished to avoid a prosecn.
| ton, she would return the letter to the nosf
! office.
DOUBLE Standard. c. D., Forest Ranch
Cal. The act of 1892 provided chat there
| shall be from time to time struck and
coined at said mint coins OF gold, silver and
copper, OF the following denominations, values
and descriptions" Then follow the descrin-
tons of eagles, half eagles and quarter eagles
| OF gold, dollars or units--each to be of the
value of a Spanish mtlled dollar as the same
is now current and to contain 371L grains OF
pure or 4l6 grains of standard silver. half dol
lars OF half OF the value of the dollar un Il. -
alter that there is a description of the
| minor silver coins and the copper coins So
at nrst there was not only double but triple
standard in the United States. The relative
value OF gold to silver was fixed at one part OF
the former TO fifteen OF the latter, and the fine
ness OF gold coins was fixed at eleven parts OF
/ pure gold 10 one OF alloy. Atthe ratio named the
silver dollar being cheaper than the gold dol
lar became the standard unit The ratio in
most european countries was 1 to 1915. The
gold imported In this country could be ex-
changed for 10. 80 parts silver which when ex-
ported would yield one part of gold and
leave surplus of .48 parts silver as the
means to pay the expense of transport ation, in.
| terest and still leave profit on the tran sacton
dhls LED 70 avery large export of silver dollars,