The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17

mother is still living at Canton Ohio His
family moved from Pennsylvania to OhlD IN
1ot4: When 16 years OF age he united with
the Methodist Episcopal church.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.. T. R., Santa Cruz,
Cal. The president of the Chamber OF Com
merce OF San Francisco is Hugh Craig and the
secretary is W. L. Merry. The president OF the
tery is ID. L. Smith.
CITIzENsHIP-J. s.. City foreigner who de-
sires TO declare his intention of becoming
citizen OF the United States can make appliea-
ton TO any departm ent of the Superior Court.
He does not require any witnesses and no
charge is made Ii he should desire to obtain
MS first papers in the United States District
Court or United States Circuit Court he will be
charged small fee.
DIREcToRs--M. F., City. The Civil Code Of
this State provides that the directors OF an in
corporated association shall not be less than
five and not more than eleven, but that the
same may oe increased or diminished by vote
OF the majority of the stockholders or mem
bers TO not less than five nor more than eleven.
a quorum shall be that number that the
directors may decide upon.
MINING LAws-P. E. W., Kelsey, Kern County,
Cal. To vote at an election for recorder OF q
mining district the elector must be either a
citizen or one who has declared his intention
OF becoming such. There is no fixed time for
the opening OF the polls. Time is optional.
The electors appoint the board that controls
the election. If the election has been set for q
certain day the recorder has no authority TO
change the day.
A NoTE on SUNDAY-A. S., City. As there is
no Sunday law in this State note given
on Sunday is legal There is no decision in
lo,.o 8 ;t-o
on legal holiday. man who would borrow
money from another on legal holiday and
then seek to repudate the obligation on the
ground that the transaction took place on
dies non is no better than common thief,
and he ought to be behind the bars.
SWITZERLAND = Subscriber, City. The Ian
guage spoken in Switzerland at This time is the
German, French, Italian ana Romansch. In
vestigation has led to the discovery of traces
of the Gaelic language spoken by people OF
Southern Europe, anu there is some evidence
that it was spoAen in Italy France, Switzer-
land, Spain and Portugal, but when and how
long since people in the countries named
ceased using that language is not known.
PERsPIRATIoN OF THE FEET-S., Sacramento,
Cal. The following is given for what it is
worth: "SeYen ounces of carbonate OF magne-
sa two ounces of powdered cacined alum
seven ounces of orris root (powdered) and one
half drachm of powdered cloves, all well
mixed makes powder that will absorb exces-
sve perspiration of the feet." To correct an
offensive smell OF the feet, ''bethe them in
weak solution of permanganate OF potaSSa, one
scruple of the salt to eight ounces OF water
LEAP YEAR,. B. NJ, City. The question as
to 1900 not being a leap year has been
answered several times The rule is not, as
you suppose, that every one hundretn year
shall be divisible by FOUR but that it shall be
divisible by 400, i'll order to De leap year
The Gregorian calendar, established i'll 1882
ever since known as the new style, was so
arranged that of the hundredth years to come,
only the four hundredth years were to be bissex-
tile or leap years. having 500 days. The year
1000 was the first.
BIRD LIME-A. s., Virginia City, New. The
following is given as a recipe for making bird
lime: Boil the middle bark of the holly seven
or eight hours in water drain it and lay it in
heaps in the ground covered with stones for
two or three weeks till reduced to a mucilage;
beat this in q nj ortaT, wash it in rain water and
knead it till free from eXtraneous matter; put
1t into earthen pots and in four or iYe days II
will be ready for use. An inferior kind is
made by boiling linseed oil for some hours
until ii becomes viscid paste.
CHRIsTENING-Subscrfb Alvarado, Cal. The
father, as the head of the family, has the con-
troll of his child, ard has the right TO say in
what faith it shall be brought up, unless
bound by some moral obligation prior to the
birth of the child to bring it up in a particular
faith. Ii persons having charge of the child
should without authority, during the absence
OF the mother and without the knowledge OF
the father, take the child to a church and
have il christened. the father need not recog-
itize such act, and may have the child chris
tened by such name as he may deSireit to
have.
EosToN's MAYOR. R.. City The Mayor Of
Boston whose name was O'Brien was Hugh
n IL
1886 and 1887. He was born in Ireland in
1927. July 13. When but years of age he
was brought to the United States. He re-
ceived his early education in the public
schools, graduating from the grammar school
that stood on Fort Hill, famous in the history
of Massachusetts He learned the art OF
printing, and in time founded the Shipping
and Commercial List. He became identified
with politics and his services as Alderman and
Mayor covered period of eleven years.
FITzsIMMoNs AND MAHEB-J. F., City. The
first fight between Robert Fitzsimmons and
Peter Maher took place in New Orleans, March
2, 1892 This was match for a purse of $10-
900, offered by the Olympic Club of that city,
$1,000 to go TO the loser John Duffy was the
referee; Fitzsimmons' seconds were Jimmy
Carroll, Joe Choynski and Alec Greggaius and
Mahers were Billy Madden, Gus Tuthtll and
Jack Fallon. The timekeepers were: for
Fitzsimmons, George r. Clark Tor Maher, p !.
Donohue; and for the club, r. NJ. Frank.
FitZsimmons scored first blood and first knock
down in the first round. Maher was knocked
out in the twelfth round.
SUPERvIsoRs-J. Med, City. The consolida-
ton act of 1856, under which San Fran cisco
first had Board of Supervisors, declares that
the term of Supervisors shall be two years,
and that has been the term ever since. The
idea that Supervisors were at one time elected
for one year only probably arises from the fact
that in 1866 the law was changed that at
the annual election half OF the Supervisors
should be elected for two years and at the
following election the other half, and under
that law the odd mum bere6 wards elected
Supervisors one year and the next year the
even-numbered wards elected their represen-
tatiyes, and that continued until the law was
again changed 10 what it is now.
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