The San Francisco call., 1896-03-04
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

| CoRBETT AND JAcKsoN-A. C. R., City. The
| fight between James J. Corbett and Peter
| Jackson, which was declared "no contest, was
| fought on the 21st of May. 1881.
| A FIvE-DoLLAR PIECE-M. NJ, City. No pre-
MUM is offered for five-doilar piece of the
| issue of 1885. Dealers in coins demand an ad-
vance OF one dollar for such coin.
THE BoERs-A. S., City. This column is not
one open TO debates or controversies. 1t can
not insert an argument on "Resolved, That
| the Beers justified in the stand they have
taken against the English invasion OF the
Transyaal."
FITZsIMMoNs- s-CHoYNsKI-C. R., Merced, Cal.
On June 1S, 1894, Robert Fitzsimmons and
Joseph Choynski met in the Boston (Mass)
Theater for siX-round contest under Queens
berry rules. In the sixth round the police in
terfered and the contest was declared draw.
PUBLISHING BooK-P. j. S.. City. There are
several publishing houses in this City, the adj
dresses of which can be found in the directory,
that will publish book on natural science,
provided satisfactory arrangements can be
made, but this department cannot advertise
such firms or recommend any.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN. c., Vacaville. Cal. Sui
livan and Mitchell fought at Chantilly, France,
on March 10, 1888, thirty-nine rounds, and
the fight was declared draw. Sullivan was
one rounds on September z, 1892. The fight
lasted l hour and % minutes, and was for
$45 ,00O-$25. 900 purse and $4,000 stake.
RED ANTs-The following is given as
method to exterminate red ants: "Grease
plate with lard and set it where these insects
abound. They prefer lard to anything else
and will forsake sugar for it. Place a few
sticks around che plates for the ants to climb
up on. Occasionally turn the plate bottom up
over the fire and the ants will fall in with the
melting lard. Reset the plate and in q short
time you will catch them all"
ALUMINIUM. s., City. Aluminium is not
found in metallic state. 1t is found in CO.
rundum or colored by metallic oxides in
sapphire, ruby, emery and so forth. Aluminium
occurs principally as silicate in the various
clays; as silicate containing silicon fluoride in
the topaz; as double silicate with iron, mag.
nesia, lime and so forth in garnet; with potas.
SUM, sodium, magnesium and calcium In
immense quantities in the varieties OF felspar
The silver-white metal of trade is obtained by
reduction in various ways
HoTEL-KEEPEHs-F S. p, City. Section 1861
of the Civil Code gives hotelkeeper the right
to hold the baggage of a guest for non-pay-
ment of board and lodging. The following
section provides that if, at the expiration of
six months, the baggage is not reclaimed, no
matter how 1t came into the possession of the
hotel-keeper, he may sell the same by auction,
after having duly advertised the sale. He is
him, and the balance, if there be any, must be
turned over to the County Treasurer to be held
for the owner.
SKY-sCRAPER- E. G. S., Livermore, Cal.
''Sky -soraper' was originally intended to ap-
ply to anything that would scrape "a sky"
which word when first used meant cloud,
and at this day that is the Swedish word for
cloud. Chaucer, the father OF English poetry,
who lived in the fourteenth century, wrote:
And let q certain winde goe
That blew so hdeously and HE
That 1t ne lefte not ske
In all the welkin long and brode.
Welkin is the plural OF the obsolete term
welc, for cloud. The term Sky-scraper was
afterward used to designate. an imaginary sail
set alongside of the moonsa all, sky-gfazers and
the like, and was jokingly assumed to be car
ried iD the days when sail power was the sole
reliance at sea. United States vessels at that
time were considered the fastest afoat, and as
a reason for their speed it was asserted that
they carried skY.scrapers.