The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-26

VIcToRIA's REIGN-W. C. City. Queen Vic
torla has been reigning nearly ffty-nine
years, having succeeded her uncle, King VIII
liam Nv on the 10th OF June, 1887.
THE BEEcHER TRIAL-A. ST. City. The trial
of Henry Ward Beecher commenced on the 4th
OF January, 1873, and the jurors were not dis
charged until the ll2th day OF the trial.
GENERAL sHERIDAN-s., City. General Philip
II. Sheridan was in this City in 1875, and he
the Palace Hotel on the 14th of October of that
year.
LIQUOR CoNsUMED-J. NJ, Alameda, Cal The
amount of spirits, malt liquor and wines in the
United States during 1894 was In the aggre-
gate las, $4,000 gallons. There were 3d.
54l, 2o9 gallons OF spirits, .036, 319, 222 gal
Ions of malt liquor and 81, 293 124 gallons of
wine.
ALUMINUM-J. E. NJ. Auburn, Cal Aluminium
varies in price according to the form in which
it is desired, from 80 cents to 81 pound. The
largest amount of aluminum-ware is manu-
featured in Pittsburg. Pa, and in Neuhausen
Switzerland. This department cannot adyer-
tise manufacturers of such ware.
THE OREeoN-L. J. c., City. The Oregon was
required to steam fifteen and quarter knots
per hour, and the bonus is S25 900 for each
quarter knot over that speed. AS she ex-
ceeded that speed by seven quarter knots she
earned for her builder S175 900. The pay
over regular salaries Is Tor each quarter
knot over the required speed.
WoMANs CoNGREss-A Thinker, City. With
out making person al canvass it would be an
impoSsibility TO state how many of the leaders
OF the late Woman's Congress and of the Suf-
occupations they follow. 1t may be stated
that Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw are lectur-
ers that Miss Cooper is aSunday-sehool teacher
Association, and Sarah Severance is writer.
SHERIDAN's RIDE-E. F., Oakland, Cal. The
poem "Sheridan's Ride" was written to order
by Thomas Buchanan Read on the day of the
battle of Winchester. The battle took place in
the morning, and the result was known at
noon. Murdoch, a well-known reader of the
the time, urged upon Read to write poem for
the occasion so that he (Murdochl could recite
it that evening, October 10, 1864, at public
meeting to be held in Chicago. The poem was
written.
GEAR OF RUssIA-E. R., Oakland, Cal. The
present Car of Russia is the eldest son of the
late Alexander Ill This department cannot
give you any information on the subject of 6
member of the royal Russian family, at din
ner in 1870 in st. Petersburg, destroying a
glass filled with champagne upon hearing the
news that the Germans had defeated the
French, nor can it tell If the act was a demon
some reader of this department can enlighten
the correspondent.
A CuPFUL OF wATER-C. E. R., Elmira, Cal.
This correspondent writes, ga cup of water
was sitting on table. A says, L drank the
cupful and says, Il drank it empty Which
expression is correct? II the writer had
made the declaration that the cup of water
was standing on the table he would have been
more correct than to make the startling an
nouncement that it was sitting on the table
AS assertion that he drank the cupful of
water is correct, while BIS expression is not
probably what he meant to say was 81 drank
and emptled the cup"
DRUGGISTS SIGNs-S., City. Druggists COL
ored bottles for signs, like the symbolical fig
ures often seen on bottles in drugstores, origi-
mated among those ancient chemists, the
Moors of Arabia and of Old Spain. In expert
ments and in the manufacture of chemicals
they used glass retorts and vessels similar in
shape to the bottles now used as signs, and the
retorts and vessels being filled with eolored
liquids became associated in the public mind
with the men who filled them, and in time
were placed in windows to show where the
mixtures were prepared.
MIDsHIPMAN SPESsER-S. H., City. This cor
respondent is anxious to know in which book
or magazine he can find poem in which oc-
ours the line:
The black rock that marks the grave OF the young
mutineer
This poem was written after the hanging on
the LIST of December, 1912. OF Midshipman
Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small. ringlead-
ers of mutiny on board of the United States
brig Somers. Can any OF the readers of this
department furnish the desired information?
PEN sKErcHING-L. w. c.. City. If your taste
runs to pen sketching, and you feel that you
would make a newspaper artist, you had better
go for time TO a teacher of drawing and have
him teach you all he can; then devote time to
practieing on subjects from life and landscape
and when you feel confident that you can
draw, then devote some time to the art of shad-
ing with ink, so as TO bring out all the effects
OF your pictures and at the same time not make
them too black. After you have done this then
offer your work to the head of any newspaper
art depart ment and If it shows that you have
any talent he may give you trial. The ques-
ton of salary is one that depends on ability
Every artist who draws for the comic papers
in the United States considers himself the best
illustrator and there are many people who
agree with each, but not all
HOPKINS INSTITUTE OF ABT-H. d. NJ, Eureka
CAL, and A. L. NJ, Tacoma, Wash. Edward F.
Searles of Methuen, Mass, appreciating the
efforts made to maintain an art school in San
Francisco, and desiring to endow the City and
State with an institution bearing the name of
Hopkins, he having married the widow of the
late Mark Hopkins, who was one of the rail-
road magnates, declared in 1892 some time
donate the Hopkins mansion on the southeast
corner of Mason and California streets to the
regents of the University of California for the
purposes OF instruction and illustration of the
fine arts, music and literature" This was done
by deed OF trust February 81, 1898. By an
agreement entered into between Mr.. Searles,
the Regents and the directors of the San Fran
cisco Art Association, the last named. under
the laws of the State. became an affi1.
ated college of the university and entered
jointly into the possession of the premises
with the Regents. The Art Association was
organized in March, 1872. 1t holds semi-an-
nual exhibitions OF works of artand maintains