The San Francisco call., 1897-06-26

| CITY, The marriage laws of Oregon require
! that a divorced person shall have been resi-
dent of the State one year before marrying
again.
I Cross LoDE-Amador, City. The question as
| TO the ownership of cross lodes is one of law \
which should be submitted to the Unite
States Land Office either in this City or to tn T
General Land Office at Washington, D. C.
ALEX GREeGA1Ns-J. R., City. Since the
observation-disclosures fight Alexander has
been twice in the ring. on Thursday l6st when
he was defeated by Steve ODonnen' and few
weeks ago, when ne fought Win otenzeI at
the Woodward Pavilion.
CHsAR-L B. R., City. Cesar married Cor
nelia, daughter OF CHINA, B. G. s3. On his
return to Rome, B. C. 81, he married Pompeta,
a relative OF Pompey. and in B. c. % be mar
: ried CalpurnIa, daughter OF Piso, who sue
ceeded him to the ConsuIship.
WHERE OIL WAS DIsCovERED-E K. g., Gill
roy. Cal Summerland. Santa Barbara County,
in this State in which oil was recently dlscov-
cred, is distant 524 miles from San Francisco:
1t is postoffice and flag station on the line of
the Southern Pacific Railroad six miles east
of Santa Barbara, and has population OF less
than 200
THE w1pow's SHARE-E. NJ. c., Mountain
View, CAL If a man dies without leaving
will one-half OF his property, by law, goes to
the widow; the other half descends TO issue OF
the union-father, mother brother, sister. IN
that order. II there are no chlloren, Iatner
mother, brother or sister, then the WhoIe prop
erty goes to the widow.
srENoGRApHY-R T., City. 1t is impossible
10 state with certainty which is the standard
work on stenography as every writer is OF the
opinion that the particular system ne uses IS
the best. The best systems are Ptttman's,
Graham's and Muusons. Each court reporter
uses the system ne learned. There IS no uni
form system in the courts of this City
THE RACE To HONOLULU. F. g., New Lon
don, Conn. The barkentine S. g. Wilder and
the schooner Aloha left this port on the 9th OF
May tor Honolulu on about even start. 1t
was q race for the island. The Wilder reached
port May % and lett for San Francisco on the
return trip June 1. The Aloha did not reach
port until May 81. consequently lost the race.
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELANp-Two Sub
scribers, City. Great Britain Is the largest
island of Europe, containing the countries OF
England, Wales and Scotland. Ireland Is the
more western of the two principal islands of
which the United Kingdom OF Great Brit
ain and Ireland is composed. To the
Great Bri ain?' if that refers to geographical
territory. the answer is, no.
THE NINE OF DrAMoNDs-L. B. R., City. There
are two explanations, or rather suggestions of
why thy the nine of diamonds is called "the
curse OF Scotland: 1.-The nine of diamonds
in the game of Pope Juan is cal ed "the pope"
the antl-Cnrist of the Scotch reformers. I'm
the game of eomette, introduced by Queen
Mary, it is the great winning card. and the
game was the curse of Scotland, because it was
the ruin OF so many families.
THE PARIS TREATY-H. M, Oakland. Cal.
What is known as the treaty of Paris of 1853
was treaty concluded between Great Brit
ain, France and Spain. France ceded to
Great Britain Canada, Cape Breton and the
islands and coasts of the St. Lawrence. The
Mississippi River from its source to the Iber-
Vile and line thence through lakes Maure-
pas and Pontch artrain to the Gulf of Mexico
were TO bound the Spanish and British posses
sions. Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain.
England renouneed her pretensions to Cuba
in favor of Spain and surrendered her forts n
Spanish America
CITIzENsHIP-N. N, City. An alien who has
declared his intention TO become a citizen of
the United States and obtains his first papers
is not citizen of the United States, and he
does not become such until he has complied
with all the provisions OF the naturalization
laws and has rec eived from court of compe-
tent jurisdiction his second papers, which en-
title him to al the rights and privileges of
a citizen. If the rules require that a man
shall be citizen OF the United States before
he can obtain work under Government con-
tract an alien who has only declared his in
tenuon to become q citizen would not be
eligible.
THE LICK scHooL-H. o. and A. s., City
The school year OF the California School of
Mechanical Arts, commonly called the Lick
School, commences on the second Monday In
July and includes forty weeks of attendance
divided into two terms of equal length. The
school is open to any boy or girl OF this State
qualified to enter and is free of charge for
tuition. The requirements for entrance
are substantially the same as are needed
to enter the last OF the grammar
grades of the public schools. The number OF
pupils Is limited to accommoda tions. The
branches of study are English, mathema tics
science and history the first year, government
Is added in the second year and continued in
the third In the industrial course there is
for boys carpentery and turning, iron fitting
treehand and mechanical drawing, modelling
forging, molding and pattern making, wood
carving, arch tectu-al drawing; for girls sew
ing, freehand and mechanical drawing, model
ing, carpentry, dressmaking and millinery
wood carving, cookery and household art and
sciencs