The San Francisco call., 1897-09-25

department is unable 10 ma tne sCauSlcS
asked ior in relation to Hamburg and Liver
pool.
R. B. swA1N-E. NJ. D.. City R. B. Swain
died in this city Juue ID, 1872, at % Eleventh
street, and his remains were laid al rest in
Laurel Hill Cemetery.
TWENTY DOLLAR PIECE F., City. In a $50
piece coined in the mints of the United States
there are 1914 grains of pure gold and SIG
grains OF alloy, equal to 516 grains
FIGURES -statistician, Oakland, Cal. The
figures submitted are those that were given
out from the Treasury Department at Wash
ington July 80 last. except as to the year 1879
lRELAND-D., City. The greatest length OF
Ireland is from Fair Head in Antrim, 10 Crow
Head in Kerry, 500 miles; It's greatest mer-
idional length is not more than 225 miles; its
greatest breadth, between the extreme poin is
OF Mayo aud Downs. is 1872 miles, but between
Galway Bay and Dublin it is not more than
100 miles
MUSICIANS IN THE NAVE. C. W.. City. In
tie Uuited States navy the pay of a band
master is $52 per month; chief musician,
$50; musician of the first class, S32; second
class. $50. In The marine corps the leader OF
the band is paid $40; frst-class musician,
$34; second c.ass, $22, and drummer and
tiiet, $l3
NEvADA-R G. b., City. The extreme length
is 4S3 miles; It's greatest breadth from eas to
west is 423 miles. 1t contains 11O,700 square
miles, 10 S4S. 900 acres. franks fourth IN ter
rttortai area. The States that have a gross area
in square miles. including land and water OF
more than 100000 miles are: Texas. 265, ,780;
California, 158 800; Montana, 146 O8O; Ne
vads, 110,7oo, and Colorado, 103,925.
'HEAR, HEARS. NJ. j., City "Hear, hear"
the interiecuon so often used by English peo-
pie at public assemblages is q Scrptural
phrase. 1t is to be found in II Sam
uel xx:16: ''Then cried a woman out OF the
city, Hear, hearp' Lord Macaulay in his His
tory OF England gives the following account
OF the rise of the exclamation in English
usage: "The King. therefore. the fifth Cay
after he had been proclaimed, went with
royal state TO the House OF Lords, and took his
seat on the throne. The Commons was called
in. and he, with many gracious expressions.
reminded his hearers OF the perilous situa-
ton OF the country, and exhorted
them to take such steps as might
prevent unnecessary delay in the trans
action of public business His speech was
received by the gentlemen who crowded the
bar with the deep hum with which our anceS-
tors won't to indicate APPRECIATION, and
which was often heard in places more sacred
tnan the Chamber of the Peers. AS soon as he
had retired a bill declaring the convention of
Parliament was laid on the table of the Lords
and rapidly passed by them. In the Commons
the DEBATE was Warm. The House resolved
itself into a committee OF the whole, aud so
great was the exciteme mt that when the au-
thority of the Speaker was Withdrawn it
hardly possible TO preserve order The phrase,
Hear him. used, and it one that
had originally been used TO silence Irregular
noises, ard to remind mem bers of their du-
ties, and from that lime on 1t became gradu-
ally what it is now. q cry indicative, according
to the tone, of admiration, acquiescence, in
dignation or derislon.