The San Francisco call., 1897-03-12

an apprenticeship. If you will call on any
architect in this City you will te able to OBJ
| tain all the information you desire on the SUBJ
| Ject as TO length of time terms and other mat
| ters on the subject.
| THE ELECTORAL VorE-L A. D., City. The
| electors meet in their respective States and
! vote for President and Vice-President. The
result Is signed. certified and transmitted,
| sealed, to the seat of Government at Wash
| lngton, directed to the President of the Sen
| ate. These certificates are opened by the
| President of the Senate in the presence of the
Senate and House of Representatives; the
vote Is then counted and the result an
nounced. This is done under the provisions
OF article XII, amendments to the Constitution
OF the United States.
AREA OF CoUNTRIEs-E. R., Oakland Cal.
According to American figures the area of the
following named countries is: United States,
1902, 800 square miles; Brazil. 3.219.000;
Canada, 3,456, 500. including British Co.um-
bia british Columbia, 3S3, ,3O0) Russian EN-
pire, including Russia in Europe and Russia
in Asia, S,644 100 English figures are:
3,2O9, ,878; Canada, inc uding British Column
bia, 1915 ,647 british Columbia, 382, BOO;
Russian empire. 8, ,470, 2S2-Rnssia In Europe,
2, 905, ,504; Russia in Asia, b, ,564,77o.
A WEAPoN-C W.. Berkeley, Cal. There Is
no State law that prohibits the carrying of
concealed weapons. but there is law which
prohibits the carrying of weapon or weapons
with intent to assault another. Some Judges
have held in cities where the carrying OF
concealed deadly weapon is declared TO be an
offsns. that an lnIoaded revolver is weapon
within the meaning OF the law. Ihey nave
held that revolver is q deadly weapon, IRE
spective of the fact that it is not loaded.
Others have he'll that an unloaded reVoIVer IS
no more than so much steel, and being un-
loaded is not deadly weapon.
THE NATIONAL GUARD-W. H. o., City. The
majority of the companies OF the First Resl-
ment, Second Brigade, N. G. c., formerly To-
Gated in the armory corner Tenth ana Market
Streets are now located in the armory at %
Page street. The companies that assem- pie ~ IN
that armory are B. /, E, II, A, /, ID and NJ
Companies c, G, and rs sembie IN the Ma
tionals' armory, S15 Ellis street. The COM
pnny drills are held as follows: Monday, B, {,
G, /; Tuesday, F, X: Wednesday, Z, H; Thurs
day. A, l.; Friday, D, NJ. Companies d, E, A
and compose the First Battalion; NJ, L. aud
the Second, and X, C, and G the Third.
MILITARY DRAFTs-P. c., East Oakland, Cal.
Draft ethods were twice employed by the
United States and twice by The Southern Con-
federacy for raising and increasing the armies.
The first measure was introduced in Congress
in 1914. The second was by an act of May },
1868, which had no reference to the militia,
but called every able bodied citizen of mill
tary age in 10 the Federal service. conn muta-
tion OF $500 for exemption was permitted and
persons refusing obedience were treated as de-
serters. The unpopularity of the conscription
caused the "Draft Riots in New York CITY.
July 1916. 1868. On April 49, 1862 and July
Is. 1868, the Confederate Congress passed con-
scripton laws leyying on all persons between
the ages OF 1S and 40.
PRINTERS RoLLERs-W. F. B., City. There are
different methods of making printers rollers.
Some are made by using an equal quantity of
good glue and concentrated glycerine, the
glue being softened by soaking in cold water,
after which it is melted over warm water
bath, the gycerine being added gradually.
The heat is continued until the excess OF water
is driven off. During the process the mass is
continually stirred. 1t is then cast in bronze
or brass molds that have been we'll oiled. An
other method is to make mixture of 1O13
pounds OF the best glue, ~ gallons OF black
molasses or honey, pounu of purified india
rubter dissolved in turpentine, 2 ounces OF
Venice turpentine, IL ounces of glycerine and
and ounces of vinegar.
BALLADS OF NATIoN-B., City The express
sion, 'Let me make the ballads and 1 care not
who makes the laws of the natioL," has often
been credited to Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun,
a Scottish patriot and politician, who was
born in 1868 and died in 17I6. In letter to
the Marquis of Montrose written in 1909
Fletcher wrote: II knew a very wise man VINO
believed that if O man were permitted 10 make
all the ballads he need not care who should
make the laws" The uihor of the express
sion is not known, but as File tcher in the let
ter quoted says, 81 knew very wise man."
it is presumed he referred to John Selden, an
I1ustrious English scholar and lawyer, saga
reviewer OF the life of fletcher, but that can
not be so, for the reason that Seiden died the
year after Fie tcher was born, consequently he
could not have known him "a very wise
man..