The San Francisco call., 1897-12-13
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

! ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
! VIRGINIA CITY FIRE-A, Reader, City. the
erea, fire in Virginia City, New, occurred on
| the 26tn of October, 1879.
FISH AND GAME-W. L. B., French Gulch. Cal.
| AS il is unlawful in the State OF California 10
| catch trout at any time, except by hook ana
line and as it is also nniawlul 10 trap quua t,
and other game. this department. WI not give
anv information on the subject OF trapping
such.
APT IHsT1TUTE-O j., City. This department
was misinformed in the matter OF the open
dav at the Hopkins Institute OF Art, conse-
omen tly the answer gwen last THURSDAY was
n ot correct The institute is open Tree 70 the
nublic on the afternoon and evening OF lhe
frsf. and not the last, Friday OF each month
MADAME ANNA BISHOPS, City. Madame
ANNA b shop gave a farewell concert IN Inc
CITY of New York at Steinway Hall on May q
1873. and then came West, arriving IN san
Francisco Julv l5 1873, aud gave the hrst OF
sartes Of concerts IN Platt's Hall, on Mont
gomerv street near Bush, July IL OF tnat year.
In this she was assisted by Alfred Nlkle' tne
we'll KIN own tenor, now a resident OF OAkianu'
I NJ Gottschalk Daryt tone. and FRANK Glider,
pianist. Her final concert IN San Ia4claCo
was Oh July 27 in Pac fiji Hall, on Bush street
between Kearny and dupont, tAe coAeel'
being a grand sacred one.
MoNTESEGRo = Subscriber, Alameda, Cal
Montenegro belonged to the great Servian
kingdom, but after the dismemberment OF TINS
and its conquest by the Turks at the battle Oh
Kossovo in 1899 the Montenegrlns' uhoer
their Prince who was OF the royal Dtood OF
Servia maintained their lndependehce,
though compelled TO rellnqulhn tHe icFel
tracts about seutaIi, with their chleI IoTIIess
OF Zablsk and contue themselves In 1850 10
the mountains. The Porte continued 10 as
sert its claim to Montenegro and lncludeu IL
in the pashalik of Scutfri, but the country was
not conquered till 1714 and, on withdrawal
of no 11rrl-S a fI,,T.1 ard
dependence. In 1860 the Monienegrlns e1-
c,ied insurecIion against the Turkish rule
in Herzegovina, whtGn was soon suppressed,
and, in return, they were so hard pressed Dy
the Turks that they were glad TO agree to d
treaty in 1862, by which Inc sovereignty OF
the Sublime Porte over Montenegro was
recognized. izt
FEDERAL OFFICERs-C. C. c., City. 1t is to
be presumed that the question asked refers
only to Federal officers who do not come with
in the civil service rules and who are con-
nected with those departments that are under
those rules They are as follows:
Departmental service-Private secretaries or
! confidential clerks mot exceeding two), to the
| President or to the head OF each OF the EXecu-
| tive departments. Indians employed In the
| Indian sci ervice at large, except those employed
| as superiu:endents, teachers, teachers OF III
dustrles, kindergar tens and physicians.
Custom house seEvice-One cashier IN eac4
| deputy, or assista collector IN each customs
| district whose employees number as many Gs
| $50.
| PUstofice service-One assistant Postmaster,
or cnief assistant TO the Pos lmaSter, of what
| ever destination, at each PosIot1lce. One
| cashier of each hr t-class Postotfice when en-
! p!oyed uLder the roster title of cashier only
| Internal Revenue service-One cashier in
| each Inte rnal Revenue district.
| That is these are exempt from examination
! or registration under the rules. Then there
are certain Iaborers who are not under the
rules.
MOTHER snIrToN-R. c. M. Napa, Cal. The
so-caled Mother Shipton prophecy, which IS
| as follows, was never written by Mother
| Shipton:
Carriages without horses shall 20,
And accidents shall i'll the world with wee,
Around the earth thoughts shalt fly
In he twlnkling of an eye
Water shall yet more wonders do,
SO strange, yet shall be true
The world ups1d4 down shall be,
A nd gold be found at roots
Through hills man shal! rio
| And no horse nor be at his side
Under the water, man sha walk,
Shall ride shall sleep, shall talk.
the alr man shall be
In white, in black in green.
lion in the water shall float
AS easy wooden boat.
Gold shall be found md stone
In lana that'S now unknown.
Fire and water shall Wond ders do
England shall at last admit a Jew,
And this world TO eud shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one
Mother Shipton lived more than 800 years
| ago, and she prophecled many Ihtngs some of
which came true and others did not. In 1862
Charles Hindley OF Brighton, England pub
| lished what purported TO be chap book YER
! sion of Mother SYMPTOMS prophe cies, and that
| included the one quoted. II was charged that
| "the prophecy" was q forgery. In 1878 Hind
| ley wrote letter confessing that he had
/ written the prophecy to make sale for his
book. Consequently "the prophecy has no
| value.