The San Francisco call., 1897-08-22

| correct it would be wrong 10 say that an in
| d1Vldual does not wear underclothing for the
that person wears a watch is perfectly cor
rect, SO is carry" correct, for in tnat sense
the two words are synonymous.
MOUNT TAMALPAIs-E. F., Dixon, Cal. What is
now known as Mount Tamalpais in Marin
, County was described Table Hill by Bens-
ley IN 1926. 1t subsequently called
Mount Palermo. 1t appears as Table Hill
Oh the coast chart of 1850. In 1884 it was
named Mount Tamslpais by Professor George
Davidson of the United States Coast and
Geodetlc Survey and was so marked on the
charts. 1t was so named tor the country of
the Tamal Indians, who lived in that section
OF Caliiornia, and the translation of the name
is Country of the Tamals."
SOLDIERS VoTE-J. NJ. S., City. soldier
or n sailor in the service in the United States
cannot vote at the place at which he is sta
toned unless he has been there q suficien t
length of time to en- title him to residence and
registration i'll such places where registration
Is required. In other places where such is not
require he must have resided in the place
the time required by law to be citizen OF the
state and resident of the county and pre-
cinct required OF other residents who are en-
| titled to vote. In other words, the mere fact
! that man IS either soldier sailor in the
service OF the United States does not give him
the right to vote in whatever place he may be
at the time 81 election may be held
SUcoEssIoN-E. A. H., City. This correspon-
dent asks: widower with four children
| marries again and some time after marriage
dies without making will. How is the prop
erty divided? How much would the second
wife receive and how much would go to the
| children The answer to this is: If the dece-
| dent leaves a w1odw and one child or the law
ful issue OF one child, the property goes in
| equal shares to the survivin & widow and child
| or issue OF such child. ii there is more than
one child and the lawful Issue of one or more
of deceased's children one-third goes to the
surviving widow and the remainder in equal
shares TO his children and to the lawful issue
OF any deceased child by rig ht of representa-
| ZION.
FINGER RING-Inquirer, Biggs, Butte County.
| In anatomy the third finger of either hand is
the ring finger. In the matrimonial sense, near
ly the world over, the third finger of the left
hand is the ring finger. This finger of the left
hand, sometimes alluded to as the fourth finger,
because the thumb is counted as finger, has
from long usage been consecrated to the we'd
| ding ring, from ancient belief that from
that finger a nerve went direct to the heart.
So completely was this fanciful piece Of physi-
| ology coDfded i'll by the Greeks and Romans,
that their physicians termed this The medical
or healing finger, and used ii TO stir theT
mixtures, from notion that nothing noxious
| could communicate with 1t without It's giving
immediate warning by palpltation OF the
! heart
APPENDICITIS Reader, Napa, Cal. The ap-
pendix vermiform is small pouched vessel at
the lower part of the tsecum, which hangs IN
| the abdomen in wormlike shape. Its func-
tions are unknown, but certain morbid condi-
tions of the appendix, called appendicitis, are
! fre quently the cause of death. In some cases
| the presence OF foreign substances is the pri.
II mary cause of the trouble, which is, however,
more Immediately brought 10 the patients no
/ ~ S<ald vt,
lent strain or heavy fall, or of errors of die t.
Among the symptoms abdominal or uul-
bilical pains, chills, fever, vomiting and con-
st1patfon. IL these symptoms are aggravated
aud increasing death may result IN few
hours. Surgical removal of the appendix is
often resorted TO es the patients only means
of relief or recovery.
GRAY HAIR-Reader, Nape, Cal. 1t has been
asserted that climate has something to do
with the changing of the color OF human hair.
! Hair changes It's color under great variety OF
circumstances and at nearly every age. 1t is
not very uncommon to find a single lock vary
! ing in color from that which surrounds IL.
! Old age, the winter of life, naturally brings
! the frosted locks; but gray or white hairs fre-
quently appear upon the heads OF young per-
sons. strong mental emotion, such grief,
! fear or sorrow, may cause change IN the
color of the hair in short period, OF even
suddenly. Byron, in the prisoner CT Chillon,' =
refers to tn al fact in the following lines:
|
| Nor grew 1t white
In single nigh,
AS mems have grown from sudden fears
This department has not been able to find
| any statistics that viii show that hair OF men
turns gray faster Than that of women. There
/ are instances OF persons dying at O very
advanced age, whose hair was not perfectly
| white. The TACT that hair turns gray at an
| early age is not a sign OF a weak constitution.
! HARP. c., OIkland, Gal. No, tho me hods
| that are used 10 prevent the hair from coming
out of the skins of animals would not do TO
! prevent the hair on the human head from
! coming out. The following is the meth cd used
| to set the hair Oh skins of animals: If the
skins are dry they should be softened through
out by soaking in pure water; soft water is
| best, but ordinarily pure water may be used,
and care must be taken that The skins III us
soaked are kept in the water only sufficen
! time to soften them. Then Clean off any bits
of flesh that may remain on the flesh side,
! rinse all well, shake eff the loose water and
gently stretch out and tack on a board, flesh
| side up. Then sprinkle with a mixture of two-
thirds alum and one-third salt, enough TO jus
cover every part. AS the skin dries it takes
| up he mixture, but il any be left on the sur
| face the second day sprinkle on little more
water, otherwise put on little more alum
| and salt and sprinkle. Two three days
should be sufii eient Tor small skins, the idea
| being 10 give the skins all the alum and salt
! they will take up while in a moist condition.
| This process makes the hair firm. gentle
| ru bing and beating makes the flesh side soft.
/ This process preserves the skins from decay,
| but the skins VIII not stand much wet.ing.
LATITUDE AND Observation-Disclosures, City
| Latitude on the earth is the distance of any
| place in a direct line north or south from the
| equator, measured in degrees, minutes and
| seconds. If in the northern hemisphere it is
| said to be north latitude, if in the southern
south latitude. Longitude is the angular dis
tance east or west OF any place on the earth S
surface from q certain fixed point or meridian.
! In England, ana often in some other coun-
tries, that point is the Royal Observatory at
! Greenwich, near London. but etimes the
ca pital OF a country-as, for instance. Wash
| ington, D. c., in the United States, and Paris,
Francois taken as The point. Latitude and
! longitude in geography are the angular dis
tances of place on the earth Ca titudel north
| or south from the equator, and Qongitude)
! east west from the first meridian, re-
spectiveiy. The angular distance in longi-
tude is found by supposing a plane to pass
through the place, the earth's center and the
| poles, and measuring the angle made by this
plane with the plane of the first meridian.
| The angular distance in latitude is found in
the same manner, but ubstituting the two ex-
tremites of an equatorial diameter for the
| poles. More simply, latitude is the angle
made by two lines drawn from the earth s
center, the one to the place, the other to the
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