The San Francisco call., 1897-12-17
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On TuEsDAY-"Aameda," Alameda Cal The
21st day OF January. 1884 fell on Tuesday.
| THE FRAwLEY CoMPANy-A. NJ E, City. The
Frawley Company mmenced- its farewell
week in 1896 in san Francisco, at the Column
bia, on the 2S,n OF December.
BEET SUGAR.. a. E, City. The article on
beet sugar OF which inquiry is made appeared
on the editorial page o! the San Francisco
CALL on Saturday, November 20, 1897
ENGLISH sECURITIEs-A. &. s., City. If a man
invests in English securities the country does
not support him, literally speaking The in
terest on his Investments II sufficient, sup
ports him.
"Losr PARADIsE''-A. NJ. E, City. "Lost
Paradise" was last played in San Francisco al
the Columbia Theater during the week COM
mencing September %, 1896. 1t was pre-
sented by the Frawley Company.
MILLER. THE CYcLIsT-Reader, City. The
man who recently won the long-distance bicy
Gle race in Madison-square Garden, New York
is named Charles W. Miller o, German dessert Sect
and lives in Chicago HIS record Is ZO95
mics and six laps IN 142 hours
HALF-roNE P1CTUREs-A. B. w, Lathrop, Cal.
The pictures which are printed in the newspa-
pers and maga zines, known as "hali-tones,"
are pictures reproduced from a photograph
direct by means OF wire screen paced IN
front Of the negative in the process Cl transfer
from picture to plate.
CARLsoN-C. w. K, Los Angeles, Cal. As
the paper you mention is not lndeXed 1t is
not an easy matter to go through the files in
search for an item, the date of publication OF
which is uncertain. II there Is any way by
winch the date can be fixed within month
this department Will be pleased TO make the
search.
HA NDKERcH1EFs-J. D, City. Historical re-
search shows that the world is indebted to
ItaIy for the handkerch The use of the
pocket handkerchief was unknown prior TO
the first half of the sixteent tn century. In
1910 Venetian lady, whose name is not onk
record, con ceived the idea OF carrying "ia<
zOletto' and it was not long before her eX-
ample was followed throughout ltaIy: The
handkerchief then crossed The Alps to France
and after being adopted by the loIds and
ladies OF the court OF Henri IL the fashion
spread all over Europe
OBsTRUCTIoNs-Rea of THE CALL, City.
Section 2, order 1888 of the Board OF Super
visors of San Francisco is an answer TO your
question in the matter of obStructlons:
No person shall p ace cause TO be placed any
where upon any public way, street or side
control OF any premises shall suffer to remain in
front thereof upon sidewalk or the hal1 OF the
street way next 10 such premises, anything
which snail obs ruct the passage Of such street or
Sidewalk for more than one hour at time.
AMAZON RIVERA s., City. The Amazon, Cor
MaranOn, or Orelana, is river which after
traversing nearly the entire breadth of South
America enters the Atlantic Ocean, between
Br I'll and Guiana, by mouth $50 miles in
width The Amazon, which is a vast river
system rather than one river, has for its tribu-
taries the Napo, the Yapura and the Rio
Negro from the north, and the Huallaga, the
Yavari, the Jutay, the Jurua, the COary, the
Purus, the Madeira, the Tapajos and the
VI from a asp1 !, nh .
900 square miles, an area equal 10 two-tnIrds
OF EuIope, and il is estima ted to afford an in
land navigation o. $4,000 miles, a line double
the circumference Of The world.