The San Francisco call., 1897-01-01

Ames, one of the builders of the Union paeinf oi
Railroad, is near the apex anu tne 1i'A' -
that is about $500 feet.
G.Mg11Se DEBT-A. g., City. person
who puts up his money In pooirooIi ~ =, 70 : :
take chances of being robbed Thereon a1'er th .he
result of an event has been declared. ~ ~, sno
case you mention you have no remeay as "a srn "
for the reason that such transactions are
against public morals.
A WRINKLE-A. NJ, City. II nature mas
placed a wrinkle between your eyes IL Will
have to remain there for wrinkles come W
stay and there is no known methou 70 LonU -a,eor,
them, though it is claimed that certain piepda- a.
ations sold by druggists will, but sucn 'nls ue
partment cannot advertise.
CIVIL SERvIcE-C. L. L., Tracy, Cal. The time
for the holding OF the next examination
under the civil service rules for the CUSTOM
house department has not yet been fixed Ao-
dress Civil Service Commission, San Francisco
Custom-house Department, in relation 10
blanks or other Information.
THE CoDEs-W. ]. B., Navarro, Cal. The
Code Commissioners are at work and have
been for some time on revision OF the Codes
of the State OF California. If the amendments
proposed by the Commissioners are adop ted by
the Legislature the work of printing the codes,
as amended, will be proceeded with as rapidly
as possible.
PRoHIBIToRY LAws-W. NJ, City. There are
prohibitory laws in Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Kansas, Iowa, North Dakota and
South Dakota, and in this State there are pro-
hibitory laws in various localities, but this
department is unable 10 discover that in any
place is liquor sold only upon q prescription
from physician.
AREA OF ISLANDS - W. NJ, San Diego, Cal.
Borneo, which next to Australia and Papua, is
the largest island in the world, is about 800
miles long with breadth OF 700. Its area is
between 285, 900 and 100000 square miles.
The portion ruled by the Dutch has an area OF
212,737 square miles. The area OF cuba is
43,319 square miles, and that OF NeWtound-
land is AZ, 200 square miles.
GOAT IsLAND-L. NJ, City. William Heath
Davis, in his book on early California, gives
the following as the manner in which Scat
Island received that name:
In 1912 or 1843 two men named Spear and Full
Ter, who came here on the Thaddeus In 1873, CD
tained five or six goa from Captain Nye of the
Fama and placed them on Yerba Buena Island:
having obtained permission to do so. They found
subsistence there, multiplied rapidly and in l84S
1S49 they numbered several hundred. rom
this circumstance the island derived the name OF
Goat Island.
BENEDIcTINE-A. R. NJ, City. There is no
record of the precise date when the cordial
called "benedietine" was first placed on the
market This liqueur, which resembles
herbs by Benedictine monks at Monte Casino,
between Rome and Naples, and in some OF the
monasteries of France, but since the french
Revolution it has been manufactured by a
secular company at Fecamp, Normandy. 1t
was shortly after that revolution that 1t be-
came an article OF general consumption.
ELECTION BETs-w. ]. B., Navarro, Cal. This
department will not decide election bets, but
will say that in the case cited if the man who
received the money before the official result
had been declared, which has changed the
conditions under which he received IL, does
not return 1t to the stakeholder he lacks in
the principles OF a gentleman and man of
honor A person who Is paid money put up
on bet under misapprehension, should,
when he discovered that he did not acquire the
money under the provisions of the bet made,
return the. money to the stakeholder.
NEW ZEALAND-w. M, San Diego, Cal. The
area of New Zealand is 104,471 square miles
The land area of North Island is 45, ,687 square
miles; that OF South or Middle Island is ST.
379, and that OF Stewards Island 665 square
miles. The North is separated from the South
Island by Cooks Strait eighteen miles wide at
the eas tern end, ninety miles wide at the west
and two and aahalf miles wide at the narrowest
point, almost midway between the east and
west ends The South is separated from Stew
arts Island by the Foveaux Strait, avera ging
about twenty miles in width.
To THE IsLANDs-The exports from the
United States to the Hawaiian Islands during
the year ending June 80, 1895, amounted to
SO, ,723 ,O57, during the year ending June so,
1896, the amount was SO, 1856, ,7o7. The ex-
ports included animals, books, bread and
breadstuffs, carriages, chemicals, cotton, fish,
flax fertilizers, fruit and nuts, glass and e ass
ware, gunpowder and explosives, indiarubber
manufactured, iron and steel, manufactures
of gold and silver, leather, boots and shoes,
lime and cement, malt liquors, oils. paints ana
colors, paper, provisions, bacon, ham, beef
corned, butter, cheese, lard and pork.