The San Francisco call., 1897-10-15
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

| ANSWERS TO RESPONDENTS.
MAXWELL GREY-E K, City. maxwell
| Grey is the pen name of Miss Uttlet, whose
| address is Newport, Isle of Wight
MRS. LESLIE CARTER-F. X, Oakland, Cal
weIl-written sketch of Mrs. Leslie Carter, fne
| actress, is TO be found in THE Player" oooK O.
RUNAWAY TEAMs-B. E. B., City. There is
no ordinance of this city that authorizes the
payment of any reward to a person who stops
q runaway team.
NEWSPAPER FILEs-P. F., City. Files of many
OF the California papers for a number OF years
back are to be found in the newspaper depart
ment OF the San Francisco Free Library.
CREDITs-N. N, City. The question asked is
a simple one OF percentage. Add the number
OF credits received in each of the six studies,
DIVIDE by six and the result will be The aver
age.
DIVORCE AND MARRIAGE-R. L., Oakland Cal.
person divorced IN this State cannot marry
III the Territory of Arizona until after resi-
dence there OF SIX months. Amarrlage license
Is required in that Territory.
IMMIGRATIoN-G. L. c.. City. Persons coming
to this country under contract to perform
Iabor not allowed a landing; neither are
persons who are incapable OF supporting Them
selves or paupers or crim1na ais permitted 10
land.
MAGIC LANTERN-A H. and A. G. H., City.
Not having had any experience in the man
agement of magic lanterns, this department
is unable to give the information desired. 1ou
ought TO amply TO some one who is IN the snow
business Tor advice in the matter.
MEXICAN wAR-F. NJ. City. The first blood
! during the Mexican War was shed April "a,
1o46, when Lieutenant Mason who was with
captain ThorDton's reconnoitering party was
surprised and captured on the Rio Grande,
between Point Isabel and Fort Brown.
''WACHT AM RHEIN"-Subscriber. City. 'The
| "achtam Rhein," which begins with the words
Es braust Elm vie DonnerhaIl
was written in November. 1910, by Max
| SchnecKenburger, native OF 1alhel9A-
| Wuetemberg.
BLACK SAND AND GoLD-O. s., San Lucas, Cal.
The use OF mercury is the best ethod for
| separating gold from black sand. One me thod
! is: Use solution composed of one pound OF
| cyanide OF po iass ium and two pounds of caustc
! soda to forty gallons of water. One gallon OF
this solution added to six gallons of water is
| USED 10 wash sand containing gold. IL trees
| the gold so that the gold will smalgamate
when it comes IN contact with the mercury.
Two YAcHTs-L. H., City. There were two
races september % and e. 1896 between
| the American yacht Vencedor and the Cana
dian yacht Canada on Lake Erie. 1t was u
match, best two out OF three. The Canada
| GIencalrn and Ell Heirie on July Is, IA and
| 10, The former Canadian and the latter Amerl-
| can, for the Seawaphaks- Corinthian Yacht
| Club international challenge cup for half
| raters. Won by the Canadian yacht.
| DUPLICATE PAPERs-V. o. l., City. If you
have lost your first papers, which you obtained
| in the city of New York, you can obtain a
| duplicate OF the same from the court out OF
winch such were issued. You Will have to
| write 10 the clerk OF tnat court and he will iu-
| form you what the fee is The fact that while
| you were a resident OF the city of New York,
| you as a commercial traveller made trips TO
! Mexico and Cuba, but never surrendered your
| residence in New York, and did not gam a
legal residence in the places you visited on
bus iness, would not affect your term OF five
| years residence in the United States 10 ena-
/ bic you 10 become citizen.
| SCORING IN EUCHRE-D R., City. If player
mikes three tricks ne makes the point and
| scores one. Winning four tricks is no better
than winning three. If he fails to make the
| three tricks he is euchred nd the adversary
scores two The principle is that the attack
! ing party undertakes, in effect, make three
| tricks, and II he does not 90 what he under
takes he IL punished by the loss of two points.
II Il lone player wins all five tricks he scores
four. II wins three he scores one. III he
fails TO win three tricks the adYersares score
/ two. At independen euchre (played without
| partnersl when more than two play, the mo Ie
oil scoring varies. In some companies 1t is
| ruled that If the attacking player is euchred,
| oolh the adyers tries score two points. If that
! makes them both out the eldest hand wins