The San Francisco call., 1898-03-23
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 TIME. AND DISTANCE-X. Y. z., Oak land. Cal The average time from san Francisco is over a course or 2l0o 1nl5eS 10 | Honolulu six to seven dayS; to 1oho- hama, 4525 miles, eighteen days' to I1ohs Auckland 6050 miles, nineteen oa9S, ana l Melbourne, TAO miles, twenty-five cdyS. 1.ATITfTDE AND LoNGITUDE-B. F. City. The sextant is the instrument used to determine latitude and longltuue. person in a strange place. Wlshlng Io ue- termine the points Of the eo1ioSs p%iSse O 0f fIe sun, and by night by watching the north star.
 I.ANGUAGES-H. B., City The esti- mates of languages are as follows: Eng fish spoken by Ill 10000 persons; Ger man. 75 0O0 900; Russian. 75,00O00 FTench' 51 900 Oo0 Spanish 42SO9 Oo0 G dna laian % % mate asserts that the number uSlngo dn 6ne English language in 1895 was iz4 'ISo'yvo, l!s4G and that it is fast becoming the polite tongue of Europe.
 PURCHASING WAR MATERIAL-If there is a war between nations. either can purchase war material wherever it can procure the same without being lia- be in damages. but if the purchase is made rom a neutral country, then that country is liable in damages as in the case of England permitting the Alabama to be fitted out for the Confederate States of America.
 NODE ALL IN TEARS-J. F. B., Ala meda, Cal. Niobe is the personif1cation of female sorrow. According to Grecian fable. Niobe was the mother of twelve had but two. namely: Apollo and Diana Latona commanded her children to avenge the insult, and they caused all the sons and daughters of Niobe to die. Niobe was inconsolable. wept herself to death and was changed into a stone, from which ran water. Like NioDe, all tears (HamleD-
 PINNED WITH A STAR-A. S, Knights Ferry, Cal. The quotation Is not Then Twilight let her curtain fall and pinned it with a star,' but is While twilight's curtain spreading far, pinned with a single star" This is to be found in Death in Disguise line 221, Boston edition, 1888, and was written by Mcdonald Clarke, born 179S, died 1S42. Mrs Lydia Maria Child. born 1SO2 died 1880. uses the following, Now twilight lets her curtain down and pins 1t with star.'
 IN CASE OF WAR-Barkis, City. Each beIligerent may capture not only all of the enemys property found on the high seas and on belligerent waters (except otherwise provided by a treaty., but also all property of neutrals intended for the enemy or for actual use for conducting war. Such property is called contraband of war, and may be lawfully condemned as a prize. The general rule of interna- tional law in regard to property on the high seas is that each belligerent has the right to seize all of the enemys property of every kind except such property as is protected by special permit. But prizes may not be made of the property of neu- trais unless it is contraband. Therefore, cynn6G 0
 neutral may be taken, but the ship is en- titled to freight, and the non-contraband | goods of a neutral on an enemy'S ship | ought to be restored. Contraband goods | going to the enemy may always be taken, | no matter to whom they belong. Many
 nations stipulate with each other in the treaties that free ships make free goods l (except contrabands of war) and that | enemy's ships make enemy's goods.