The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-06

| placer country, and the gold of the Yukon
| interior is the product of erosion, or of ex-
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
PACIFIC BANK-E. c. K, City. The
| Pacific Bank suspended on the 22d Of
| June, 1893.
TERRIERS-A. s., City A Scotch ter
rier is good for rodents but fox ter
rier Is better.
THE LIGHTSHIP-J. W.. City. The
lightship is located II miles southwest,
three-quarters west Of Fort Point Light
house.
WINDOW GLAss-w. X A, City.
There is no window glass factory in this
State at this time, nor is any in process
of erection.
FLYING EAGLE CENT. G. NJ, Sac
ramento. An American one-cent piece of
| 1857, with flying eagle on one side, has a
numismatic value of just one cent
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE-A. B. F.,
City. The baseball schedule of the Pa
F., cific Coast League was published In the
! San Francisco Call May 26, page II.
NOT SIXTY MILES AN HoUt-Read-
err, Terminus, San Joaquin County, Cal.
No ship ever launched in England or any
| where else has attained speed of sixty
| miles an hour.
TAX ON MATCHES-A. H. c., City.
The department of Answers to Core
spondents is informed that the tax on
matches levied during the civil war was
| taken off in 1888
POPULATION OF CUBA-D. ]. T.,
| City The population of Cuba is given
as 1881 ,697. Sixty-five per cent of the
number are of the white race and the re-
mainder of the negro race.
THE MERMAID. A. s.. City. The
| latest information received in this city in
| relation to the bark Mermaid that left
this port some time ago for Kotzebue
| Sound is that she was In the sound on the
| Sd of August, 1893.
PEACE RIvER-E. B. s., City. There
! is no special work on the Peace River
district of British Columbia. You can
! obtain information about that territory
| by inquiry at the office OF the British
| Consulate in this city.
| SHOOTING STAR-A L. F., City. There
| is a superstition that when a shooting
passes, it denotes the death of some
| prominent person, but it is only a super
stition and is not founded on fact.
THE NAVAL ACADEMY-F., Ala
| media Cal. To ascertain If there is a
vacancy or when there will be one in the
! list of appointments to, the United States
Naval Academy for the Third Congress,
sional District of California, you will
| have to address communication to +he
Representative from that district, S. G..
| Hiloorn, Oakland.
THE DOG DAYS-S. A. NJ, Cornwall,
| Cal. DOG days is a term applied to
| days of great heat. The Roman called
the six or eight hottest weeks of summer
caniculares dies. According to their
I -, ILL
the sun, added to its heat. and the dog
days bore the combined heat of the dog
star and the sun. July to August III
BAIT FOR A DUCK POND-F. ". R.,
Oakland, Cal. The amount of wheat that
would be required to bait a duck pond
| to give two hunters enough game to shoot
at would depend on the liberality of the
/ huntsmen. There is no rule as to guam
| tity. All that is needed is sufficient to at
tract the attention of the ducks. The pond
should be baited as often as the bait set
! has beenexhausted Hunters on the prem
ises are the best judges of such matters
If the correspondent is an amateur he
should go out on one or two trips with a
professional and he will learn more than
he could by reading for six months.
STENOGRAPHERS- A. NJ. City In
San Francisco the reporters for the seve
raj courts are appointed by the Judges
thereof for their respective courts They
are required TO De able to write not less
than 120 words minute. A stenographe,
in lawyers office is to take any dicta.
ton given. In some offices the stem.
ographer is law student, and when not
doing a stenographer's work he studies
law and performs such duties as are ex.
pected of a law student. There is nc
fixed rule governing stenographers in law.
yers' offices, each office making its owr
| rule
LONE MOUNTAIN AND CROSSE
c. J., City. The mound to the west O.
Calvary Cemetery in San Francisco wa.
named Lone Mountain from the fact tina
1t Is an isolated eminence. The prop
erty is a part of that owned by tn,
Catholic church. and the cross on tn,
top of the mountain was erected in May
1862, by order of Archbishop Alemany
It was a plain wooden cross. Its cree
finished on the 23d. 1t was placed
there as an emblem of Christian
ity to mark one of the prominent point
then in San Francisco.
AN AUTHOR WANTED-An anxiou
correspondent from Elk, In this State
is DESTROYS of obtaining the name of tn
author of poem in which occur tn
following lines, also where the Who'll
poem can be obtained Can any of tn
readers of this department enlighten tn
correspondent?
Time rules all, and life IT, indeed. not
The thing we planned 1t out. ere hope wa
Some. grefs grow deep, some woes are hard I
bear,
: Who knows the past and Judge us right?
NY little child. he sleeps and smiles between
know ALL