The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-17
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
WIDTH OF sTREETs-A. Q. S.. City.
The width of Mason and Taylor streets
is sixty-eight feet nine inches.
COOK BOoK-R. s.. City. If you will
go to first-class bookstore you Will 3D.
tain such cookbook as you desire.
HALF DOLLAR OF 1SS7-A s., City.
There is. no premium offered for a hall hatd
dollar of 1897 Such a coin Of that oats
sells for Is cents
A WIDOWS PENsIoN-A. o. S.. City.
The pension of the widow of captain IN
the United States army, dying in the SER
vice, is $50 per month
LAST DAYS OF PoMPEII-H. w. A..
Piedmont, Cal. 1.-The Last Days of Pom
peii," written by Bulwer Lytton in 1884,
was dramatized by Blackstone in 1885.
NAH. FOR MANILA-A, s.. City. Mail
for Manila leaves by every steamer sail
ing for China. Watch the shipping col
| umn of The Call for the dates or depart
ure.
! THE INDIANA-A Subscriber, City.
The troopship. Indiana that left for Mania
last October should reach Manila in about
| twenty-seven days from the time OF de-
| parture.
CALIFORNIA; POPULATION - L.,
City. The population of California was
estimated in January, 1898, at 1,59S,1SO and
that of San Francisco at the same period
was estimated at $4,000.
A FIvE-DOLLAR PIECE-M. E. p.
City. Ffve-dollar gold pieces coined at
either Charlotte, n. c., Dahlonega, Ga.
and Philadelphia sell at prices varying
from 81 80 to IS 80.
THE JOLLY GIANT-R., San Luis
Obispo, Cal. There is no publications in
San Francisco known as The Jolly Giant:
A sheet bearing that name was published
in the latter part of the sixties.
NO REDREss-N. N, City. If a eiti-
zen on election day goes to the polls and
| discovers that some one has been there
before him and voted his name he cam
not force the Registrar to permit MIN TO
vote.
BOXES FOR HONOLULU-S., Santa
] Cruz, Cal The st. Paul will take Christ
mas packages to soldiers stationed at
Honolulu. Such must be. delivered at gao
Mission street not later than o CLOCK Oh
Tuesday next
THE SAND LoT-A. O., City. James
! G. Mcguire did not speak on the sand
lot when Denis Kearney was Grating
there, nor did he afterward put, at a Ii,e
party he took sides with the seceders.
UNITED STATES AND HAWAII-W.
S. H, City. The Hawaiian Islands are
south of the southern latitude OF the
United States proper and west of the Pa
cifc Coast line of the States They are
within the latitude of Mexico and west OF
the Pacific coast line thereof. They are
within the longitudinal lines of Alaska,
which is also part of the United States.
OKLAHOMA-W S. H, City. Okla
homa, which is the Indian for beautiful
land was formed by the west half of the
older Indian Territory in the northeast or
Texas. It borders Kansas to the north
along the thirty-seventh parallel, and is
one-fourth larger than Scotland. 1t was
originally a part of the Louisiana pur-
chase, and was set apart for Indians by
the act of June 80, 1894, as the final result
of legislation. Certain lands Were sub
sequently coded by Indians, and these
formed the district of Oklahoma. Part of
by treaty and purchase shortly after the
Civil War. The district was opened to
white settlement at noon April ", 1889.
COAL AND ACETYLENE CASE. c.
B., Lockford, San Joaquin County, Cal.
George Breck, an expert on acetylene gas,
says that an ordinary gas meter used for
measuring coal gas has to be altered for
measuring acetylene gas; that with cal
cum carbide at cents per pound the cost
of light of twenty-seven candle-power
is 6-10 of cent per hour and that, jet for
teen candIe-power at 81 rs per thousand;
d anee t e6mpa Gi in the East and ii tbs
State that make no discrimination against
premises in which the new gas is MIRO TO
meter is measured at atmospheric
pressure.
LIGHTHOUSES City. The fol-
lowing prominent lighthouses are in the
State of California. which is known as
the Twelfth Lighthouse Districts ST.
Georges Reef and Crescent City, Del Norte
County; Trinidad Head, Humboldt and
Cape Mendocino, in Humboldt County;
Point Arena, Mendocino County; Point
Reyes and Point Bonita, Marin County;
Farallones and Fort Point, San Francis
| Santa Cruz Santa Cruz County; Point
Pinos and Point Sur, Monterey County 6Sin
San Luis Obispo County; Point Concep-
cion and Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
! County; Point Hueneme, Ventura Coun-
ty; Point Fermin,- Los Angeles County;
| La Playa, Point Tomas. Ballast Point
and Diamond Point. San Diego County.
RELIGION IN RUSSIA. B. X. City.
Under certain limitations, liberation of all
religions which do not violate public
morality or good order exists in Russia,
and not to profess the orthodox Greek
faith, the national religion, does not dis
qualify as regards civil rights. But the
law does not allow those who already be-
long to the established faith to secede
| from it; and if, in a household. either
parent be a member of the Greek church.
| all the children must be brought up with
in that communion. In European Russia
| there are orthodox Greek Catholics,
! Russo-Greek dissenters, Protestants., Ro-
man Catholics, Jews and Mohammedans;
| and all have their respective places or
! worship The affairs of the Roman Cath
olc church are ceptere sa in ebG 91eg IN
consistory, both located in ST. Petersburg
Cal. glace fruit soc per ID at Townsend s.
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